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 I have written a very illustrative e-book on photography for $5, which includes one- on one coaching on photography free! So, read the introduction of that book and click the link at the end of the blog to Buy it. Then send e-mail to me to start online coaching. My mail surya.jayaram@gmail.com. Introduction to " fundamentals of Photography"  e-book A manual will be there for using simple things like a hand wash liquid, and most of us will read, understand procedure, and use it.  But most of us are having good cameras, manuals but never tried to understand the controls of it. It is very easy to understand and it takes one or two days! So, here are some guidance. The above photo will give some idea of important controls, which will be there in most of the cameras. The above photo gives you an idea of control knob, reference mark and different modes. It is set to programmed mode. The above photo shows the knob set to Automatic mo...

There lived a King who was caring for his countrymen. People were very happy and co-operative with the king and his administration. King was always thinking of making people comfortable and happy. After some years, thieves started their act of stealing gold and other ornaments. This created worry and tension among people. They were unable to concentrate on their daily work. Many people complained this to the king. King started thinking about this problem.  He thought  "It takes some time to catch hold of thieves and so, there must be a short time solution". He announced a new law.   The law was like this:  "All the people of his kingdom should register their gold and other ornaments with the ministry of the king. Then the valuation of each ornament will be done by experts. If there is stolen, the amount equivalent to the lost ornament will be given to the loser, on confirmation of the theft". People happily registered everything that the rule p...

         I will be  writing about many types of photography, starting from this post.    1] Micro photography: This is now becoming popular, with CCD screen coupled microscopes. Gone are the days when we used to look through the microscope lens by straining our eyes and writing the diagram of the image that we saw.  Then came an attachment in microscope, in the film era where we used to have big attachment to fix the SLR camera directly to microscope. But in digital era, the new microscopes are fitted with CCD to directly store the images. I will be offering one-on-one coaching on photography and if you are interested to learn photography and to know more details, please mail me to:  surya.jayaram@gmail.com.  Or  Follow me and contact me in twitter; @jayaram1961

This animation in which 4 men form "YOGA" letters is my contribution to international yoga day!

Look at this video, which i took at a place near  my city-Bangalore, India. Monkey is trying to eat rice but it is turning all around with the fear that some other monkey  will come and share it or some person will come and chase it out from there.  Because of the fear, it  was unable to eat it happily. Similarly, when we are distracted from our work by some such factors, we cannot work properly.

This is Sunset near my house.

Husband Praveen and wife Asha were always quarreling for something or the other. I arranged this picture  by combination of pics   from open source Each one was almost competing with the other, in almost all matters. Food preparation was also a problem. Sometimes, both of them were preparing separate food. One day, there was a quarrel regarding making a cup of coffee. They decided to call their neighbor, who knew them very well, to give a judgment about giving judgment declaring one of them as better coffee maker than the other. He was a retired professor. He was given a time on a Sunday morning.  Both husband and wife got ready early in the morning and called the professor. Professor came and both of them started making coffee on separate vessels. They offered the coffee to professor. He poured a little coffee in to his cup and tasted the coffee prepared by husband and said" your coffee is having more sugar" Wife started feeling happy, but when profe...

Photography is my hobby and so, I wanted to make some money out of it. I opened a small photo studio. I equipped my studio with one colour printer, one monochrome laser printer and a laminating machine. As usual, I arranged back ground curtains and halogen lamps for taking photographs.     I was  delighted  to take photos and print it then and there itself, which attracted the people. I even broke the routine of using colour printer for printing only pass port, as I use to print even A4 size copies in that one. I also started using laser printer as a copier, even though I was not getting any profit in that process! Then the problems started.      1] Laser printer: Two students came at 10.30 Pm and wanted me to copy a 500 page notes. I agreed, but they then told that they wanted it for the next day at 8Am! I started taking copies and at 11.30 Pm, my back bone started taking in its own language! I stopped at that, but...

I have used both types of printers. I had a photo copying shop also. So, i thought it will be good to share my experience here.There are advantages and dis advantages for both.So, I will write it in steps.  Ink jet printer. Advantages:  Initial cost is very less:compared to laser printer, the cost of the inkjet printer is nearly 1/3rd. This is the very big advantage and in most of the places, it is because of this reason, inkjet printer is preferred.  colour printing is also possible for less money: in many inkjet printers, with an additional cartridge, colour printing  will also be provided. Compact; inkjet printers will be very compact. less number of parts, hence maintenance will be less. Consumes  very less electrical power.  Disadvantages:  Quality of print:   This depends upon the quality of paper. Most of the paper will absorb more ink and prints, especially  of photos will smudge. A very good quality paper ...

According to scientific discovery, we are moving with 1000 kilometers per second towards a big galaxy. It means 1000 x 3600 = 3600000 kilometres per hour! There are some 1000 galaxies are also moving in the same direction towards a galaxy called 'grate attracter'. But the mystery is that there is no such huge mass for that galaxy to attract all these! This is a new thing found against the big bang theory, but all other galaxies other than these 1000 are moving according to big bang theory. Scientists are yet to find out the real reason for this thing. We cannot even feel that we are moving with the highest local speed of galaxies.

Google handwriting input app is very useful for writers like me. My typing speed is very slow. If I were to write one article of 1000 words, I used to take very long time up to 2 hours. I used to struggle a lot to type, by monotonously sitting in front of my laptop. That too, once there was a defect in my keyboard,with cursor jumping from one position to another like an aimless monkey. I used to get lots of spelling,grammar and meaning mistakes in many of the sentences. Then I tried google Voice recognition app. That was better than typing but required a noise  environment. A slightest disturbance from fan or a moving truck was giving errors! For a big truck sound, it used to give letters like rrr, for fan sound, it was giving sss and so on. Then, desperately, I tried to drawing hand writing apps. These were storing handwritten text as it is, in the form of jpeg file. There were 2 disadvantages. 1] My handwriting is not very good. 2] jpeg file ...

Me and my wife went to a shopping mall. We used lift and went to the 4th floor. It was so peculiar, that for going to the 4th floor, it is lift but for coming down, we should use only the escalator! But my wife is having strange fear and so, will never use escalator!  She started quarreling with me for no fault of me. I was trying to convince her to use escalator. I was unsuccessful. I then went to a shop girl and told my problem. But that shop was little away from where my wife was standing. Shop girl agreed to help and she went to convince my wife. Within minutes, she came and told me that she has convinced my wife! It was unbelievable. When I was about to move, she told me to go along with my “wife”. But she had unknowingly convinced some other lady! That strange lady was willing to come and was smiling and looking at me! I was terribly embarrassed and I told the situation to shop girl. She laughed and went. Then I told all this to my wife. Surprisingly,...