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Finding Retribution

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:52:00 +0000

Finding Retribution, a set on Flickr.

Picture story of Autumners and Avengers

Morning TEA

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:52:00 +0000

Morning TEA, originally uploaded by Farhan Shaheen.

Super Macro... Ahhh, Still not there.

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:51:00 +0000

Super Macro... Ahhh, Still not there., originally uploaded by Farhan Shaheen.

Early in the morning

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:54:00 +0000

This Cat is Black

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Road is Your Destiny

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:42:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan Shaheen

"Please watch Video in HD for better experience"

Road is Your Destiny from Farhan Shaheen on Vimeo.

See Photos at: http://scene.posterous.com/road-is-your-destiny

Its a Stop-motion Time-lapse video. This is my second stop-motion video, do check my first video which is a about two baby dinosaurs hatching from eggs.

Dino in Stop Motion:

vimeo.com/34709965

Music by: thephilterlounge.com

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Eid Card.

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Eid Mubarik to you all. Fell Free to reuse.

Copyright to Photographer: Farhan S.

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Trip to Inner City

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:57:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan S.

Its a picture slideshow so Please Watch it in Full HD (1080p). There is absolutely no point watching it in low res, it will just take away the quality and viewing experience.

Download original video from here: http://bit.ly/LJovgI
Shot with Canon 60D and 50mm f/1.4.
Edited in Lightroom 4, Photoshop, Premiere
My Blogs:
http://popat.posterous.com
http://scene.posterous.com
http://musicone.posterous.com
DeviantART: http://farhanshaheen.deviantart.com
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Trip to Inner City

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan Shaheen

Its a picture slideshow so Please Watch it in Full HD (1080p). There is absolutely no point watching it in low res, it will just take away the quality and viewing experience.

Download original video from here: http://bit.ly/LJovgI

Shot with Canon 60D and 50mm f/1.4.

Edited in Lightroom 4, Photoshop, Premiere

My Blogs:

http://popat.posterous.com
http://scene.posterous.com
http://musicone.posterous.com

DeviantART: http://farhanshaheen.deviantart.com

Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/popat
Follow on gplus: http://gplus.to/FarhanShaheen

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Emotions in Life

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan S.
Now you are wondering that who is this guy? Well they call him the man with three A's, literally. His name has three "A's" but he calls himself Zeshan.
Dislaimer First so nodoby cries and dump gangsta'vord.on ME:

"This article doesn't represent him or his life in anyway or shape possible not even remotely. He is a Professional and he knows what he is doing. No emotions were destroyed while shooting this. If you fail to possess all the emotions mentioned please be patient, it will come to you. Please do no conatct the subject as he is not the maker or doctor of curing emotional truma. If you are still confused, just enjoy the pictures, close your eyes, play some awesome soundtrack, and just relax."

1. Ah! Thinking of future Dreams.

Sometimes you sit down, you are feeling relax, happy and healthy. You feel mentally fantastic and deviod of frustration or any drama. That is the time when you think about good old days and the future ones that you want in your life, like: hanging out with friends, fooling around having fun, getting married, etc.
You just feel relaxed and peaceful, what an amazing feeling.
2. Blushing for cuteness.

There is always a soft spot in everyone. When they show this amazing emotion it makes you happy, you and the person with the emotion. Everyone likes "shy" and "blush". There is a saying that if you have a blush face, you are healthy.
When your friends say something to you or tease you which makes you blush; now that is a classic emotional feeling for everyone. Person who is blushing says "come on guys" and the friends teasing "look at his cute face, O.M.G" :)
3. Relax and Deep breath.

You then relax and clam down from all that awesomeness and just wanna feel the moment in hand. *sigh*
4. Why so serious?

After fooling around, enjoying and having fun, suddenly you realize about the world around you, all the good, bad and ugly stuff. Poverty makes you go mad and you somehow want to restart the universe and get rid of all corruption, evil. You think, think and think.
Does make you feel bad though but don't let it over power you.
5. Attension to details, M.D. Video.

