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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Bored and light painted!

oh faaak!!!! i dint realize its been ages since i uploaded got a bunch of pic to do! been really busy with the university work n stuff!! but still no excuse! well today was really really free and decided to brush up my light painting skills not that i am good! but still something is better than nothing! inspiration from this webpage 

http://www.graphicmania.net/stunning-examples-of-light-painting-photography
Long shutter ofcourse Manual bulb mode F18 and ISO 200 the slideshow
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. here the link to it!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157628211436783
ciao xoxohttp://www.graphicmania.net/stunning-examples-of-light-painting-photography

Saturday, 24 September 2011

Newyork Tales part 2

NewYork Tales part 2..... A week in NewYork for imagine cup! we had a day for sightseeing! and a barbeque at the liberty statue! saw the 9/11 ground zero site! a day of painting pictures in central park, night at Hard Rock Cafe NEwYork, playing around with shutter speed trying to take pictures of water drops from the fountain!!! well all in all NYC was fun! hopefully somewhere in the near future i get to see the US of A again! this time the places on my list is deff LAs vegas!
Created with flickr slideshow.
Here's the flikr link The next post is going to be some typically dutch pictures! ;) hope i dont get too lazy in between! till then xoxo

Newyork Tales Part 1

I have been absolutely lazy, busy and figuring out a word press blog for my day to day rambling in the netherlands! yes you heard t right! i am here studying AGAIN! thanks to the job market or my sheer lazyness to step into the real world!
New york was fun! as i had mentioned earlier been there for a week for a competition.. well i dint win but had fun! what more do i ask for? eh! 
so here's some of the picture s which were supposed to be updated like a month ago! And i changed my hp laptop to mac! so still figuring how to use it! i did want to try some post processing in these pictures! will do once i master the mac!
so here are the pictures!!


Created with flickr slideshow.
Here's the link to the flikr page! http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157627739878838/ Next part coming up now! xoxo

Thursday, 18 August 2011

Post

Hello peeps!!!
yeah been a month since i remotely even was on blogger...
i was off to USA for a competition.. well i dint win but nevertheless i got to see New York!
Yeah got loads of photos!
been absolutely busy! as i am off to do another masters in the Netherlands! so busy with all the bloody paperwork and the visa process!!!
Hopefully i update my NY pictures soon..... :)

till then
xoxo

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Iphoneography

Been wayyyyy too lazy to update my blog..... there are  a lot more to upload but will do soon hopefully!! decided to upload  A batch of my photos taken with iphone :D :D
FYI there are going to be soooo many pictures soon as i am leaving to New York  this month for a week yayyy!!! so yeah you can guess how many pics are going to be here ;) 

Here 's the link for the iphone uploads ;) 


Here's the slideshow of the pictures :) :)





Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

Till then
xoxo

Monday, 30 May 2011

Diana mini B&W

Here I am again!!! I am not sure if you remember a few months back i said i have B&W film roll, which needed to be developed and stuff! and i had given it in a studio in Chennai and i dint collect so long! well finally i did!!

The pictures are not that great! they are actually bit crappy!!! So not really happy with it!!! I am not sure if the problem is with the way i took the pictures or a bit of an issue with the way they developed it or what!
I had told the studio guy not to you know tweak anything as he said it wont come very clearly blah blah blah!!!  anyways i hope to use my other roll and maybe get it developed at a place where they actually know to develop B&W [these are the times i wish i knew how to develop a film roll!! maybe one fine day i ll have my own dark room ;)]
and yeah the decent looking pictures are the ones of my family and we all look bit scary in the pic hehehe!! ;)
Here's the slide show of the pictures



Here's the flickr link to it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626840623778/

Have a few more albums! just a wee bit busy and a wee bit lazy ;)

till then
xoxo


Sunday, 15 May 2011

ImagineCup Round 2

Às i had mentioned earlier and have asked for your help in voting for our video! Microsoft Imaginecup 2011 USA. we have cleared our round 1 and have made our round 2 video which is going to be judged by a panel of 15 judges!

Here's a link to our round 2 video!

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0lmJNtkyCoE&h=290ce

I hope you like it :)
xoxo 

Pottery

Its been a while since i updated!!! been very lazy asusual!! still trying to figure out photoshop, God! its confusing :(
anyways this lot of pictures where taken in a place called "Alankuppam" near Auroville. A friend of mine suggested i should check out this potters place as he teaches you to make stuff!!!
I tried and made some deformed pots ;) well it seems i need more patience thats what the potter said! took these with my 550D (wihout flash) so i had to crank up my ISO to the max.
would deff love any comments :)

here's the slideshow



and the flikr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626599727235/

till then
xoxo


Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Auroville Times!

