Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

The fast express to Photoshop Land

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Photoshop Express

Adobe just released it’s latest offering called Adobe – Photoshop Express. Currently in a public beta, this Flash based offering lets a user maintain an online “photbucket”. It combines this with Photoshop’s award winning editing features. Most of the common corrections like red-eye removal, contrast, exposure and brightness adjustments etc are available. Also you have a decent bevy of special effects like sepia, black and white, pop colors etc. In short everything that an ordinary everyday photographer would need.

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Black and White memories

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Pooh - Pablo Bartholomew

Went to the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) for this fabulous exhibition titled “The Painted Photograph: Painted, Poised and of the Moment”. I have to thank my good pal Arun for telling me about this exhibition, otherwise I might have missed an opportunity to see some great pictures. (more…)

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The mini-SLR wonder !!!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Just saw a snippet on the Olympus E-420 in today’s Economic Times. The E-420 is the new “affordable” D-SLR from Olympus. It comes with a 25mm len, compact and light-weight body with live-view and the ability to preview and compose shots (with auto-focus) on the LCD screen. The best part is that when it retails in India, it’s price tag might just be in the Rs.20,000 to Rs.30,000 bracket, making it quite affordable. Makes my dream of graduating to an D-SLR a lot more achievable!

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Digital Darkroom on Linux

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Of late I have been wondering about what software I would need to edit and manage photographs on Linux, something like a digital darkroom. Basically, what anyone would want at the bare minimum is some software to get the photos from the camera to the PC, software to edit the photos and maybe “digitally develop” them (should include standard post processing and fixes ) and lastly something to manage that ever increasing collection of pictures.

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Disaster strikes

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I was clicking snaps of the beautiful sunset today, when my camera started behaving quite weirdly. At first it gave a card full error, when there was enough space for 45 high resolution pictures on the card. Next, when I switched to a lower resolution and tried to click a picture, the camera kind of just hung while saving the picture to the card. Then when I switched on the camera again, it asked me to format the card, indicating a corrupt card. I was horrified, because it meant losing all the Karnala snaps I had clicked on yesterday’s trek.

After much googling, I managed to get this free software called Digital Photo Recovery from Art Plus. It worked like a charm, and I was able to recover all my pictures from the card. Don’t know what I would have done without this software, thanks Art plus for making great software.

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