- More exposure needs to be set for yellow lighting when compared to white-fluorescent lighting.
- The gold gets more predominant in yellow lighting.
- So, if we are taking portraits, it is better to maintain fluorescent lighting
- And in case of jewelery advertisements, it is good to give a yellow lighting like in GRT's ad (Golden girl)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Gold on green...observations
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6:03 PM
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Labels >> lighting, observation, Photography
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Gold on green...an experiment with photography
I shot few frames last week: the subjects were few bangles and a ring that my mom usually wears.
I considered two set of lighting for the shots.First, I considered white lighting and switched on all the fluorescent tune lights in the hall. For the yellow lighting, I switched on the lamps in the hall.
Few shots are listed below:
Exposure was set for 8 seconds for the first shot, 2.5 seconds for the next 2 shots and 5 seconds for the last 4 shots.
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Ck
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7:18 PM
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Labels >> Camera, effects, Gold, lighting, Photography
Monday, January 11, 2010
I hold the camera, I am wrapped by joy and a paradox...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
from Denmark Christmas seals TO color symbolism TO album cover designs TO philately...A letter
From Denmark Christmas seals to color symbolism to album covers to philately...what was thought to be a mail sharing some good links ended up as a letter to my sis :)
http://grainedit.com/2009/12/
I found the English terms for many skilled jobs :)
- Milliner – maker of hats
- Chandler – maker of candles / specific products
- Glazier – fitter of glass panes
- Cooper – repairer of wood barrel
- Wainwright – maker of Wagons
This describes Color symbolism in films: Manoj.N.Shyamalan
http://www.colourlovers.com/
I loved the third cover among the listed ones.
http://grainedit.com/2007/12/
We have evolved in length and breadth since 1964. But t
http://grainedit.com/2008/05/
Stamps teach different things for different people...role of colors for the graphic designer, marks the events for the historian, evoke the relevant thoughts of those interested, value of relation for the heart writing the letter and much more...
God created our eyes to perceive, our soul to feel and the whole human to adapt and live the life to the fullest.
Let's live it to our creator's wish :)
With lots of colors still unexplored...in us!!!
...Ck
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12:49 PM
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Labels >> Camera, Letters, links, musings, philately, Riot of colors, Webpage
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
It rained...
A sudden drop in the temperature this morning, I woke up at 4.00 am to a mild breathlessness in me. I thought of those two people whom I knew only by their names. My friend also woke up around that time hearing to my wheeze. He had the same thought running in his mind too. Surrounded by a pod of grave silence, our minds were wide awake with a cacophony of thoughts.
Suddenly the clouds rained with a roar, drenching the dew damp roads…no thunder, no lightning, it just rained its soul onto the earth. It rained its way into the gravity of the silence, roaring into our thoughts, shattering them and created a void within.
The rain not only penetrated the soil, it penetrated into me and restructured my priorities, my view of life and my love for it. Like a tap closing, the rains stopped in twenty minutes. An hour later the sun rays pierced and made itself felt through the fog. I know for sure that the Sun will shine…shine for me, my friend, and those two never met acquaintances.
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3:37 PM
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Labels >> 2009, chennai, life, musings, rains, thoughts, turning point
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Love...
You do not love someone...you share the love of YOUR life with them...
(Felt and penned during my recent holiday vacation in Penang)
The dragon fruit venture @ Penang

Never seen color and never seen shape, I and my mom were drawn by the colorful fruit at the entrance of Penang’s market complex. Curiously my mom turned to our friend’s daughter and asked how the fruit tasted… the answer was that she had never tasted one! We were surprised by her answer as she was born and brought up in Malaysia. Now I and my mom were determined in exploring the pinkish red fruit. Our friend’s daughter helped us as translator between Tamil and Malay language as Malay accented English was difficult to comprehend. It was priced 8RM per kilo and the fruit was weighing close to 650 gms…
Suddenly our friend called…and we set aside this venture and proceeded to the left side row of shops… Fishes with exotic colors, half alive squiggling in the plate were splashing the water in all directions. Next there were silent squids a dozen in a plate, moving in a very slight jerky fashion…next were 3-4 baskets of shellfish, prawns, crabs and some other creatures all snailing their way to the top of the basket. Leaving this there were the normal pomfrets and other sea fishes as well. Our friend ordered the fish and we were out. Next row of shops were all selling eggs…normal chicken eggs were brown in color! Till then I have seen only white eggs. There were smaller light blue colored eggs, even smaller dotted eggs…I gathered from the Chinese vendor that the eggs were of a bird called ‘kaadai’ in tamil, he tried explaining to us in English, later Chinese accented Tamil.
