Lessons from the field…

Hav­ing recently trav­eled to Santa Fe, NM — Here are a few things on what worked and what could have been done bet­ter. I had bor­rowed a Nikon 25mm PC-E lens for this trip. My inten­tion was to cap­ture those adobe build­ings (Archi­tec­ture) with least dis­tor­tion. I also wanted to take panoramic shots with the


UniWB — A good tool for good HDRs

Well, I must first admit that this topic is nei­ther new nor my own finding/tip. I did how­ever find out about it a while ago, and have been using it for a while now. This along with the other tips on HDR and Skin tones will bring out the best from your RAW image…


A thing or two about Dynamic Range…

This is not an another post about what is Dynamic Range, intro­duc­tion to HDR and other such things. There are sev­eral arti­cles on the Inter­nets for that. This arti­cle is about the usabil­ity and prac­ti­cal­ity of Dynamic Range of a DSLR (D700 for exam­ple), and some tips on shoot­ing for HDR. The DXO Mark list D700’s (or


Thoughts for this week

Well, I recently taught a work­shop on HDR at the East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary in Philadel­phia. One of the things that i was asked about was what cam­era was best suited for this work?


More thoughts, same week…

In the past few weeks, I have been dili­gently work­ing on print­ing, mat­ting and fram­ing my pic­tures for a new show. Dur­ing this time, i have often won­dered if “out­sourc­ing” these things would have been eas­ier on me.  Being a per­fec­tion­ist (or seem­ingly so) — I wear white gloves, inspect the mats under strong light


Thoughts for the week…

I am cur­rently work­ing on prepar­ing for an upcom­ing exhi­bi­tion. I will be exhibit­ing a series of abstracts from my dig­i­tal art series.  You can check out the images on my web­site (select Port­fo­lio -> abstracts).  The images were printed by John at ejarts, on Hah­ne­muhle Fine Art Pearl, using an Epson 9880 printer.  The


Boundaries…

In the purest sense, Pho­tog­ra­phy refers to those that some­how involves a the usage of a “Cam­era” some­where in the Work­flow (a.k.a process of cre­at­ing the image). Times has how­ever changed. We see use of Com­put­ers & Soft­ware — blur the lines, along with the use of dig­i­tal cam­eras. Com­put­ers have in fact become indis­pens­able to