Photography is a journey which I walk everyday alongside my life. Wildlife is a source of inspiration and I try to do my best in my small way to salute Mother Nature. I am blessed that after so many years of photography career in India, I got the opportunity of…
Prerequisite: Knowledge about RAW converter + Levels + Layer Masking Step 1 Well , Let’s start from RAW file (_DSC6463.NEF in case of Nikon) and opening it in Adobe RAW converter. Step 2 Now follow it as shown in the figure below to get the black and white. I do…
SMILE – The gift of human from god, comes in various styles and forms. From a friendly smile to a more romantic smile or light giggles brightening up the room, there are many different types of smiles and different ways the act of smiling can be done. For instance, children…
The photos in this post won in the Best Photos from National Geographic Contest, Nikon Photo Contest, Smithsonian Mag, etc. They include People, Travel and Natural World Photography. This showcase will inspire you to get out and shoot more. You may be interested in the following related posts: 35 Beautiful…
I have always appreciated artistic expressions in various forms, from photography to painting, from drawing to design. But being a pharmacist by trade, I was rarely able to express myself artistically. Photography has been an ideal outlet for my creativity. My personal interest in photography began about six years ago…
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Many photographers use the technique of photographing people, objects or landscape elements against the light, to achieve an image in silhouette. The light…
Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. Photo manipulation is an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic design. Types of Digital Photo Manipulation In digital editing, photographs are usually taken with a digital camera and input directly…
What is Photoshop Actions? Photoshop Actions are the recordings of commands that can be applied to an image or multiple images. With Photoshop Actions, you can save time and make you more productive during Post-Processing. Photoshop actions allow you to record a sequence of commands and operations that you can…
I was given my first camera when I was 14 and still remember the thrill. For someone extremely shy, it was like being given a freedom of expression. I had always been fascinated by images of people, places, capturing them in my mind’s eye – but then they were gone.…
If you’ve ever stood in the TV department of an appliance store, you’ve seen firsthand how different an image can look on different screens. And, as you may have already discovered, prints can often look very different from the image on your computer monitor. Monitor profiling and calibration is the…
Street photography is a type of documentary photography that features subjects in candid situations within public places such as streets, parks, beaches, malls, political conventions and other settings.shoot may involve weeks of preparation. Many classic works of street photography were created in the period between roughly 1890 and 1975 and…
Portrait retouching is a quite deceptive art. For Portrait retouching you have to concentrate on Lighting, Skin, Wrinkles, Eyes, Hair, Bakground and many. If you have some experience in Photoshop it will be very easy to learn the basics and produce amazing results. Below we present 10 Professional Portrait Photo…
Hi Alyona, Welcome to 121 Clicks. Please introduce yourself. Could you tell us where you’re from and how you got started in Photography? Hi! I’m from Moscow. You should know it’s extremely cold, extremely big and extremely expensive city in Russia)). The idea came to the life after 7 long…
Photography is one of the fastest growing industry in the world at the moment. Every day a new photographer opens up his studio in some part of the globe or art gallery holds exhibition. The below examples will inspiration for other Photographers / Photography Studios who wants to create their…
Hello I’m Julia from England and I have recently retired from the business world and I can now concentrate on my hobbies of which bird photography plays a major part of my life. I only started taking an interest in photography when I met my future husband some 10 years…
What Is a Digital SLR Camera? If you’ve been wondering “what is a digital SLR?” I’m not all that surprised. Many consumers are much more familiar with compact digital cameras, since these models have flooded the marketplace. Like cell phones, it’s hard to walk down the street these days without…