Rising Stars: Meet Lenji Jacob

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lenji Jacob.

Hi Lenji, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My name is Lenji Jacob and I started my travels at a very young age, and always found myself mesmerized by a new city; the arts and culture associated with that city. As a kid, I would collect monuments to remind me about the place I had visited. This habit slowly transferred into documenting the places in my albums through photography. Soon my camera became one of my trusted companions during my travels and all time. Every art form has a process of evolution and in my case the more I used my camera I found myself learning and experimenting with various aspects of photography.

I had shifted my gears from automatic controls where the aim was just to point and shoot with good composition to manual controls and experimented with items such as natural lighting, shutter speed, apertures, ISO’s, flashes, subject focus, and many more. With every experiment, the quality of work was steadily improvising, but everything was straight from the camera and raw. To give my photography a finished look I started learning aperture and Lightroom. Now with my photography, I wanted to tell a story rather than just a point-and-shoot picture.

This is when I had taken on my first assignment of an engagement photoshoot. After taking two clicks of my couple with standard posing, I realized I needed to switch gears immediately and make it interactive and active. The groom did not like posing and was very uncomfortable with the concept of posing for pictures. I made them chase each other, walk, jump, interact with each and as a result, the pictures came out phenomenal with plenty of stories and memories for the couple. The best compliment of this session was the couple telling me that they never felt they were at a photo shoot but were on a date.

There was no looking back after this venture. Today I am a published photographer and winner of many photography competitions. I have traveled many places capturing pictures of places like the USA, Canada, India, Israel, Jordan, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Egypt, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, the Caribbean Islands, and many more. I have been blessed to become part of many engagements, weddings, family events, corporate events, fashion, etc. as a photographer.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
When you are learning a new technique, a failure shouldn’t be an obstacle but a teacher on how another method needs to be utilized to attain your goal. I would consider my challenges as a learning experience when experimenting with the art of photography. I have invested plenty of hours failing and learning techniques when it came to photography and editing techniques. One of the other biggest challenges is the gear requirement.

I have always said that photography is a beautiful hobby or profession but a very expensive one. During my starting days, there have been plenty of occasions I have found myself eating up the cost of renting gear for an event from my fees because I did not have the funds to buy the minimum requirement of equipment.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a financial professional and had started photography as a hobby. With Pose and Click Photography, I envisioned this dream to capture impeccable moments of life and pixelate them into pictures; somewhere down the lines of where a picture expresses a thousand times better than words. I wanted my pictures to tell a story, and make my audience experience that moment of life I attempted to freeze with my pictures. As a photographer, the priceless gift is when your client is exploding with a reaction of happiness when they see your work and relive that moment again.

With Pose and Click Photography, we really specialize in people, places, and things. We have completed an array of segments that includes Wedding Photography, Engagement Photography, Corporate Photography, Family or Special Event Photography, Pregnancy & Newborn Photography, Fashion Photography, Modeling and Fashion Portfolios, Boudoir Photography, Headshot Photography, Landscape photography, Travel and Street Photography, Movie and Media Photography artwork and many more.

With Pose and Click Photography, my customers have transitioned to become my friends, and almost 100% of the business is referred from my previous clients. As a photographer, when your customer becomes your biggest fan it is an extremely proud and priceless moment. This moment enhances when both your work and the customer become published in a magazine or article.

As a photographer, I take pride in my work and pay close attention to details of my customer needs. This photographic journey is a continuous learning path and I will continue to push my creativity and risk failures. This is potentially what sets my work apart from lots of photographers.

Are there any apps, books, podcasts, blogs, or other resources you think our readers should check out?
With smartphones at the tip of your fingers, information is readily available instantly. There are many leading photographers in the industry from different parts of the world, I have watched countless hours on Youtube learning their style and techniques of photography. YouTube has been one of my prime sources of information for learning new techniques, Photoshop, Lightroom, and many more. “Mastering Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Exposure” by Al Judge is a great read for all photographers. I constantly experiment with different available photography editing apps, of which some apps such as Snap Seed I have kept saved on my phone for quite some time. I use them for quick edits of photos that I may have captured on a phone.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.poseandclick.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/poseandclick

Image Credits:
Lenji Jacob of Pose and Click Photography