One of the advantages of shooting in RAW is, it provides greater opportunities during post processing. RAW contains the whole image in a format that can be used to extract the right information that you want out of the image. Here is one such example.
I shot this image on a late evening in mid April at Kabini back waters. The final image that I that I've presented is what I'd visualized before clicking. Unfortunately the sensor can't capture all that we want yet. So to avoid that I processed the image at two different white balances (one at a cooler color temperature of 5500 and another at 7500). However when I started I wanted to retain the dramatic evening light on the elephant. This would mean that the background forest would also look little off color. Hence I blended the two images to get the desired effect on the image. Perhaps a light meter would have helped get the same effect. But light meter is little low on my wish list now.
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Hi Gautham,
ReplyDeleteI do not know much about photography. But I come to check your website blog because it is very relaxing for me to be with nature.
I wish you capture lot of these good ones.
At least you are helping people to relax from their mundane life.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI was just hopping through blogs.I found yours quite interesting,specially this post. I do not know anything about photography and to be honest i didn't understand your explanation either.:-)All i could figure out was that you have processed the image brilliantly.Outcome is just awesome.way to go Gautham:-)All the best!