ISMAT’S ART Photography
How would you like to enjoy art along with inspiring words? That is what this book is about. In this book, you will be able to enjoy amazing art photographs along with meaningful words which will immerse you with deep feelings. This book is a collection of 68 art photographs of Ismat Jahan, along with inspiring quotes of famous people. She loves watching trees and photographing trees! Sometimes her art captures the landscape in its entirety, and sometimes it portrays details, closeups of only part of the trunk or leaves.
In addition to colour images, Ismat created black and white images with black and white films to bring out textures clearly or to show shapes of leaves, or to create different patterns.
Her images reflect the dynamism of life and beauty of life. Her art infuses serenity by vibrating positive feelings. This book will certainly let the readers experience the beauty of life from a new perspective and be fulfilled with positive vibes.
Ismat held two Solo Photography Exhibitions and also participated in several group exhibitions, including the ‘Why Do You Do It?’ Group Art Exhibition organised by the Boomer Gallery in London in November 2023.
Turn Your Shots into Amazing Photos, Beginners’ Handbook
Are you one of those amateur photographers who enjoy clicking photos and want to improve their photography. If you would like your friends to say ‘Wow!’ looking at your photos, then this book is for you.
From this book, you will learn,
- How to beautifully compose your frame, whether to keep your subject in the middle or at one side of your frame.
- You will learn which angle to use for which type of subject and why, like a professional photographer!
- This book will help you learn to operate your camera in a better way, so that you could enhance the creativity of your photos.
- Furthermore, you will learn to turn your good photographs into Great Photographs by displaying a universal theme!
- You will know about lenses—which type of lens is good for which type of subjects and how you can change the impression your subject creates by changing the angle of the lens.
- You will learn to utilize aperture and shutter speed settings creatively to turn an ordinary shot into a stunning one!
- You will learn about four important factors relating to light, four different directions of light, and types of light.
- You will know how to compose your frame and apply different techniques to draw attention to your subject, including different types of framing.
- How to take great portraits; how to take great landscapes; and you will also know about Art or Abstract Photography and different aspects of it.
In addition, Turn Your Shots into Amazing Photos, Beginners’ Handbook’ also covers how to create interesting and thought-provoking Photo Stories, and lastly, how to edit photos like a pro photographer to correct exposure and colour in Photoshop.
Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore (Volume 1)
Ismat loves to translate and she translated short stories of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. This book contains translations of six women focused short stories. These are, ‘Alive and Dead’ (Jeebita o Mreeta), ‘Suva’, ‘The First Look’ (Shuvadrishti), ‘Hoimantee’, ‘Letter from Your Wife’ (Streer Patra) and ‘The Anonymous Lady’ (Aparichita).
Excerpts from Hoimantee, ‘My life was so full to the brim on all sides, that I could not notice any gap anywhere. Suddenly, I witnessed a large void of hopelessness so near me! I couldn’t understand how and with what I would fill up this void.’
From Letter from Your Wife, Mreenal, ‘I can never understand the logic behind that it’s okay not to please me, but it’s not okay to make you unhappy.’
Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore Volume 2
This book contains translations of another five selected short stories of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, focused on human psychology. The stories are, ‘The Postmaster’, ‘The Kabuliwala’, ‘Penance’ (Shasti), ‘Completion’ (Samapti), and ‘Broken Home’ (Nashtaneer).
Excerpts from Kabuliwala, ‘I saw on the paper an impression of a small hand! Not a photograph, not a painting, only an impression on a paper of a small hand made by covering it with kajal (black ink made from oil lamp)! Carrying his daughter’s this token of memory every year Rahmat comes to Kolkata to sell meowa. As if that small, sweet hand gives a tender touch to his large, lonely heart.’
From Completion (Samapti), The arrangement was really ideal. The riverbank, shadows of trees, melodious songs of the birds, morning sunshine, a young man of twenty years; the stacked bricks may not be something worthy to mention, but the person sitting on it gave a touch of beauty to it also. Alas! In the midst of this beautiful setting, what could be a more cruel twist of fate than the end of all romanticism with the fall on the mud with the first step!