These are some images from my recent trip to the Zoo in the Bannerghatta National Park. This is a reserve that has Lions and Tigers in a reserve that spreads over about 25000 acres. The zoo contains other non safari related animals, reptiles and birds.
On my recent trip to the IT hub of India, Bangalore, I went for lunch to a place my friends had told me about a few times. Situated in a nondescript lane in the city is Road Trip. As the name suggests this restaurant does have something to do with traveling. More specifically with motorcycling. This is a fact made abundantly clear by the decor of the place.
Green is the colour to be nowadays. You can be green in your home, at work, outside, while traveling, while cooking and basically while doing anything else. Add to that list, that you can now also be a Green Photographer. It’s a very simple concept with 3 principles. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It’s that simple!
Having decided to start using Flickr more extensively for sharing and managing my growing photo collection, it is extremely inconvenient to use the built in flickr on site uploader. It is really slow and doesn’t get things done the way I would like. So, I spent some time exploring webspace to find out suitble applications for me use on Linux as that is my primary OS. Here are 3 that I tried.
Contrary to what the title may lead you to believe, this post is actually about a few shots of the Moon that I took today and not about some new method of drinking alcohol that’s doing the rounds. The Moon was exceptionally bright today and also very large. I saw it while driving back from home from work.
Recently I found myself waiting in my car at the side of a road while my wife finished off some work. Fortunately I had my camera with me and decided to take some long exposure shots of the traffic on that road.
An amateur photographer like me doesn’t really need a lot of things in his camera bag, though he wants a lot of things he knows that the wife will throw a fit if he goes ahead and buys everything that he wants. So, my camera bag is full of the things that I really need and it also has a few things that I wanted and were cheap enough to buy without the wife suspecting me of overspending.
I had read about lomography a few times while stumbling through the internet. I didn’t pay much attention to it then. A few days ago I found some really old photographs that I had taken with my Hot Shot Camera. This camera was pretty basic with really nothing in it, especially the lens which used to generally spoil the edges of the shot. Combine that with the 110 mm film that it used to work with, which was also not very fast, you had pictures that looked like they had been taken a few years ago, even on the day that they were developed.
After I installed qtpfsgui, I went out and took some shots of my complex in the night. The shots came out well I thought. This time I took five shots at different exposures and used a tripod so that I don’t have to align the images manually. Continue reading
I recently saw some examples of HDR (high Dynamic Range) images. The process involves combining images with different levels of exposure and then Tone Mapping them with particular software to get a resultant images that can be truly nice to look at. Monitors are generally not able to display the level of dynamic range available in an image and the process of tone mapping helps create images where a higher dynamic range can be rendered on a normal display.
