Sunday, June 28, 2015

One on one photography coaching free with my e-book!

 I have written a very illustrative e-book on photography for $5, which includes one- on one coaching on photography free! So, read the introduction of that book and click the link at the end of the blog to Buy it. Then send e-mail to me to start online coaching. My mail surya.jayaram@gmail.com.

Introduction to " fundamentals of Photography"  e-book

A manual will be there for using simple things like a hand wash liquid, and most of us will read, understand procedure, and use it.
 But most of us are having good cameras, manuals but never tried to understand the controls of it. It is very easy to understand and it takes one or two days! So, here are some guidance.


The above photo will give some idea of important controls, which will be there in most of the cameras.


The above photo gives you an idea of control knob, reference mark and different modes. It is set to programmed mode.

The above photo shows the knob set to Automatic mode.

The above picture shows the knob adjusted to Manual mode. this mode gives full control of the camera, to the photographer.
This photo shows that the display screen gives the details of the position of the knob. It is indicating that the knob is set for Manual mode. This display will be shown for 5 seconds and then the screen shows the frame to be photographed.

To know all these things, I have written a simple book on Fundamentals of photography. The cover page photo is given below.



It is just $5, but having detailed illustrations with photos. You can learn complete control of the camera and basics of photography in about 2 to 3 days. So,  click the link below to buy:

 link  :  HTTP://WWW.CLICK2SELL.EU/BUY?JAYARAMFUN




Saturday, June 27, 2015

King’s new law and its consequence- story- part 1


There lived a King who was caring for his countrymen. People were very happy and co-operative with the king and his administration. King was always thinking of making people comfortable and happy.
After some years, thieves started their act of stealing gold and other ornaments. This created worry and tension among people. They were unable to concentrate on their daily work. Many people complained this to the king.
King started thinking about this problem. 
He thought 

"It takes some time to catch hold of thieves and so, there must be a short time solution".
He announced a new law. 
The law was like this: 
"All the people of his kingdom should register their gold and other ornaments with the ministry of the king. Then the valuation of each ornament will be done by experts. If there is stolen, the amount equivalent to the lost ornament will be given to the loser, on confirmation of the theft".
People happily registered everything that the rule permitted. Those ornaments were valued and the records were given to the people. King's office kept a copy of the records.
People were very much satisfied with the correct and impartial valuations of their ornaments .Their worry was no longer there. Again they started doing their work with enthusiasm. They were all happy and so, the King was also happy.
Theft:
 After 4 days, the first incidence of theft happened. The person who lost the ornaments complained to the king and gave all the details. King's Servants came and searched the whole house; this was a part of the procedure. Then it was confirmed that the ornament is missing. 
Then the owner of the ornament signed a declaration stating like this: "To the best of my knowledge, the ornament is not with any of my relatives and friends. Also, if found in such places, I will pay 10 times the value of the ornament to the King"
After the detailed investigations, money was released to the loser. He was extremely happy. Others were also happy on hearing this because, after the release of fund to the loser, they were very sure of getting the money for a loss like that.
Gradually, after about two months, the incidences of theft started increasing. 
After three months, theft increased to three folds, compared that before the implementation of the rule!
King began to worry but people never worried because they were actually not losing almost anything!
King called a few top level ministered and discussed this. Then they decided to travel through the kingdom one night and one day, but in disguise.
Accordingly, the king and two ministers went round the kingdom in one night. To their surprise, they noticed that in some houses, main doors were kept open! They also noticed that some boxes of ornaments were kept near the open window. This never seemed to them as carelessness. They suspected that it has been done with a purpose. But the king and ministers were unable to guess the secret behind this act of the people.
Next time, they went round kingdom during the day, again in disguise. They had noted down the houses in which doors were kept open and the houses in which boxes containing  the  ornaments were kept near open window. They went to one such house and inquired about it. 
Then the owner of the house said (to the king who had dressed himself as a stranger) 
“Our king is good but he is not intelligent. He made a rule of giving money for lost ornaments. So, we want our ornaments to be stolen!”

