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Posted on February 12 2007 by Jag @ 5:30 pm
It’s been exactly 100 days since I went to see the Indian movie “Don”. I’ve also snapped (and wirelessly uploaded “live”) to Flickr exactly 442 pictures from my cameraphone since then. (Flickr is the Don!) Most pictures taken like that are of relatively poor quality compared to what could be achieved with a “proper” camera, digital or otherwise, but I think there is a lomo-esque kind of credibility to cameraphone pictures; to blur is human. (The cameraphone is the Don!)
So I’ve taken a small sample of some of my favourite cameraphone snaps taken in the last 100 days since “Don”, tubing, bussing, shopping, eating and wandering my way around London and the ‘hoods. Done some minimalistic cropping and levelling in Photoshop and sequenced them into a multimedia photo montage with a Don kinda audio theme: Click on the green button above to load the Shockwave Flash object, it’s about 3.7 megabytes and shouldn’t take too long to load if you are on high-speed Internet connection. Otherwise you’ll just have to be patient. Turn up the volume.
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Route 79 Reflections on a bus journey home |
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| From London: By a British, European, 2nd-Generation Indian. Probably confused - but proud to be them all! Half of my journey to and from work is a 20-30 minute bus ride: London Bus Route 79 - between Alperton in West London and Kingsbury in North West London. I very frequently get pissed-off and frustrated waiting around in the DARK, WET and COLD - waiting for the 79 to turn up. But I have to be eternally grateful for the quality thinking time I get to myself. | ||
Nice Montage-
Any plans to shift 4m telecom to media ? Surely u’ll make more moolah in the process, with a few bits of fame thrown in between a la “Chilka Shetty’, as u do have the necessary tech skills. Now all u need to add to ur existing skills is “cynicism” , and see the good times roll.
Cheers par’ner, with nimbu- paani !
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — February 13, 2007 @ 7:30 am
Cheers Nitin, no plans unfortunately.
made me laugh; “chilka” !! How right you are re cynicism too. Chalo! Channel 4 here I come …
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 13, 2007 @ 9:06 am
YOU are the Don!
I don’t think I could be half as decent with a cameraphone.
Really.
Comment kindly left by Anne — February 13, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
Anne: thank you so much yaar! But I put it down to statistical probabilities: the more cameraphone pictures you take, the more “gems amongst the crap” you’ll find amongst them. Less than 40 out of around 400 is less than 10%. The ratios are much better with a “proper” cam; as yours (and several like yours) are good testimony of.
Cameraphone snaps are like reality TV: the rough underbelly of photography; mostly awful, but sometimes compelling …
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 13, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
Have enjoyed your site for a while now. Love the recipes. Have tried the masala salmon – it’s great.
Comment kindly left by Anne — February 13, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
Cheers Anne! Spicy pan-fried salmon rocks.
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 13, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
Love it!
Comment kindly left by herschelian — February 14, 2007 @ 12:17 am
love it! a nice little montage of photos! and quite a wicked backing tune!
Comment kindly left by randomdude — February 14, 2007 @ 12:58 am
Lol ! You are last two lines are just simply great, I think I am going to peruse it a lot , do I have to buy the copyright of it from you
- Rajan
Comment kindly left by Rajan — February 14, 2007 @ 9:54 am
herschelian, what a great screen-name, Herschel was an astronomer based in Slough! Glad you liked the photo flick.
Kabi: cheers, the tune is from the soundtrack to the movie “Don” – it was the music playing as you walked out the cinema hall at the end of the movie. Those kind of tunes stick on you.
Rajan:
Not sure about copyright, but you have licence to use as you see fit!
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 14, 2007 @ 10:55 am
Hi Jag , I want to thank you for guiding me so well about the camera.
I have clicked photo s from my Nokia6610i
This camera is ok for close ups and serves my purpose.Thanx again.
