Studio - One - Thousand

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Thank you all!

Racing my Dream

Cars from the game 'Need for Speed' in Indian locations, thanks to Adobe Photoshop.


A beautiful Hyundai Tiburon 'caught' on the ECR in its high speed cruise. (High Speed: Motion Blur)



My personal favorite Volkswagen Golf GTI on a rainy Kolkata evening, on the Vidyasagar Setu. (Thats me in the car!!)

All I can do in reality is drive(walk) my xing through the rarely moving Chennai traffic :-(

SINGAM SINGLE-A PONA... PULI PUBLIC-A POGUM!!

Disclaimer: The title does not have anything to do with the sanitation practices of the tigers in the picture. It is for Punch-line purposes only.

Pictures Courtesy: National Geographic Magazine


This is picture is a documentary(!!) in a single frame on tigers. (I think so!)

If u can't make out what the tigers are trying to say, you can click on the picture for a larger image.

A trip down memory lane...

This picture was my first in image editing. Though I have made a lot of interesting photoshopping after this, a look at this picture takes me back to the memories of such kiddish gestures.

From here... (original picture of movie 'Aalavandhan' - 2000)


to here... ('Edit 1' with Jasc Paintshop Pro in 2002)


and here. ('Final' with Adobe Photoshop 7 in 2004)


Growing up and laughing at your earlier blunders are directly proportional to each other ;-)

Ippodhan 'ninja' karuppe

With 'Sultan' on its way, I believe this would be the future of brand 'Rajni'



With the extraordinary support of japanese folks, this would be a great success.

Are u game?

Aalavandha Vinayagar

It was the time when I was new to digital image editing (read photoshop & photoimpact). The features of these applications amazed me to a great extent.

I did not have a digital camera then. Hence my favourite passtime was creating images using new features I learnt in Photoimpact.



The picture posted here was created in Photoimpact using Material layers tool. It was a prospective greeting for 'Vinayagar Chaturthi - 2002'. (But I later overruled that idea since I felt that the picture was a bit too violent for a festival greeting)

Trivia - Highly inspired by the movie 'Aalavandhan', I created lot of collages about that movie. But this one's my favourite.

The official title I gave the picture is the title of this post ;-)

Old Photo Effect

The person in the picture is Mr. Subramaniam, my neighbour. He's a person with great knowledge in anything from history to spirituality and I truly admire him for that. We share a lot of common interests and a good friendship beyond age barriers.

Coming to the picture, it is one of the first few, shot with my Canon S3IS, with light from an overhead tubelight. I have applied some color tinting with picasa for the 'old photo effect'.

Krishnapuram

Krishnapuram is a small village in Tirunelveli District at a distance of about six miles from Tirunelveli town. There are a good number of images and idols of sculptural interest in the temple, attracting hundreds of visitors. Lord Venkata- chalapathy has been installed here with Sri Devi and Bhoo Devi. Pujas and abhishekam are being conducted to the Lord daily and some important festivals are celebrated every year.

When our Mahindra Armada entered Krishnapuram, it was around 4 PM. The sanctum sanctorum was locked. I could see that the bhattachari had not arrived for the day.

As I was speaking to Palani Kumar about taking pictures of the sculptures, a sluggish looking fat man in a lungi  and a dirty shirt came into sight.

Me: Ulla Photo edukka permission vaanganuma?

Fat Man: Photo ellam edukka koodadhu sir. (in a stern tone)

Palani Kumar: Madras lerndhu vadhirukkanga... Koil manager yaaravadhu irukkangala? (he was speaking in a typical Tirunelveli accent)

Fat Man: Adhellam yaarum kedaiyadhu. Watchman-a konjam gavanichittu aiyeru varathukku munnadi rendu photo eduthukkanga.

Palani Kumar: Appadiya.. seri. watchman enga irukkaru?

Fat Man: Naandhaanga Watchman !!

The above pictures costed me 20 bucks, but are sure worth thousands to me. 
You can find a bigger resolution of the above picture in here.

That was once in my life when I felt a little corruption in any system is always welcome.

Get ready to ENTER

A Photograph of my TVS Gold Black Keyboard +
A Google Image Search for an image of a door +
Some 'Photoshop'ping +
A Post on the Photoblog =

People think you are a creative photo professional ;)

Anbe SIvam ;)

"....Yaenna naanum kadavul !!"

- Nallasivam (Kamal Hassan) to A.Urs (Madhavan) in 'Anbe Sivam'
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"Kadavul irukkar-nu solranae...avana nambalam;
Kadavulae illa-nu solranae...avana kooda nambalam;
Aana naan dhaan kadavul-nu solraan paar...avana mattum nambavae koodadhu!"

- Raja (Kamal Hassan) in 'Vasool Raja MBBS'
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Though both these dialogues appear contadictory to each other, they are not!

I wonder at this demigod of acting!

Panaromic Pamban

The bridge in the picture is the world famous Pamban bridge, which links Rameswaram to Tamilnadu. It is a low lying bridge that shoulders the rail tracks. And during Sea Traffic, The bridge opens up to give way to steamers.

I could not capture the bridge in one single shot since I did not have a wide angle lens. So I took it in 3 parts and used the photo merge tool from Adobe Photoshop.

The pic has multiple hues since the shots were taken during different parts of the day. ;)