http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:bingbing51&section=today deviantART RSS for by:bingbing51 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:06:47 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/24337739/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/24337739/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:15:38 PDT [link]
This is the third time I have been featured on the blog

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/24152387/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/24152387/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:22:14 PDT [link] on Tewfic El-Sawy's famous blog of the same name. I have been obsessed with doing multimedia slide shows; simply because it is more appealing.
Many websites (flickr, picasa to name the most famous) do allow slideshows of photographs BUT they (as far as I know) do not allow FREE multimedia slideshow uploads. Whereas [link] does allow this, it restricts the number of photographs to 50. So in my meanderings I finally reached the doors of YOUTUBE.
I have since uploaded two multimedia slideshows onto YOUTUBE and the way I have done it is rather labyrinthine and torturous...
a) I first convert my jpegs to PNG in PS3.
b) Import the same into Windows movie maker.
c) Choose appropriate FREE music clips in mp3 format and download it. Edit the music in FREE music editing software (Audacity) to get down to the same length as the slideshow and finally import it into Windows Movie maker. Fine tune.
d) Save the multimedia slideshow from Windows Movie maker as a WMV file.
e) YOUTUBE unfortunately does NOT accept WMV format so now I convert it to MP4 format using a FREE converter (ULTRA MP4)
f) Now it is ready for upload.
Pretty tough going for a 57yr old.
My slide shows are here (Chatt puja here [link] and the more recent on HOLI - in Kalimpong here [link]).
Whereas I rejoice in that YOUTUBE allows it a) FREE and b) There is no limit to the number of photos or slideshows I can upload but I do believe that videos on YOUTUBE do undergo some deterioration and the same is also true when I convert it from one file format to another.
So my question is:- Is there is a better way of doing multimedia slideshows and here is the catch; it should be FREE!!
And may I leave you with a great multimedia piece; have a look at this
[link]
bye

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/21227056/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/21227056/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:58:01 PDT [link]
it feels great to be on a blog which normally features the world's best
do have a look...

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/20259116/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/20259116/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:35:11 PDT I did a half hour photo session with her yesterday as she recited her poems for me.
I have placed the slide show in my flickr gallery here
[link]

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/18702258/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/18702258/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:09:19 PDT so as a sort of apology,
may I recommend you this site?

[link]

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/17368273/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/17368273/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:22:49 PDT I have placed 12 of my photographs taken in Siliguri a few days back. The theme is the power grid, monstrous steel pylons supporting power lines which feed electricity to a power hungry nation.
You can see it here [link]

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/16590462/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/16590462/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:16:02 PST [link]

have a look

(picked up the link from here [link] - my previous journal)

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/16259851/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/16259851/ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:23:19 PST [link]

the photographers featured are awesome, there are interesting photo tours (unfortunately, all beyond my reach financially) and reviews on quite a lot of state of art photo gadgetry.

do have a look

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15854005/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15854005/ Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:30:20 PST if it doesn't then i think it would b great to have one...imagine sitting back and letting the images of some of the dA greats just flash past.

i do have a slide show in my website ([link]) but since i have limited uploads on the server, i have shifted some of my photos to flickr and lightstalkers

any one interested in flipping past some of my images can go here
([link])

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15410523/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15410523/ Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:49:39 PST is there a solution to this?

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15370475/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15370475/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:47:38 PST [link]) to be one of the finest travel photographers today...

so it feels really great to be featured in his blog here [link]

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15097567/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15097567/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:17:01 PDT
thank u and love u all sooo much

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15090818/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/15090818/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:50:39 PDT [link]
i would like to thank dA and esp all my young friends who have supported me thru the years

to all of u

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/14726382/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/14726382/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:43:49 PDT
[link]

doing very little photography.....

thanx for all the support

love u all

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/14613399/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/14613399/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:38:36 PDT u may b wondering why i have not submitted deviations lately and also why i have not even answered yr kind comments...
well, my little hometown, in fact the whole region was reeling under some of the heaviest rainfall in recent times.
my town, even my own home suffered from itz aftermath...so i have been rather busy...
for the last 2 days the rains seem to have receded a bit so mayb i can get back to "work" with dA...
so please accept my apologies for not answering yr comments, notes and so on..

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/13244526/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/13244526/ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:21:57 PDT My theme for the exhibition was "Silhouettes" and the photos on display were, "celebration" , "cricketers" and so on.
I am glad to tell u that all the 8 photographs on display were sold out!

PS:-This exhibition was done strictly on a trial basis to check out the quality of prints and costs (of printing/framing etc). Any of the younger photographers who would want to exhibit their works are most welcome to wish to ask me the costs and what ever else.