Best weapon is the power of listening. So just don't listen to stupid propoganda, crap dishearting pointless news and anything who's sole pupose is to torment you brain like a zombies "Grrrr, you brain looks tasty -Zombie"
6. And forgetting all and Enjoying the present.

And then you look everything from above, plug some coldplay and smile :D
Everybody has to go through all these emotions and if you do in this order the first and last one will enclose all with smile and happiness :)
Keeping smiling and never let other take that away from you because you can't sell, buy or rent emotions.
Close your eyes and listen this on My music Blog:
http://musicone.posterous.com/sunshine-adagio-in-d-minor
http://musicone.posterous.com/college-feat-electric-youth-a-real-hero

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Night Lights in Lahore

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Night Lights in Lahore from Farhan Shaheen on Vimeo.

Shot with 50mm f/1.4 only.

Music by Semaphore: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/406611

My Blogs:
http://popat.posterous.com
http://scene.posterous.com
http://musicone.posterous.com

DeviantART: http://farhanshaheen.deviantart.com

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Old Lahore "Street BW"

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan Shaheen

"Watch Video in HD, its only 36 secs"

Old Lahore "Street BW" from Farhan Shaheen on Vimeo.

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Jumping Over 69

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Videographer: Farhan Shaheen

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Producers: Bilal Ahmed, Farhan Shaheen
Director: Farhan Shaheen
Assistant Director of photography: Fahad Usman, Zaid Munir
Actors: Bilal Ahmed, Zaid Munir, Fahad Usman

End Music Credits: http://www.audionautix.com/

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Diy Dried Apples | going home to roost

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Homemade dried apples are such an easy and inexpensive way to sneak more fruit into your diet. Of course, nothing beats a fresh, juicy apple, but I like dried apples for their portability and versatility. A little bag of apples can be slipped into a small purse for an anytime-snack, and they make a great topping for salads. They’re also a fantastic way to preserve a large bounty of apples through the winter. The idea came from the book How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried, and I modified the directions to fit my needs.

Ingredients

- apples
- lemons
- water

Directions

Slice as many apples as you would like into pieces 1/4″ thick or less. They can be as wide or long as you like. You may also peel them, or leave the peel on. I chose to leave the peel on and they came out great.

Soak the apples in a mixture of equal-parts lemon juice and water. The lemon juice not only preserves the color of the apple, but it creates depth to the apple flavor without having to add sugar.

After soaking, place the apples on a cake rack on top of a cookie sheet. If you don’t have a cake rack (I don’t!), then just place the slices directly on the cookie sheet. I did not need to grease the pan – the apples came off fine on their own.

The oven should be preheated to 140 degrees F, and the apples should remain in the oven for five hours. If your apples aren’t on a rack, flip them half-way through. I found that my apples really needed about 6 hours.

The apples should be flexible and bendy. You can eat some immediately, or all of them if you just used a couple of apples. If you’re looking for long term storage, then after they have cooled, place them in a sealed jar for a few days.

Shake the jars every so often. Pasteurize them by freezing them in bags for two days, and keep them for up to 6-12 months in a cool, dry place.

Out to find ways to make life simpler, Ashley is tackling life one DIY project at a time. Learning as she goes, she also spends her days writing Indie Pretty Projects and creating for her Etsy shop.

wrap up: {diy} {dried apples} {food} {fruit} {living} {preserve} {simple} {snack} {winter}

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Dino in Stop Motion

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:57:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan Shaheen

Produce by: PoPaT Productions

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BTS Shooter's Commentary // Joann + Donald NDE

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:57:00 +0000

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Top 10 Signs of a Bad Photographer

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:59:00 +0000

Not everyone out there with a DSLR is a good photographer. It's true. No really. There are endless discussions about it all over the Internet. Don't believe me? Do an image search of, well, just about anything and you'll see. That's okay though because we're all learning how to hone our craft, right?

So how do you spot the good photographers from the bad photographers?

And more importantly, how do you avoid looking like a bad photographer?

