Portrait Shoot

Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

1. Alter Your Perspective – Top view & – Low angle

2. Play with Eye Contact

Looking off camera
Looking within the frame

3. Break the Rules of Composition
4. Experiment with Lighting
5. Move Your Subject Out of their Comfort Zone
6. Shoot Candidly
7. Introduce a Prop
8. Focus Upon One Body Part – Get Close Up, not the full image in your frame
9. Obscure Part of your Subject – veiled face => Try with Jayati
10. Take a Series of Shots => Try with Sanko

Link – http://www.digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-to-take-stunning-portraits

11. Frame Your Subject naturally with real life objects.
12. Wide angle (needs a wide angle lens)
13. Unusual background
14. Change the Format Framing, take a landscape perfect frame in vertical.
15. Holding the camera in an angle.
16. Completely unfocused shot
17. Introduce movement, specially if one is still and other is moving.
18. Experiment with expression
19. Fill the frame with the subject
20. Find a awefully interesting subject.

Link – http://www.digital-photography-school.com/tips-portrait-photography

Delhi Belly

I finally could see Delhi Belly last night, another recent hit movie from Aamir Khan production. It is on the other pole of the ‘dhobi ghat’ and ‘peepli live’. Still I give more respect to Aamir for taking the risk of filming this.

But Delhi Belly according to me is a loud and sloppy humor. Humor is relative and the definition of the word changes from age to age. However humor can always be smart, which is not so in Delhi Belly. The loud sound of diarrhea/gas and hard hindi slang in every (literally) sentence make it much coarse a script. This is like a hindi imitation of Harold-Kumar movie. And finally why Delhi and why Belly ? It could be any where in India…and it is more appropriate to be Bum than Belly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1934231/

Vintage Car Show in Kitchener, Ontario

The downtown of Kitchener was jammed by 500 vintage cars on the evening of 8th July, 2011. The proud owners brought their babies to the nearby park by the afternoon and then joined the parade thru the King Street for an hour. I happened to see them while returning from office. The gathering at the park was very colorful, but I had to go home. In the evening I got a chance to take my camera out to the city hall area, where the tired cars were resting with open bonnet and abundance of visitors strolling on the road. I was successful to take few pictures of some good looking oldies in the fading light (Click here to see these).

The owners have displayed boards stating that the cars were pretty expensive and wouldn’t like to get touched by strangers. A lady mistakenly touched one car while her husband was busy taking picture of the car ahead of it. The result was of course not very desired for the lady, the owner of the car shouted on her face and shown her a pair of red eyes.
The vintage fever has touched the police also, one was also riding a vintage motor cycle.

An Old Chevy seen in the gathering, click on this to see more…

Lenswork

irakshit’s photostream on Flickr.

This is my passion to see and capture the moments in my own way.

Photoshop.com Album

Barta – Send home a letter in your own language.

Internet has done a lot of good things to our lives. Email is the best ! Myspace, Facebook, Twitter has even made our life more simpler. Exchange of information is so easy that we have completely forgotten about the old way of information exchange, snail mail. I would rather call it ‘emotional exchange’. How did you feel when you get a hand written letter from your mom at your hostel address ? How  did you like the the first love letter on paper ? There exist a love letter, but no love email, alas ! Here email has lost to letter.

There are many Indians who still prefer receiving a letter, at least on some special occasion. This is sometime a need, or a deed for it. Sending letter from internet website will be an ideal solution. Snailmailr.com is has paved the way to the American mass. Why not we do the same to the Indian counter part ? I see a need at least for those who are living out of the country. And if there is a possibility for doing it in your own Indian language, nothing like it.

