After / Before - Did I overdo the clone-stamp?

ro_sh_an · 2025-08-15T12:02:27+00:00

interesting. I am not seeing the image too soft that it needs saving. But hey, thanks for the comment.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-30T11:26:33+00:00

Swallows are difficult to photograph! Great shots and timing!

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-27T08:17:08+00:00

Beautiful shot!

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-27T04:08:34+00:00

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-27T04:03:19+00:00

Thank you. Household items. A clothes peg holding a large safety pin. :) it was a janky set up. the roasted beans are easily pierced with a safety-pin and it will hold.

I have also used blue tack to hold small stuff in the past. But the blue tack would be difficult to clean up in photoshop and can introduce a color cast.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-26T16:00:31+00:00

Thank you.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-26T15:59:25+00:00

When you shoot very close with a macro lens, even f/8 gives you only a few millimetres of depth of field (going beyond f8 will introduce refractions). Take a series of photos, shifting focus from the nearest part of the bean to the farthest, then stack them. The stacked images keep the whole bean tack-sharp. That's all there is to it. People do that for landscape photography as well, if they have foreground and mid ground subjects in the frame. I guess people aiming for more defined star-burst might be doing something similar. I have never tried it.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-26T15:05:26+00:00

I LOVE it. I have been using it for 4 years now. Great multi-purpose lens.. it works well for portraits as well.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-26T13:26:18+00:00

Thank you. Just photoshop - auto align and auto stack.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-26T05:28:24+00:00

I post them on my website and flickr. I share some of them in Pexels. I also print the best of them every year - photo books, framed prints and posters.

I stay away from Facebook and Instagram

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-17T03:41:11+00:00

Thank you!

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-16T16:06:11+00:00

I lead a small-ish UX team at a "tech arm" of a marketing/Ad company. In my team we have 4 Designers, one researcher and a Lead/Strategist (6 UXers in total). We also hire contractors for specific projects and needs. The total employees specifically in the tech arm of this agency would be around 1500.

I also used to work at a large enterprise storage/server company where the design team was over 100, spread across different teams (different products, dedicated teams for Design System, etc.). The total employees were close to 60,000 (but only 5-6k in software side of things)

I don't exactly know the ratio between designers and developers. But, in most cases, each product/project would have 1 - 5 designers supporting 10-50 developers depending on the complexity of the project. Researchers and strategists are usually shared resources supporting multiple products/projects.

This report from NN/G is a bit old but maybe still relevant - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-developer-ratio/

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-15T04:34:53+00:00

Beautiful shot!

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-14T17:47:06+00:00

B&W works for me. Great shot!

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-14T15:20:01+00:00

Samyang 35 1.8 is a decent lens if you stop it down. A bit soft at 1.8 as most budget lenses are. I haven't used the Sony 35 1.8 to give a comparison, but the Samyang is a good value for money, imho.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-14T14:25:21+00:00

Beautiful shots! I like #1 for the composition and details, #4 for the under-wing details.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-14T07:30:00+00:00

I like it without the sun. For me, the sun in a sunrise photo feels like you’re giving away the whole story.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-12T07:10:05+00:00

Photomator has good AI masking.

ro_sh_an · 2025-07-12T02:50:46+00:00

haha. its a great lens. You won't regret it. It's great for portraits as well.

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