I have uploaded photos in RECIPES I MADE FROM OTHER BLOGS
GARLIC POTATO
HOME MADE BLACK GRAPE WINE
Please check them out and let me know how they are:)
Comment kindly left by archanarchana — February 15, 2007 @ 4:12 am
Hi Jag , Last time I had typed my name twice by mistake. My web page is:-
http://www.luv2eathate2cook.wordpress.com
archana
Comment kindly left by archanarchana — February 15, 2007 @ 4:19 am
Hi Jag, saw the slide show. I was gr8 !!!:)
archana
Comment kindly left by archanarchana — February 16, 2007 @ 3:42 am
Hi there, please could you contact me at info@tubePing.com
Many thanks,
Comment kindly left by Rich — February 16, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Hi there
Comment kindly left by Rich — February 16, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Hi Jag,
Great photos. Two questions:
Are your most recent camera phone photos taken with the N80? Do you post them “as is” or I they edited/enhanced with Photoshop or any other editing software?
Comment kindly left by Alan A. Reiter — February 16, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
This refers to the converse between Anne & Jag.
Sorry to poke in, but here’s my two bit!
Two words sums up all, according to the gospel of ur’s truly:
1) Composition (i.e. what do u wanna see ) ;
2) Attitude (why u wanna see) !
The late great Henri Cartier- Bresson, guru n father of photography, had a very simple take on taking pixs: “The Decisive Moment”. If u can understand that, ur already there.
Btw, Monsieur Bresson used a fixed- lens leica, whose technical features were poorer than present day entry- level cameraphones, so methinks its all abt “how u see things”.
Got confused, I still am, even after 2 decades as a pro!
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — February 17, 2007 @ 7:59 am
Abt copyright laws on soundtrack n moving pixs, u are allowed to copy/ use up to 30 seconds of the same without seeking permission or paying any royalty.
Also, u cannot use any still pix without permission 4m the copyright holder.
That’s the law, with reference to Rajan’s comments
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — February 17, 2007 @ 8:06 am
Archana: I like your blog pages! Also, your pictures are nice and colourful, but they are a bit blurred. I will comment on your pages directly.
Rich: got your messages, will check out TubePing.
Alan: Thank you for your interest! (For last year or so I have my NetVibes scanning your blog as part of my daily tech browsing ritual!)
Around about the last 2000 pictures in my Flickr photostream were taken since June 2005 – all taken with a cameraphone. All uploaded within seconds after taking (or soonest that a cellular signal became available). Therefore all posted “as is” and without any post processing in photoshop or anything.
Between June 2005 and May 2006 I was using a Nokia 6230 (sub megapixel)
Between May 2006 and November 2006 I was using a Nokia N80
And from November 2006 until the present I have been using a SonyEricsson K800i
Like I said, all my uploads are “as is” – and most of the pictures I use in these blog pages since summer 2005 are the cameraphone pictures. In these blog pages I will sometimes crop the pics, and do some minor processing in Photoshop – but very rarely. The most signigficant post-processing I ever did to my cameraphone pics were in this very posting here – to create the photo montage. I selected what I considered are my favourite cameraphone pics (from the last 100 days) and took every photo in this montage through two simple steps: 1) auto level 2) simple crop.
Personally I am convinced that the quality of cameraphone pictures is now ready for “main camera” status. I am an enthusiast of photography (although not at serious geek level) and I do have several “proper” cameras, including digital ones, but I now only use the other cams on specific occasions – e.g. team events, family occasions etc. i.e. where there is a lot of “posing” opportunity. But even on those occasions I will still use my cameraphone for the “reality” snaps.
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 17, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Nitin: you are a photography pro? And thx for the info on copyright. Oops. I have realised that I used more than 30 seconds of Don soundtrack in the photo montage. (And also more than 30 seconds for other multimedia creations in the past). By the way, I thought Rajan was referring to copyright of my statement re “lomo-esque” and “to blur is human” !!
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 17, 2007 @ 9:43 am
Audio- Visuals actually, with a minor in still – photography!
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — February 17, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Jag,
Btw ur right that we’re more often using our cameraphones than the usual dedicated pictorial equipments !
An av tech guy one knows, with inside knowledge of the industry, commented to us, after hearing the launch of the apple Iphone, that by the turn of this decade, we all will be carrying high- end “pro” still cameras (eg the likes of nikon D70 with more than 15 mega-pixels & proper 5x zoom ranging 4m 28mm- 200mm), video cameras (the likes of sony DSR 250p HD), apple ipod / bose quality audio players, a windows/ mac/ linux 3.5 Ghz 1000mb ram 180 gb hard- disk computer with full 101 keys qwerty keyboard along with video conferencing facility and lcd display, all in one single unit. And the way nanotech is improving, all that weighing less than 3 pounds with the size of a cigarette box.
