It's the Indian summer. It's hot, humid and uncomfortable. You sweat, you swear. Tolerance levels go down, tempers flare up. As a photographer you hate the season. By nine in the morning the sun beats the daylights out of you. The lighting contrast shoots up crazily; highlights blow out, shadows go deep without detail. The landscape is barren; everything is dry and … [Read more...]
Split Toning with Lightroom
Text and photos by Ashok Kandimalla. This article has been modified to make it brief from the original article published in our May 2019 issue. Split toning is a post-processing technique through which you can impart different colours to highlights and shadows. This is a very easy-to-use procedure and when used with moderation (as with any post-processing technique), it gives a … [Read more...]
Fashion Photo Lighting
Vipin Gaur is a Delhi-based commercial photographer and an educator, besides being a director of photography. His work has been published in several national publications like Femina, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Grehashobha, Sakhi and others. He has also done an advertising campaign for the IPL team Pune Warriors. Having worked with many fashion designers and models from around the … [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...]
