Category Archives: Tips

Lessons from the horse track

As i mentioned in my earlier post (Lessons from the weekend – part 4) the last part of the field exercise included a visit to the local horse race track. Notes from this exercise: This was my first action shoot – i had never shot any fast moving things before – as such most of

Color Management 101

Disclaimer: I am not the expert in this subject. Do not read this – you might be better off reading  this 600 page book instead. However, i do know what it is – and if you care for a really short explanation on what the heck it is, and why its important, continue reading…. Note:

Lessons from the weekend – Part 4

This past weekend, i attended a photo workshop by one of my favourite fine art photographers – Tony Sweet. A few notes from my experience: He is human after all! he makes mistakes as well….ironicically this is somewhat satisfying for me… He shared some of his tricks and techniques, which although seemingly small once you

Flowers

Now that spring is in the air, the one thing that comes to mind is “Fresh Flowers!”. I recently attended the New York Botanical Gardens, for its popular annual orchid show. I was pleasently surprised at the number of professional “looking” photographers. If you notice, i quoted the term “looking” – intending to signify that

Suckered into lightroom…

Ya…like everyone else, i joined in the lightroom revolution since their Beta 2. As the d-day gets nearer, we still dont have a pricing or availability on the product. Worst thing is that the beta4 is all set to expire end of February! The irony is that i am all hooked on this thing –

Lessons from the weekend – Part 2

Now that i have finally ranked every one of the pictures, i am left with 228 pictures with 3 star rating from the 992 i took. Thats a 23% “keeper” rate – not bad! However, i am sure my 2nd round of rating will get this number even down! Imagine doing this in Film days

Lessons from the weekend

Lucky for the wolves, it snowed yesterday and is cold today. Unlucky for me, it was minus five outside. I was up there around 7AM, and i could hear the wind more than the wolves. It was high up in the mountains and the cold wind blowing on the snow/ice was spine chilling. Having been