Viknesh Nadaraja

Hey All…
What excuse shud i give for not updating the blog for 3 months ???   Hope the next entry will not be so late…

Here are some pictures from my recent trip to Singapore.

1. Merlion and Singapore City Towers

2. New Casino – Building in Progress

3. Merlion Again…

4. The chick from Singapore

5. and the Dolphin

6. The largest Merlion ever… In Sentosa highland

7. Sky ride

8. Laser Show in Sentosa island – This deserves an entry of its own..

9. The (Majestic) Fullerton Hotel

- A.T.

Hi all…. Here are more photos , this time in color, from from my Rangefinder, the Konica Auto S2.

You can find my first post on the Konica RF here… http://www.vikneshn.com/blog/?p=577.

Got myself this baby and loving it!

This is from the first EOS series introduced in 1987 (EOS 650 was the first series, the EOS620 is an upgrae on a few functions on the EOS650). This baby is first EOS camera model that employed with Prgrammed Shift Function and a integrated Auto-Bracketing Control.

Simple to use, easy on the hand, focusses really awesome and it works with all my Canon EF lenses. 100% viewfinder is a pleasure and mounted on EF 50 f/1.4 and EF 35 f/2.0, the experience of photography becomes truly of learning.

My 6 year daughter loves this camera and I have given it a gift to her. Here are some shots taken taken by my daughter.

Got this baby as a gift for my birthday. A Konica Auto S2 Rangefinder camera made circa 1966 in Konishiroku Photo. Ind. Co., LTD Japan.

The camera is coupled with a sharp Hexanon 45mm 1:1.8-16 lens and was in pristine condition to my disbelief.

With ‘pseudo TTL’ metering, this camera is shutter priority with manual controls on the shutter and aperture. The metering is ‘pseudo TTL’ because the metering is right at the top edge of the lens and not through the lens. This allows for metering compensation when filters are mounted.

The RF viewfinder coupled rangefinder with automatic parallax correction. It has the aperture displayed as projection in the viewfinder and this allows one to read and then use this information to do exposure compensation.

With ISO 25 to 400, this camera just sufficient. The exposure range is 1.7 to 17 @ ASA 100. There is a self-timer and accessory shoe and PC Sync too.

Simple controls and manual focusing, this baby makes me think and execute the shoot… it slows me down and I have only 36 clicks max where I have to be truly economical. There is no instant gratification of looking at the LCD panel and Histogram as what I am accustomed to with my Canon EOD 5D DSLR.

I feel more as a photographer now…. there is no luxury of the digital age. This RF is a pleasure to use and it teaches me a lot on photography… the simplicity of this camera makes things truly complicated for me but it rewards me with the opportunity to focus on taking minimally great photos.

Posted here are my few photos from the 1st roll… the Illford Super XP2 400 Black & White.

I’ll post more on this baby, shots taken and my experience… until then please enjoy the photos.

I had launched my photoblog late last year and had been test driving it. The photoblog is to have a simple one photo one post concept with little text to describe the photos. The blog is more of a text heavy concept and I wanted to be direct to the photos.

The photoblog URL is www.vikneshn.com/photoblog . Please visit my photoblog and leave your good comments.

Some screenshots from my photoblog…

This is me after 1.5 years of photography… taken by Tiru while I was getting ready to shoot a Punjabi Wedding.

Hey Guys & Gals,

I am Tirumaran [My Facebook profile here] - Viknesh’s partner in crime ( it sounds better than partner in photography ). Here I am gonna share some of my photos from travels,  football matches, adventures, misadventures and many more.

Lets start with some from my India trip, back in March 2009.

1. Thiruvalluvar Statue in Kanyakumari

Its 133 feet tall statue of famous Tamil Poet – Thiruvalluvar.  He is well known for 1330 Thirukurals  (couplets) which are presented in 133 chapters- which explains the height of the statue.  Each Thirukural consists of seven words and discuss almost every worldly matters. “For more info, try search in wikipedia” – thats my seven words for you to know more about him.

2.  The Sunrise in Kanyakumari

Breathtaking view is guaranteed – from December to March time period every year. I was hoping to see the perfect sunrise where it looks like the sun just emerged from the sea level.  However, the tourist guide told that, in his 20 years experience he just got to see it twice. 

 3. Entrance of Thanjavur Temple

This temple was built  in 11th century. The grandeur of the temple is very visible in this entrance alone.

 4.  A statue in Thanjavur Temple

The restoration/cleaning work in temple was completed recently. This can be seen from the cleanliness of the statue in the picture above. There are thousands of statues and rock carvings can be seen here. To be fair for this otherworldly venue, I may need to dedicate a special blog entry in future.

5.  Random guy on a bridge.

This picture was taken in Kerala. I saw the color combination of the guy’s dress and the background. It looked interesting to me…

6. Bridge n River

Another picture taken in Kerala. They said our country, Malaysia closely resembles Kerala in terms of its greenery. May be it was true 20 years ago. Now, instead of coconut trees, there are lamp posts eveywhere here.

 7.  Arunsunai in Poochikaadu

Directly translated into English, Poochikaadu means Insect Jungle. That is the name of village of my fellow traveller Jeeva. In spite of the name, there were not  much insects to be found. May be if we stayed overnight there, we would not be disappointed.

 8.  Outside of Suchindram Temple

Another ~ 1000 years old temple. Camera is not allowed inside the temple. Thus, I settled with this view.

 
9. Wrecked fish boat in Dhanushkodi

Dhanushkodi aka at Lands End is infamously known as place of destruction. This is due the cyclone in 1964 which destroyed the place and took a trainload of passengers into the sea. We travelled 90mins from Rameshwaram in an ancient jeep on sand dunes to reach this place.

Throughout the whole journey (back & forth), we were attacked by couple of hundred flies . By Muscina flies to be exact – not just the house flies. The jeep driver + tourist guide told us that, the illegal fish fermentation activity by some of the powerful locals caused the presence of the large number of flies.

Once we reach the end of the land, we got down from the jeep for a minute. Just 60 seconds.After that, we cant stand the massive swarm of the flies. I just took two photos and quickly get back to the jeep for cover. I wish there will be another chance to be there longer without any disturbances.

Thats all for now, frens. Thanks for reading till the end. There are more to come…