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11
Sep
2018

Liquid Photography A Photography Studio In Melbourne

A photography studio today is the perfect amalgamation of a corporate workplace and an artists personal space. A photography studio is a sacred place for a photographer to pursue his passion and simultaneously earn a living. We, at Liquid Photography, Melbourne, provide an amazing photography experience to all our clients.

Established in 1999, we have successfully kept up with the ever-changing climate of technology. Our aim is to beautify your life by filling colors with our pictures, wherever possible. We have witnessed various shifts in the techniques and ways of photography but what remains common in all of them is the requirement of a studio. People are being experimental about outdoor photography yet the trend remains for photographs to be clicked inside the studio. Outdoor shoots can pose certain problems like that of lighting, ambience, concentration and natural occurrences.

However, it becomes very easy to control such factors while shooting indoors in a studio. Thus, we offer a wide range of services that include corporate, event, advertising, fashion, interior & exterior, product & portrait photography. We provide you with customized services that fit your requirements and help you achieve the heights you aspire to. Our professional and carefully chosen team not only consists of photographers, but also stylists, hair and make-up artists, graphic designers, printers, talent management agencies, etc.

We help you achieve an excellent look for your firm or product, which automatically becomes your selling point. Corporate photography is aimed at giving you that niche in the market that will fetch you better clients and give you a better standing amongst the crowd. Among the most important marketing technique of selling a product, lies in the light in which it is presented. We make sure that your product is set in perfect lighting and shot from its best angle, fetching greater profits and increasing your clientele.

We have extended our service to include kitchen and bathroom photography, helping many of our clients win awards for “Best Design”. Apart from the corporate world, we offer models a folio service. This is open to both upcoming and established models. We help create unique concepts that suit your personality, so your folio can attract the kind of work you aspire to do.

We also provide head-shots, especially for actors and other professionals whose career entirely depends on their looks. Our portrait services capture those perfectly cherished moments. We provide a holistic approach to your endeavor, personal or professional. Providing the finest in tailored services, perfectly fitting your list of requirements. Our detailed and skilled approach is especially designed to give you a great selling point in the market.

We truly believe in customer satisfaction and take pride in producing high-end imagery for the same. Hope your experience with us will be remarkable and one that you will always remember!

06
Sep
2018

Fashion & Art a Potent Potion!

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By Beverly Pereira Photography: Courtesy Tarun Tahiliani & The Singh Twins

Tarun Tahiliani’s Spring Summer 15 collection showcased at the Lakme Fashion Week Summer Resort 2015 features motifs, imagery and colours inspired by the celebrated art of the British-Indian Singh Twins…

Fashion and Art are not exactly strange bedfellows. Think Andy Warhol’s portrait of Yves Saint Lauren or Warhol’s iconic flowers that played muse to Prada’s Spring 2013 collection. More recently and closer to home, Tarun Tahiliani has collaborated with the internationally acclaimed Singh Twins, whose works of art play muse to his Lakme Fashion Week Spring Summer -15 collection.

The London-born, Liverpool-based Singh Twins, Amrit and Rabindra, describe their work as -past modern’ as opposed to Post Modern, portraying their Indian and British identities through the application of eastern and western aesthetics. Using motifs that represent British Asian life, cityscapes and pop culture, their work is tinged with the personal and the political and can be viewed as a social commentary with tongue-in-cheek humour.

Hugely inspired by this melange, the designer launched a ready-to-wear fashion line at the Wills India Fashion 2014 in Delhi as an ode to the Singh Twins’ art. He has now crafted garments for the Mumbai Lakme Fashion Week that bring to life the Twins’ well-received Indian miniature paintings, detailed black and white drawings and digital mixed medium art that explores an exclusive relationship with their home city of Liverpool.

Tarun, himself, is known to skilfully blend the modern and the traditional and augmenting this with the Twins’ affinity for reviving the age-old technique of miniature painting and the juxtaposition of modern iconography has led to a range of digitally printed separates – kaftans, jewel tees, dhoti skirts, lungi skirts, leggings and dresses etc. Some colour palettes and elements have been creatively reworked by the designer to harmonise with the collection. The twins’ Wheel of Fortune has been incorporated as a whole on to a Tahiliani kurta, while decorative motifs from their black and white Aquarius have been reassembled and colourised within the design of another outfit. Silk kaftans, much like a vast canvas, allow the twins’ paintings to come through beautifully. Saris are rife with colours, featuring borders that carry Persian motifs borrowed from their paintings.