Its been a while since i updated the blog..... I was at Auroville (Pondychery) Guess most of you guys know about it!!! well it was my first time in Auroville... it definitely was a different experience....

I was there for 2 weeks for a training on the Eco friendly bricks... which is also called as Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks. We were a bunch of students, engineers and architects... being trained on how to produce them and how to build stuff with them... Pretty cool it was ;)

Here are a bunch of pictures that i took in and around Auroville.....

Here's a slideshow of the pictures....



and also the link to the pictures!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626404679071/

xoxo

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Birmingham!!

A few Pictures of Birmingham!! I was in Birmingham for a year and a half but was never a tourist taking pictures!! but yeah there's always a first time for everything!! :D After i got my 550D i went around Birmingham snapping everything i could possibly snap!! hehe!!
and yeah been practising Photoshop a bit! man it is hard phew!!! and found Lightroom, dono much about it tho! but yeah managed to learn some of it....

I found out that the option of increasing blacks is exactly what i wanted... It gives the pictures a distinctive look!!! So i did some post processing to the pictures not a lot just tweaked the blacks a bit and voila the pictures look quite nice!!
Here is the slideshow of it!!!





Here's also the flickr link to it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157626105892649/

Till then
xoxo

Friday, 25 February 2011

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Light Painting

As i have posted in my previous post!!! i got my very own slr hehehe ;)
and yes started experimenting some techniques of photography!
Here are the pictures!!! they are not too bad for my first trial and moreover it gets bit cranky coz i have to keep running from doing the painting as well as check the camera hehe!!






Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.


Here's also the link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625936901465/

Comments and ideas much appreciated!
xoxo

Monday, 7 February 2011

Iphone Photo Application Part 3

Well this is the last part for this post hopefully!!!

I would like to start off with the first one "Instagram" I think most of y'all know about it!!! i think this is one of the best apps of iphone for photo editing!!! I not only allows you to edit the pics... there is a community of instagram, where you get to post your picture, follow people, find the popular photos and share your thoughts on them!!

With regard to editing... This app has a numerous effects which gives a very peculiar result, which i can swear i have never seen in any other apps.... these effects give a very dark result... dark i mean the mysterious look!!!! These effects are a bit of a combination of cross process, lomo, retro, vintage... and maybe red tint tooo!!!! but all in all there are definitely unique!!!!

This is just not it.... You not only have the privilege to have your own profile and share your pictures in the instagram community. You can also share it on various social networking sites as Facebook, twitter, flickr, tumblr and foursquare.

Second app "Pudding Cam" first of all this app is not in english! that is the only problem but yeah you can figure out whats what tho! when you want to search for this app... just search for pudding cam... you will come up with this ;). This app gives you a range of toy camera lens and films....
The range of films provided are vintage brown, blue, dazzle, noir, mono and few more..... and the range of lens are fish eye, motion x2, panorama, motion 2x2, motion x4 and a few more!!once you click your picture.. it is saved in the photo album!!! There is an option of emailing as well.... and also a pudding cam account, which i dont understand coz its in some other language.... ( m not sure if its Chinese or something else!!)In the settings i could understand was the size of the picture. So yeah this is definitely a fun app... except for the fact its in some language!!!

third app of the day "Retro Cam" this is another unique app... this app gives you 5 diff toy camera's namely "The Barbel", "Little Orange box" , "Xolaroid 2000" , "Pinhole Camera", "Fudge Cam." This app not only provides you the effects of these cam but also information about them. There is an option of taking the pictures in colour or black and white. The pictures taken are saved in the app and can be shared to facebook, twitter, email or saved to camera roll!!! this is a really good app if you like vintage look.

Fourth app "Iron cam" as the name suggests it kinda looks interesting and at first looks complicated. You have the option to change the image size, zoom, vignette. once the picture is taken after adjusting the above options you are directed to another page which gives you the options frame, film which is only cross process and a vintage look, blur and some icons to paste. You can also share it to your twitter account, facebook and you also have a tutorial picture to show what works how? This is also a decent free app....

Fifth one "Classic Toy" this one i downloaded is a free version so i have my hands-on on only 3 types of lens  but you can purchase 6 different packages which provide 6 lens each! but the app is very generous on the types of film you get to play with, you are provided with a whooping 14 different film rolls. This app really gives you the perfect imperfect pinhole type images.... which is really impressive. So again this is a good app to play with!

Sixth: "Photogami" this app has 3 main themes- Colour, monotone and Frame. The frames are not that innovative but the effects are pretty good!!! the first thing that caught my attention is the effects can be overlayed on each effect ( which you will find in the pictures from the link below) and has a wide range of effects like paint, purple haze, psychedelic, posterize and vintage. Monocolour also has a wide range as rose, duotone, b&w, noir and sketch! on the whole this is also a really nice one....