Batch Inventory Analysis – A crowd Sourcing method to collect functional knowledge pieces

In my last three client side experiences, I grossly found the huge mismanagement of technical components. They are always covered under the version control tool, so I leave that side. But it is not easy to connect them to a functional chunk of logic at all. If you ask an expert of an application to name those technical components (job, proc, program and datasets) which is associated with a particular business function, high possibility is he easily tells you the names of 90% components & takes a week to find the rest 10%. Result is delay to take any technical decision. Result is ‘any impact analysis for a small change takes a huge time/money’. Have not our client thought of bridging that gap ? Let me review a couple of tools available in market to do so. 1. Modernization Workbench – RMW in short (aka Modernization Workbench Microfocus) People used to know the tool as ATW a long time back. I used it as RMW when it was with Relativity, but now it is with microfocus and it is just MW. They claim to ‘create business intelligence for application portfolios’. It is a statement with tremendous capacity. And they meet their claim by means of their procedure. The version I worked with, used an isolated client side tool for analysis. One has to download all the components and then run the tool. The tool would resolve all kind of x-references and creates all kind of reports and graphs. I was an amazing timely solution to our problem. But downloading those many components is a big time problem. And when the components are changed by development, you need to run the whole process again and again. The outputs were great, but they were static too ! The excel reports were good but the graphs were just dumb pictures. There were lot many. They have definitely improved their tool but my fundamental goal of digging functional knowledge from this tool was or is not achieved by this tool. The biggest drawback is the cost of the tool. 2. SmartIS – Just another tool, performance wise it is more or less same as MW. Static nature and client side working make the tool dumb in first place. And this one also fail to achieve my fundamental goal. IBM Enterprise Modernization Solution achieve the goal to a great extent, but the downside is it’s complexity and the cost of implementing it in your client’s shop. Can any one talk about any such tool she/he has come across or built, which almost does the same thing?

Online library based on netflix concept.

I have spend a lot of time to slip over the thought related to the books and Kolkata/India based book lovers. If I need to make money by the help of this population, I need to make them read more and more books, if possible free. On the contrary we all know, nothing comes free. But how about implementing the concept of netflix in our network ?

I read books and I have lots of books in our possession. But when you want to read a book which I have, I can send it to you with a very little cost (of course above the shipping). Once you are done with the reading, you can send the same back. By the same, we can share our books of interest easily.  Members participating in the network can earn money along with reading the books of their own interest.

How do you like the idea ?

Wiki based story writing

I told you that I dump all my shit here in wordpress. So, another idea…

How about having a platform for all of us to write our own mind out in form of a story. But a catch! WE will write the story rather I will or you will.

How ? Let us think of a wiki where we all can combinedly write the story together. All of us will have our signature to our part. If you are a good artist and found a way to express the excerpt of a situation of the story, you draw a picture and paste in the story. Aaah ! the picture may not be drawn in form of a wiki. If we could, certainly it would have been a great idea.

I need to know what your take is on this topic. So, vote in this

Book lovers on web – Is it really a possibility ?

With the advent of www.gomolo.in, again I was carried away with the thoughts of getting my dream a reality. Gomolo is a website created by one of my not-so-close frined. I knew that he had a tremendous capability in the college days. It is again proven here when I saw his name as the developer of the website. Wow ! what a fantastic interface ! what a great repository of information ! But why will I go there ? Gomolo is a website created for movie lovers to gather and share their ideas/reviews about old or new movies. I can get quality reviews from about a movie from rediff review. I can find any info about the movie from www.imdb.com. So, what will make gomolo a success ? I am not sure.

Gomolo triggered an idea of creating the world’s first website for book lovers to meet and share in my head. I am from Kolkata. If I can finally do somthing for the city (of course by the city & in the city) that will be the greatest possible give back. How about creating a platform for bengali book lovers to talk about books they read or want to read. They can possibily read reviews posted by critics (of course a cost for me to buy thoise copy protected reviews) and interact with the writer one-to-one or in a mass address. This kind of a platform will facilitate the sell of a newly launched book. Tie ups with publishers and book sellers will bring the revenue. We can also do sell books via the website.

The slowly dying bengali book industry will also get a little supply of more oxygen. We can almost do the same thing through out the year what book does fair once a year.