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All below shots are with the 50mm without flash

Long shot. Was playing around with focusing on long distance objects with the 50mm. Such shots do not come out very sharp hand-held.

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The Gang:

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Originally Posted by gr8guzzler (Post 3223998)

Succes!!!

Here are few images from Fatehpur Sikri.

Very nice 1st shot.
Can you please share the exif data of the 1st image.

Sunrise at Makali Durga

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Originally Posted by nilanjanray (Post 3224098)

Nice shot.

Really like the first and third ones.

Thanks! Nilanjan

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Originally Posted by thoma (Post 3224182)

Just love your HDR effects, especially the glow of the Taj and Hawa Mahal a few pages back.

Thanks! thoma. Glad you liked them.

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Originally Posted by Rajvir Bains (Post 3224455)

Very nice 1st shot.
Can you please share the exif data of the 1st image.

Thanks! Rajvir. It's a combination of 3 exposures. The normal one was 1/20 f/8 ISO 1600 @ 18mm.

sun & rain dance in Hong Kong....

Golden Chariot @ Heritage 1881

Few clicks from recent drive to Yosemite.

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Pic for today-

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Sunset near Gulani, Maharashtra.

Both the shots were captured at zoom in moving vehicle.
Raw images apart from resizing no processing done.

Remnants of a once glorious kingdom and its artists's creations.

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Originally Posted by Gandhi (Post 3226025)

Few clicks from recent drive to Yosemite.

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Neat clicks man. Heard this place is being ravaged by forest fires,have they bght it under control ?

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Originally Posted by rjstyles69 (Post 3227277)

Neat clicks man. Heard this place is being ravaged by forest fires,have they bght it under control ?

Not yet. The fire still rages on. The actual fire is going on about 20 miles north of the main valley. It had no impact on most of the national park till Friday night. After that the winds changed direction and it filled the whole valley with thick smoke. That's what you see in the pics. We had plans to stay in the valley for entire weekend but had to shorten it to just few hours. The smoke and ash in the air were too much to handle.

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Originally Posted by Gandhi (Post 3226025)

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Loved the third one.

Two pics of the view from my house terrace.

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Using SELECTIVE COLOUR option:

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Hey Guys,

Quick help needed. I am trying to edit a pic of my kid. He is wearing a red hooded tee. I want to set everything to grayscale and keep the hood red.
I am sorry, I don't know the exact photography terminology for this kind of pic editing.
I Googled up a bit and tried to find the simplest tool which could help me achieve this. Every solution points to using Layering process. I am terribly weak at this sort of editing.

Can someone please point me to a simpler software which could help me ?

I have GIMP, PS and Picasa (doesn't have layering).
I was referring to THIS instruction and tried doing layering using GIMP. Failed miserably :(

HELP please:
An example of what I am trying to mean: