SoFoBoMo Day-12
Spent time reviewing all images - looked at continuity - some sections need images to fill-in-the-gaps. Will need to shoot a few more of Zeba and Ujwala to round correct the off-balance. Edited, culled, re-processed several images. Did a test PDF from Scribus to ISSUU. Worked just fine. Now I'll need to focus on a reliable POD service - which from Paul's experience looks like it will be a bit of an uphill task!

And, while looking at the Yahoo! SoFoBoMo Pipe - found this post. LOL! 

SoFoBoMo Day-11
Jamal Ahmed - Artist.

An absolutely fantastic day! I had thought we'd do a fast paced one or an hour and half session at his studio. It turned out that Jamal sets his own pace and it will take its course. Not that he is «slow paced» - he is a highly energetic person. So we started out by talking about various stuff... a friend dropped in. Turns out he is a professional photographer. Turns out a great experience - we both start photographing.  I get a few tips from Taher. Especially a critique regarding too low a shooting angle I had chosen. I correct it.

We head off the the University of Fine Arts. Jamal is also a Art Professor there. Met his students. Photographed them at work. We go back to Jamal's studio and then we sit down to a home-cooked lavish Bengali meal. Delicious!

Jamal then tells me he has a special treat for me. One of Jamal's regular model is going to be coming back to his studio and Jamal is going to sketch him while I photograph. Wow!

Turns out to be Pagla Baba!

Pagla is seated on the floor and is asked to place his head in the crook of his arms. And then Jamal goes to work - full of energy, it looks like a movie being run at double speed!

Further images will be in the book, once it is done.

SoFoBoMo day-10

Task at hand: Review all images, cull, process the final pics. Simplified the book layout in Scribus. Test book upload to ISSUU.

Am far back on target for the TEXT that is to accompany the images! Tried to write. Hit blank wall. gave up!

SoFoBoMo to be continued.....

Meanwhile the evening sky was beautiful and I wanted to get a few images but the colors were fading fast. Mannat stood still for a few seconds for me to get a couple of frames.

Went back to working on the book format. Simplyfy Simplify Simplify! The previous version was too crowded!