through the lens of a restless child

Paris

2012-04-17T22:38:00.001+01:00

Parlez vous Francais :D
After Prague, Berlin, Hamburg was Paris... This was with my university people! It was a good trip! But i liked the other cities more than paris dont know why! but i did get some pretty good pictures! thats all it matters at the end of the day :D
Flickr link : http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157629476948564/
The slide show:

Created with flickr slideshow.
So thats it for now! i still have a bunch more to upload!!! soon soon :D

xoxo

Hamburg -Stade

2012-04-17T21:55:00.001+01:00

I was invited by Jule's parents to their place for christmas and the day after... before leaving her family took me to this miniature museum... Initially we thought it was for kids or something but man it was one of the interesting things i have ever seen! if u guys get a chance to see it ever! dont think twice... its pretty amazing! :D the best part is they are quirky and they have this lil lil things that keeps u entertained :D

The flickr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157629840965829/
Slideshow:

Created with flickr slideshow.
xoxo

Berlin!

2012-04-17T21:39:00.001+01:00

From Prague, came to Berlin.. dint want to see the regular stuff and moreover i dint have too much time in Berlin, which is a shame. So we took the free walking tour by alternative Berlin to see the local street art and the story behind it... one word - i loved it absolutely...
More info about the trip to Berlin
http://www.aroshaliny.com/category/alice-with-a-backpack/
The art was amazing!
here's the flickr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157629476545118/
and the slide show

Created with flickr slideshow.

xoxo

Prague Part 2

2012-04-17T21:23:00.001+01:00

Ok, the reason why i made a part 2 was coz of the place i saw there and it deserves a separate post! its a church called "Kutna Hora" its a church filled with bones and other stuff!
Check this out for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutn%C3%A1_Hora and also my other blog http://www.aroshaliny.com/category/alice-with-a-backpack/

Here are the pictures of the amazing church! words cannot explain how impressive it is
Flickr link :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157629840752619/

The slideshow!

Created with flickr slideshow.

xoxo

Prague!

2012-04-17T21:10:00.000+01:00

I kinda really feel awful about how i kinda been lazy to update the blog! I might have some excuse, which i myself dont think is acceptable :D well i have another blog so lately i have been updating that (hmm.. i write that one up everyday, so maybe thats why) and moreover been really lazy too.. still no excuses.
Here's how i make up for it! I had travelled to prague and a whole bunch of other places! so i ll post a bunch of posts about the pictures in took there! more info on the trip and stuff! are in the other blog :D
http://www.aroshaliny.com/category/alice-with-a-backpack/

Here's the link to the flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157629840616293/

and here's the slideshow! hope you like it.. as always all comments are welcome!

xoxo

Created with flickr slideshow.

Bored and light painted!

2011-11-29T21:46:00.001+00:00

oh faaak!!!! i dint realize its been ages since i uploaded got a bunch of pic to do! been really busy with the university work n stuff!! but still no excuse! well today was really really free and decided to brush up my light painting skills not that i am good! but still something is better than nothing! inspiration from this webpage

http://www.graphicmania.net/stunning-examples-of-light-painting-photography

Long shutter ofcourse Manual bulb mode F18 and ISO 200 the slideshow
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. here the link to it!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157628211436783
ciao xoxohttp://www.graphicmania.net/stunning-examples-of-light-painting-photography

Newyork Tales part 2

2011-09-24T11:11:00.001+01:00

NewYork Tales part 2..... A week in NewYork for imagine cup! we had a day for sightseeing! and a barbeque at the liberty statue! saw the 9/11 ground zero site! a day of painting pictures in central park, night at Hard Rock Cafe NEwYork, playing around with shutter speed trying to take pictures of water drops from the fountain!!! well all in all NYC was fun! hopefully somewhere in the near future i get to see the US of A again! this time the places on my list is deff LAs vegas!
Created with flickr slideshow. Here's the flikr link The next post is going to be some typically dutch pictures! ;) hope i dont get too lazy in between! till then xoxo

Newyork Tales Part 1

2011-09-24T10:55:00.000+01:00

I have been absolutely lazy, busy and figuring out a word press blog for my day to day rambling in the netherlands! yes you heard t right! i am here studying AGAIN! thanks to the job market or my sheer lazyness to step into the real world!
New york was fun! as i had mentioned earlier been there for a week for a competition.. well i dint win but had fun! what more do i ask for? eh!
so here's some of the picture s which were supposed to be updated like a month ago! And i changed my hp laptop to mac! so still figuring how to use it! i did want to try some post processing in these pictures! will do once i master the mac!
so here are the pictures!!

