Bark

Posted by Shuva Brata Deb (Hyderabad, India) on 27 April 2006 in Plants & Nature.

Its just a bark, the same bark where Lipika at Lotus Pond was leaning on. I was trying to play with a shallow DOF, but the result was not so good as much as I expected. But I am still posting.

Since some of you were asking me about my post processing techniques for B/W, its quite simple. I have been playing with the photoshop CS features, like Channel mixer, Hue-Saturation layer,etc, etc, but then I realized that it was not worth so much when you need a complete B/W picture. I find the Canon's "RAW Image Task" software simple and sufficient. So its like I am shooting B/W in the first place. For the contrast part, as I come from a film-camera world, I like the Red, Green, Orange, Yellow filters that are available in the "RAW Image Task" program.I also select Contrast=High when editing the RAW image, whenever necessary. I realised that I can predict the outcome very effectively when I use one of these 4 filters, rather than playing with PS-CS2 and doing a good amount of trail and error. I also tried the CS2 RAW image editor, but I prefer the RAW Image Task, as it is very simple and gives me all that I need. Then some level addustments, and "Unsharpen Mask"/"Smart Sharpen Filter" in CS2 and thats it. The above rule applies to most of my B/W posts, but there are expections, but very few.

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