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LIFE ON THE STREETS By Debabrata Saha Choudhury
FUNGUS A DEADLY DISEASE B E H I N D T H E L E N S MAHAVIRSTAN
ILLUMINATI IS THE WORLD’S FIRST BLUETOOTH LIGHT AND COLOR METER
EDITOR'S NOTE Most complex thing in this world is human brain. Every steps of civilization human being advanced only for the curious brain. Different brain has different eagerness and curiosity to learn something, to find new or to create something new. There is always a tendency to know the unknown. After knowing the secrets of that unknown, the brain can identify the taste of it. Taste is the main and important part of human being, which leads the brain. Human brain acts according to the taste and taste become desire. Humans act good or evil only for the desire. Education or exercise of human brain can control the desire. But it is tough to control the brain to take the taste of life. Readers can ask why I am writing this kind of complex thing. Let me explain. From a photographic point of view its very important topic. Every photographer have different kind of taste in photography. Different peoples think in different way, different photographers compose images in different way. Those thinking are never be the same. Now a days social media is a great platform to show the photographs. But due to easy access of the internet, things are becoming worsen. Regular huge amount of images are uploading at social media and most of them are doctored images. Amateurs cant learn anything from it. They are confusing about the raw and doctored images as due to easy availability of everything, the learning process is getting slower. There is a huge controversy that why people are showing those kind of images. Nothing to help. It only depends on the taste of photographers. How the photographers express their thoughts in the compositions are fully controlled by their desire. As there are no such filtering or monitoring in social media, the pictures will get post and the controversy will go on. As social medial is a platform for all to show our feelings or anything on our life which fully governed by our desire. In my personal opinion the websites fully designed for photography, can be very useful to learn photography rather than the social media. Learn as much as possible and upgrade yourself so that you can taste the differences. Follow others work and create your own taste. Only then you can control your desire. Learning and practice can make the process easier.
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Illuminati is the World’s First Bluetooth Light and Color Meter The Illuminati is the world’s first Bluetooth light and color meter that works wirelessly with smartphones. It’s a battery-powered device that connects to your iOS device, Android or smartwatch over Bluetooth, allowing you to take live readings without stepping away from your camera.
Exposure is calculated like a regular light meter. Inside the mobile app, set any two of the ISO, F-number and shutter speed, and it will calculate the third parameter for you, based on the incident light in your scene. You can also measure the color of both strobes and ambient lighting. A good light meter can improve your photography by helping you to create faithful captures of scenes with difficult lighting. You’ll spend far less time correcting exposure and white balance in post if you can nail them while you’re in the field.
There are a few major advantages of the Illuminati when compared to traditional meters. Because it is small and wireless, it can be placed on a tripod using the Ÿ-20 tripod mount, attached to metal surfaces using the inbuilt magnet, or even clipped to clothing using the included accessory clip. Readings can be triggered remotely and viewed on your mobile device or smart watch in real-time, or the Illuminati can monitor ambient light and color, sending you alerts when they shift. It’s also possible to use an array of the little devices to provide readings from multiple points of your scene. You could use this to get uniform lighting over a large scene, to measure strobe ratios or to evaluate the color of different light sources.
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GOOGLE LAUNCHES ‘STREET VIEW READY’ CERTIFICATION FOR 360° CAMERAS Google announced this week that they are releasing a new certification standard that they are calling “Street View Ready”. This certification will be used for 360° cameras that are able to publish to Street View, and are guaranteed to support the level of quality required for Google’s 360-degree mapping service. Google are launching ‘Street View Ready’ with 20 cameras from 18 manufacturers (including GoPro, Samsung, HumanEyes, Sphericam and others) already bearing the certification. There are 4 categories of certification, based on what standards the camera in question is able to meet. Street View mobile ready is designed for cameras that can publish to Street View directly from a mobile app with no desktop needed; Auto ready is for cameras tailored for vehicle-based capture; VR ready cameras must collect geometry data as well as generating sets of connected 360 photos; and Workflow ready cameras just need to support the ability to upload to Street View accounts from their publishing tools. In his announcement on the Google blog, Street View’s product manager Charles Armstrong claims that through the Street View app, they enable anybody to “recreate a place or space and invite others in”. Their software is intended to simplify the process of uploading 360° imagery. “Whether you’re sharing your experience at a local market or on your recent vacation, publishing high-quality, interactive imagery no longer requires significant time and effort—all you have to do is get one of the cameras, download the Street View app and start creating,” Armstrong writes.
