My New Photoblog

Finally its there...............you can access my new Photoblog at http://photocurry.blogspot.com

All comments on how i can improve the template more are welcome. I have started with two posts containing my favorites pics from this blog.

POINT TO BE NOTED : I will be running two blogs now onwards:-

1) Portrait of life : Will show images from day to day life.

2) Photo Curry : Will show experiments with Camera

Please add both to your favorite blog list :)

I Want To Break Free

I want to break free......................break free from standard templates of Blogger. So i am in the process of designing a new template for my Photoblog with some help from templates availaible on net and a design expert :)

But, i am in a fix.........I have two options........
1) I apply the new template on this blog and continue posting here

2) I start a new blog, post some of the best pics of existing one and let that carry on.

In case, i select 2 option, i would continue running this blog but it would be more aligned to its title going forward ( Portrait of life and not experiments with camera as it is now). so a lot of pictures from our daily life would be here. Where as the new blog will have experiments with my camera and artistic type photos.

Lets see, i am still thinking.

I took this pic using my phone camera (2mp) at my balcony in Chennai. Suits the post, isnt it :)

The Flower Dance

Two macro shots of Flowers that i clicked on my Lansedowne Trip. Selective coloring on first using Photoshop and second one is posted here without any post processing.

(ISO 80, f/2.8, Shutter Speed 1/125 sec)

(ISO 80, f/4.6, Shutter Speed 1/500 sec)

Lansdowne Panorama

My first Panorama shot after a long time. The last one i took was of Matteputty Dam in Munnar. (Click here to see that)

On the last weekend trip to Lansdowne, I took this Panorama photo from Tip-N-Top point. You can see the Western Himalayas in the pic in the background. I took this photo without using tripod. The earlier one (Munnar) was taken using a tripod. The key to any panorama pic is to take shots with 30% of common area between two consecutive shots. You should not move the camera up and down for hoz. panorama, only sideways. Thats why a tripod is necessary. On this trip I totally forgot to bring the tripod:(

I placed the camera on the railing and moved the digicam sideways to capture 5 pics and joined them to create this photograph. Fortunately, the pics came out good enough to create a panorama. To see a bigger version click here.

(ISO 80, f/5.2, Shutter Speed 1/1000 sec)