After much thought I have decided to move to ZenPhoto. I have been wanting to move from Flickr to hosting my photos on my own website for quite some time now. After much thought, I decided to go with ZenPhoto. Over the next few weeks I’ll be moving my photographs from Flickr to ZenPhoto, so the photography section may be offline for some time.
Adobe just released it’s latest offering called Adobe – Photoshop Express. Currently in a public beta, this Flash based offering lets a user maintain an online “photbucket”. It combines this with Photoshop’s award winning editing features. Most of the common corrections like red-eye removal, contrast, exposure and brightness adjustments etc are available. Also you have a decent bevy of special effects like sepia, black and white, pop colors etc. In short everything that an ordinary everyday photographer would need.
Went to the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) for this fabulous exhibition titled “The Painted Photograph: Painted, Poised and of the Moment”. I have to thank my good pal Arun for telling me about this exhibition, otherwise I might have missed an opportunity to see some great pictures. (more…)
Just saw a snippet on the Olympus E-420 in today’s Economic Times. The E-420 is the new “affordable” D-SLR from Olympus. It comes with a 25mm len, compact and light-weight body with live-view and the ability to preview and compose shots (with auto-focus) on the LCD screen. The best part is that when it retails in India, it’s price tag might just be in the Rs.20,000 to Rs.30,000 bracket, making it quite affordable. Makes my dream of graduating to an D-SLR a lot more achievable!
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As promised, pictures from the festival here.
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Went today to the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival downtown. Every year, the Association hosts the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival for nine days in February. The festival features street events, music concerts, dance, literature events, film screenings, theater, pavement exhibitions and a whole lot of fun.
I’ve been a regular here since the past few years, and make it a point to catch at least one evening of the festival. Every time I’ve come across some unique thing or the other. This year too there were quite a few surprises.
Of late I have been wondering about what software I would need to edit and manage photographs on Linux, something like a digital darkroom. Basically, what anyone would want at the bare minimum is some software to get the photos from the camera to the PC, software to edit the photos and maybe “digitally develop” them (should include standard post processing and fixes ) and lastly something to manage that ever increasing collection of pictures.
Of late, thanks to college, haven’t been able to head for my usual weekend walks to Aarey. After a long time, I finally got some time to go Aarey. The walk started on a great note with the sighting of drongo along the path. As I went along my usual walking route, I spotted among other birds, a green bee-eater and large group of munias.
At the lotus pond, the usual little Grebes were happily fishing in the pond. Walking up the hill me and my dad were lucky to hear some peacocks calling out to each other. Along the pat, we also spotted a butterfly that closely resembled a dry leaf when it closed its wings!. But the highlight of the little walk was when on the way back we spotted two well fed Langurs on the trees above. To date I haven’t seen Langurs in Aarey, so this was an unusual first for me.
It was quite nice to have walk through nature after almost a month of being cooped up in a classroom 
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I was clicking snaps of the beautiful sunset today, when my camera started behaving quite weirdly. At first it gave a card full error, when there was enough space for 45 high resolution pictures on the card. Next, when I switched to a lower resolution and tried to click a picture, the camera kind of just hung while saving the picture to the card. Then when I switched on the camera again, it asked me to format the card, indicating a corrupt card. I was horrified, because it meant losing all the Karnala snaps I had clicked on yesterday’s trek.
After much googling, I managed to get this free software called Digital Photo Recovery from Art Plus. It worked like a charm, and I was able to recover all my pictures from the card. Don’t know what I would have done without this software, thanks Art plus for making great software.
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I'm Elroy Serrao, a technologist, photographer, and part time blogger from India.
I love to design web sites, program in php and rails in my free time and of course go trekking and clicking pictures in the great outdoors.
I'm from Mumbai, and am an alumnus of Mumbai University and NMIMS.
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