Created with flickr slideshow. Here's the link to the flikr page! http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157627739878838/ Next part coming up now! xoxo

Post

2011-08-18T15:16:00.000+01:00

Hello peeps!!!
yeah been a month since i remotely even was on blogger...
i was off to USA for a competition.. well i dint win but nevertheless i got to see New York!
Yeah got loads of photos!
been absolutely busy! as i am off to do another masters in the Netherlands! so busy with all the bloody paperwork and the visa process!!!
Hopefully i update my NY pictures soon..... :)

till then
xoxo

Iphoneography

2011-07-02T07:28:00.000+01:00

Been wayyyyy too lazy to update my blog..... there are a lot more to upload but will do soon hopefully!! decided to upload A batch of my photos taken with iphone :D :D

FYI there are going to be soooo many pictures soon as i am leaving to New York this month for a week yayyy!!! so yeah you can guess how many pics are going to be here ;)

Here 's the link for the iphone uploads ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626971694387/

Here's the slideshow of the pictures :) :)

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

Till then
xoxo

People's Choice Awards

2011-06-20T05:52:00.000+01:00

Hey people

This is the link to our video on imagine cup's people choice awards. Please click "LIKE" the video and authenticate the like with your mail id or facebook :) for the like to be "counted"!!!
Here's the link

http://www.imaginecup.com/worldwide-finals/peoples-choice-award/view-and-vote.aspx?r=6382

till then
xoxo

Facebook Page for Green Uno

2011-06-05T13:40:00.000+01:00

Green Uno is my team for Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 USA!!!!
here's the facebook page for promoting our Team!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Uno-The-Back-Trackers/166439870086046
Do like the page and keep checking for videos!!!
More details will be updated soon ;)

xoxo

Diana mini B&W

2011-05-30T17:51:00.000+01:00

Here I am again!!! I am not sure if you remember a few months back i said i have B&W film roll, which needed to be developed and stuff! and i had given it in a studio in Chennai and i dint collect so long! well finally i did!!

The pictures are not that great! they are actually bit crappy!!! So not really happy with it!!! I am not sure if the problem is with the way i took the pictures or a bit of an issue with the way they developed it or what!
I had told the studio guy not to you know tweak anything as he said it wont come very clearly blah blah blah!!! anyways i hope to use my other roll and maybe get it developed at a place where they actually know to develop B&W [these are the times i wish i knew how to develop a film roll!! maybe one fine day i ll have my own dark room ;)]
and yeah the decent looking pictures are the ones of my family and we all look bit scary in the pic hehehe!! ;)
Here's the slide show of the pictures

Here's the flickr link to it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626840623778/

Have a few more albums! just a wee bit busy and a wee bit lazy ;)

till then
xoxo

ImagineCup Round 2

2011-05-15T12:50:00.000+01:00

Às i had mentioned earlier and have asked for your help in voting for our video! Microsoft Imaginecup 2011 USA. we have cleared our round 1 and have made our round 2 video which is going to be judged by a panel of 15 judges!

Here's a link to our round 2 video!

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0lmJNtkyCoE&h=290ce

I hope you like it :)
xoxo

Pottery

2011-05-15T12:43:00.000+01:00

Its been a while since i updated!!! been very lazy asusual!! still trying to figure out photoshop, God! its confusing :(
anyways this lot of pictures where taken in a place called "Alankuppam" near Auroville. A friend of mine suggested i should check out this potters place as he teaches you to make stuff!!!
I tried and made some deformed pots ;) well it seems i need more patience thats what the potter said! took these with my 550D (wihout flash) so i had to crank up my ISO to the max.
would deff love any comments :)

here's the slideshow

and the flikr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626599727235/

till then
xoxo

Auroville Times!

2011-04-19T05:04:00.001+01:00

Its been a while since i updated the blog..... I was at Auroville (Pondychery) Guess most of you guys know about it!!! well it was my first time in Auroville... it definitely was a different experience....

I was there for 2 weeks for a training on the Eco friendly bricks... which is also called as Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks. We were a bunch of students, engineers and architects... being trained on how to produce them and how to build stuff with them... Pretty cool it was ;)

Here are a bunch of pictures that i took in and around Auroville.....

Here's a slideshow of the pictures....

and also the link to the pictures!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroshaliny/sets/72157626404679071/

xoxo

Help!

2011-03-19T08:22:00.002+00:00

Hi all...
Me and my friends are in a competition. Its a video and we need votes to win..... I would be lovely if you guys could vote for me :)

Here's the link
http://www.imaginecup.com/competitions/Digital%20Media/digital-media-view-and-vote?r=1509&p=4379&n=1501&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d82d668a5b716d6%2C0

xoxo

Birmingham

2011-03-13T12:23:00.000+00:00

A few more pictures from Birmingham... Mostly in and around the University of Birmingham and Selly Oak area!!! The shots are kinda Macro or Bokeh ones!! and yeah they are wee bit tweaked in Adobe lightroom aswell!!!

