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I found a new subject to click today. An antique camera that belonged to my father when he was young. Found it while digging an old cupboard out of boredom. It looks so simple that it almost looks like a toy camera. A couple of my friends even asked me if it was a toy camera. It's not. It could even work now if i put a film roll inside it. Looking forward to do it... Not sure of it's photographic abilities but the camera surely proved to be a very good subject. Clicked it on a black background under the hot sun at a high exposure speed and aperture. Edited in photoshop to give it a vintage look.

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Oh boy! this was amazing!!! This excitement is something more about clicking. Its about processing a very memorable photo. My friend Varun sent me a soft copy of an age old (about 12 years back) picture of us sitting together on his birthday.I still remember those days when we used to gift each other a pack with a pencil,an eraser,a pencil sharpener, a ruler, some fancy scented erasers,a thin plastic box just enough to hold a pencil and possibly everything a school kid would die to have it in his bag and not to forget, the best gift that we ever expected from each other, a Ball!! Yes, i had a treasury of rubber and tennis balls back then. Maybe he did too... that was a top secret information that couldn't be disclosed... lol! Then, as we grew up, the gifts grew too.From mechanical pencils to latest pens...and we even got creative with gifting each other a model plane and beautiful chalk carvings. Everything changed but we remained the same great friends like we've always been. This picture was shot during his 8th birthday. What a wonderful time we had together back then... This pic was a sweet reminder to all those lovely moments. He sent me a scanned picture of the original hard copy and for the first time, i tried my hand at making an old pic new in Photoshop. The result was pretty good enough but consumed lot of time though.That wasn't a concern however. Thanks for that picture Varun!

Also clicked pics another 8 year old today. His sister who studies in the school behind our home. Could've clicked some more if the 'Westernized' principal hadn't started running up and down the dais in panic. And clicked close-up shots of a beautiful Honda Civic that was parked in the school premises in the evening...But the latter experience was a lot more memorable.

(Oh,forgot to mention this...Left to right--myself,Ashwin,Varun,naveen)



this is the original picture

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Exams are keeping me busy and repellent from my usual photography.Not that the books are attractive, its the desperation.

Still managed to spend some time with camera dear and clicked some pics.Moon and the school were my subjects.It was a bright full moon today and clicked some full-zoom shots of it.Didn't edit much in Photoshop,it looked good and beautiful as it is.Took some interesting pics of the school with long exposure. all above 20s,i got some very bright,vibrant images.Some camera shake and i got pretty and distorted images.

hey,i got something new.Adobe Lightroom.Its a new photo editing software by Adobe and is a lesser version of the hugely popular Photoshop.Just tried it out with one test picture and i felt its pretty neat to use and it's got a wonderful user interface.Check it out once but i presume you must've installed photoshop cause Lightroom worked directly with the .exe file...

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Didn't do much clicking today.As the exam season looms over me, Im not doing much clicking work....but nevertheless, took some time out and spent some time with my dear camera.

well,today i took some pictures of a photograph of juvenile Krishna sitting on Yashodha's laps. It was very good to look at on the camera screen but i got to see how it comes on a larger screen. And i spotted some kids in the school ground behind my home and took some pictures of the kids playing around after the school.It was nice looking at them play. :) thats it for the day, Have a great weekend!








I loved the kid walking back home in black and white.Remembers me of the days when i used to walk back home through the same gates :)

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Another interesting day of photography today. Started in the evening with few good sunset shots from my neighbor's terrace. It was no way close to being as spectacular as yesterday,but still it was a very good sunset with the clouds floating around just after an evening shower. Later came the interesting part. This evening i took a trip to Paris and clicked some great close-up shots of the great Roger Federer in action :D


Learnt shooting tv today.Low ISO, low exposure and a higher aperture gave me some good results.couldnt avoid some flickering due to the TV screen's refreshing and also would've been much better with a higher exposure speed.Again,a good day of photography

KING ROGER : Prime ruler of tennis!





Del potro : gave a good fight,but like everybody's destiny,he lost to the Best.

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Surreal!! It was the best evening sky that i captured in my camera till date. The clouds and the lighting was so superb that it looked like straight out of a Hollywood sci-fi movie.I was thinking in the evening that i hadn't done any shoot today and just at that moment the nature threw up this marvelous painting in the sky that i could never miss clicking. I thoroughly loved capturing every moment of it and what an evening it was! Clicked most of the shots in 'vivid' mode and i have not done any post processing in Photoshop for some of the pictures below. straight from nature,to you.Enjoy!

[Please check out my flcikr photostream for a better view]

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A good day of photography today. My aunt left for her city and i had to drop her to the railway station early in the morning and thats exactly what i wanted. Trains and railway station have been my one of my favorite subjects of photos. I carried my camera along and started my day after buying the ticket. It was a wonderful light condition today morning and i could click with at a good shutter speed and varying aperture.Clicked some pictures of some sign boards and platform objects.Not to mention the trains,clicked some good pics of them too. The one i liked the most was of a kid peeping through a window.His expression was priceless and the picture looked great in black and white. But if you are clicking pictures in the railway station,be little careful about the police there,cause one cop came up to me and asked if i had permission to click pictures.Dunno what made me say that,i just said and he walked away.Lucky i consider myself,but do not take much chances,stay careful,take care of your precious cameras.

Later in the evening,it was the play of light and the clouds.The combination looked marvelous and i could not stop looking at it and click pictures at every possible angles.Stood there till both light and clouds bid goodbye to each other and to me. So,it was a very good day of clicking.

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Pizza!! we baked pizzas today. And i could not not take pics of it.How can i not capture such a proud moment? (sniff)
i loved clicking the vegetables. especially the chopped ones.they were so colorful! took some macro of the vegetables. and the main one of course, the pizza. varun gave me a very nice angle and got a very good shot of the pizza that we baked.

later back home,i clicked some macros of a lovely statue of a lady.the images were grainy cause of the low light :( .would like to click more pics of her with good lighting.

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Hello guys!

Im here,with one another blog.This time its going to about my deep love,photography.An exclusive blog.I was just clicking some pictures this evening in Malleshwaram and suddenly the thought lit up.Why not make a blog on the everyday clicks i do and keep a written record of all of that?So im materializing the thought here and here after after each day of photography i shall be updating about the day's shoots.I feel i should have done this a lot earlier...but better late than never.I hope to continue this hereafter.

So,today what happened? I had to take my grandma to a doc in Malleshwaram. Apart from my dear iPod i've now found a new companion for me wherever i go. My dearer camera. So while i waited in the car for my ma and grandma to return,i was taking a few shots of the street.wanted to take some trailing light shots, and some did really come out well. The small paan shop and the man sitting next to the paan shop opposite a closed store made it a very good scene to capture.