Some time back I wrote an article on this website, on how to make better portrait photos in natural light. That article dealt with a single aspect and that was the actual image making part. However, in this tough and competitive commercial photography scenario there is absolutely very little scope of delivering SOOC (Straight Out Of the Camera) shots to clients and expect them to be happy with the results. Thus, I had it at the back of my mind to write a follow up article on post-processing portrait photos shot in natural light.
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The main shooting mode dial on your camera has the letter(s) A or Av (depending on the camera system that you wield). As you probably know by now, this stands for the Aperture Priority mode. Aperture priority mode gives you the creative control over the aperture you select for your images. Aperture, as you must be aware off, refers to the small opening at the front of the lens through which light gets inside a camera. It is often compared with the pupil of the eye. It is an appropriate comparison. Aperture is expressed in f-stops. It is written like this – f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6 and so on. The numerator is the focal length of a lens and the denominator is the diameter of the opening of the lens.
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Adobe Lightroom is probably the most preferred of all post processing tools out there. It is the fastest way to make some essential retouching to your photos and requires little to no training in order to get started. Adobe Lightroom happens to be my favorite post-processing tool (No, I don’t get anything for saying this). I prefer it over Photoshop for all my light retouching work. In this article I shall be discussing specifically about one particular feature - noise reduction in Lightroom and how you can effectively reduce a majority of noise in your images using nothing but the sliders in the Development module. Read more...
Often, when traveling through a foreign land we find ourselves in front of an iconic building or structure at the worst possible time of the day – night. Though most travelers do consider night to be the worst possible time for photography, technically it is not a badtime. In fact, it is probably one time of the day when you can try out a number of creative photography tricks.
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Adobe Lightroom got an interesting addition earlier this year. This feature, technically, is not entirely new. It got added as a new global adjustment tool sometime back in the month of June. However, it is certainly new in terms of local adjustment possibilities. Read more...
Shooting portraits of strangers in an unknown land is probably one of the most difficult of challenges that a photographer can face. Notwithstanding the inherent challenges of having to work in an alien environment, one also has to tackle the problem of shooting absolute strangers and making good photos in the process. Read more...
In this article we shall go through a basic 7 step post processing routine that I personally follow for my landscape photos. Please note – this technique does not involve any local adjustments, though it is highly recommended that you attempt a few to tweak your images to closely match what your vision was. Read more...
A question that most amateur DSLR users seem to ask is what is the correct use of the pop-up flash on their camera? The pop-up flash, as you know, is the one that springs into position when you push that tiny lightning marker at the top of your camera. This tiny flash fires an intense beam of light that illuminates subjects that are within a distance of 10-15’. However a major problem with the pop-up flash is that they are difficult to control and to focus with pin point accuracy. Thus most professionals and senior photographers prefer not to use this flash. Read more...
Summer in India is legendary for all the wrong reasons. So much so that there is actually a phrase “Indian summer.” I, like every other staunch Indian is never too perturbed about summer. Inside, though, I long for an escape to the cool breeze of the sea or the lower Himalayas for a week’s holiday. But taking a week’s break at this time of the year, is unimaginable. So, I do the next best thing- a short and sweet weekend trip. It just happens to be that I just came back from one such weekendbreak. Read more...
Last Monday it rained the entire morning. It was a particularly off day for me too as I spent about half an hour staring at the laptop screen and nothing seemed to come out of my head. I realized it was one of those days when Mother Nature conspires with lady luck so that I would be forced to take my eyes off the digital screen and spend some time appreciating the wonders of nature around me. Read more...
Some time back I wrote an article on this website, on how to make better portrait photos in natural light. That article dealt with a single aspect and that was the actual image making part. However, in this tough and competitive commercial photography scenario there is absolutely very little scope of delivering SOOC (Straight Out Of the Camera) shots to clients and expect them to be happy with the results. Thus, I had it at the back of my mind to write a follow up article on post-processing portrait photos shot in natural light.
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