Phew ! I really pity the stocks of the traditional dedicated equip manufacturers like nikon, canon, sony et al if this really turns up true.
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — February 17, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
I love the pun “LonDon.”
Kamla
Comment kindly left by kamla bhatt — February 17, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Good stuff. Hope you do some more of these at
different tempos.This one was a rush hour intrigue, How about a Sunday morning slow groove LOL
The pics sure are not bad for the camerphone
Comment kindly left by Fritz — February 17, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
I really enjoy your journeys. The pics convey the moment and moods so well…it’s like a silent conversation?!
Comment kindly left by Anita — February 18, 2007 @ 6:39 am
Nitin: AV guy I see! Yes, I think your mate was right, the usage behaviour is shifting towards the pocketable and easy-to-use device which is becoming cheaper every day. But the big boys “single purpose” manufacturers will respond with their own initiatives too. I think there is plenty to go around as gadgets take more and more of the share of our wallets.
Cheers Kamla!
Fritz: Thanks. Easy Like Sunday morning groove next time!
Anita: Thank you. I think you are right, an image tells a story, and stories are the basis of conversations. How deep and meaningful is that?!
Comment kindly left by Jag — February 18, 2007 @ 8:19 am
Wanted to cook Lamb Rogan Josh for my daughter who is at McGill in her 4th year. As we have a huge snow storm I even ground my own spices and I can’t wait to taste the recipe from this site….
Brit ex pat who grew up in Northern Rhodesia aka Zambia and my Mum was in Simla and Hyderbad during the war……
Great site and the Dec25th rendition of Twinkle Twinkle little star was awesome!
Comment kindly left by Carole Miles — March 1, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Hi… I was wondering if you could help me.I’m in my third year of a Design degree at Chelsea College of Art and Design and hoping to graduate this summer (if what I say nexy gos to plan that is!!).
On the July 16, 2004 you put up a post about the Ealing Rd part of your journey. You posted a picture of a coin operated ride in the shape of a giraffe. This may seem quite bizarre bbut basically i NEED to get hold of this giraffe in order to progress with my degree (as I plan to make an 7ft version of it – check my blog)
I was wondering whether you’d be able to tell me if the giraffe is still there – and if so how would i get to it – which particular sari shop owns it. If you can help me you’d practically be saving me from failing my degree.
You can get hold of me through my blog (which will explain more annarhodes.blogspot.com or email me at annarhodes85@hotmail.com
I really look forward to your reply. Thanks, Anna x
Comment kindly left by Anna Rhodes — March 2, 2007 @ 11:28 am
Great work Jag! I’ve discovered your blog via googling for the mutta paneer recipe, which I’ll be making today. Your recipe section is among my fave online food resources, and having all the pictures with them is very reassuring (I may have cooked many curries, but I still feel reassured;) )
For some reason, the comment preview on the recipe section is no longer working, hence I’m posting this here. I enjoy your photos!
Comment kindly left by Denni Schnapp — March 2, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
Hi Jag,
Waiting earnestly for your new post
Comment kindly left by archanarchana — March 2, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
Carole, my Mum grew up in Simla too! Post war though – beautiful hill station. Awesome part of the world that I one day wish to see myself. Hope the lamb dish works out for you, grinding your own spices is a much more rustic way of preparing good food I’m sure!
Dennis: thanks for your wonderful comment! Yes, am aware of the broken comments facility – that’s because my old blog pages are broken in that respect, so I’m glad you persisted to this page to leave the comment. Good luck with the paneer!
Comment kindly left by Jag — March 2, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
Archana: thanks for reminding me! I will comment very soon.
Anna: well you have set me a challenge now. And a bizarre one at that! I replied to your comment on my Flickr – I’m now going to dig around a little to see if I can get an accurate fix on the location of that coin-operated giraffe. Stand by …
Comment kindly left by Jag — March 2, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
BEEP Beep Beep !
Comment kindly left by Nitin Nath Singh — March 5, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
Goodness. Nitin – I guess I have been neglecting these pages somewhat, thanks for the beep. Will send a signal to show that we’re still here …
Comment kindly left by Jag — March 5, 2007 @ 11:42 pm