Here's the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157626129723427/
Asusual comments and suggestions welcome!

Till then
xoxo

Birmingham!!

2011-03-10T05:41:00.001+00:00

A few Pictures of Birmingham!! I was in Birmingham for a year and a half but was never a tourist taking pictures!! but yeah there's always a first time for everything!! :D After i got my 550D i went around Birmingham snapping everything i could possibly snap!! hehe!!
and yeah been practising Photoshop a bit! man it is hard phew!!! and found Lightroom, dono much about it tho! but yeah managed to learn some of it....

I found out that the option of increasing blacks is exactly what i wanted... It gives the pictures a distinctive look!!! So i did some post processing to the pictures not a lot just tweaked the blacks a bit and voila the pictures look quite nice!!
Here is the slideshow of it!!!

Here's also the flickr link to it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157626105892649/

Till then
xoxo

Bokeh!

2011-02-25T21:55:00.000+00:00

Here i am again!!! i have checked out some kind of bokeh pictures in pop sugar website and wanted to make some like that. So i recently checked out a video in youtube on Bokeh with fairy lights ;)
Here are the pictures... They are not perfect ofcourse but my first trial :D :D

here's the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157626011579441/

Till then
xoxo ;)

First Date with my Canon

2011-02-24T14:32:00.000+00:00

I have been playing around with my new Canon 550D! Took few pictures!!! nit that great but yeah learning the settings takes bit of a time i suppose ;)
so here they are ;)

Here's the flickr link to them aswell!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157626127455424/

Loads more comin up!!!
xoxo

Light Painting

2011-02-15T23:55:00.002+00:00

As i have posted in my previous post!!! i got my very own slr hehehe ;)
and yes started experimenting some techniques of photography!
Here are the pictures!!! they are not too bad for my first trial and moreover it gets bit cranky coz i have to keep running from doing the painting as well as check the camera hehe!!

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

Here's also the link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625936901465/

Comments and ideas much appreciated!
xoxo

My own DSLR!!!!

2011-02-10T20:51:00.000+00:00

Finally yes!!! i own a Canon 550D.... woop woop :) ;)
and here is the "Stanadard SLR owner pic" hehehhe!!!!

more pics comin soon :D :D

xoxo

Iphone Photo Application Part 3

2011-02-07T18:33:00.000+00:00

Well this is the last part for this post hopefully!!!

I would like to start off with the first one "Instagram" I think most of y'all know about it!!! i think this is one of the best apps of iphone for photo editing!!! I not only allows you to edit the pics... there is a community of instagram, where you get to post your picture, follow people, find the popular photos and share your thoughts on them!!

With regard to editing... This app has a numerous effects which gives a very peculiar result, which i can swear i have never seen in any other apps.... these effects give a very dark result... dark i mean the mysterious look!!!! These effects are a bit of a combination of cross process, lomo, retro, vintage... and maybe red tint tooo!!!! but all in all there are definitely unique!!!!

This is just not it.... You not only have the privilege to have your own profile and share your pictures in the instagram community. You can also share it on various social networking sites as Facebook, twitter, flickr, tumblr and foursquare.

Second app "Pudding Cam" first of all this app is not in english! that is the only problem but yeah you can figure out whats what tho! when you want to search for this app... just search for pudding cam... you will come up with this ;). This app gives you a range of toy camera lens and films....
The range of films provided are vintage brown, blue, dazzle, noir, mono and few more..... and the range of lens are fish eye, motion x2, panorama, motion 2x2, motion x4 and a few more!!once you click your picture.. it is saved in the photo album!!! There is an option of emailing as well.... and also a pudding cam account, which i dont understand coz its in some other language.... ( m not sure if its Chinese or something else!!)In the settings i could understand was the size of the picture. So yeah this is definitely a fun app... except for the fact its in some language!!!

third app of the day "Retro Cam" this is another unique app... this app gives you 5 diff toy camera's namely "The Barbel", "Little Orange box" , "Xolaroid 2000" , "Pinhole Camera", "Fudge Cam." This app not only provides you the effects of these cam but also information about them. There is an option of taking the pictures in colour or black and white. The pictures taken are saved in the app and can be shared to facebook, twitter, email or saved to camera roll!!! this is a really good app if you like vintage look.

Fourth app "Iron cam" as the name suggests it kinda looks interesting and at first looks complicated. You have the option to change the image size, zoom, vignette. once the picture is taken after adjusting the above options you are directed to another page which gives you the options frame, film which is only cross process and a vintage look, blur and some icons to paste. You can also share it to your twitter account, facebook and you also have a tutorial picture to show what works how? This is also a decent free app....

