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Friends, our current theme is water. I have seen that most [or all] of our members are trying to adjust with some photograph they are having now. Not really tried to click for the current topic.
I just wanted to motivate all you by taking some "water" snaps. Its a matter of being with your camera for one hour.
The crown: most difficult one to get if the liquid is "water". with Milk you will get beautiful crowns
The crator: not that difficult but not that easy too.
This is the easiest one. 90% of your photographs will end up similar to this. But its a beauty!
So, any one with a digital camera can do this. Minimum shutter speed "1000" is recommended. If you have a DSLR then things will be easier. Well, we dont need a tripod too since all the shots will be taken with above 1000 shutter speed.
What I did was, I took my bucket out side my balcony in the noon time so that I can get lot of natural light. Sometimes the autofocus will focus at the botom of bucket through water. To avoid that you can mix any color to water. [I was not having that.]
For DSLR users, you can set the focus manually and click.
Note: I have used Photoshop to remove grains and some color correction. Orignal pictures were ugly ;). Total snaps taken were 203.
I am not a professional, if there are any professionals around here then please correct if I were wrong.
This is how my entire setup looked like. [quality is not that good, picture taken with my cell phone camera. excuse me.]
Can I expect some pictures from you too?
Regards,
-varun
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Incentive for my dearest Amateur Photography Members
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great work varun! i appreciate you enthusiasm to post this!
also check out, dpchallenge.com/how.php?HOW_ID=1
he has added a little more of post-processing to make the whole thing look even better
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Varun,
Thanks for the tutorial. It is very helpful. I will be trying this out soon.
Regards,
Manoj
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Hi lost in colors, thanks for that link!
thatz more a professional work, I wish if I could also do like that :(
well, I was not able to apply the rule of 1/3rd because if i move the frame my bucket's* edge will show up :(
*in fact it was not a bucket, it was a small bowl, so no room for 1/3rd. I draw the bucket there for the sake of illustration!
Regards,
-varun
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wooow varun
thanks a lot for tht tutorial !!
its a grt help
will try out soon
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hey thanks varun!! its really shall proove to be a good help!!!
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thanks for those wonderful tips....will remember
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thanks for the tutorial varun! that's a neat tip - will definitely try this out soon!!
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TIP No. 2 [I know most of you guys know this. ]
How will you insert a deodorant bottle inside a Smirnoff [  ] bottle without breaking it?
Here are the smirnoff and deodorant bottles
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1. Copy the deo bottle image and paste it over the smirnoff image as a new layer. Note that the smirnoff has gone invisible now since it is behind the deo layer.
2. Delete the white space around the deo bottle by using rubber tool or magic wand. After deleting it will look like this...
3. Now select the blending mode for the deo layer as "multiply"
4. Do some minor brightness contrast adjustment for both the images and you are done!
Well the same technique is not applicable for all the images. I have described in very few and simple steps, rest is up to your creativity.
-varun
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Excellent splashes there Varun! I enjoyed them thoroughly!
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varun awesome !
that was very informative!
thank you!
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excellent tricks varugn! give us more;)
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Wow slaps sorry claps to U varun. lol
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Ambiguity in last comment !
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Its really helpfull to have exchage of ideas and veiws . Thanks everbody for that !!!
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Tip No. 3
How to give the picture a dreamy effect?
I'm going to put everything in very simple six steps, rest is up to your creativity.
1. This is the image we are having and going to give a dreamy touch. Open the picture in your editing application [Photoshop / Paint shop etc]
2. Copy the same image and paste over the existing image as a new layer.
3. Increase the brightness of the image at top layer by about 50% more.
4. Apply "Gaussian Blur" after increasing the brightness.
5. Change the top layer 'blend mode' to "Hard Light" [or you can use "Overlay"]
6. Here is our final Image with dreamy effect. Thats all !
Try changing the hue while keeping saturation at near lowest level [around 10] or apply "Sepia" / "aged news paper" effect to the top layer, you will like it.
Note: The values to be set for the brightness, contrast, blur etc varies from images to images and this will come with practice.
Both images are here to compare, further fine tuning is upto you...
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She is my cousin's daughter, Ammu. I miss you dear Ammu... :(
~varun
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Thanks a lot Varun
great tip
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wow!
amazing!!
thanx alot!!
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cool..!
thank u varun :)
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  Thanks !
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thnx a lot varun.. gave it a try n results are lovely... thnx again..:)
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@Sumanth Jain  so happy to hear that. :)
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Tip No. 4
 lost in colors forced me to write this!
for the image www.flickr.com/photos/varungm/499857025/. I was little busy with work and sorry for the late response.
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This is our original image.
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Correct the gamma to a level in which your image appears like a watermark.
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increase the brightness & contrast. The image look like bleached and should have only some important features of the image left visible.
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1. Duplicate the image "window" [not layer].
