Capturing Gloriosa Superba



This is about a month back when me and Balan went to Valley School for Photography. While returning to the main road we spotted a few Gloriosa Superba flowers. The initial reaction was to pass. But then, we decided to stop and take a few snaps. One of the good impact from traveling with young minds like Balan is that you start experimenting like a child. That is…

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Creating Animated Pictures using Photoshop

 

I am sure all of you have seen pictures on the web that showed short animations. These are saved in GIF image format that allows a sequence of frames to be shown in sequence creating the perception of animation. Photoshop allows you to combine multiple pictures into an animated GIF image. I will show you how.

 

Last week, I Satish, Chandrasekar and Mayur visited…

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Friends,

I have been doing some experiments with Extension Tubes lately and have learnt some facts about Extension Tubes. I have posted this on my web-site. Please take a look at it when you have time.

http://muralisanthanam.com/ExtensionTubes.aspx

Regards,
Murali Santhanam

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I am just back from Singapore and I must say I had very big challenge shooting in Singapore. There was instant fogging on my camera lens. The reason was, the moment I would take my camera out of the bag, due to heat of the atmosphere and low temperature of the camera bag, the moisture on the lens had instant deposit.



I had to take my camera and keep it outside my bag for at least 15 mins, when the temperature of the camera was equal to the atmospheric temperature. I… Continue