Monthly Archives: July 2007

Why are my images over sharpened?

When it comes to sharpening, I have had two kinds of responses to my images with respect to how i sharpen them. 50% of the response is about “over sharpening” and the remaining 50% is about “not enough sharpening”. Well, its definitely subjective! just like everything else i have blogged about before. The thing though

Blurry Images…

What exactly do you do on blurry images – blurred either due to shutter speed issues, camera or hand shake, focus issues or something else…. Until recently, i used the infamous “delete” key – and got rid of it immediately.  I wish i hadn’t. There are several ways to recover them – if they are

Thoughts for the week…

I have written about post processing once before. What prompted me to write one again was a recent forum posting by someone that said – “I dont like Photographers who use Photoshop, Photographers are supposed to capture the best image in the camera not in post processing” Back in the old days (film days that

Printing with Lightroom – Part II

I have previously written about printing issues with LR – and its no surprise that it sucks. For one, there is no soft proofing and in an effort to make it easier for dummies to print, Adobe has minimized the user interactions/controls to access and tweak the advanced configurations for printing. Nevertheless, there has been

New policy on comments & critiques

Imagine that someone found a never published image of <insert your favorite Photographer/Painter/Artist here eg. Ansel Adams or Monet etc.> and decided to post it online (say flickr!). Chances are that – one might get at least get a few or dozen critiques and possibly some free advice on how to make it better. The

It depends…

“It depends” is a magical answer to anything – photography or not. I ought to use it more often. The human eye and the camera (DSLR) is very unlike each other  – For one, the human eye is ALWAYS focused on its hyperfocal distance (everything is always in focus), regardless of the size of the

Thoughts for the week…

Whats the difference between a pizza and a photographer? If you want to know the answer, read this book.  Its a well written thought provoking book. Well, although i personally wish i would never have to shoot professionally (as a career, for money) – the book  does talk about a few interesting things. One thing