The recent release of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and the subsequent update of Adobe Camera Raw v.5 [ACR] is just superb. The processing speed of large NEFs and PSD files is much improved over CS3, many new features added, etc….but one little addition in ACR5 is just best of all - the Graduated Filter option.

Bye bye to carrying Split-density Graduated Filters for every lens. Just do it later, in ACR!

The first is the original as was at the Mashobra page, and then the new version corrected in ACR5 with the Graduated Filter option:

  
click the thumbnail images for full page views

• PS CS4 / ACR5 resources:
  • What’s new in ACR5 - by Julieanne Kost
  • There’s more in CS4! - by Julieanne Kost

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       Jhaal Muri

An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by

Rokeya ~ Kuhu  ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil

His Excellency Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh,
will inaugurate the event.

8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM

 Bay’s Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh

The exhibition will remain open 8th to 23rd November 2008

A few months ago artists friends came up with with an idea to do a fun project and exhibit our collective work. The idea was, to go out into the streets and do a series of photographs [market scenes, street-portraits...] and they would paint from these photo references. Not as copies, but interpretations in each of their vastly varied painting styles. It sounded great and a lot of fun. A few outings, and we had a large collection of images to select from. Three of the artists - Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala - featured in my SoFoBoMo 2008 book project and the fourth is Kuhu.

Things have come together, and the photo prints and the painting and artwork are now almost all ready to be exhibited - starting 8th November 2008 at Radius Centre’s art gallery. We are all very excited about the outcome from this casual project, especially because it gives a slightly different viewpoint of “street life” of Dhaka. We’ve come back with an imagery of Dhaka that we hope everyone will find refreshing.

• About Jhaal Muri
• What is Jhaal Muri?
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A quick trip to get some long overdue work done at our cottage in Simla. The view of the Himalayan Range from the air [Dhaka to Delhi] was spectacular, though I could not capture the “spactularness” due to the dirty aircraft windows …

Little time to photograph the surrounds and birds. That meant I had to be up and out of the house by 7 AM to get an hour before breakfast to get some photographs. The birds in the shrubbery and trees behind my parents home in “Chotta” Simla [Shimla] would wake me and there was no need to set an alarm!  Here are some of the early morning visitors -

   
  

  

Verditer Flycatcher -  Eumyias thalassina;  Himalayan Bulbul - Pycnonotus leucogenys; Streaked Laughingthrush -  Garrulax jerdoni; Bar-Tailed Treecreeper - Certhia himalayana; Green-Backed TIT - Parus monticolus; Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca;  Great Barbet - Megalaima virens; Oriental White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus;  Himalayan Bulbul.
See GlobalBirdTrekkers for more.

  

While waiting for the birds, I also took a few photos of the Indian Institute Of Advanced Study [used to be the ViceRegal Lodge], Gorton Castle [which now houses the Accountants General offices] and the Shimla Railway Station from the pathway above the house.

A couple of quick photos of the cottage at Sidhora in Mashobra -
 

Photographs are from September/30/08 to October/04/08.

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