ExpertDabbler

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Here’s one of those shots i liked composition wise - shot during the 8th Chennai photowalk.

Last weekend was my second photowalk in St. Thomas Mount and I thoroughly enjoyed. Kudos to CCG for organising this. I am particularly grateful coz i am one of those guys who like to shoot indoors with objects. I am less of people photographer. Candids are alien to me. This is a good opportunity to learn photographing people in a natural way

Personally, one of the pressing/delicate aspects of digital photography was the ethics in post processing.

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2007/archives/693

Here we go with mine.

I do:
Crop my photos in Photoshop to make it better composition wise. BTW the above one was not cropped.
Fine tune the brightness/contrast/exposure and black values in RAW format to make it better.
Convert color to BW.

I do not:
Add elements
Remove unwanted elements.
Apply filters.

This photowalk project plus the advantages of post processing has rekindled my interest in photography. I think this blog is gonna see lot more photographs in the days to come.

Sometimes, life can be like an ‘aari pona’ dosai made of extremely sour batter. ‘Awful! Sucks! Depressing’ all are apt descriptions.

My 2 cents – When in distress, stretch yourself physically. If you are used to walking for 2 km, make it 4. Cycling, Gymming? should be perfect. Yoga should be even better!
If you work for four hours a day, try working six for a change. If you say you work for eight hours a day, try being honest. Probably honesty is all you need to lift your spirits. But yeah, essentially get out of your comfort zone even when you don’t feel like. Like the way your employer pays you even when they do not feel like.

Do this for three days. In three days time, life will be like that hot, crispy, rava dosa dipped in ample chutney at Rathna Cafe. Wonderful!

It worked for me last week.

PS 1: I do not appreciate ‘We tried the Rathna café rava dosai for three days and it was wonderful!’ kinda comment. That’s not what I meant even though that can sometimes lift your spirits temporarily. But life would begin to suck again when that rava dosai gets digested. Beware!

PS 2: Folks who know of better places for better rava dosai in chennai, please let me know. I am sure this information dessimination will lift your spirits for the rest of the day.