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Reflections

April 2, 2011

I am in the process of completely revamping my “prints for sale” page on my photography website, and have thus been going through many of my old pictures to decide which ones to include.  One cool thing about this process is that I have realized that I have definitely become better at post-processing – both in terms of making a picture look better, but also in the different creative things you can do with a picture.  I found the above image, which I almost through out – because the original is very dark, and much larger, with no clear point of focus.  However I decided to play around with it a bit, and came up with what you see here.  I was surprised to see that many of the berries were actually in focus – despite looking like they were are terribly underexposed in the original format of the picture, and I was even more surprised to see that you could see my reflection taking the picture in almost every one of them!  Kind of reminds me of a fly’s eye =)

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  1. Kaylin Hamilton's avatar
    Kieran Hamilton permalink
    April 2, 2011 8:19 PM

    lovely pic, definitely worth going back and editing! I find the same thing with improvements in post editing, even in pictures that weren’t taken or edited that long ago and I’ve salvaged a few that I thought were a lost cause.

    • subha's avatar
      April 2, 2011 9:41 PM

      thanks kieran! i know its crazy! sometimes i am really amazed by what is “hidden” in a picture that I find only after I play with it a bit. I couldn’t see these little reflections in the berries at all until I turned up the exposure and surprise! it was pretty cool!

  2. lalita airan's avatar
    lalita airan permalink
    April 2, 2011 8:59 PM

    Subha I like your new website and your e-mail subscription thatway it reminds me to go there. Your pictures are amaging I think your name should have a matra on s when written in HIndi which will make it mean from hand

    • subha's avatar
      April 2, 2011 9:41 PM

      thanks mom! i don’t know how I managed to miss the “e” in “se”…maybe because I was doing this when I was really sleepy…thanks for checking it for me =) i’m glad to see you reading!

  3. lalita airan's avatar
    lalita airan permalink
    April 4, 2011 9:38 AM

    I just realized what you meant by reflection in every berry, I finally

  4. Robin's avatar
    April 4, 2011 1:44 PM

    Wonderful photo. I’m glad you found a way to bring out what was there. 🙂

  5. Dacia's avatar
    April 4, 2011 4:18 PM

    I love this photo! I am intrigued by what the original looked like.

    Thank you for sharing!

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