Google Engineer Raises the Bar On Low Light Smartphone Photography When Google software engineer Florian Kainz showed his
When he wanted to make the ante even further up , he would
friends on the Gcam team a nightscape he captured
shoot an addition 32 black frames shot by covering the phone
using his fancy Canon 1DX, they threw down the gauntlet.
camera with adhesive tape. Then he subtracted the mean of
Take that same photo, they challenged him, but with a
those frames from his original blended photo, thus removing the
smartphone camera instead. He accepted, and
“faint grid-like patterns caused by local variations in the sensor’s
succeeded.
black level.”
The results of his experiment just went up on the Google
“When the shutter button is pressed the app waits a few seconds
Research blog, and they have photo lovers everywhere
and then records up to 64 frames with the selected settings,”
salivating at the low light smartphone possibilities.
writes Kainz. “The app saves the raw frames captured from the sensor as DNG files, which can later be downloaded onto a PC
In essence, Kainz applied the same techniques that
for processing"
Google’s HDR+ camera mode uses to take better low light shots… and kicked them up several notches. HDR+ takes 10
He captured both photos above (and several more) using a Nexus
frames in quick succession, blending them to help get rid
6P and his custom-built app. Depending on the amount of light,
of noise; so Kainz’s custom-built a camera app that lets
more or less frames and processing was involved, but all of his
him set exposure time, ISO, and focal distance… and then
final frames were impressive to say the least. This, while still
captures 64 frames.
being limited to a max exposure time of 2 seconds per frame, and being forced to increase ISO to compensate.
Nalanda:
One such amazing visit for me was to Nalanda Mahavihara in the state of Bihar It was a family trip with lots of memorable experiences
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Firstly we travelled to Patna through capital express train from NJP and reached my aunt s home After staying there for few days my aunt suggested us to visit nearby Nalanda Mahavihara which is about 95 kms by road and is south east of Patna city near to the town of Bihar sharif ’
By Sudakshina Majumdar History has always been a fascinating subject for me Though I am personally a student from science background I have always taken a keen interest on the subject since it tells me a lot about the background of our civilization the actual roots of our art and culture Since I am interested in the subject I have travelled a lot in such kind of historical places to explore and unearth the hidden stories behind them ,
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My very first feelings after seeing the Vihara was
like a dream come true since whatever I perceived, it was once in the pages of my history book. We came to know about Nalanda a lot, which some of them were actual stories and some I thought to be legends created. But whatever it might be I would like to share some of them and am quite hopeful that it will enrich you all.
History of Nalanda goes back to the days of Vardhamana Mahavira and Gautama Buddha in 6th century B.C. In this context I must mention that Taxila and Vikramshila Viharas were contemporary of Nalanda. This Mahavihara was found in honour of Lotus Sutra, the Mahayana teachings of Lord Buddha which is considered to be his final teachings and is complete and final one for the road to salvation.
Nalanda rose to prominence under the Gupta rule, under Kumaragupta-I of the then Magadha and later King Harshavardhana of Kannauj and the Palas of East India. Nalanda is the place of birth and nirvana of Sariputra one of the most famous disciples of Lord Buddha. This educational institution was a seat of great monastic oriental art, literature and culture and attracted students from distant countries of Tibet, China, Korea and Central Asia.
Recent reports also say that the famous Shailendra dynasty of Indonesia also had connections with this institution. The galaxy of luminaries associated with this was Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Vasubandhu, Dharmapala , Suvishnu , Asanga , Shilbhadra, Dharmakirti, Shantarakshita and celebrated Chinese travellers Hiueng – Tsang and I - Tsing. These men have extensively described the monasteries and shrines of Nalanda and the life of monks’ there. As I was moving around through the ruins of Nalanda I came to know that the place was very famous for teaching various subjects like Theology, Grammar, Logic, Astronomy,Metaphysics, Medicine and Philosophy.Even I was quite astonished to know that getting admission to this institution was not easy at all and that the students faced a kind of admission test which was conducted by the monks verbally and personally.
