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Sunday 26 December 2010

Boxing Day

Had a lovely Christmas with friends yesterday and loved watching our little one unwrapping the presents.
Its early morning on the boxing day and I couldn't sleep any longer so played with my new subject and here is the result (hope I am not writing while sleeping...)





This print is available at my etsy store Etsy store and Folksy.
Click the image to view the details.


Before I forget & time passes by here is Boxing day SALE at my FOLKSY & ETSY store

Boxing Sale at ETSY ! Get 25% off your order use the coupon code BOX2010, offer valid till 26th midnight (Click the banner to view the details).


Boxing Sale at FOLKSY ! Get 25% off your order, offer valid till 26th midnight.I'll refund you the percent off from your purchase and will pay via paypal.( (Click the banner to view the details).

Friday 24 December 2010

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Merry Christmas to you all, we're taking a little time off to spend it with the family and friends! We'll be back next week .Until than, have a wonderful and safe holiday and don't forget to make memories:)

-Indira

Monday 20 December 2010

Snow is everywhere..

Snow is everywhere, one can just see snow or snow's silhouette..

Snowy Oxfordshire..












Not the least, here is my listing..

This print is a graphic illustration from my own photograph. This is from Cotswold zoo


This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details.

Friday 17 December 2010

Last minute Christmas preps

The house is filled with cinnamon and baking, just finished the Christmas Cake and all set for Christmas now.
As the countdown starts most of the presents are wrapped, christmas tree will be up this weekend, regularly muching mince pies going down the throat...

Something to look forward to in such a gloomy weather...

Not to miss here is my listing for the day


This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details.

Tomorrow's forecast is heavey snow in Oxfordshire, very much looking forward for white blanket around house..

Happy Weekend !

Thursday 16 December 2010

Pleasant Surprise..

Busy day started with drop off my daughter to preschool, postoffice, supermarket, lunch, pick up from school, bedtime story and off she goes to mid day nap... now starts MY time :)

Here goes today's listing - Dolphins in a group..
This print is the perfect a gift for family or friend and would best suit to any living room or nursery.



This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details.

What a pleasant surprise ? Yesterday my work was on the front page of etsy.com

 (featuring 'Vespa Love Print')

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Today's Listing - Penguins in green

This print is a graphic illustration from my own photograph. This is from whipsnade zoo ,among many other animals I managed to get some penguins shots.

This print is the perfect a gift for family or friend and would best suit to any living room or nursery.



This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details.

Tuesday 14 December 2010

For your Kitchen

New fruits collection reminding the lovely summer & autumn we had this year.

Here is the collection to brighten up your walls:



This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details


Thanks to Apartment Therapy Re-Nest for featuring my 'Sherlock Holmes' print



Thanks to Anna for featuring my 'Vespa Love' print in your blog

Monday 13 December 2010

Christmas Party

My little one is having a christmas party tomorrow in her school and time is going in wrapping gifts..

Not to miss here is today's listing 'The herd of camels'



This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details

Sunday 12 December 2010

The Big Ben and Eiffel tower from Europe

Today's listing is inspired by a recent custom order from a mother who wants to match the print with the colors of her daughter's room.She was very precise with the colors of the walls, curtain and bedsheet.

Here I have use two colors red and black on these great monuments.





This print is available at my Folksy and Etsy store,click the image to view the details

Saturday 11 December 2010

An Army Jeep

Recently saw an old army jeep on the road and it just brought good old memories of my upbringing in army camp.
This print is available at my folksy store,click the image to view the details

Friday 10 December 2010

Today's Listing - Purple dandelion

Well here is my today's listing 'Purple dandelion' although not feeling purple at all but excited to for a movie with my little one to 'Narnia'.More than me my daughter is very excited.Lets see whether she can withstand the two hours.

This print is available at my folksy store,click the image to view the details:

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Christmas Sale starts on Folksy

Buy Now, Save More Christmas Sale! Items are discounted 15% from 1st Dec. through Midnight (GMT) Dec. 6th. Then the discount drops to 12% Dec. 6th-10th. The discount will be 10% from Dec. 11th through Dec. 20th.

The sooner you buy, the more you save!  I'll refund you the percent off from your purchase and will pay via paypal.



Printable Calendar

Summer Sunflower

Desk Calendar

Custom made Monogram

Floral Eiffel Tower

Cold winter tree

Damask OM

Count Rhinos

Dolphins for nursery

Telephone Kiosk

Vespa Love

Love is in the air

Sunday 3 October 2010

Portrait after a while

Its been a while I did indoor  portraits with studio lights, recently my friend needed a photo shoot for her business .So all the gears were out and sipping through garam chai (Indian tea) we started the session...

Thursday 30 September 2010

Download your copy for October 2010 Calendar


Festive season starts from here....


Here are different sizes available:

Modern Fine art prints available on my online store 

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Points to remember while using indoor photo studio

Generally when ever  I have to do indoor photo shoot with studio lights, my nightmare starts with all the settings to be made in advance.So here is my brief way to remind me for the future photoshoots.

The instruments I use are

  •  Nikon DSLR
  • Focal Length: 18 mm - 70 mm (Lens Aperture: F/3.5-4.5)
  • Focal Length: 105mm (Lens Aperture: f/2.8)
  •  Elinchrome Lighting studio kit
  •  White vinyl background
  • Sekonic Flashmeter
  • Prolinca Infra-Red Trigger

1.Setting Flashmeter
  •    Set the diffuser to 'Incident Light Method'  mode.
  •   Set  the flashmeter mode to 'Flash with cordless'.
For more reference:
   http://www.theflashcentre.com/using-a-flashmeter-c157.html

2.Lighting a White Background
    I have only two studio flash lights (Wish I had more but my budget don't allow grrr...) but in real these two studio flash are very much sufficient to get going.
  •  One studio flash light is for lighting the background.The white background acts as reflector so do not overlit.Set my aperture or f-stop to f8 or f8.8.(More details on setting aperture http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_aperture.html).
  • Another studio flash is used in front of the subject with a softbox mounted on it.The softbox gives tiy a lovely , soft, diffused light making the subject to have glowing skin, best results are seen on wrinkled face.Set the f-stop to strictly to f8.
3.Set the camera to manual mode
  • Set shutter speed to 1/125s
  • Set focal length to f8
  • ISO reading to 200
After all these settings here is how the subject looks.
1/125s at f8  & ISO speed to 200


  Here is a test with varing range of shutter speed

Slower shutter speeds (like 1/640s or 1/1250 as in this case) are often selected to suggest movement in a still photograph of a moving subject.
Excessively fast shutter speeds(1/60s or 1/125s as in this case) can cause a moving subject to appear unnaturally frozen. For instance, a running person may be caught with both feet in the air with all indication of movement lost in the frozen moment.

I better stick to 1/125s with indoor photoshoot.