King: “But what benefit will you get out of it?”

Owner: “Thief will steal our ornaments. King will give back our money. Then the thief will give 50% of the money of the ornament to us. So, we are making a profit in this process”

King: “What is the advantage for the thief? Why should he give 50% of the value back? After all, thieves are thieves. How can you believe them?”

Owner: “If he stops giving that, we will close our doors; then it will be very difficult for him to steal anything. So, they give. Also, thieves in our kingdom are honest, my neighbor got money 5 days back”.

King and ministers came back. They felt that it was a big puzzle for them to solve. King called the ministers again for a meeting.

Guess the next part of the story! What will the king do?

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Types of photography-part1-Micro photography

         I will be  writing about many types of photography, starting from this post.
   1] Micro photography:

This is now becoming popular, with CCD screen coupled microscopes. Gone are the days when we used to look through the microscope lens by straining our eyes and writing the diagram of the image that we saw.
 Then came an attachment in microscope, in the film era where we used to have big attachment to fix the SLR camera directly to microscope.
But in digital era, the new microscopes are fitted with CCD to directly store the images.
I will be offering one-on-one coaching on photography and if you are interested to learn photography and to know more details, please mail me to:
 surya.jayaram@gmail.com.
 Or

 Follow me and contact me in twitter; @jayaram1961

Yoga day

This animation in which 4 men form "YOGA" letters is my contribution to international yoga day!






Thursday, June 18, 2015

Learn photography online one-on-one

Learn  basics of photography online
I have been conducting photography classes from past 35 years. Now, I am giving
One -on- one   teaching online for  only $50, which includes a free e-book on "fundamentals of photography"worth $50!

If you are interested, contact me on mail : surya.jayaram@ gmail.com

Monday, June 15, 2015

best weight loss method for diabetics explained.

Most debated topic of today is "how to lose weight in a safe, easy and quick way"
There are many wrong concepts also.  That too for persons having diabetes, who cannot skip food, it will be more confusing.
But one of the good book with lot of details is

"weight loss for type 1 Diabetes "
 click the link below:
http://jayaram.a1cwisewei.c2strack.com/?checkout 

Saturday, June 13, 2015

work and distraction

Look at this video, which i took at a place near  my city-Bangalore, India. Monkey is trying to eat rice but it is turning all around with the fear that some other monkey  will come and share it or some person will come and chase it out from there.  Because of the fear, it  was unable to eat it happily.


Similarly, when we are distracted from our work by some such factors, we cannot work properly.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Good morning

Are we bloggers or beggars?



Yes. Many times I feel like that. Look at the photo below.

I have compiled many pics from opensource.org to get the above photo.

 Many of us will write the blog for making money. In that process, we will write something, and then send it to social media. We request People to view it, like it and comment on it! All these are to get some money from PPC(pay per click) websites.
Most of the best PPC websites are giving about $0.35 for every 1000 views.
This type of payment also will have some riders and percentage cuts in it. For achieving this, we will be troubling many friends and followers in twitter,facebook,google+, Pinterest, emails and many other social media and methods.
When we try to think in this direction, our mind will make us to read Posts in the internet like "How I made $200 in one day by blogging?"Again our direction will change. Of course, some of the bloggers have made money, maybe because of their talent or luck or opportunity, which will not be suitable for most of us.
I want to end this post by a small story, which I have coined for this post.

A man ,30 yrs of age, called many of his friends to tell the secret of making money. He showed a gold coin.He said "I have practiced looking at the ground while walking. I got this coin in a span of one week. So, if you are going to follow this method of walking, for 10 years, which means 52X10=520 weeks, you are likely to get  about 520 gold coins or some similar things which are valuable. Start from today itself, while walking back to your homes".