His menswear also features text vignettes, stylised clouds and waves, borders and decorative motifs from several of the twins’ works, offering fashion lovers an artistic take-away, proving yet again that the art and fashion are strong counter-influencers! click here to view images from the collection on indiaartndesign.com

02
Sep
2018

Product Photography

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There isn’t any doubt at all that today’s picture driven world of business and advertising having the best product images carried out is essential to success. There are simply too many company messages on the market bombarding us every day for us to absorb far more than a small percentage of the messages being conveyed.
That is why advertisers and marketers have been relying more and more on product photography to do the job.
Product photography is an art. Top photos, especially of three-dimensional items, are not easily achieved. For the amount of high quality needed for commercial product photography, a studio setting is useful and an expert photographer is essential. The critical importance are lighting, background, clarity, composition and context.
Product photographers use a variety of professional equipment to attain the desired result. Specialty cameras and lenses, a light box, light diffusers and a wide range of backgrounds and props are only a few of the items required to ensure high quality product photographs. Also, the pro product photographer’s ability and experience are invaluable.
Megapixel of over 10 is really helpful for camera and the ideal lens to use shall be 100mm macro. The light source is of key importance in your overall photograph shoot setup. Typically for indoor shots, you’ll want 2 light sources – one is the primary light for either direct light on your product, or it may be diffused indirectly, corresponding to utilizing a light tent. Then the second light source is often fill or reflection-diffusing light to take away from the shadow effect. There are two major lighting to use on product photography. Strobe light is very good for the sharp look on metal or chrome products such as jewellery and glass items. Ambient light could make a smooth look so long as the photographer is aware of methods to diffuse and reflect light source.
In todays competitive enterprise industry, a professional internet webstore is the important thing to achieve success. Your product is the life line between your online business and your client. Pro product photographers can achieve good colour and the sharp image look by bring up the products sharpness. Quality product photography is the key to business success.

A bridezilla usually has these symptoms:
-Someone who is pushy and barely gives thanks.
-Somebody who is very impatient and demanding.
-Somebody who raises voice often and screams unnecessarily.
-Someone who is usually stressed out below any situations.
-Someone who can’t handle their emotions well.
-Somebody who is impolite and disrespectful.

Usually women don’t plan to turn into a bridezilla when she first begins to plan her wedding. All of it starts from the voice in her head I want my wedding day to be perfect. Demanding perfection in your wedding day will only cause stress, because nothing in this world is flawless. Whenever you hear perfect wedding stories, it merely means that wedding was perfect for that particular individual as they were happy on that day. Surprising things might happen and something may go sideways, but why not take a breath and focus on having fun and make the remainder of the day a memorable one?
There are 3 common ways to prevent becoming a bridezilla.

1. When discussing wedding plans together with your fianc, try and substitute This is my day with This is our wedding. Without doubt guys have silly concepts like race car wedding cakes and soccer theme invitations, however this is because wedding is often not their forte. It is very important compromise concepts from both sides reasonably in order to have a successful and joyful wedding day.

2. Go out with your friends to enjoy a movie and new restaurants, have fun! Take a break from wedding conversation and spend an evening focusing on catching up on other people’s lives. You want your friends to be joyful for you from the bottom of their heart. Joyful bridal party can have a positive effect in your big day.

3. Be good to your wedding professionals. Impatient and rude brides easily upset those that would have gladly helped them. Even when it is not outwardly noticeable, professionals who she has disrespected may naturally give poor service at the end of the day. Respect your wedding vendors and lots of good stuff may happen. Your DJ might make an effort to do an extra nice job to heat up the crowd of the reception. Your venue could serve your guests well ahead of your expectations. Your photographer might make you extra beautiful with post production enhancements like photoshop retouch. Your floral could try to do an extra great job on decorating the scene. Your wedding planner might make an effort to have more endurance with you to organize the day. There are a lot of positive things that can occur behind the scenes if the bride is kind and reasonable to wedding professionals.

27
Aug
2018

Can I Recover Data From A Broken Memory Card

categories: Photography

Everyone has a digital camera or device now days, allowing them to record those wonderful moments. It seems it gets easier all the time to lose pictures, either by deleting the wrong files or by memory cards breaking. One frequently asked question in the technology field, “Can I retrieve data from a broken memory card”?, and ” Do you think the pictures are gone permanently?” Well most of the time the answer to both is “possibly”. When your memory card is broken, it stands less of a chance of recovery. The memory card has such delicate components, and the smallest thing could lead to the loss of saved data.

These are more or less your options. Based on how a memory card is actually broken, can determine whether or not an easy out will be available. So, what do you do now? You put your trust in a product that is supposed to store and keep your pictures and data safe. In return you are left empty handed. Whether your memory card was lost, destroyed, or damaged, to most it is important that you recover your data. A memory card that has been burnt, or has extreme water damage, may not have any partitions left to try and save. Either way you are left wondering where to turn. Some things you should try before tossing your card for good:

Some ways to recover lost files are – download recovery software, take it to a photography developing place, or perhaps to a Radio Shack dealer or similar specialty shop. Even sending the memory card in to a professional data recovery service is suggested.

We suggest you simply try to download a free data recovery program at home first. There’s nothing to loose, except the high cost of paying someone to do it for you. Data recovery software is a non destructive and read only utility that enables you to recover lost images, music, video files, and other office documents from your memory card. Most times this can recover, and needs no further steps. This step may not apply to those severely damaged. In those cases, professional help may be the only option left.