@MinnesotaDogGuy "Too many to mention- #1 is the "anything goes" mentality-- more crap produced in the last 15 years than the previous100 years" Well, that sounds like a solid number 1 to me. And it's probably true. Maybe it's because digital photography makes it so easy to capture tons of pics but it's like nobody slows down anymore. Take your camera off burst mode, look a the scene, think about it, pause, think about it some more, then take a couple of shots and move on. Sure, there are times when you've got to take a ton of pics, but come on! I used to shoot weddings with film and when I hear of photographers who do it now and pop out thousands of photos on one wedding it kinda blows my mind. Too much spray and pray and you're giving yourself away.

@moogyboobles "one who is all bitchy to newbies! If they are good then why should they worry about competition and put others down?" This one was hands down my favorite. We all started from somewhere and if you're not contributing anything positive to the conversation then you're acting like a bad photographer! Helping newer photographers out instead of putting them down would do wonders for your Karma and build your network as well.

@sztyuiphoto "Using pop-up flash with telephoto lens in camera green mode:) And hold the camera in a very wrong unimaginable way:D" Sure, cameras are really great at doing most of the "work" for you these days, but really? The balance of technical know-how and artistic vision is what makes a good photographer. Besides, if you haven't learned how to hold your camera properly yet...

@kuyman "Polarizer on indoors / shoots a whole roll with lens cap on (RF only, of course)." Yeah, if you're going to use a polarizer you should probably know what it's actually used for. Now, I do have to admit, I've taken a random shot here or there with the lens cap on but a whole roll?

@rpwpb "Cutting off feet in a family snapshot." We're photographers not surgeons. 'Nuff said.

@Ashtons "the same person in many of their portfolio shots" Yep, that's a sure sign you really haven't done that many shoots. Go get some more clients and then update your portfolio.

@auryaun "example: only shoots "polaroids". Naughty photographer!" Wha? You mean I shouldn't be doing that anymore?

@CLS_photo "someone who doesn't know what apeture is or what is does let alone how to change it." This goes along with that whole "P does not stand for Professional" argument and could also get classified with @isbalcio "shoots in auto mode". I got tons of those types of responses.

@ChokingDrama "When most or all pictures have signs of camera shake." This basically means you don't understand shutter speed or perhaps it's relation to focal length. Either way...

@mmurrayphoto "one who says they'll just "fix it" in lightroom/photoshop later after a bad exposure." and then added "anyone who uses "Photoshop" as a verb. #photoshopisnotaverb" Yep...Photoshop...let the arguments begin!

@krowland3 "Focused more on gear than quality of images." I have nothing to add here. Nailed it!

Yeah, I know, we missed something or you completely disagree with one of the signs. Well, that's what the comments section is for. And go!

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Little RnR

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Author: Farhan Shaheen

The rational irrational rationale.

(Photo by: Farhan Shaheen)

The genesis of case, propositions, arguments,.., augmented from the complex dilemma which led us to not heed the reality rather sunk in the deep vortex of personal self domination and abomination of endless cognitive skill of the self "Me".

What is this beef? Why we argue? Why he knows more than me and why I less? Why he has a counter-argument and I have counter-counter-argument? Why we even want to counter-argument? Is there a possibility that he knows more? Is there a possibility that even I know more? Still why we need to linger in an untangled discussion until it's unrecoverable? Why can't I say, you listen and bye! or vice-versa?

We all live in the same world with same nature, mountains, rivers, sky, wildlife, weather, etc. Still we possesses different opinions on the same things which are same for everyone.

Sometimes listening is better than talking and great wisdom is to listen then talk so when you talk, you already knew what everyone already said and everyone knows that what they already said and they got nothing new to say so when you say, they have to listen. Note that only wise can listen and wise don't say gibberish just for the sake_

Things are not as simple as they seem. Even simple things are extremely complicated in reality. You should always put time and different thought processes in the decision. Reality is in 3-dimension and you never know what plane your perspective is parallel to. The repercussion of hastiness might reverberate for long time. Think smartly, think more then twice. Peace!

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We honor them.