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The institution was maintained by the revenue collected from
Nalanda a UNESCO World heritage site has completely
the villages bestowed specifically for the purpose by the
mesmerised me and I returned with some unforgettable
contemporary rulers as evident from inscriptions.
memories and experiences. I consider it to be a must visit for all as it reveals a glorious chapter of our ancient Indian history, a
Archaeological excavations has been carried in two phases at
name which was known by all. It was an institution which was
Nalanda between the years of 1915 – 1937 and 1974- 1982 which
acclaimed both nationally and internationally at that point of
exposed us to extensive remains of six brick temples and eleven
time. On a concluding note I must say if you want to understand
monasteries arranged on a systematic layout and spread over
our rich cultural heritage, travelling to Nalanda should be in
an area of one square kilometre. Basically what I found that
your wish list and may be considered a dream destination.
about a thirty metre wide passage runs north- south with the rows of temples on the west and monasteries to the east of it. The dimension and disposition of the rooms within the monasteries is almost identical, where I saw that students needed to share a room with a place provided to them to keep their manuscripts. Granaries were present to stock the grains and the Vihara had a good system of water supplies through wells. Even I saw a place which was supposed to be used as a kitchen. The most imposing structure was temple number three which was constructed in seven phases and contains the votive stupas and minor shrines. Nalanda was devastated by the invasion of Bhaktiyar Khilji in 13th century A.D and is said that the library was set on fire destroying thousands of priceless manuscripts.
Extensive excavations at Nalanda have also unearthed many stone and bronze statues of Buddhist sculpture along with Hindu idols of Shiva – Parvati, Vishnu etc. These antiques are exhibited at a nearby museum maintained by the Archaeological survey of India.
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This month lots of good images were posted by the photographers. It was a very tough decision for the judges to select 6 images out of them.
Image square, this section was opened for all at our social media (facebook) page one month ago. It is a platform to show the photographs of the amateurs.
Congratulations to all of them whose photographs were selected. But the other photographers who posted their images were also excellent. Create more photographs and share with us next month for this section of Inside Photography.
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FUNGUS
A DEADLY DISEASE Few years ago I discovered something was inside
First let us discuss how a lens got fungus
the glass of my lens (kit lens 18mm-55mm). I was
affected.There are many forms of fungus that
really scared. I thought it would be like the dust
may develop under low oxygen conditions
or something and then I discussed with my
and Where there is petroleum oil to feed
seniors. on discussion I came to know it was
upon. One such perfect environment is the
fungus and it would not be removed and by
camera lens stored in a dark closet or camera
that time it made some permanent damage on
bag.The oil slowly separates from the grease,
the lens. IIt was a very disappointing thing for
used to lubricate the focus and aperture control
me.I tried a lot to overcome this disease of
rings and deposits as a very thin layer on the
camera lens and finally realized prevention is
glass becomes an ideal place for the development
better than cureI would like to share with my
of fungus
readers that how a camera lens can be effected with a nuisance like fungus.
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There are basically two types of fungus One type grows in oxygen rich environments and the other type which is more troublesome for photographers grows in little oxygen This second type is highly problematic because it gives off liquid acid This acid is what causes the etching pattern of the fungus on lens coatings as it grows .
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Another problem for lenses is mould Given a chance mould likes to grow in an environment over 60 relative humidity Like fungus once mould gets into the lens coating permanent damage is done Once this damage is detected dismantling and cleaning the lens and its optical elements may repair the damage if the coatings have not been etched Reducing the relative humidity to 35 45 a photographer can help prevent the damage caused by internal fungus and mould growth on lens elements by providing an environment that discourages its growth .
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Now if you search on internet you will get lots of cheap and expensive options to protect your camera and lenses. Silica gel and dry box are the common options. You can buy Silica Gel either as crystals, or sometimes as tiny spheres. Most often you find them in porous sachets so that they don’t disperse among your equipment. If you decide to go with Silica Gel for your cabinet, remember that you should get the indicative variety. The crystals of Silica gel are blue coloured when they’re fully absorbent, whitish when they’re partially full of moisture, and pink when they’re fully saturated with moisture and cannot absorb any more. They can start emit of moisture which can cause damage. You need to change the silica gel.
