If you have just started studio photography and find that in most of the portraits you take the heads of your models appear to be stuck on to the background or worse you can’t see the differentiation between the model and your backdrop the chances are – you are missing the hair light! Continue reading Using hair light – A mini HowTo
Category: Mundane Musings
Jonathan Livingston Tern
When sometime during the early teens I had first picked the up the book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” I remember having done so because of the very lovely photos of the Seagulls. Of Course! after having read the book it came to mean much more but there did remain one wish for a long long time. Continue reading Jonathan Livingston Tern
Steel Magnolias
She’s a lover, she’s a mother
She’s a friend and she’s a wife
And she’s a sparrow when she’s broken
But she’s an eagle when she flies
I saw the total solar eclipse!
“Class 8th D, 10th boy from the front – come up” Boomed the stern voice of the PT teacher. Someone shook the appropriate boy from conversation he was engrossed in. He climbed up to the first floor podium, tachaak, tachaak!! Two slaps delivered, he was told to stand aside and listen to what was being spoken about the solar eclipse in the school assembly.
That boy was me and I did not give a damn! I was still ecstatic… Continue reading I saw the total solar eclipse!
Single light portraits – A mini HowTo
As a beginner in studio photography I wallowed in self pity of the fact that I had only one light and portraits needed was at least three and I could not afford any. Then I was gently reminded of the working motto of SANIsoft. “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours”*
I started experimenting and sure enough I found that a single light could give very dramatic results. Continue reading Single light portraits – A mini HowTo
Hard Ground Barasingha
Hard Ground Barasingha Cervus duvaceli branderi. Because of its adaptation to hard ground habitat is regarded as a distinct sub species. Continue reading Hard Ground Barasingha
You are not beautiful
“You are not beautiful” These harsh words have to be endured by almost every girl/woman at some or the time of her life – unfortunately it is the chauvinistic setup of the society we live in. However it is not just male chauvinism which is at play here but something which angers me much more, though this is in no way tolerance or acceptance of MCP behaviour by men.
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3 more jQuery plugins
Last week Aditya released two jQuery plugins
- jQuery shiftcheckbox plugin: This plugin was inspired by how GMail checkboxes work when clicked in combination with the ‘Shift’ key. See demo
- jQuery shortaccesskey plugin: This plugin is a great help in keyboard enabling your web applications with very little effort. See demo
- The last plugin is Img Notes v0.2 which I released some time ago and it allows you to display notes over images like Flickr or Facebook does. See demo
Without a doubt jQuery is the favorite javascript framework for everyone at SANIsoft. Developing plugins for jQuery is very easy and very well documented.
A face for the unnamed… …
Sangita! If there was anyone in my life I place after my mother it would be her. Even though she is just a year older to me she always held that place of a woman I could go to for comfort. I have known her since I was fifteen. We grew up together, kept in touch for a long long time but as fate would have it, life took somewhat divergent paths about ten years ago.
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A bit of FOSS contribution
Over at SANIsoft in the past few days we released two small but very useful bits of code. The code was written to itch the classical ‘I need it’ itch. I do hope there will be more like me out there who would like to solve the same problems.
- jQuery auto-correct plugin – Once attached to an input field of a form this plugin will automatically replace / correct common typos like ‘teh’ and ‘taht’
- DateTitle – A WordPress plugin for automatic post titles If a title of a post is left blank this plugin will automatically insert todays date in a format of your choice.
The links to downloads and demo are on the pages which I have linked above