by kpalana | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
This morning I woke up in Kolkata, India for the first time and today I’ll get a chance to finally confront the actual city versus the movie and book images I have had floating in my head since childhood, back when it was still called Calcutta. This is my first...
by kpalana | Jan 1, 2017 | Blog
Are you tired each New Year of everyone telling you you need to change, be better, be more this, be less that? Me too. Not that we all couldn’t be more loving, giving, empathetic, and more apt to take better care of our minds, bodies, and spirits… But this...
by kpalana | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
“Help! I have an amazing still image for a film I’m working on, but I need to blur the face of someone in the background to protect their privacy.” This is a common situation. Sometimes you have only one image but it contains children or...
by kpalana | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog
Use the free program Gimp to rub those red eyes right out In a perfect world, people wouldn’t care about a little blemish or demonic glowing red eyes in a photo. But if you’d like to present your subjects in a professional, flawless way, here are a few...
by kpalana | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
Along Came a Spider… There was a spider in my bathtub this morning. Luckily it was running with all eight legs away from me as I turned the shower on. Fear and revulsion were my first reactions along with a fleeting desire to kill it. Blame my Indian friend Manu...
by kpalana | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
The ancient Egyptians as well as the Greeks, Chinese, and Indians all used color therapy to help heal ailments. What would it look like if we experimented by using some of the same color healing techniques today? Obviously heed your medical doctor’s advice when...
