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Diwali Photography
Diwali was here and now its gone. It is without a doubt the best Indian festival in my opinion. The lights and the fireworks make the atmosphere the most festive possible, unfortunately also adding to the smoke in the atmosphere. The fireworks are loud and irritating, but it wouldn’t be diwali without them.
Angsana Oasis Spa & Resort, Bangalore
The Angsana Resort and Spa is located about an hour outside Bengaluru city in Karnataka. This particular resort is constructed and operated by the Prestige Group of builders based in Bengaluru under license from The Banyan Tree Group that operate the Angsana brand in Asia. This is a photo tour of the Bengaluru resort and spa.
Games Service Centres Play
A few days ago, my one and a half year old Acer laptop developed a display problem (I think). The system would boot to a display littered with small lines and then freeze. I have a Acer 4520 service guide that is supposed to be standard issue to the Acer service centers. This guide didn’t help mainly because I didn’t have the tools to analyze any of the electronic. I therefore did not even attempt to open the laptop.
Exposure Blending in GIMP
Exposure blending is a good starting step to create realistic and also not so realistic HDR images. Getting an image that has an enhanced dynamic range has also given me better tone mapping results. Having spoken about using the Advanced Tone Mapping plugin for GIMP in another article, I figured that it is only logical to talk about exposure blending also.
Tone Mapping in GIMP
Ever since I read about manipulating images to display them as HDR images, I have been playing around with various tools available for the Linux and Windows platforms. It was quite difficult to find a free tool for Windows for this purpose and I finally used a trial version of Photomatix (a very well known HDR creation and tone mapping application), which leaves a watermark on all the images that you create. For Linux, I found qtpfsgui.
Tilt Shifted Fake Miniatures
After my first trials with fake tilt shifting with tiltshiftmaker.com and GIMP, and the second post with my Toronto trip pictures miniaturized, this is the third set of images that have qualified to be miniaturized via fake tilt shift effect.
Moo Cards
My Moo Cards arrived a week or so ago. Took their own sweet time getting here, almost 4 weeks. Standard international post. They were quite nice to see and I felt that it wasn’t a waste. I could have chosen better images, a fact that was also pointed out to me by my wife.
Innovative Film City
Deep in the jungles in the outskirts of Bangalore resides one of the fiercest of animals humans have come across in recent history. Someday I will have an article to start off in this way, but for now we only need to go about one and a half hours out of Bangalore on the Bannerghatta road to the insides of the Bidadi Industrial Estate to see one of the most impressive, nay, INNOVATIVE amusement parks that I have seen in India thus far.