Share your best travel images with us! Can’t wait to print your travel photos on this canvas! Email your Photo to: smarttravel.shot@gmail.com • Send us maximum 4 images, Horizontal pictures with 300dpi. High Image Resolution. • Please ensure that you send your Complete postal address with telephone number. • Picture should not have been printed in any magazine / … [Read more...]
If I Were You – August 2017
Our Imaging Expert No one can take a picture that everyone likes. But, almost every picture can have scope of improvement. Often, we are not our best critics, while others can immediately point out the faults. In If I were you, our expert comments on how your pictures could be taken to another level. E-mail your images at sp@nextgenpublishing.net Rohinton … [Read more...]
Image Editing – Part 9: Sharpening
‘Sharpening’ is a part of the digital workflow that is often least understood or mis-understood. Most beginners (and some advanced workers too) tend to over-sharpen their images. But first, let us understand why we need to sharpen our images; after all, when we were using films, we did no such thing as ‘sharpening’. The Reasons for Sharpening 1) If you remember the basics … [Read more...]
Captivating Visions
Wildlife photography, like landscape photography, is probably the most sought-after genre of photography for nature lovers. Photographers travel to every nook and corner of the world to indulge in this profession or hobby. And they work real hard – being a wildlife photographer means much more than just being able to afford expensive gear. Unless we are dedicated to … [Read more...]
My Life with Cameras: Rustom Davar
As a young kid, I watched with amazement my father taking photographs with a folding plate film camera, and then colouring the prints with a paint brush. The camera was a pre-war Goertz made by C.P. Goertz and Co. (now defunct). My elder brother (elder by six years) inherited the camera, and in the fifties it was still possible to find a photo store who would cut and load … [Read more...]
