"If you cannot start it today, what makes you think you will do it tomorrow"
Adobe Lightroom (Lr) provides sufficiently good features to post-process images. Though I have a Photoshop CC subscription, unless I am doing advanced manipulations, Lightroom is a quicker option to experiment with image tone and color grading. It provides a ton of presets for transformations, but I usually build my custom edits, since every preset output…
The month of July has a lot of spice to offer for cyclists. The most prominent one is the Tour De France is something everyone looks forward to. I have been following Tour De France for a decade now. Specifically, the recent rivalry between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard has been fascinating to watch. Meanwhile,…
I would have covered half a dozen books (maybe more) since the start of 2023. That’s close to my usual rhythm. I shifted to Kindle a few years back. It is convenient to switch between books, which I usually do. Handy to carry while traveling. I do like the highlight feature to recap the book…
As the world in 2023 goes gung-ho over the Generative AI offerings, photo editing enthusiasts are not to be left behind either. Adobe threw its first gauntlet with the Firefly Generative AI engine infused into Photoshop (Beta). Just a few months back, photo editors were learning new skills on the editing software. All of a…
Goa has more to offer than its coastline fun, frolic, and relaxation. There is another side of the city that preserves its genesis, the culture that is preserved in various forms through the last few centuries. One of them that stands the trials of time is Goa’s Latin quarter of Fontainhas at the heart of…
Start by watching this video, and come back to this post! Writing about the science of health is the hardest thing in my opinion. You pick any topic, and there can be endless discussion about what is right or wrong. So I need to be careful here not to be prescriptive in any form, especially…
I have been delving more into learning videography lately. For beginners, smartphone videography is a good step to experiment with the subject framing and camera movements to bring out some interesting effects. I have a previous post where I touched upon some video effects and editing. Do check it out here. This post is more…
For quite a while I had been considering creating a digital signature, or simply a logo to embed into the pictures that I share publicly either on Flickr or Instagram. I did some research, and interestingly there are a ton of ways to create them, ranging from the usage of fonts from the Adobe site…
Here was my attempt at creating a cocktail of Photography with a bit of Adobe Lightroom tricks. Recently I picked up Color grading lessons in Lightroom. Even though I primarily use Photoshop CC for most of my work, Lightroom is quite handy for lightweight jobs. I’m also fond of Pinterest and follow home photography ideas….
A couple of weekends back I took a road trip to Hampi along with a few others. For those who are hearing of this place for the first time, Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Karnataka, India. It was once the capital of the Vijayanagara empire in the 14th century. What remains now are…