Photography – Stock photos on bigstock.

2011-02-01 1 min read Photo

Couple of days back, one of my friends suggested that I put my photos on bigstock also along with my site at http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in . I thought, let me give it a try and created a account on bigstock. After creating the account, I have so far submitted 5 images and four of them got rejected.

The rejections did not de-motivate me, in-fact this has taught me a lot of things. Some things that I did not know before I submitted my photos there. So, I am going through a new learning and this has cost me 80% rejection in bigstock. I am trying with few more photos in next few days and probably I will get a better idea of what is required in the photos. Hope to get the tricks of the trade soon. BTW, another way you can help me keep this blog alive is by buying my photos cheap at bigstock and here is the link to my photo :

Take a screenshot of the window the user clicks on and name the file the same as the window title

2010-12-19 2 min read Bash Learning Photo

Take a screenshot of the window the user clicks on and name the file the same as the window title

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      &nbsp;sleep 4; xwd >foo.xwd; mv foo.xwd "$(dd skip=100 if=foo.xwd bs=1 count=256 2>/dev/null | egrep -ao '^[[:print:]]+' | tr / :).xwd"
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In general, this is actually not better than the “scrot -d4” command I’m listing it as an alternative to, so please don’t vote it down for that. I’m adding this command because xwd (X window dumper) comes with X11, so it is already installed on your machine, whereas scrot probably is not. I’ve found xwd handy on boxen that I don’t want to (or am not allowed to) install packages on.

Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos

2010-12-17 2 min read Learning Photo

Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos

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      montage 2007-08-25-3685.jpg +clone -clone 0-1 -clone 0-3 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg
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Yes, You could do it in the GIMP or even use Inkscape to auto-align the clones, but the command line is so much easier.

Photos of my office in the morning

2010-12-02 1 min read Photo Uncategorized

Here are photos of my office on 20/Nov at 3AM in the morning. This is taken in the moonlight.

Sorry, the quality of the photo is not that good as the photo was taken from my mobile Samsung Omnia Pro, did not have my DSLR with me that time.

DIY- Photos at home (Beautiful and Magical)

2010-11-17 1 min read Photo

Requirements:

DSLR Nikon D5000
Some Sparkles of different colors
2x100W Bulbs

and some imagination

Results:

Fantastic Photos with beautiful effects.

More cloud photos for your eyes. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Build a DIY Photo Booth that Fits in a Duffel Bag [DIY] (lifehacker.com)
Digitize Your Old Film Strips with a DIY Negative Duplicator [DIY] (lifehacker.com)
DIY Photo Magic: How to Turn Black and White Photos into Full Color Images! (content.photojojo.com)

Skyline with Red color – from mobile.

2010-11-07 1 min read Photo

Have you ever wondered, how the red skyline would look if you did not have your favourite camera with you to capture it. I had only my Samsung Omni Windows Mobile with me to capture this, do comment on how they look 🙂