Taken with iPhone !!?

University of Massachusetts, Amherst - 29th May 2010:

"How can an university be so scenic.. ?" [:O]

"And how come nobody told me so.. ?" [:x]

"Why didn't I just carry my camera anyways.. ?" [:|]

"Errr !! This is not supposed to happen this way !!!" [:(]

"How about the camera on my iPhone ?" [:)]

"No aperture and shutter speed settings ? No zoom to fit the frame ?" [:O]

"Not a problem.. " [:D]

Tips:

* To fit the frame --> Move your lazy a** around a bit.. keep it slow and steady.. You don't want to disturb anything around.
* To get the right exposure --> Point the phone to a frame of light settings that would give you the desired brightness settings. For example add more of the sky if you want a darker setting and vice versa. Then hold your breath and your finger on the touch screen, quickly move the phone to your frame and hoping that nothing has changed by then and you still have everything you wanted in the frame: click the picture !

"Don't let the camera stop you from making a good picture !!!"

Heaven is a place on Earth...

Goa, March 19-21:


Never thought that the four paths would cross again. Each spun off in a different world of our own, was there a common place in the world we could meet again ? Was there still a common language we could converse in ?

That would be called the heaven, with beer in one hand and smokes on the other... The whole beach action in front of us.. but pitch silence in our minds... with the synchronous laughs. We laughed about our past, present and the future... and a million more memorable moments we spent there... And tatoo to never forget it...

Heaven is now a place on Earth, when the best buddies are together....

A random state of a drunken mind...

Random {Place,Time}:

Too drunk to remember.. Too random to comprehend...
Just a snap-shot to say it all...

Stop and Stare...

Tokyo, March 2010:

"Stop and stare

I think I'm moving but I go no where

Yeah I know that everyone gets scared

But I've become what I can't be, oh

Oh, do you see what I see..."

Science behind the Artistic mind...

Springfield, Jan 1st 2008:

Capture the essence of the Mustang !
The power, the speed and the style !

The process of capturing a picture by a camera is based on the amount of light falling on the sensor. The photographer can control this element using two knobs. The size of the Aperture (Opening of the shutter) and the speed of the shutter opening. Together they limit the amount of light falling on the sensor, and hence decide how overexposed or underexposed the picture would turn out to be. Another way of working with your camera (simpler one) would be to control one of these parameters and let the camera decide to appropriately adjust the other parameter, such that the picture is correctly exposed.
On a regular point and shoot camera you might have come across some predefined settings for different mode of operations, for example the 'sports mode', 'night mode' etc etc.. This is exactly what is different in each of these modes. They set the aperture and shutter speed differently such that it is more appropriate for the mode in which you want to take the picture. And that accounts for the few of the millions of dollars the camera company spends in order to make life easy for the point and shoot users.

Now given the science behind the photography, its all about how artistic you can get with it.

Play around with the shutter speed and let the camera decide the aperture opening. You would have experienced that making the shutter speed too slow, would cause a motion blur in the picture. Think of it as the camera trying to take so many pictures and trying to put them together on one page. Hence everything that moved is now blurred. If you are a student of Signal Processing or Image Processing, you could solve the definite integral of all the images over the time of exposure.

In an artistic spirit of mind, you could now think of moving your camera along with the car, such that the car can be stationary from the camera point of view and the whole surrounding moving. Like the Newton's frame of reference model. To the camera the movement of the object (car) is absolutely stationary and the whole surrounding is moving in the opposite direction as the movement of the car or the camera.

As a student of engineering, there are few assumptions that needs to be met. For example:

* The speed of the object and the speed of the camera movement should be same.

* The motion has to be linear. And uniform speed. Accelerated motions are tougher to model and capture.

* No rotation of the object that could uncover new regions on the object. etc etc ...

But as an artist, you can assume that all these are always met. And if not then slight error would add to the artistic feeling of the picture.

With this, you now need to try a few times, to get the right shutter speed and movement of the camera along with the movement of the car. And a right combination would get you the good picture.

It took me over 20 trials to finally get one, that I think looked pretty cool !

Eywa

July 11th 2154 - Pandora: Sáwtute zerá’u fte fol Kélutralti skiva’á. - "The sky people are coming to destroy Hometree."

All right.. you caught me... That's not a picture from a moon in the Alpha Centauri. :p
Its just a figment of my imagination at work. :)

Boston Aquarium-2009:
Trying to capture the magnificent under water world and its living habitat.

What can I say? I have no more words...

Frosty Fall !!

October 18th '09: A day to remember. Snow even before the leaves have finished turning colors ? Yeah !! Its the fall season, and there are still leaves on the trees, some of them still green. And the winter snow was here 2 months early !

Its not my expertise to talk about the reason behind this mix up in the weather. So lets leave that to the side. But it sure was a beautiful view, I could not miss capturing it.

Snow fall is always a beautiful sight to see. The snow flakes floating in the air and falling down to make a perfectly pure white blanket covering everything on the ground. In the end, it leaves everything black and white. I could never capture the snow fall on my camera. But this time, I had to make it happen. Snow flakes behind the colorful background. It was spectacular sight. The white snow, trying to add its own flavor to the color gamut.

Two beautiful things needed to be captured in one shot. A perfect scenic background and floating flakes at the foreground.

So here is the frosty flavor of the foliage for you. :)