Seventh "Picplz" This is quite similar to the instagram but this has different kind of effects, the best ones are the cross process, 70's and vintage. You can share it directly to twitter, facebook, flickr, tumblr, foursquare and Dropbox. The only thing i dint figure out is how to save it in the camera roll. In a way i prefer Instagram is better than Picplz.

Last but not the least app "A sunset" this converts any picture into a beautiful sunset kinda look picture.

And yes i finally figured out how to insert a photo stream in the blog and i hope it works out!!!


www.flickr.com


Here's also the slide show!


Here is the link to the pictures......

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625996856414/


Till then
xoxo
:)

Friday, 4 February 2011

Iphone Photo Application Part 2

Here comes the second part of the iphone photography applications!!!
First one "Crazy Booth" asusual part of apps you have the option of uploading your own picture from the album or take one! once you go the main screen you see 4 pages. 1 being funfair: it has popart, heat cam, sepia, B&W and obama which is the only interesting one in this page as this gives kinda of a reddish blue poster look! . 2 also being funfair: ripple, twirl,  checkers, twin, mirror.. .nothing really interesting actually for the mirror effect!!  3 is carzy:  its got xray, alien, puzzle and peephole... puzzle is nice as it kinda jigsaw puzzles your picture except for the fact you cannot move anything ;) peephole kinda gives you a fish eye effect. last one is the curious: its got UV, darkroom and few other effect.... On the whole this app is not that great and to add to the negative points its slow!!!

second one: "Light Meter" this is not an editing app... this gives you information on the "aperture f", "ISO"  and "shutter speed" for SLR camera's. You can lock one of the aspect to find the appropriate ones.... This is an useful app for SLR beginners like me, who can experiment and learn the appropriate aspects of the SLR. :)

Third: "Super Camera: All in 1" this app is just the name for me!!! personally i think the other apps have better effects and the only effect which the other ones i havent noticed is the "HDR"which is actually pretty nice in this app!!! other than that it has the usual sepia, b&w, soft light, emboss, sketch and sharpen. It also has a bunch of frames and an anti shake option to take the pictures... I cannot complain coz this is a Lite version, if i want more out of this app...yes i should purchase a full version of it....

Fourth: "Format 126" This app is one of the oldest app in my iphone ;) it is actually pretty interesting, Its got a range of Lomo kind of effects.... The effects it has are the "Colour plus", which ofcourse emphasizes the colours in the picture and brightens it. "Pola colour" it kinda fades the colour in the picture. "Mono Plus", "Mono"and "Mono Hi" they convert the picture into black & white with varying shades of the black, white and gray. "Colour Hint" provides a mix of the colour aswell as the monotone!!!! and finally "Lofi" i really like this effect as it has a mix of Lomo an colour plus effect... it really brings out the colour in the picture. It also has the option of vignetting, border and square frame....

Fifth: "My Film Lite" this is actually an awesome app for ppl who likes the whole idea in the slr cameras where you can choose one particular point in a picture to be focussed and the rest blurred.... This shows the focus point really good... and more over you can ever choose the development colour aswell the shape of the focus points. So thumbs up for this app!!!

Last but not the least in this part is the "Pic Grunger" this app... converts your pictures into a kinda of grunge effect. The Lite version has 4 effects 1)Aged, the name says it all. 2) Bleech Spill- again it has a grunge effect on the picture with a spill like effect on the corners 3) Scruffed and 4) Streaked they both give the same kind of grunge feel to the photograph. You also have the option of changing the styles in each effect, strength of the effect and finally the adding a border to the photograph.

Here is the link to the link to the pictures....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625974461512/

There is one more part to this topic.... Just broke it into parts as i dont want to have tooooo many apps in one post.....
Till then
xoxo

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Iphone Photo Application Part 1

Yes, as I said I would write some posts on Iphone Photo Applications.... Here they are.... All the applications i will be writing about are free ( I don't like spending on applications hehe!! )

The first one is "MoreLomo" recently  i have fallen in love with the lomography, so well i have a lot of applications on lomo effect. well this app... has a very simple interface which allows you either to take a picture or load a picture from the camera roll. These pictures look really awesome!!! they have this vignetting around the corner and the lighting is dark! so yeah i love it!!

The next one is the Ädobe Photoshop Express"noone needs an introduction on photoshop in pc.... well i suck at it... and have been trying to learn it for the last three days... yes this again gives you an option of  taking a picture or load a picture from the camera roll.This app gives you loads of options as crop, flip, rotate, brightness, contrast, sharpen and loads more.... The interesting ones are the effects, my fav ones are the rainbow, vignette blur and white glow.

