Something from the archives. This is a part of a calendar which hangs in the corridor of my lab. A photo in a photo of sorts. I like the effect of the solitary fly and the shapes of the cheese pieces.

I was not very happy with the original photo so tried to do something a bit different with it today. I used an action which stimulates the effect given by a lensbaby. First time I’m trying this so the result is not perfect. You tell me if this looks interesting or not.

On another note regulars here might have noticed some changes with the layout. Yes, I basically reported the blog. It now runs on Pixelpost as I was unhappy with the lack of new functionality in Folderblog, the previous software on which this blog ran. Pixelpost is very nice, perhaps a bit slow, but importantly with the kind of functionality I had always wanted and failed to find in Folderblog. Most of the work is done. Took me the whole day actually! Pretty tedious work to manually reupload each photo and set the appropriate dates but good that it is done now. There is still some minor stuff to be tweaked and added which I’ll finish over the next few days.

Seems to echo the state of my mind these days.

I love colors such as these. They have a dream-like quality, soft, ethereal and smooth! For the curious ones, this is a shot of the inside of the heating unit, which heats my house, where the gas is burnt as seen through a tiny port-hole.

Just trying to cheer myself up.

Furthur explorations in the world of macro. The object in the image should be pretty easy to guess, right? If you look closely you might just make out my tripod and me! And I love the bokeh of this lens. For those who do not know, bokeh (from Japanese, pronounced ‘boh-keh’) is the rendering of out of focus areas in a photo by the lens. For example, in this photo it is the stuff behind the object. This is a simplistic way of putting things but the smoother the bokeh the better the photo looks. Someone in a review for this lens had commented that the bokeh it gave was like melted cheese…I concur!

I had decided to enter this week’s Dyxum Photo C)and looking to enter another photo I played around with the original color photo of this. I liked the end result so much that I decided to post it here as well as enter it into the contest!

Another trawl through my archives. This one is from quite a while back, from my last trip to India to be exact. This was shot at the same place and time as the one here. However, in this case, I did not do much post-processing.

As the exif data suggests this is from a little while back. I haven’t shot anything over this weekend so I raided the archives and came up with this! There is something about the way he is looking at something, equal parts melancholia and plain curiosity that caught my eye.

On a slightly technical note I thought of cropping out the leg peeping into the shot on the left but in the end decided to leave it as the resultant crop was looking a bit abrupt.

The last one, for now, from the macro studies I tried. Proper exposure is something I’ve to learn to do well.