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:51:00 +0000

Author: Farhan Shaheen

The good old defences that we all love, depend and care about. It's all about military precision, discipline, tactics, management, safety and defence. Indeed, I am talking about the military itself. They dare to care, they are there to here, they do it for us, they do it for their own people. Like everyone, all they want in return is our love and passion.

Now I see things turning-around, current problems are ravaging our shields, shattering our hopes. We see confusion and intimidation from the unknown mist. We can't see the right path anymore or the right guidance or voice. That has made us weak and weaker every second. Now we are bouncing around like some random particles in a less denser solution. They vibrate like a tormented soul and consume all that remain as hope.

I always love and appreciated the efforts done by our military. They did it for us, they did it for free. From day one to today they are here to protect us and I never ever bother to get concerned from that fact that I am not safe. More safer you feel, more comfortable you are working your geek.

Yes I see some problems, yes I see there are some lapses that made that cry and grounded tears into fear. But did you forget the good work done by them? Its not like the politicians who never ever did anything, atleast military has done tons of things for this country. You can't always get what you want and you can't always win either.

During partition, my grandfather and his family was brought to this land in the last train and that was military train. Just after that day, hindu killed all people back at their home and burned all houses. If it wasn't for military that day, I wouldn't even existed in this world today.

Did you all forget when they fought for you in the 65? Did you forget Maj. Aziz Bhatti ( عزیز بهٹی ) shaheed? Did you forget PAF? Did you forget their efforts on Oct earthquake and in violent floods that hit entire landmark? Did you forget all those shaheed soldiers of this country? How cruel someone has to become to forget all that loyalty? These are just questions, how can someone learn to forget their savior.

This is what Maj. Aziz Bhatti ( عزیز بهٹی ) shaheed [pictured above] said day before his shahadat.

Do not recall me. I don't want to go back. I will shed the last drop of my blood in the defence of my dear homeland.

It was Maj. Aziz Bhatti ( عزیز بهٹی ) shaheed with many other brave soldiers who saved Lahore in which we dine today.

They are in trouble but is this correct time to banish them, badly manage them. It isn't that cataclysmic that everyone goes from friend to foe. Don't you have problems? Didn't you ever have problems at your home? You have good time and bad time, you have to face them with a heart. Everyone has problems at home, sometimes they seems to obliterate in the blur, sometimes they return with the stir.

Some people are angry with their parents, some are angry with their children, some hate their son-in-law, some hate their daughter-in-law--some hate their job, some hate their employees, some hate their employer--some hate their friends, some hate their acquaintances, some hate their relationship--some hate everyone, few hate everyone who hate everyone.

When your son, daughter, brother or daughter-in-law screwed up, you don't go all hail storm on them and say "in your face!", you don't start counting things. Ultimately family is family and you always protect your family. You try to fix the problem, you try to understand why it happened what has happened. If you are a good family, you support them, you become their wisdom in the time they need you, you become part of their problem to ease them. Forgiving is giving.

Our military needs us, they need you all to support them in their hard time, they need you all. You don't go all berserk like media and try to shatter your own home and moral. Already a ton of people are demoralized with this calamity, need not to mention those who are sincere in the military. There are hundreds of young, brave soldiers in our military who would die for us, you don't have a right to question their intentions; how dare you if you do so. Remember, when you blame military, you are blaming the whole family. Respect all those soldiers who died to save this country and who are willing to do so.

There were some loopholes in the security but do you blame the person who get robbed because of less security or the robber? If someone didn't bother to installed doors at his home, that doesn't mean that someone can steal his stuff. You can't say that "it was his fault for not installing any door, after all thief is a thief and its his job to steal"; is this really funny. Criminal is a criminal, that's that.

Didn't you witness attacks on WTC? Of course there were huge, huge security lapses but does that give someone a right to destroy homes, and innocent peoples' hope? They didn't blame the gang behind the security lapse, all they did was to expose the criminal who attack the innocent and which was right thing to do. Didn't you witness London subway explosion? Of course there was security lapses but they also did the same. Didn't you witness mumbai hotel drama? All in all, nobody throw a pencil on the victims rather ice the criminals and inject apparition in their dreams.

