Photography table top set up shared

Two days ago there was a power failure at my locality, I knew it was regular 2 hour power cut, so I had to kill time or rather make it creative.

Now for the set up
My room was dark, Things I had

1. Canon EOS 500D
2. Canon 18-55MM F3.5 – 5.6
3. Canon speedlite 580EX
4. Cactus wireless trigger
5. brown carton box
6. small table
7. tripod
8. Wireless remote
9. incense

Let me start from the table, I placed the brown carton box on one corner and placed Canon Speedlite 580 EX inside the box along with Cactus wireless receiver attached, placed the incense before the box for the smoke

Now on to the camera, attached Cactus transmitter and mounted on the tripod, framed the scene, set the camera in manual mode, Aperture F9, shutter 1/125, Don’t forget to set the lens auto focus to off, and try to focus on the edge of the box. One more thing on the camera you need to set up for remote control.

Check the Cactus wireless and transmitter are in sync, try trigger the transmitter while the Flash is turned on.

Move to your position and trigger via wireless remote.

P.S:

1. If your face is getting bleached i.e over exposed, try to move little further away or decrease the flash power
2. The brown box did a wonderful job of warming up the smoke.
3. A tap on the box triggered the dust, It was in dust for a long time.

Night Photography, Long Exposures

Shot with Olympus 500UZ
While I was returning home from my office I saw lightning, so I decided to take few shot of the same after I reach home, but the nature cheated on me. It was windy but few lightning were happening randomly, but was not up to my expectation so I decided to take few long exposure shots, After I started working on long exposures, I felt I should even try bokeh so are the result. Hope you enjoy it.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Facebook adult content Notifications

facebook adult content notification

Facebook notifications are some times intimidating, I haven’t subscribed to any adult oriented notifications on facebook. I believe as I am member of some groups which are being exploited by these lame spammers.

check out the new facebook layout

I have been wondering why the url had subdomain called “new”
http://www.new.facebook.com and it turned out that Facebook is trying out a new layout.

A nice way to gain acceptance from users to try out old layout to new layout. If people still stick on the old design the designers at facebook know that their design sucks

Guys your new design is kewl, I am sure more users will adopt to the new design. All the best.
Technorati Tags: facebook, layout, new design, design, users, acceptance, usability, screen, designers

College Students, Bee a smart Lender – use LendBee

Photo Courtesy: Rosie Hardy

Imagine countless books for reference on top of your semester books, Carrying them, taking care of them is a much pain. Here is a cool solution which will make you feel better

Lendbee is a system which allows you to share books, CD, DVD, Movies, Magazines, Ebooks and those online manuals which you can actually share with a closed group of friends and college juniors. The best part is no ones else knows what materials you share except the ones on your group.

Bee a smart Lender and let some one take care of your materials and how to place them in their apartments, when you need them back, the lendbee allows you to track the materials on who currently has them.

So check the lendbee today, remember knowledge is power, so can even expect your friends to share materials which you can get them for free.

Technorati Tags: free, books, CD, DVD, Movies, Magazines, Ebooks, lendbee, social networking

FaceBook killer – Bravo Google Friend Connect

Seems like Google wants to embrace the non social networking sites to be part of social networking sites.

If you thought Myspace, Ning and Facebook made a killing, Please welcome the new Kid on the Block – Google Friend Connect. Do check the introduction video for more elaborate answers.

I see a lot of traffic to be increased to the personal or corporate websites too. All you need to do is sign up then embed few piece of code in to your website and let your friends and customers do the talking (bring the traffic back to you)

How does the traffic happen?
When ever a visitor visits a site and interact, their interactions are being reflected as updates in to the social networking sites which they belong. The updates are not mandatory, if wished, the interactions are reflected.

Corporate sites could integrate friend connect to have more authentic users

Personal websites could bring all friends buzzing among themselves and create new friends too

Bravo Google
An approach to fight spam is unleashed.

Technorati Tags: google, freind connect, friends, social networking, social, networking, traffic, facebook, myspace, ning

FaceBook – now getting spammed

I just received a notification on my Facebook, a friend of mine just wrote this on my Super Wall application.

Attention all Facebook membeRs.
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you’re active please send
to other users using Copy Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,
If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send
this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg

I guess Facebook needs to warn users like Flickr about spams and security related stuff.