Taking the memory card to a nearest photo developer may be an affordable option as well. You may simply walk in and ask if they can pull up anything. They may have a more advanced way of recovering your data.

Lastly, if none of the other options have worked, it is time to decide how valuable the files on your card are. It will cost quite a bit for a professional to recover them for you. In turn, they may not be able to recover them on account of the memory card being totally destroyed.

There are many ways to recover, and to prevent later loss of files, but always make sure you back up your files often. For most of us, pictures are irreplaceable!

24
Aug
2018

Canon EOS Rebel T3i SLR Camera review

categories: Photography

Unveiled in early 2011, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i (EOS 600D) continues Canon’s Digital rebel tradition of providing ‘affordable’ digital SLR cameras. Ideal for entry level enthusiast, the Rebel T3i sits on the top end of Canons entry-level EOS line-up, above the existing Rebel T2i (EOS 550D). With tools to capture beautiful still images and Full HD movies, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i makes photography easy and fun. With the matchless range of EF-S lenses and other accessories from Canon, the Rebel T3i holds the key to the perfect shot.

Body Design and Handling

Unlike its predecessors, the Rebel T3i has an improved grip that’s a little deeper, front to back, coupled with a carved channel on the back that provides an anchor point for the thumb. Although bigger hands may still find it a tight squeeze, most users should find its grip more comfortable than its predecessors. It is also heftier than its predecessor, the T2i, weighing almost 60g more (583g compared to the T2i’s 525g)

As with many cameras in its class, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i utilizes a pentamirror viewfinder. Although it is one of the better pentamirror finders in the market, it is smaller and dimmer than the pentaprism finders used in more expensive cameras. The viewfinder shows approximately 95% of the scene to be captured, and the 5% ‘margin of error’ is of little consequence in normal use.

The Canon EOS Rebel T3i has an excellent 3:2, 1,040k dot display swivel-and-tilt articulated LCD screen. Hinged on the side instead of the based, it is useful for taking shots when using a tripod, or camera above the head type of shots. The ClearView display technology which has a layer of optical elastic material between the coverglass makes for unusually clear indoors and outdoors images.

First Class Still Shots

The Canon EOS Rebel T3i’s DIGIC 4 image processor and buffer enables capture of about 34 large/fine JPEG images, 6 RAW frames, and 4 RAW+JPEG frames. The DIGIC 4 processor also allows capture of 14-bit RAW images, and the 8-bit JPEGs are created from 14-bit data. The quality from both the swiveling LCD and the optical viewfinder is excellent, good enough to shoot at ISO 3,200 for a low-noise image.

With Peripheral Illumination Correction, the Rebel T3i is able to reduce Vignetting, a reduction of an image’s brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center.

The Rebel T3i also has Creative Filter functions, which provides 5 filters, including the new Fisheye mode that creates a distortion as seen through a fisheye lens. The effect is applied after the shot is captured, and the strength of the effect is adjustable. This feature is not available for videos.

Unlike its predecessors, the Canon T3i offers nine-point auto focusing (AF) with a central f/2.8 focus point and eight single-axis points. All its AF points are cross-type, an advantage, as they are sensitive to both horizontal and vertical detail.

The Canon EOS Rebel T3i also comes with an Auto+ mode, which combines five Canon T3i’s systems, i.e.; Auto Exposure, Autofocus, Auto White Balance, Auto Lighting Optimizer, and Picture Style Auto, into one smart exposure mode.

Full High Definition Moving Pictures

The Canon EOS Rebel T3i comes with movie mode with Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 pixels at 24, 25, and 30 frames per second. 720p is available at 50 and 60 fps and VGA video is recorded at 30 and 25 fps. Zooming is a breeze with Video Digital Zoom, which allows a cropped zoom from between three and 10x magnification in 1080p resolution at all frame rates.

Another feature is the Video Snapshot mode that is brought in from Canons PowerShot and camcorder ranges. This feature allows recordings of short 2, 4 or 8 second video snippets, which are then stitched together and played back as a merged video. There is also an option to add audio soundtrack, choosing from the in-built five standard background music tracks, or import music to the SD card via the EOS utility. With this feature, multi-take videos can be produced without computer editing.

Other Handy Features

The T3i has a pop-up flash, with an X-sync of 1/200 second and a guide number of 43 feet (13m) at ISO 100 that can also function as an Integrated Speedlite Transmitter /wireless flash controller.

As with the T2i, it is HDMI-CEC compatible. With an HDMI to mini-HDMI (Type C) adapter or cable (purchase separately), you can play back your images on your HD TV as well as control the camera’s Playback functions via the CEC (Consumer Electronics) Protocol.

In Conclusion

With newly added features to the already impressive Rebel line, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i is a value for money investment for aspiring photographers. The quality of its still shots is among the best in its price range, and its video modes are quite comprehensive, offering excellent quality, if handled correctly.

Besides the Rebel T3i, Canon offers the T2i and the 60D, another two outstanding 18-megapixel digital SLRs within the same price range. All provides excellent image quality. However, in this authors opinion, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i has the best mix of features among the three.