You can question your own people in quiet, after all they are your own, you have to own them to own them. Time need you to point the raven and the enemy. It's more important to blame and punish the enemy rather than anything else.

This is when your question is answered about when to get united. That day is indeed today. Your country is you family, you either stay together or destroy your home, there is no other way to put it softly.

When military was protecting us on border and from enemies, why didn't the education system get better? Why didn't there is not enough research facilities? Why didn't we work on science? All we did was eat and become fat while your big fat dirty "****" were protected by the military. Everyone said, "haa, eat and sleep, why bother, military is protecting our souls"; what a shame. We did nothing when military was doing its job.

There is no research in physics, chemistry, biology, and you name it. How many of you actually know that atom is not the fundamental particle? Even proton and neutron are sub-atomic particles. For that matter Lepton and Quark are fundamental particles and each comes in six flavors, making total of twelve and the twelve antiparticles ( antimatter ).

World is harnessing wave energy, making denser particles, space exploration and you name it again. We need naturalist, engineers, scientist, chemist, we need research facilities and some serious research work. Start from building a small size ancient canon, build an old bow to understand its physics. British have experts in boomerangs which is important to understand the concept of gyroscope, which is used to balance submarines and huge aircraft carriers in ocean. Now you understand how fundamental knowledge is extremely important.

Please people go out and create things, force school, collages and universities to research and make things, new things. Invest in research, it's like investing in stock market but in this case, knowledge never crash.

Someone said "We have to re-discover a lot of things, since west won't share it's knowledge with us."

Go learn, have some "some" knowledge, stop feeding yourself with fake procrastinating deeds, stop using family, children and shit as an excuse to do nothing. Read, read and read--get knowledge, get knowledge, and get knowledge. Go read science, go read Gray's anatomy. All of you have watched seven seasons of gray's anatomy but does anyone know about Gray's anatomy? has anyone seen the gigantic book? Well that's why I said, get knowledge and try to get it as much as you can; after all knowledge is free.

I am proud of my military. Military need us now; support your family and your homeland.

Pakistan Zindabad.

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Just Before he Got Married!

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:29:00 +0000

Photographer: Farhan Shaheen

That style :)

This is my first proper Portrait.

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The old Dilemma.

noreply@blogger.com (PoPaT) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:01:00 +0000

I also don't use facebook so you are not old fashion. Facebook is for insecure, low self-esteem people. All it does it waste you precious secs of your life.

Why would anyone wanna just click like button on facebook and goto bed, and by click I mean click multiply by 100.

I know people who spend ton of time wasting on facebook and they have never even watched the stars in the sky, not literally but figuratively. What a pity on them. I seriously feel sorry for them. You can barely see the Hint of Orion Nebula with your naked eye so if someone haven't seen it, that person didn't lived his/her life.

Photos by: Lots of Photographers and Me.

I love Trees, Flowers, Mountains, Wind, Storm, Rain, Waterfall, Forest, Snow, Ice, Mist, Sky, Wildlife, Butterflies, Ocean, Whales, Tiger, Owl, Polar Bear, Star, Nebula, Galaxies, Cosmos, Corals, Volcano's, Lightning, Moon, Sun, Birds, Waves, Sea life, Deep Ocean, Glaciers, Plains. I like the open vast exquisite beauty of this world. If you combine all of above you get the nature of our planet Earth.

I feel bad for people who never saw such beauty and are ever falling into the void caused by the technological and internet vortex of Enigma. Facebook, twitter, youtube, Tv, cinema, cell phones, amusement parks, thats all crap.

If you can't feel happy after seeing the stars in the sky or a beautiful landscape, then no amusement park can get you happiness.

"Get your children to see nature. You don't need to make them like it, they will enjoy it themselves. Nature is beautiful, its free, and it makes you healthy and ever smiling. Remember, all inspiration in this world, came from nature" ~PoPaT

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