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Monday, August 22, 2011

Aug 22 _ Madras Day

Today is Madras day.
For the past few days, i had been quite busy with photography and personal life.
Last week I had my first BOKEH session with ICE cream bowl filled with beans. I had bought a seperate Christmas light for taking this photo.
After that session, i did not take much of photos. I wanted to concentrate on Editing photos using Photoshop. So i kept on working on photoshop . However there was not much of improvement .

At one time i was very much frustrated with Photoshop. I was not able to move even an inch ahead in photoshop. Even yesterday i was trying to edit a few photos of BIKU and landed up in mess. Finally few of the photos of BIKU's engagement photos- i worked in Picasa and delivered today. Though i was OK with the results yesterday, now i feel a bit disappointed with the results.

Again in this weekend, i had a photosession of Lord Krishna with BOKEH. I am yet to work on those photos. Today being Madras Day, i have posted a photo of Besant nagar beach in WA.

What are the plans going ahead ?
Get started with photoshop.
How?
Start with the basics - Learn to do simple exercises and then move forward to complex ones.
How to identify simple and complex ones ? GOOGLE .
There are videos. try it out.
Practice, practice and practice. Practice make a man perfect.

Next time there must be some improvement in learning photoshop technique.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Aug 12

The first meet of WA - Wide angle group was officially started. We had a good group of people attending the meeting which was held in Madras RaceClub.

I came to meet a few people. This was a good experience for me. Jay, Kaustaub, Arvind and lot others inspiring me. There were a lot of high profile people whose names i am yet to know.
That was the time i took my camera.

After that there was a break for about 2 weeks. I went out for a photoshoot to the beach with Arthi.
I had a lot of photos that i needed to work upon. However since i was not able to devote sufficient time for it, i could not work on it. Today is 12 Aug. I have leave for 3 days. Two days i will be going to Pondicherry. One day i will be here. So will have to plan the time and photos accordingly.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

06 July

Yesterday I left from office early.
Since my younger brother had prepared rice and sambhar, i did not have much to do.
So i just took bath and sat before the PC

Before i started anything new in lightroom, it was time for dinner and i had nice dinner.
I did not do anything effectively in photoediting. However till 11.30 i was sitting before the system and following FB.

Morning 06 of July i needed to try something different. So got up early and tried (tried.. ) to complete all the work by 9. That did not happen. When i dropeed my younger brother to office and returned to home, it was 9.00.

Mornings 9-10 is power shut down in besant nagar. So i wanted to use the time effectively.
I did OMKAR chanting and kriya.

When Current came by 10, i wanted to try out the FUN EDITs that appeared in one of the Better Photography book. For that Fun edit, it needed Photoshop elements to be downloaded.
That was close to 2 GB. I started the download in the morning and while coming it was still downloading.
May be i will have work upon the Photoshop elements in the evening.

For now since there is not much work in office, i will have to do something constructive.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Photography Journey notes

Of late i understand that i have to make notes of where i stand and what all i do on a day to day basis.
This helps in knowing where you stand and then evaluating yourself.

Long before i have left the habit of writing diaries.
Now i start it again. This time with a specific purpose - to track my stand in photographic journey.

July - 05 - Yesterday nite i bought the Lap top from Arthi and today morning ( 05 July ) downloaded the Adobe Lightroom -crack version from Torrent.
Evening i will have to see the various tutorials and get started with lightroom.

General study would not help.
Take up a project and then work on it.