Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 16:21 | 0 comments

I had assumed that any in-camera picture-control settings were not saved when shooting in RAW/NEF format. That these settings were lost unless one was shooting in JPG. Not just assumed, but I have many times tried using various settings and found that when I opened the NEFs in PS, the in-camera picture-control adjustments were lost. [...]

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 13:05 | 2 comments

A book I picked up back in the mid ’90s changed the way I saw and photographed  subjects in nature [flowers, plants, insects and also landscapes]. After having read and re-read this book, it was John Shaw’s “Closeups In Nature” I went on to his “Landscapes Photography“, “Nature Photography Field Guide“, “Focus On Nature” and “Complete Guide [...]

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 12:57 | 0 comments

A photo trip with good friend Stein Naevdal up the Balu River aboard the Peacock - a traditional Bangladeshi motorized sailboat boat – on 20th November early morning just as the sun was rising.
We got to Tolna [coordinates: 23°51'1.00" N  90°28'24.26"E] just before 7 AM in time to see the Peacock pulling up to the small pier [...]

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 11:27 | 3 comments

SKWPW 2009.
One can plan, but one can’t be sure the plan will work as planned.
That’s what happened.
It did not work out like planned. A mishap along the way prevented me reaching the meet.
The images from the other Walkers should start appearing at the SKWPW pages online soon though, and these are going to be really [...]

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at 16:42 | 2 comments

Scott Kelby’s world-wide photo walk.
Just over a week later, 18th July to be exact, approximately 45,000 participants [if all walks fill up to the 50 participants max each] from around the world will walk Scott Kelby’s 2nd Worldwide Photo Walk. 
Last year’s [Dhaka] SKWPW in August was a lot of fun, enjoyed meeting new people, got [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 10:44 | 0 comments

SoFoBoMo is done. Completed on 7th June. The excitement and fun of  doing the project have been savoured and enjoyed. So, what does one do now? I re-look at the book critically and want to change a bunch of things. Remove some images, switch a few, add a few, change the layout and book design….
I [...]

Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 10:26 | 3 comments
Categories: Photography, SoFoBoMo

Looking at the hits stats at my SoFoBoMo blog – the most hits are for the posts that contain phrases like “failure”, “quits”, “SoFoBoMo no-go”, “halt”, “nada” and not for “completed”, “hurray” etc…
People look at things differently hmmm….
I guess.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 18:48 | 4 comments

SoFoBoMo 2009: A Slice of Life.
Its done.
You can view it

Here at Issuu
Or here at sofobomo.org
A quick preview of the book is the bottom of this page.
Or download the PDF fileand view it at leisure…[right click the link at left, and "save to" your PC]
Suggested settings in the PDF viewer are:
View->Page Display->Two Up.
View->Page Display->Show Cover Page During Two-up.

A [...]

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 at 23:55 | 15 comments
Categories: Photography, SoFoBoMo

The fun part is over – making images.
Processing was a minimal job –  converted the RAW files to TIFF in PhotoShop with a slight adjustment of contrast and levels, a bit of sharpening or softening depending on the image, resizing them. Making the final selections and stringing them together with the help of a few [...]

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 at 18:09 | 0 comments
Categories: Photography, SoFoBoMo