NJB'S PHOTOGRAPHY

As I mentioned in my previous note my two images have been shortlisted as finalist which are " r e d " & " p e a s ". Today I got a news that both images have been selected as winners in second place in the category of "people" & "Elements of design". About the images: r e d: This is the photograph of my beautiful expressive daughter Mansi. She is surrounded with a red sari & for me it arrangement looks like a flower peeping from the leaves. Her happy expressions added a life to the image. May be Green color may have more suited to the concept. The EXIF data for this image is: Model: Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL FocalLength: 50.0 mm ISOSpeedRatings: 100 ApertureValue: f/5.6 ExposureTime: 1/25 sec. ExposureProgram: Manual ExposureB iasValue: 0.0 WhiteBalance: 1 MeteringMode: 6 p e a s: This is a simple still life shot exploring the beautiful shapes & fresh color of peas. I thought it ...

I am really happy to share with you that my two images are shortlisted as finalist in betterphoto May 2009 contest. One is "r e d" photograph of my daughter Mansi in People Category & other is "P e a s" in the category Elements of Design Notification from the site: Betterphoto Link : r e d Congratulations! You have placed as a finalist in this month's BetterPhoto Contest! Over 19500 photos were entered into the competition; it is an honorto have your image selected among the top 516 finalist photos. Your finalist photo: r e d (#8368766) Betterphoto Link : p e a s Congratulations! You have placed as a finalist in this month's BetterPhoto Contest! Over 19500 photos were entered into the competition; it is an honor to have your image selected among the top 516 finalist photos. Your finalist photo: p e a s (#8296908) Hope they will do better further & at least one image may be nominated as winner.

Smoke Photography is a really very interesting & there is no limit to your creativity. I have given the basic hints for getting good photographs by using smoke in my earlier blog “Smoke Photography” Here I will like to give a practical example of how one can play with a image to create beautiful patterns & designs in very simple steps. The images represent my layers in photoshop & details arte as given below. 1. This image is my basic image straight from camera. 2. After basic adjustment by using levels & contrast the image 3. The layer is copied & using free transformed flipped horizontally. Layer’s blending mode changed to Lighten. 4. Layer Both layers copied into new layer again blending mode set to lighten. I am showing individual layers but You will see a different image in photoshop. 5. Layer 4 duplicated & using free transform flipped vertically. Blending mode set to lighten. 6. All layers merged to new layer. Using free transformed ro...

Today I am going to share with you about my inspiration for the portrait photographic work. I have no shame to tell boldly that all my portrait photography work is highly inspired by the master in this field Manny Librodo. I always believe that everyone might be inspired from something & one should not feel ashamed to get inspired. Most of you might be very well familiar with his name & work. I still remember the first day when I visited his gallery on Pbase .It was a holiday morning & I can never forget that experience which I felt while surfing his work. I almost spent 2-3 hour just observing his amazing work. Believe me it was too late to sense that I have yet to take lunch. At that time I found more hunger in me to do such kind of work than the taking just a lunch. The best thing which I liked is his work is how beautifully he has captured the emotions! He is master in creating good lighting & post processing. In some image He has created such a magical work o...

Mansi is my daughter & she is now around 4 years old. You will find significant images of her in my portfolio. She has got very beautiful eyes & charming face. We share a great time while shooting & I really like the way she responds to me. I really love her expressive face. I am writing this blog because she is the person because of which my interest in photography has been started. If before 3-4 years you asked me anything about photography I may have not able to tell the basics (Even today I am trying to learn those.. ). I didn't like the film cameras. I remember an incidence from my college days while once on a trip the camera was out of photos because the film was not properly fixed  in camera.The only thing in my favor was my  interest in drawing . I have successfully completed some good drawing courses in childhood. I bought my first digital camera Nikon 4200 only for taking images of my 6 months old girl. I was really impressed about the digital conven...

I think everybody loves to see smoke images & photographers want to expertise in such kind of photography. I wish to share the technique for taking such images. I am not the first one to do such work, you can get lot of information on internet. This is an attempt to share my personal experience with you. Before starting to work on this I must say one needs lot of patience for getting good images. One has to select really good images out of the bunch & dare to throw average images. Image 1 Image 2 Image2: A image showing sound waves illustration representing smoke as sound waves. In actual photograph the smoke was from behind the speaker & only top wave. In processing it has been duplicated & shown coming from speaker. No external elements have been added in the image. My few tips & techniques for capturing such images are as given below: SOURCE: The source for ...