Way back, again the pink dragon tailed fruit caught our attention. This time we enquired the next shop where it was priced less by 2RM and immediately we paid and shoved the fruit into our bags. The shopkeeper lady action was very hasty in selling the fruit… maybe that was her usual way. Though our friend assured that the fruit tastes good we were a little bit cautious and bought only one fruit. The fruit was called as the dragon fruit.
Back home we relished on the tasteless? Less-sweet? fruit along with ice…even then, our friend’s daughter did not want to explore this fruit. The reddish pink flesh with embedded black seeds was so good to see that you would want to relish the entire fruit. It stained our tongue pink and the feeling was so divine and wholesome. I would recommend tasting this fruit given an opportunity.
Googling throws light on the innumerable benefits of this fruit (also called Pitaya) and I was surprised knowing that this fruit belongs to the same family as that of ‘Queen of the bight’ bloom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The golden girl...
The only better thing that could have been done is the position of the hand bangles...the current position makes her wrist look thinner.
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11:09 AM
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Labels >> 2009, advertisement, jewelery, Photography, portrait, Riot of colors
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Coffee cravings...
A sudden craving for coffee erupted in me yesterday…the craving happened to be so deep that I could feel the black bitter taste of coffee decoction spreading down my throat. I barged into the office pantry and filled myself a cup of coffee. I felt like a kid satisfied holding a lolly pop. But that satisfaction turned into rage when the coffee tasted insipid: it was mere caffeine washed hot water. The anger turned into a sort of unfulfilled wish. The effect of bad coffee had actually created a void in me.
Post lunch and a project meeting, the craving digging deep inside urged me to walk out of the building. Engulfed in a blanket of moist and warm air post a lash of torrential drizzle, I strolled to the nearby food court. Sipping the coffee, I felt the sugary bitterness spreading down the throat, filling my senses. A gush of fullness shot from the stomach and I could feel goose flesh! Finishing the exciting cup of coffee, with the bitterness still clinging on to the palate, I stood up enthusiastically. Walking down to my office, I remembered my favorite verses from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnet XVII “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”
PS:
The moment I blurted out saying that I am not happy with the coffee, rudeness crept in the voices of the pantry manager as he was defending his premises: the ‘I am OK’ sort of behavior. I felt like laughing loud...and suddenly remembered a saying that you cannot wake someone who is pretending to be asleep!
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10:45 AM
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Labels >> 2009, chennai, Coffee, Love, Mahindra City, mindtree
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Pomelo pomelo...
The fruit's rind was more than 1/2 inch thick and was spongy spongy pink. The fruit was similiar to orange but it was very dry... some exotic fruit we thought and continued our journey.
After lots of googling I found out the name of the fruit as Pomelo, and is called as Chakotra in Pakistan/Afghanistan. It was excellent one to read about the fruit as well. It has lots of nutritive and medicinal properties as well
A grand fruit in the citrus family with a divine taste perhaps...
With some more googling, my mom found out a recipe: She boiled and blanched the rind and made some sweet candy out of it... a bittery-citrus-sweet candy and that is the way real life is...isn't it?
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8:46 PM
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Labels >> Bangalore, Chakota, Citrus fruit, fruits, India, Pomelo
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Lepakshi Temple ...Life in stone
We had been to Lepakshi temple a fortnight ago. Lepakshi temple is a typical 16th century Vijayanagar style architecture known for its stone carvings, statues and ceiling paintings. I witnessed one of the finest carvings on stone. For example, the elephant with a tree in its trunk or the coiled snakes or simple patterns like the ones below
Apart from these life forms, there were many designs carved on stone pillars which were really exhilarating .
The whole temple had much for the artistic eye. Just onto the right after the entrance, I spotted what seemed to be a row of horses pulling the temple as a cart...by the way it seems only two horses are remaining now!
In the periphery, a big statue of Linga and seven hooded snake catches your attention the body of the snake has the mesh like leathery texture carved out! A big in-complete stage floor / hall with pillars around really gives you a feel of a stage performer.
The front hall has some of the finest paintings in the ceiling; most of it is ruined, yet a few are in-tact.
A large Nandi or the 'Bull' stands outside the temple facing the God. This is the one which receives you when you drive into the village...
When we were there, a lot of renovation work was going on inside the temple. I wish this temple and its rich art is preserved for generations to come.
