Muhib

Our apartment is becoming a campus hot spot for Bangladeshi students. The other day, Muhib came for some studying. And I got the chance for some experiments.

The photo was taken using a DIY grid on my SB-25. The flash was triggered by cactus V4 and it was positioned on a table to camera right.

Here is the actual image-

After post processing the photo becomes this-

Muhib does not have any profile picture in facebook. So I sent this photo to him to use as one.

This photo was a achievement for me in a sense that, the final result was what I exactly wanted. I wanted a black and white photo, where light was falling from one side and other side has shadows but not completely dark so that the eye and some of the features of the face can be seen.

Arefin

Arefin was facing some problem with his Java programming class. So he came to Raquib to solve the problems. So when he entered our room, he noticed that there was box type of thing with lots of plastic straws glued into it. It was the DIY Grid I made some days ago. Naturally he asked me what it is and I showed him what it is. This lead to an impromptu photo shoot.

After several shots, I changed the settings and told him to look down. The resultant shot was this-

ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Focal Length: 85mm

Everything considered, this was a less than okay shot. So I had to use photoshop to make it more interesting.

I opened the raw file in photoshop and increased the aperture, contrast, clarity and vibrance. Also changed the white balance. Then transfered it to photoshop. There cropped it using 4:5 ratio. Then duplicated the layer and applied screen from blending mode. Here is the result-

Still I was not satisfied. So duplicated the screened layer again. And applied some Gaussian blur, changed blending mode to overlay and set the opacity to around 40%.

I liked what I saw. And thats about it.

BSO@UTD General Meeting of Spring 2010

Today was the first general meeting of the new Executive Committee. Its also the first meeting in Spring 2010 Semester. Shakil vai (President) and Arefin (Treasurer) brought the foods - peyaju, chola, finni, soda and water. They also brought some plastic bowls, spoons and forks.

We arranged food for about 40 peoples, even though we knew that not more than 20 people would show up. So we had a lot food left after the meeting was over. Here are some of the photos I took-

Maria (VP) and Raquib (GS) discussing some things before the start of the meeting-

Arefin bringing the sodas and cutlery-

Raquib was one of the first who started eating, even though he was a member of the executive committee -

From left to right, Taufiq vai, Naqvi, Moyeen vai enjoying some jokes-

Naqvi introducing himself-

Manik vai introducing himself-

Tanveer, Maksud vai and Shouvik vai, after hearing Manik vai's hilarious introduciton-

Shakil vai and Arefin listening the introductions-

Maksud vai (Arefin's Roommate) introducing himself-

Shakil vai and Maria clapping to the new members of BSO-

Maria was talking about the services we should provide to the new student at UTD-

Mashrur was talking about his experience from previous "Passport to the world" events-

Raquib was discussing about the future BSO events we are planning to organize in the near future-

Arefin was talking about the lack of funds and possible funds from the alumnus-

I was talking about our website-

This last one was taken by Raquib, who was obviously not a photographer.