Now another thing is that electronically dry cabinet box create very low humidity inside it also very dangerous In the lenses there are lubricate gels which useful for the motor of lens The elements of a lens needs it at the joint and in low humidity condition that gel will be gone and lens will lost its mechanical ability .
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Now what to do? The most important prevention is you need to use your camera and accessories in regular basis At least in weekly feed them sunlight so that they cant be affected by moisture We often keep them at dark drawers or such kind of place of low light and low air It is completely wrong Instruments of camera should be kept in open atmosphere so that their temperature remains same as room temperature If possible buy a humidity meter and check the humidity of the place where you kept the camera I personally use a trick I made a box of wood and attached one humidity meter with it ,
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Then I made an arrangement with light and wire as the light will remain open at least for 5 hours in a day and it remains the moisture 60-70% lower. And most important thing, I regularly use them and make them sunbath. Â After the kit lens got affected, no other lens along with the camera remains unaffected. You can keep them with fully cotton towel especially in rainy session. Again you can put Vaseline at the mount of camera, but careful about that the electronic switches over the mount should not be touched by Vaseline, it will hamper the electricity supply to lens from camera. There is nothing like 100% protection but taking some measuring you can control the deadly disease of fungus. Love your passion of photography and love your instruments. Keep them safe. Hope you enjoyed this article.Â
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The team visited there several times and they gathered some interesting experiences. This flower market is very important one and fulfill the demands of flower across the city. The market open daily at morning and it is basically a wholesale market of flower. The retailers purchase from here for their various shops around the city and the common people also visited the place to collect flowers for domestic needs. First day the people of that market were very conscious about the people with camera in hand. They often asked which media are the photographers belong to and the expression of uneasiness were visible on their face. One day after some conversation with the vendors the team came to know the fact that they were using the plastic carry bag for the flowers to carry which had been banned by the Municipal Corporation long time ago.
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Image By Rudra Shekhar Das We all know that the carry bag is the cheaper option than the others options though it is very harmful for our environment. But who cares! After several times the team walked out there and people of that market started to belief that they were just amateurs and harmless. They started unnoticed the photographers and the situation became easier for capturing some good moments.
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WHY OBJECTS APPEAR COLORED ? When we see an object lit by white light, its color is due to the object absorbing some colors and reflecting (or transmitting) others. For example, green foliage appears to be green because it contains pigments that absorb blue and red light and reflect only green light. It is a similar story when the light is viewed through an object, such as a photographic filter. You only see the part of the spectrum that is allowed through. For example, a blue filter blocks red and green light, and allows only the blue part of the spectrum through.
MEASURING COLORS Human vision is very good at recognizing the differences between two colors seen side by side. However, it is a different story when it comes to accurately describing individual colors to someone else. Accurate color classification is an important aspect in colormanagement systems, which we will discuss later. .
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Color Theory As an example, look at the colors of the flowers and background in the image below and try to accurately describe the two colors. Without being able to relate each to another color, you will struggle. You can say that the flowers are purple, or magenta, but it is almost impossible to relate that to someone who hasn’t seen the color, even if they have a selection of colors to choose from. There is also the matter of personal interpretation of different hues; as we will see in the section on how we see color, each individual has their own idea of what colors should look like. So, even if you have “perfect” vision, you cannot quantify the colors that you see without comparing one to another, and even this opens to massive differences in our interpretation of the colour.
To accurately describe colors for color matching, especially when we
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Describing Colors delve into the world of digital imaging and color management, we need a more reliable method. In order to describe a specific color, we need to break it down into three elements: Hue: the name given to the color itself. This is defined by the name given to the main wavelength contained within the color, such as blue, green, magenta, and so on. Saturation (or chroma): the purity of the color. In many instances, especially in print or pigments, mixing black, grey, or white to a color will result in lower saturation. Luminance: the brightness of the color. In pigments or print, this describes how much incident light the color reflects; in the case of a light source, it describes how much light is emitted. By using these three measurements, any color can be described so that it can then be recreated accurately throughout an imaging system. An understanding of these measurements will help you to understand the relationship between the colours in the scene that you click and its final outcome in the image produced There are two main systems used to define colors and give them a specific numerical value: the Munsell system, and the CIE (Commission Internationale d’Eclairage) system.