Fifth one "Classic Toy" this one i downloaded is a free version so i have my hands-on on only 3 types of lens but you can purchase 6 different packages which provide 6 lens each! but the app is very generous on the types of film you get to play with, you are provided with a whooping 14 different film rolls. This app really gives you the perfect imperfect pinhole type images.... which is really impressive. So again this is a good app to play with!

Sixth: "Photogami" this app has 3 main themes- Colour, monotone and Frame. The frames are not that innovative but the effects are pretty good!!! the first thing that caught my attention is the effects can be overlayed on each effect ( which you will find in the pictures from the link below) and has a wide range of effects like paint, purple haze, psychedelic, posterize and vintage. Monocolour also has a wide range as rose, duotone, b&w, noir and sketch! on the whole this is also a really nice one....

Seventh "Picplz" This is quite similar to the instagram but this has different kind of effects, the best ones are the cross process, 70's and vintage. You can share it directly to twitter, facebook, flickr, tumblr, foursquare and Dropbox. The only thing i dint figure out is how to save it in the camera roll. In a way i prefer Instagram is better than Picplz.

Last but not the least app "A sunset" this converts any picture into a beautiful sunset kinda look picture.

And yes i finally figured out how to insert a photo stream in the blog and i hope it works out!!!

www.flickr.com

Here's also the slide show!

Here is the link to the pictures......

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625996856414/

Till then
xoxo
:)

Iphone Photo Application Part 2

2011-02-04T14:50:00.004+00:00

Here comes the second part of the iphone photography applications!!!
First one "Crazy Booth" asusual part of apps you have the option of uploading your own picture from the album or take one! once you go the main screen you see 4 pages. 1 being funfair: it has popart, heat cam, sepia, B&W and obama which is the only interesting one in this page as this gives kinda of a reddish blue poster look! . 2 also being funfair: ripple, twirl, checkers, twin, mirror.. .nothing really interesting actually for the mirror effect!! 3 is carzy: its got xray, alien, puzzle and peephole... puzzle is nice as it kinda jigsaw puzzles your picture except for the fact you cannot move anything ;) peephole kinda gives you a fish eye effect. last one is the curious: its got UV, darkroom and few other effect.... On the whole this app is not that great and to add to the negative points its slow!!!

second one: "Light Meter" this is not an editing app... this gives you information on the "aperture f", "ISO" and "shutter speed" for SLR camera's. You can lock one of the aspect to find the appropriate ones.... This is an useful app for SLR beginners like me, who can experiment and learn the appropriate aspects of the SLR. :)

Third: "Super Camera: All in 1" this app is just the name for me!!! personally i think the other apps have better effects and the only effect which the other ones i havent noticed is the "HDR"which is actually pretty nice in this app!!! other than that it has the usual sepia, b&w, soft light, emboss, sketch and sharpen. It also has a bunch of frames and an anti shake option to take the pictures... I cannot complain coz this is a Lite version, if i want more out of this app...yes i should purchase a full version of it....

Fourth: "Format 126" This app is one of the oldest app in my iphone ;) it is actually pretty interesting, Its got a range of Lomo kind of effects.... The effects it has are the "Colour plus", which ofcourse emphasizes the colours in the picture and brightens it. "Pola colour" it kinda fades the colour in the picture. "Mono Plus", "Mono"and "Mono Hi" they convert the picture into black & white with varying shades of the black, white and gray. "Colour Hint" provides a mix of the colour aswell as the monotone!!!! and finally "Lofi" i really like this effect as it has a mix of Lomo an colour plus effect... it really brings out the colour in the picture. It also has the option of vignetting, border and square frame....

Fifth: "My Film Lite" this is actually an awesome app for ppl who likes the whole idea in the slr cameras where you can choose one particular point in a picture to be focussed and the rest blurred.... This shows the focus point really good... and more over you can ever choose the development colour aswell the shape of the focus points. So thumbs up for this app!!!

Last but not the least in this part is the "Pic Grunger" this app... converts your pictures into a kinda of grunge effect. The Lite version has 4 effects 1)Aged, the name says it all. 2) Bleech Spill- again it has a grunge effect on the picture with a spill like effect on the corners 3) Scruffed and 4) Streaked they both give the same kind of grunge feel to the photograph. You also have the option of changing the styles in each effect, strength of the effect and finally the adding a border to the photograph.

Here is the link to the link to the pictures....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109154@N03/sets/72157625974461512/

There is one more part to this topic.... Just broke it into parts as i dont want to have tooooo many apps in one post.....
Till then
xoxo