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/12880156/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/12880156/ Mon, 07 May 2007 19:11:14 PDT But lately I have been trying to sell my photos to some stock companies and quite suddenly I realize that here cropping is a bad word.
This is what I have learnt from my emails/ talks with company executives as well as discussions with at least one professional photographer:-
The most important aspects in selling photos are
i) Image size ie in PS the width and height of yr photo ; here BIG is GOOD. At least 2 companies that I have talked to want the photo size to be at least 3000 pixels in one dimension. So to those who extensively crop their photos for aesthetic appeal, I have this word of caution: DON'T!
AND for those who cannot help but crop, PS has some hope for u in that u can interpolate yr pictures ie artificially pull and stretch yr photos to make them bigger but do note the image quality suffers as u interpolate so there is a limit as to how much u can "enlarge" your photo this way.
ii) Image resolution; for prints the minimum resolution required is at least 300dpi (compared to the 72DPI normally used for photos on the internet)
I work with a 10 Mp Canon 400D which gives me large (3888 X 2592 pixel) 350 DPI, TIFF files after conversion from RAW but even here when I crop these pictures the image size drops to levels which is unacceptable for prints to the stock image companies so I wonder whether cameras which output smaller images can ever be used to sell photos.

In all this one pro's advice was just this: get used to shooting from close or use a telephoto but DON'T CROP!

Notice I have barely mentioned the file types ie RAW/TIFFs/JPEGs. Well my experience has been that companies don't REALLY mind which file format you submit yr photos provided they r big enough and are at least around 300 DPI resolution. Of course, they prefer RAW but they will readily accept JPEGs as well.

Someone please tell me that what I have written above is all gibberish and that cropping is very much "IN" for prints as well...that would be music to my ears since I have tons of stuff which look beautiful on the net but are sadly unacceptable in terms of image size and resolution for stock photos and large prints.

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/12102172/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/12102172/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:56:34 PST [link]
switch on the slide show and be awed!

PS:- my personal favorite is Henri Cartier-Bresson

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/11656646/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/11656646/ Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:45:31 PST
[link]

2yrs in dA has been a great learning experience and i want to thank all at dA

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/11013258/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/11013258/ Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:52:48 PST a) while uploading i don't see my uploads till sometimes a day later
b) after deleting submissions, the thumbnails just seem to hang for hours
wonder whether the zillions of submissions, the comments, the journals and so on is getting the better of the overworked dA servers not to mention our valiant dA admin?
any of u facing similar probs?

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10785092/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10785092/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:48:28 PST I did manage to take photographs though..some, I have already uploaded in the photojournalism category where I was recording events as they unfolded ( "A land of contradictions", "The flower people" and so on...
Now I begin another of my Delhi series where I walk away from the gleam and glitter and the poverty which lives alongside; to something which I love doing ie taking long walks in the early morning where I saw a softer side of this maddening city which is yet another facet of this contradiction called India


I'd like to dedicate this series to my cousin JOYA who lives in Delhi close to where I took all these photographs and at whose place I stayed for the week.

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10780861/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10780861/ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:38:49 PST But besides that I missed Kalimpong and the mountains; a big city is just too chaotic and confusing for me these days so I'm glad to b back home again.
Yes! the exhibition will go thru but after I do a lot of homework so even though I would love to put up a show in one of those galleries I visited, I somehow dread the thought of going back to the blizzard of traffic, the unending distances of Delhi, and the blistering pace of life in a cosmopolis.
For me Kalimpong and my little 19th century village where I walk to everyday is more than enough!

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10740876/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/10740876/ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:57:32 PST Whereas I am confident that people will like my work when they see it..getting the publicity and trying to get sponsors is a huge problem besides being frightfully EXPENSIVE!!
But having come this far, there is one way to go..ie forward..
so wish me luck fellow deviants!

]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/8677173/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/8677173/ Thu, 04 May 2006 22:58:12 PDT Whereas I have been lucky to tread softly in the 21st for many months; since 02May however, I have crashed back into the 19th century with the Internet blinking off and staying dead for the 4rth consecutive day...
Besides not being able to upload deviations, checkout news and mail, I just realized how totally addicted I have become to the Internet and DA even in this small one horse town.
I'll be needing a ventilator soon thanx to the moribund internet.

PS- I am uploading some photos and bashing the keyboard in an Internet cafe so I may not b able to add my comments till the Internet at my residence is restored (if it is ever) ]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7931307/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7931307/ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:37:25 PST even though these kids will make fab subjects for portraitures...but all that will come later.. ]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7853383/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7853383/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:30:22 PST The internet blinked off for some days and had a lovely snooze...
so i could not post any photos..
couldn't check the mail and so on....


but then where can u live in the 21st century and have the 19th - just have an hour's walk downhill..... ]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7737990/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/7737990/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:54:19 PST just changed the avatar...so don't get confused!
anyway what i had wanted was a brontosaurus (ie the harmless vegetarian dino)but had a green dragon instead
one year has passed so i guess itz time for a change ]]> ~bingbing51 http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/4475770/ http://bingbing51.deviantart.com/journal/4475770/ Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:34:12 PST ~bingbing51