The Belly Dancer

Place : 42nd street and Madison Ave, NYC
Occasion: India Day Parade

It was a wonderful event to visit. Although I seriously could never figure out what a belly dancer was doing in India day parade.

Original Picture:

The following changes were made to the image:

1. Popping out of colors by using the Lab Color mode in photoshop. This is shown in this wonderful tutorial by some user:

2. Adding vignette to the picture. One of the ways to do this is shown in this second wonderful tutorial posted by some other youtube user:

Please let me know of any questions or comments. Thanks!

The Beginning is the End

They say that learn it by seeing it. They also say that share what you learnt to learn more out of it.
The goal is to take better pictures. The idea is to show what I do and ask clickers and flickers how I can do it better. To get critiqued and to critique (sometimes). And to see if any better can be done.