Showing posts with label Image. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Image. Show all posts

October 25, 2011

The Image Makers And Photography

Photography is a fascinating art. It expresses the cultural and social values and promotes the culture of the people of a country. It also helps in introducing the way of living and their style to the modern world. It preserves the culture of the people of a country.

Photography is a fascinating world. Photographs are full of colors and life. Photography is the art or process of taking photographs.

The digital age has arrived and taken over the world of photography. The old fashioned way of taking photographs has been vanished. In days gone by, photography was not an art but a craft used primarily to capture faces and portraits of subject seated primly and stiffly in front of lavish backdrops that were supposed to look artificial as their poses.

Photographs, or, rather, portrait photography, was then a serious business and not just for those posing but also for those behind the cumbersome and unwieldy cameras that required equally huge flashlights. Images were then stored on negatives and not on computer chips. Touching entailed working on negative and positive forms of film and color was added by hand. The traditional may not have been recognized as artists but they truly were-the proof of this lies in the flourish with which they added color to black and white world they captured and knowing eye with which they picked the right tints and hues to use.

But this pain staking craft has all but died out. Images are now stored on machines and touched up in photo shop and this has sounded the death knell for the whole world of photography. Even the act of taking a passport photograph, portraiture in its own way is no longer required.

Photographs try to capture a world that after some time become the part of history and helps to remember the image makers and people who are gone away.

Indeed as critic John Berger once said:

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget."

Photographs is used to express the social and cultural life of people of a country. It as also used to capture the culture, cultural values, festivals and beauty of some specific regions like Kalash Valley and Cholistan desert etc, of Pakistan. It helps in introducing the ancient cultures to the modern world. Photography preserves the culture history and art of the people.

As the culture and history are the heritage of a country so it should be introduced to the modern world. Photography familiarizes people with our ancestors heritage.

Hence, photography is a very realistic art and gives life to photographs.

According to Elliott Erwitt:

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I have to found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them".


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October 21, 2011

When Is Image Touching Required?

Now with digital solutions even backgrounds can be changed. Additions can be made to the original photo. Or two images can be merged effortlessly. Such perfection is only possible through the services of the digital photo studios. With many companies giving online services, image touching can be done. The main aim of any Photoshop operation is to attain a realistic image that will be liked. This realism can mean many different things for the professional dealing with images and what the client needs. To some refers to the overall quality of the image, others look into minute details and the rest believe in making the picture look like a living entity but without the imperfections. As photo retouching includes many image makeover procedures, it comes handy to all of them. Imagine now even black and white pictures can be colorized with the efforts of photo imaging.

Often people have spots and scratches on their faces. Though it is difficult to get rid of them in reality, but, they can easily be removed from images. All those images that look so perfect have always have undergone many sessions of image retouching. So, with the help of image retouching it is not very difficult to erase some unwanted marks, wrinkles or fine lines and some other imperfections.

Photo retouching is also very vital for photo restoration services. Often some of the portions of old photographs are spoilt. But with the help of image retouching, they can be recreated and the entire image gets a new life.

Another important avenue of the image retouching procedure is the color correction methodology. A lot of pictures come with uneven or unattractive colors. It is then that the professional induce color correction methods. The color correction procedures are not limited to the back ground effects only but are often used to brighten the images.

Photo retouching can brilliantly transform black and white image into colored pictures. It is vital that the sharp contours of the images are maintained while changing them from black and white to colored copies. The artist can select the suitable color for the image and can even alter the tonal quality of the colors. It is also used to increase or decrease the shine of the pictures. Often a different effect is achieved through altering the sheen of the pictures. Often the pictures that paper on magazines are far glossier than the original copies. On the other hand, images can also be faded to make them look more real. Even the photo texture can be altered to give it the right look. Often photographers take color pictures and then convert them into black and white to retouch the image- Perhaps to get the right emotional drama to the entire picture. One cannot underestimate what possibilities can exist with Photo retouching. It has been instrumental in helping several businesses to improve on their product presentation on the website and brochures.

All this and many things more can be easily achieved through image touching.


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October 09, 2011

DSLR Care - Digital Camera Image Sensor Cleaning Tips

If there's one thing everyone hates, it's dust. The smallest and the most irritating of all things on the planet, there ain't no stopping dust! No matter how many times you clean your laptop's screen in the day, no matter how many hours you spend cleaning around your house, there the damn thing goes to dirty everything up again.

In a situation like this, it isn't any big surprise that the sensor of your DSLR would end up with a bit of dust on it every few days. Especially if you're into changing a lot of lenses while shooting. So, what's the procedure for getting a clean sensor?

There are many ways

1. The Expensive Way

Go to an authorised dealer, tell them to clean your lens and give them a month's salary.

2. The Cheap Way

Do it yourself.

Sounds good, doesn't it? But there are a lot of things that could go wrong if you don't do it right. One of them including running the risk of damaging the outer plate accidentally and end up paying a price much higher than that required to get it cleaned by Nikon.

But, there is a very small chance of that happening as the plate is nothing but thick glass and it would take a thicker skull to damage it.

Some of the self-cleaning methods include using a cleaning fluid with a brush to wipe away the dust, the most popular being a $32 kit from Copper Hill Images. Other self-help gurus will advise you to use statically charged or cosmetic brushes for the same job.

Visible dust CCD cleaning kit are ideal, we have many options for leans cleaning kit. have a dehumidifier to store your camera when not in use. Other than this you will get camera skins to protect slr camera from many things. A good quality camera bag should be light weight with extra padding.

Though effective, using brushes won't really help in removing the icky glob that forms when the dust on your sensors combines with chamber lubricant from parts of your camera.

Well, that should be enough to remove any fears you've had of touching your sensors, in fact you're not even touching your sensors. It's a glass plate above it that you're actually cleaning.

That's it then. Happy Cleaning!!

Note: If you're really freaked out about cleaning your sensors, try using cameras from Olympus. They'll last real long without you having to worry about sensor cleaning at all.


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