A wise choice of image format before taking your shots will decide the flexibility and the control you will have over the final result. Let’s put a few things in perspective first. JPEG or JPG is an image format devised by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. Pronounced “J-peg”, it is a compressed and lossy format [...]
I‘ve been asked this question many times. What differentiates a masterpiece from the rest? There are underexposed and overexposed photographs which are showcased while some of the technically perfect ones left out. I’d better try to answer this through a post. Photography is an art. And just like any form of art photography is medium [...]
What better way than to analyze some of the pictures and their histograms? Just for this experiment I took various shots (and some from my old trips) to demonstrate the corresponding histograms. By the way, this is second part of the series on histogram. Check out Part I for some basic understanding of what a [...]
Every time I took a shot, I paused briefly to look at the rear LCD monitor of my DSLR before taking the next shot. Sometimes I deleted shots which seemed to be perfect. My wife got inquisitive and asked back. I was actually looking at one of the technological marvels which have changed the way [...]
During the time of film cameras, filters were used to correct the white balance or lighting errors. Most people just wonder why their indoors pictures show the white color as with a yellow, orange, or blue shade. That’s because the white color that looks white to the eyes does have a color tinge. The reason [...]