2. make the duplicated one to grey scale
3. the grey scale reduces the color depth, so now increase the color depth back to 16 million colors [24 bit]
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1. copy the "grey scale" image and paste over our "colored-bleached" image as a new layer
2. change the blending mode to burn
3. merge the layers after blending. [in the pic shown above it is not merged, move to next step given below only after merging]
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1. create a blank layer above our "merged" layer
2. change the blending option of the new layer to "color"
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1. select the red [or any color which you like!] and paint over lips, eye and ear
2. similarly make new layers and give brown color for hair etc.. [not shown in this pic]
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do some finishing touches and you are done.
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The approach can be different for different images depending upon the relative brightness/contrast etc and i don't assure that this will work with all the images. Experiment with blending, it gives you very interesting results.
This is not the only way for doing it, the same effect can be achieved by using different techniques. If you know any shorter and smarter way please do come up with it.
~varun
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Thanks Varun for sharing the trick with us. My curiosity has ended now :)
1) looks like this isn't cs2, got cs3 already?
2) The funda behind increasing the depth to 16 million colors after converting to grayscale was very interesting
3) Blending the layers using burn mode was something which i did not know before
Thanks a lot for taking some time... preparing this could have taken some decent amount of time
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Well I used the Paint Shop Pro by Corel. The Photoshop CS2/3 also has the same functions. It should work with that too.
~varun
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Great tutorial, Varun! I certainly appreciate you sharing this with us.
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great tutorial
thanks for sharing!!!!
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really good tips, ill take my camera and try to take water pics.
thanks for the support :D
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wow thanks for the tutorial :)
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Tip No. 5: - Taking the smoke pic.
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The arrangement for getting the smoke picture is as follows [this is the top view]
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The resulting picture will be something like this...
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Rotate the picture in photoshop [so that ppl wont really understand what it is usually !] then increase the brightness and contrast so that the black background in the back will turn to real black and the smoke will look more impressive. [ value of contrast = 2 x brightness value ]
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Either you can stop at the previous step or just invert the image by applying the "negative image" filter. This will make the black to white so that the final image will look like its paint on water. you can change the hue and achieve different colors.
what actually matters is the arrangement in the first step.
Good luck !
-varun
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Thanks Varun for the tutorial! never knew that the setup would be so simple for this shot! love the quality on your shots... will give it a try sometime soon.
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Hey Varun! nice tutorial! definetively I will try this at home. Thank you so much for taking your time on this post. That Corel PS is Jasc, right? I have the 9.01 version :D
For the glow effect (tip# 3) I use Picasa, it's fast editing and have cool edit options, if you don't want to spend to much time, give it a try!
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Fabulous tips Varun - thank you SO much!! It is fantastic for a complete amateur like me!!
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thanx alot...
will surely try in sm days...
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wow
thats a wonderful trick Varun
Thanks a lot for sharing
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thankyou for the amazing tricks...u really r a photomagician..!!!...
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Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks Varun.
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amazing stuff :)
i was wondering how i missed this thread till now
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Tip #6
This is not really a tip, still I would like to share something with our dearest members.
When I take these kind of photographs the usual comment which I get from my friends are similar to this... " wow varun, you are lucky to have a girl getting nude in front of you"
Friends, I NEVER make my models nude.
Its all about the angle in which you take the snap, cropping, shading, lights and how intelligent you are in hiding the clothe of the model.
For example, in this photograph the girl is wearing shorts and tube top. Since there is no strap for the tube top the upper portion looks naked, the portion of the shorts are made dark by no light falling in that area [even if the light falls you can darken that in photoshop]
The result looks like a nude photograph.
I know i'm killing the thrill behind the photograph, but I wanted to let you all guys know that it is not necessary to make any one nude for an artistic nude picture.
Before taking the picture make your self clear to the model what is having in your mind and how you are going to frame the snap.
Well, this is having limitations as well. You know what I meant !
good luck!
-varun
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thanx varun for all the tutorials.. and for the note at the bottom :)
Expecting more from u.
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thks for all the tips...!!!! ... ow.... and the pics of people and body part r magnificent!!!
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@ varungm: I tried out the smoke setup but unfortunately the black screen I used reflected some light & looked blue-ish. I used tubelights, bulbs, & even sunlight but it was still the same. Any suggestions?
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use flash from side, if u have extended flash
tube light is not a good idea because it will illuminate the whole setup. May be u can put the bulb in a box and focus the light to the smoke from side. [make sure that the light and camera are at 90 degrees, black screen and camera face to face.]
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ne1 tried or seen vertical panorama???wud love to see it
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rotate all images 90 deg. and stitch if your panorama stitcher doesn't support those many images vertically !
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Hey guys, check this out:
flickr.com/photos/dalanharris/527187597/
Really cool idea!!
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Also, www.neatimage.com/
Its a software that reduces noise/graininess in pics. Damn useful thing.
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This is an awesome collection of sample tricks from your bag. I hope to try some as soon as I get my Photoshop.
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2 Great tips. The smoke photo's are ace. Definatey trying that one
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a question varun, on the draw that it is explaining the water shoots:
it says ''wet cloth'' ???
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hi varun!!!thanks a lot dude..'m an amateur in photography as well working with photoshop...your tips were helpful and hoping to get more tips from the members too...keep rocking...
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