The cobbler’s cat

Friday, September 17, 2004

In a cobbler’s shop outside Madhavan Park in Jayanagar. I have a close-up with the cat staring at the camera, but the surroundings added a lot of character to the picture.

yellosonja joined me later and we went on a clicking rampage around IV block, until the battery died with little warning, and then we switched to the phone camera (see

jacemobile). I’m going to carry backup CR2s from now on. Sonia has an amazing eye for pictures. Here’s one she shot.

C1 LE has died on me, so I no longer have anything to process RAW files with. What you see here are the low quality JPEG files the camera saved along with the RAW files. As if the camera wasn't expensive enough, one is now expected to throw in a bucketload for software to make the camera usable.

kingsly — Sep 17, 2004 7:42:09 PM — # ↩

Hmm there is an opensource software that does the conversion... I have it lying on my machine somewhere will let you know if I can find it ... try googling
- tariquesani — Sep 18, 2004 4:21:46 AM — # ↩
  
  dcraw?
  - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 4:28:55 AM — # ↩
    
    I didn't like the results from dcraw. It gave me very dark pictures.
    - tariquesani — Sep 18, 2004 4:45:02 AM — # ↩
      
      I use dcraw as a gimp plugin - that gives me a GUI for ajusting brightness before I open...
      
      Try the various command line options...
      - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 4:48:14 AM — # ↩
        
        Do you have a URL to the Gimp plugin? It doesn't work for me.
        
        tariquesani — Sep 18, 2004 5:17:30 AM — # ↩
        
        I built the RPM for my FC2 from instructions here http://fedoranews.org/casper/rawphoto/
        
        Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 1:24:34 PM — # ↩
        
        Installed it here, but it's decoding produces utter garbage. Then I found Nikon View includes a Nikon Editor that does the exact same thing as C1 LE, for free. The interface is shitty, but it does what I need. Blasted 42 MB non-resuming download too.
birdonthewire — Sep 18, 2004 3:29:28 AM — # ↩

It does. Very nice. Is that Ambedkar?
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 4:31:56 AM — # ↩
  
  That is Ambedkar. I'll see if I can manipulate the RAW file to bump up the brightness a bit.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 1:25:40 PM — # ↩
  
  Here's the updated picture plus close-up.
killerq — Sep 18, 2004 11:47:25 AM — # ↩

I want to see the closeup of the cat!
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 18, 2004 1:21:25 PM — # ↩
  
  Here (click to enlarge):
  
  And here’s a sepia-toned version of the first:
virtuallyundone — Sep 18, 2004 11:49:03 AM — # ↩

i loooooooooove pussy cats...!!!
....oh and your ***jacemobile***....
nooooooooooooooo
i wont go THERE...

:-(
*someones* tol me not to
plasmid — Sep 18, 2004 7:06:21 PM — # ↩

Jace..the animal lover...
Kudos for showing mercy to animals...i gonna put u in my squad and recommend your name for advance training in animal welfare...
shortindiangirl — Sep 18, 2004 8:13:34 PM — # ↩

Thank you for all your wonderful pictures. I have used one of yours (Traffic on BG Road). Please tell me how I can credit you. (If you really don't want me to use it at all, erm, ok, but...please ?!).
http://216.162.122.198/Anjana/Pics/Images-of-India-Y/index.html
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 19, 2004 1:05:11 AM — # ↩
  
  All pictures are under Creative Commons By-NC-SA. A link back to my page for the pic would be nice.
  - shortindiangirl — Sep 19, 2004 4:39:46 AM — # ↩
    
    I don't have the time to google Creative Commons. But which page do you want me to link to ? You don't want everyone reading my wedding web pages / and other browsing by my web page to get to your blog, do you ? I mean, I certainly don't want them stumbling upon MY blog from reading yours...
    - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 19, 2004 4:53:28 AM — # ↩
      
      The license simply says you must give me credit (full name, please), you may use it for any non-commercial purpose, and you must share modified versions on the same terms. In clearer words.
      
      A link to this page would be nice, but I'll leave that to you: http://jace.seacrow.com/pics/misc/2004/09/1302.jpg/view
drkishoremurthy — Sep 20, 2004 4:51:10 PM — # ↩

The Cobbler's Cat is beautifully captured by the lens... a superb moment...

It pays to have a camera tag along most of the time :)
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 20, 2004 5:00:02 PM — # ↩
  
  Thank you. I hope you've seen the close-up and the sepia version.
  
  And yeah, the camera is unwanted bulk most of the time, but such moments make it worthwhile.
noelladsa — Sep 21, 2004 3:36:18 AM — # ↩

Hey The cat pic is just beautiful , I love all the brown and yellow hues ..that photo just came out perfect. Wonderful work :)!
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 21, 2004 3:45:13 AM — # ↩
  
  Thanks. Now the challenge is to shoot something better. ;-)
  - Anonymous — Sep 27, 2004 12:22:39 AM — # ↩
    
    The cat's definitely one of your best to date. The hues are great.
    
    - Kingsley 2.0