The third one is "PhotoWizard-lite" this one is pretty awesome!!! again the same options of the pictures but the filters and the effects are brilliant. I have to name a few nice ones Hue/ saturation works pretty awesome for a mobile app... ( ofcourse its iphone so I shouldnt be comparing it with any regular phone but still!!!) You can literally change the colour really good! I ll show you the original and the edited pictures below! This has even got a histogram aswell as colour balance!!!
Now going to the effects, the thermal camera!!! generally the apps give you just a slider for the heat map! this one gives you 3 types of heat map which can be adjusted! one is the general heat map you find in the softwares, 2nd one is brown tinted one which gives a old photo look and finally one with a purple.brown tint one which gives you a classic retro look....Wow! and theres a dreamy effect which gives a nice glow, neon which outlines the picture with a neon glow and you can change the hue aswell as the amount of neon! and there photobook, gray scale and a bunch more!!! and last but not the least you can actually mask parts of pictures to change just the parts of it... just like the real photoshop with layers!!! I am definitely impressed just with the Lite version...

The fourth one is the dash of colour.... which converts you picture into gray scale so you can colour just the parts which you need... This one i think i wouldnt mind if i had a stylus to do due to the fact that your fingers are not as pointy for the corners to get the colour. so yeah its nice but you gotta maybe practice a bit!

The last one for this post is the "Retro Camera Lite"... To start off with yeah it has the same options about the picture, there s crop, rotate, size and position. here comes the best part... this app is deff for people who like vintage and retro effects in a picture.... First the "film type" this one has a big bunch of the film types.. gray, B&W, blue tint, green tint, vintage look you name it you have it.... and it really gives you a feel too!!! and then you have contrast, grain noise, texture where you can choose the feel of the texture, its colour and the ratio... this would give a very good dark effect for the pic.... Last but not the least the frame.... you have a wide range of frames available... frames from Polaroid looking to 35 mm roll feel to stained expired film look. All in all this is one of the app i really love as well!!! The only thing in this is since its Lite version there s a watermark at the bottom of the picture which you can ofcourse crop it out ;-)
so this is all the apps for this post..... rest soon follows and
Here's the link to the photo's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625786745219/

P.s: I am so sorry, i have given a link, i am still figuring out how to put up the flikr photostream for each blog post.... And it would be really awesome if you tell me if you do know :-)

xoxo

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Tumblr!!!

I have started writing some stuff as well as uploading some mobile pictures in a tumblr site, started by trying out an iphone app which connects to tumblr.
Check it out aswell!!
www.restlesschild.tumblr.com

xoxo

Btw i will be writing up some stuff about camera photo applications and uploading some pictures soon :)

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Black & White film

Yeah! I think i wrote that i had some black &white film rolls and i am going to try them out with my Diana mini!! well yes i did! But..... after asking in a lot of places in india.... it seems supposedly they dont manually process the films anymore... and i dont want the machine process one coz they alter the film for contrast n other stuff!!!!
Anyways i had given it in a studio in Chennai that is in India, the guy said there are only 2 studio's which do the black &white process....
Well anyways i gave it to him and m back in Birmingham! and i gotta wait for few more months before i could get it back :( :(

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Airbourne!!!

One of the main reason i came back asap from India was not just graduation but also the fact that i had booked a ticket for Airbourne concert, these guys are an Australian heavy metal band and they are AWESOME!!! thats all i can say! and another interesting thing is when i go for concerts in UK i don not take the standing ticket coz m pretty small compared to the people here! Jus coz i said m small means m not tiny m 5'5 hehe!
well anyways, so i took the standing ticket believe me or not! i was in the first row for the whole concert! those guys were singing and playing right in front of my freakin face!!! oh that was one experience i will never forget.
The main vocalist he can break a beer can with his head, how awesome is that huh?
check out the pictures

These sweet babies were lined up on the stage ;)














And yes it was AWESOME!!!! cant wait to go to the Rob Zombie concert!!!
hope i could get to stand in the 1st row again!!!

Pictures with a DSLR

These are the pictures taken with a canon 1000d cam! I dont own a slr as of now! but yeah hoping to own one pretty soon !!! well yeah i take random shots with my friend's slr and i think these pictures came out pretty awesome!!!
This teeny weeny fella was pretty amazing! as long as he had food he dint care who was standing how close!! i was really close to this fella!!!





and so was this fella!!! looks like the animals at touristic spots seems to care less about people being around them hehe!!!

and i have had pretty bad times with this creature!! can u believe i once got bitten by this mantis!! well i was trying to be very friendly and tried holding and that ended up by me getting bitten hehe!!!