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Recipe 5 : Single Strobe Low-Key Portraits
This is another low-key photography technique but here our source of light is going to be a flash gun a.k.a. strobe. Using this technique you can achieve very dramatic portraits / still life images....
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Recipe 6 : Beaches in Daylight
So we now move into the landscape genre of photography. This particular recipe is about photographing beaches. I have unintentionally visited beaches on all my vacations for the past 2 years so I have...
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Recipe 7 : Water (long exposure)
This recipe can be used for to create a dreamy, blurry effect in any water body. Since I have mostly visited beaches, I have tried it on beaches… Rocky ones. It wouldn’t be any fun on normal beaches....
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Recipe 8 : High-Key Portraits
So guys, here is the another recipe on Portrait photography and we are talking about the exact opposite of low-key portraits. So instead of most of the picture going dark, we are going to blow it out....
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Recipe 9 : Panning
There is relatively less written about having motion in your still photographs although its a very powerful tool. In this recipe we are going to learn one of the basic techniques to show motion and...
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Recipe 10 : Flowers (macro)
On 1st Jan 2011, there was a rose exhibition in Pune. I had shot flowers before then but I hadn’t put much thought into it. Shooting over 250 photographs in a span of about 3 hours taught me a lot....
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Recipe 11 : The Blue Hour
Hello folks! Its almost a year since I started this site and I’m ashamed that there are only 10 recipes on it. So here’s a new recipe for you. The Blue Hour. The blue hour is a long cherished time of...
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Recipe 12 : Food Photography
Food photography is quickly becoming a favorite genre of mine. Capturing all the flavor and aroma of a dish in a photograph and making people drool is a difficult proposition. It’ll be a little easier...
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Recipe 13 : Against the sun (sunburst)
For too many years, the world has taught photographers to shoot with their back to the sun. The simple (or simplistic) logic to this is that the light falls directly on your subjects face and the...
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Recipe 14 : Split Toning
This is a post processing recipe about spilt toning. I have found the technique useful in various scenarios in both color and b&w photographs. We will get to the technique in a minute but first let...
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