Driving to Lepakshi from Bangalore (120+ Kms)
Take NH7 from Bangalore: You cross Hebbal, Devanahalli (Bangalore Intl Airport) and reach Chikballapur. It is better to grab a cuppa coffee or munch something in Chikballapur. You also get a Bharat Petroleum with a restaurant for some yummy masala dosa. Leaving this ,it is just the barren landscape and4-6 lanes of asphalt that would fill your eyes in the next leg of journey. Crossing the state RTO check post on the state border, you get a place called Bagepally with some human activity. Ask for the route to Hindupur, and you would be directed to turn left into a single lane village road. Continue for 12-15 Kms to reach Lepakshi via a village called Chilamattur. You can also reach the place via Doddaballapur, but it happens to be a state highway. No idea of the road conditions
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9:34 PM
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Labels >> Archealogical sites, Architecure, Bangalore, Ceiling Paintings, Getaway, India, Lepakshi, Temple
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Slow and steady...is more dangerous in this case!!!
I was a middle-school grader when I started hating medicine. My doctor had prescribed a yellow colored pill that use to take the life out of me every time I took it to my mouth: it smelled like hell. After that time, I never encountered that yellow-colored item in my life.Ten years had passed when I came out of house to start my career. From then on every time when I use to come to Bangalore from Coimbatore, I would exactly wake-up to an exact situation experienced decades ago.This was not in my dreams...
It is reality: I wake up when the bus crosses the Bio-con factory area on the outskirts of Bangalore. The whole atmosphere in the area is filled with pungent medicinal smell that poses a severe health hazard. This seems a very small issue when compared to the recent swine-flu epidemic, but this is slow and lethargic.
Swine flu is nature's adjusting technique, but the health hazard posed by irresponsible discharge of effluents from the pharma industry is whose adjusting technique?
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1:38 AM
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Labels >> Bangalore, health hazard, India, life, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The forest route via Masinagudi...Paradise now, In future??
The route from Bandipur to Ooty via Masinagudi is a must visit for nature lovers...if possible on a less polluting bike or a personal car. You can spot wild elephants, different species of deers, wild buffalos, species of monkeys, peacocks and if you are lucky you can spot a leopard. For the binocular eyes, various bird species also call attention. The route via the forest has something for people who adore nature and this was the reason I stressed on a less polluting vehicle.
Till now, vehicle movement was restricted after six pm. Now with pressure from all traders, bus route and tourism operators, the forest ministry has lifted the ban effective this month. This is really a case of concern for environmetalists, wildlife enthusiasts and also local public as well.
The ban earlier was imposed by the Karnataka state government to protect wildlife and the natual reserves in general. The recent action by the central forest minister will cause ripple in those minds who are really concerned in conserving nature. How much money was presented to the ministry is a question for which answers are known only to ministry high officals and those vehicle operators involved.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Equation churning engine...
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10:50 PM
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Labels >> 2009, engineering, internet, Maths, Webpage, WolframAlpha
Sunday, May 31, 2009
69 minutes, 10Km, 26th year :)
I completed the 10Km run in 69 minutes today... This run was a non stop one with a walk of 200 meters after the 6th kilometer. Felt happy by this achievement, that too on a day when I enter the 26th year of my existence in this world
World No Tobacco day and Sunfeast 10Km
Today is ‘World no tobacco day’ and today Sunfeast conducted the 10Km run in
How would Sunfeast do that when its parent company ITC is a leading tobacco company in
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9:10 PM
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Labels >> Bangalore, Marathon, No Tobacco Day, Tobacco
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Spotted the black rumpted flameback
I spotted the black rumped flameback last week in our 'Global Village Tech Park' office campus. I thought it was a normal sparrow from far...but as I approached, I could see its red crest and golden back and black & white breasts.
I postponed my lunch and went in further to enjoy the woodpecker's colors amidst the coconut trees.
It was too awesome sight to express it in words...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-rumped_Flameback
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7:18 PM
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Labels >> Bangalore, bird sighting, birds, woodpecker
Mella mella ennai thottu...
yuvan shankar has done an excellent remix of his father Ilayaraja's musical piece in the movie 'Sarvam'. The hero of the movie hears this music piece whenever his lover is around.
Today I fished out this song from youtube; the original song starts as ' Mella mella ennai thothu....' where the woman wants her lover to caress her in a staccato...Ilayaraja's prelude is also a staccato of violin chords, joined by the guitar with the flute mellifluously filling in later.
I am always against remixing of old songs...but yuvan has done a great job by keeping the original pace and instruments and improvised the recording.
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Ck
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6:46 PM
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