Art of Lighting

Tag: Photoshop

Chaat Time

by on Sep.17, 2009, under Food

Cognizant Photographers Club announced “Food Contest” and I knew I had to participate in that. I have been shooting every bit of bread, corn flakes, water melon etc for last 1 year after I started watching “Iron Chef America”. I remembered a close friend of ours here who is a great cook. We made a deal. She will prepare food and allow me to take photos (and taste as well :D ) and I will let her use the photos for her blog (http://aromasfrommykitchen.blogspot.com). Do visit. There are some amazing recipes.

So the first part of that is the Chaat Time. Here are the photos:

Tomato Chaat

Tomato Chaat

Sev Puri

Sev Puri

Are you hungry?

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Landscapes in HDR

by on Oct.19, 2008, under Nature, Pictorial

Ever wonder how to capture the Grass Greener, Sky Bluish with details of the clouds, the building with details of the siding? There is an easier answer to this these days.
It occurs in nature that not all objects reflect the same amount of light and hence for photographers, it’s difficult to capture them all in one photo since if exposed for one setting, the other objects and areas might be either over-exposed or under-exposed.

In the film camera days, there used to be multiple exposure on single frame. Today we can expose in different frames, combine them ‘after the fact’ and finally get one picture. This technique is been popularly called “HDR” or “High Dynamic Range”.

Here is my attempt at HDR (though I should say Photoshop – even CS4 sucks at properly merging the photos. Manually merging them makes it a lot better!)

To take HDR, key things to note:
1. Try to capture still images like landscape shots.
2. Capture one at recommend exposure, one above and one below. The more the better. So bracket the shots at least in the range of -2eV to +2eV.
3. In Photoshop, select the photos and merge them to HDR
OR
Use Photomatix which is better than photoshop.
OR
Put the photos in different layers and do the work yourself.
Non HDR

HDR

Non HDR

HDR
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