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"Even though we can see colors accurately, it is very difficult to describe them without a reference point to relate them to"
The Munsell System This system shown above originally developed by American artist A. H. Munsell (1858–1918), this system, shown at right, was designed to classify standards for printing inks, color pigments, and artists’ paints. It uses a collection of color charts made up of printed color swatches for each hue. Each color is assigned a number to define the hue (the chart that it appears on). Further values for luminance and saturation give vertical and horizontal coordinates to indicate where it appears on this chart. Therefore, as long as you have these three values, you can find the color on the Munsell chart and use it to ensure that it remains constant throughout an imaging system. Because it is based on the pigments and inks available for printing, the Munsell system has only a limited use for photography. It cannot define many of the colors that you will come across in many situations—for example, the colors produced by a light source, or substances that have no direct pigment equivalent, such as fluorescent, or the phosphers used to produce the image on a computer screen.
However, the Munsell system is still in common use in the printing industry and some areas of graphic design; if you are producing images for magazines, you may come across this system for defining the colors that they are able to produce.
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LIFE ON THE STREETS PHOTO STORY BY DEBABRATA SAHA CHOWDHURY
It is my first writing of a photo story. People often ask me why am I always roaming around the street to make the photographs of street dogs. I never answered them. But today I am writing the story behind that. I always try to capture the painful moments of the dogs around the street. I can feel their pain. After making photographs I try my best to help them in whatever way I am able to do. I always feel guilty if I ignore any dog who is in difficult situation. If I see any dog in street with broken leg or wounded or very weak or people hurting them, its like a nightmare for me. I never feel like before, since every feeling has a story behind it.
Once I had a dog, named Kalu. My uncle brought him from somewhere, from street. He was all alone and crying as his mother died on a street accident. I liked Kalu and he also liked me more than the other members of my family. I used to play with him through my entire childhood days. I had lot of friends but Kalu was my best friend . Early morning kalu always woke me up and had morning walk with him. Entire day whatever time I spent at home, he was my fixed companion. He expressed his different kind of desires in different ways and me including my family members all used to understand it and react accordingly. He was more than a family member for all of us.
Years passed and Kalu grew older and me transformed into a young man. At the age of ten kalu got some diseases like fungal infection in skin along with problems in stomach. Doctors tried their best. But fungal infection was spreading fast. Kalu became uglier and our family members started to keep him away and tried to ignore him, but Kalu never complained. He always thought every one loves him. He was very obedient and a very cheerful dog with full of energy. He saved our house from all evil. He was the protector of our family. Kalu was a handsome dog in his young age, but as he got those diseases, it was very painful for me to stay away from him.
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My parents told me to do so, but I was not able to accept it. He was my brother. He served our family throughout his life. Now it was our turn to serve him, what I learnt from my family and school.
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One day I was returning from my college on a cycle, a car came with a high speed and hit me. I got seriously injured and was taken to the hospital where I was fortunate enough to survive. After 15 days I returned home and called for Kalu. After calling several times Kalu did not came to me. My eyes started to search for Kalu, but where is he? I asked my parents, but no one answered. My sister told me that our parents took him away from house. They left the poor dog to live on his own fate. His fault was his skin was effected very badly and smelt very odd. My parents assumed that it would affect us, specially me. Sister also told me that Kalu was crying when my parent took him away with a car. I did not agree with their judgement, but I did not say anything. I got shocked, never thought myself without him. I remained silent for days. Parents realized and searched Kalu everywhere for days. When I recovered from my injuries, I started to find Kalu everywhere,but he just vanished. I did not gave up. I am still searching him. Whenever I see a dog with wounded skin, I try to find some similarity with Kalu, but no dog comes to me with his waving tail. I realized, there are lots of dogs in the street who has same kind of fate like Kalu. While writing this story, I could not stop my tears. I started to take photographs of them to express their feelings. When they play with each other or lives in a difficult situation I make photographs. I will always try to help the dogs as I find my Kalu in them.
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