Victorian Secrets – Rediscovering the elegance of the era…
An idea that’s been looming in my head for sometime. I’ve always been fascinated by this particular era of the history… The fashion, the stories, being an avid Steam Punk fantasy story fan, I always wanted to do something to capture the essence of the era and do something out of the ordinary from the day to day modern fashion shoots. Planning the shoot was somewhat hard. I was presented with quite a few challenges. First of, was finding the suitable models who had the correct look and would represent and portray the era. After going through a dozen applicants, we finally manged to short list these three brilliant girls who fit the bill almost perfectly. Finding the appropriate costumes was my biggest and the hardest challenge. This involved a lot research on all mediums and a lot leg work. After searching high and low, I finally stumbled upon the very nice and helpful bunch at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham UK. The volunteers who works very hard their gave us their full support and co-orporation. Location wise I would like to think I got lucky, when one of my friends introduced me to Keith, who owns the Prince of Wales Pub […]
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Photography Tips – Using the Histogram
Before anything, KNOW that nothing can replace or beat your own experience or your eyes. Do NOT be too dependant on the gadgets…. Use them for what they are… TOOLS and guides… Also note that these little tips and tricks are not gospel. This is mainly based on my experience and what I’ve seen/read through the years. I would be very much interested to hear your comments/ thoughts. Now that we’ve got those little things out of the way, lets get to today’s topic. What is a Histogram? For anyone who doesn’t know what it is.. is the small graph like thingi that shows on your camera’s LCD screen when you review your image. What it REALLY is, is a graphical representation of the distribution of the pixels (Brightness or colour) in a photo. There are two types of histograms in digital cameras. And both can be used extensively to achieve good exposures. 1. The brightness value histogram or a Single histogram – This is almost every digital camera. Shows the brightness value of a photo as a single channel. 2. RGB histograms – You can find these mainly in higher end DSLRs. The values of each colour is shown separately in […]
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Flower Power
Sooo, A little illustration I’ve done while I was trying to relieve my head of some of the ideas that’s loitering around in it… Still exploring this new rather simplistic illustrating method. The fancy background/ paper is mostly textures downloaded from various websites. I had to find a reference image that fits the pose that I had in my mind, which I did from a random website again… which I forgot to make a note of.. (My bad) however, I think the overall image has come out pretty decent. She does have a glamorous look about her.. and also a bit of sternness too.. but once I’ve uploaded the image I kinda noticed that the colours are a bit too dark for my tastes.. seems my monitor is gone out of calibration again!! :/ Entirely using Adobe Photohop CS5 + Wacom Intuos 3.
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Concert Photography – The nightmare! or is it??
Yep.. It very well could be… Specially if you’re just starting out and don’t have much experience. I thought I’d put down a couple of pointers that might help anyone. Especially if you have only modest equipment and you’re not pals with the performers and/or someone at the venue. Most of the below tips could be useful for night club photography as well. The biggest challenge in concert photography is that you have absolutely NO control over any of the aspects. You can’t direct the subject(s), lighting will be controlled by someone who seemingly hate photographers! You might end up stranded in just place giving you only on angle of the performance and not to mention the crowd of fans who has paid good money to see the performance (who will get irritated if you try to run around with a camera disturbing them!!). So, first stop; Equipment: I always say, its not the tools, its the user. But of coz, better tools helps… Lens-wise, something with a bigger aperture, f2.8 or bigger… however, you better be good with your focusing. A camera that handles noise well at high ISOs will always help. My Nikon D7000 is pretty good at this. Exposure: Open […]
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