Most of them started, some of them got some simple currency notes. Others thought that they will get it someday. Many  of them dashed against other walkers,  some narrowly escaped  moving vehicles.
After a month all of them discontinued it, including the man who started it, and only one man continued it till the age of 70years!
That one man called all the old friends and disclosed his "earnings"
He had earned to two gold coins, several lower denomination currency notes and coins, thousands of nails, Pins and a permanently bent back bone! He told that it is not worth doing it.
What I now feel is that we should write the blog for passion and to give our viewpoint to the general public. Of course,  if we  get some money, we have to consider it as a bonus.
With this Kind of approach, we will not be disappointed.

What is your opinion?

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Husband or wife -who is better?


Husband Praveen and wife Asha were always quarreling for something or the other.

I arranged this picture  by combination of pics   from open source


Each one was almost competing with the other, in almost all matters. Food preparation was also a problem. Sometimes, both of them were preparing separate food.
One day, there was a quarrel regarding making a cup of coffee. They decided to call their neighbor, who knew them very well, to give a judgment about giving judgment declaring one of them as better coffee maker than the other. He was a retired professor. He was given a time on a Sunday morning. 
Both husband and wife got ready early in the morning and called the professor. Professor came and both of them started making coffee on separate vessels. They offered the coffee to professor. He poured a little coffee in to his cup and tasted the coffee prepared by husband and said" your coffee is having more sugar" Wife started feeling happy, but when professor tasted her coffee, he said" your coffee is having more milk". He said" No one is the winner”. He called both of them and mixed both coffees. Then he asked them to taste it. They were surprised. It was the best coffee. He said” if both of you stop competing and start co operating, you can achieve something big”. They realized their mistake and thanked the professor.


Tuesday, June 9, 2015

I closed my studio because...

Photography is my hobby and so, I wanted to make some money out of it. I opened a small photo studio. I equipped my studio with one colour printer, one monochrome laser printer and a laminating machine. As usual, I arranged back ground curtains and halogen lamps for taking photographs.   I was delighted to take photos and print it then and there itself, which attracted the people. I even broke the routine of using colour printer for printing only pass port, as I use to print even A4 size copies in that one. I also started using laser printer as a copier, even though I was not getting any profit in that process! Then the problems started.  
 1] Laser printer: Two students came at 10.30 Pm and wanted me to copy a 500 page notes. I agreed, but they then told that they wanted it for the next day at 8Am! I started taking copies and at 11.30 Pm, my back bone started taking in its own language! I stopped at that, but early next morning at 6.30 Am, I started and somehow completed it at 8Am. I suffered with back pain and was unable to go to my work. After that, I stopped taking bulk order. As I realized that the refilled cartridge started giving low quality prints and original cartridges was making me to incur losses.
2]Lamination machine   
2] Lamination machine: A girl came with a strange art. She has made it using colour ball pens. She wanted me to get it laminated. During the process of lamination, she told me that she was going to display it in an exhibition. But suddenly, power failed and my UPS was unable to support that machine. The machine stopped when the lamination was half way through. I was unable to pull it out, as it was locked in that position. The art work bunt out! By looking at tears in her eyes, with sorrow in my heart, I was only able to utter the famous English word ’sorry’. She controlled herself and said” uncle, I can redo it with difficulty, but what will you do if it happens to a marks card?” Then I remembered   all the marks cards that I had already laminated and thanked God! I almost stopped lamination, as it was very difficult to clean the plastic sheet and burnt art work, clinging to the rollers.   
3] Colour printer: It was the only thing that was working successfully then. One night, some auto drivers came and forced me to print a fake Driving license. The wanted me to put one of the driver’s photo on another driver’s license and print! I refused but they started quarreling to an extent that one of the drivers wanted to hit me! But other drivers controlled him by saying” he is not the only man having colour printer, let us go to some other shop”. They vanished but my sad memory made me to think of closing down the studio.   Next day, I saw the preparation of opening a big photo studio, a few yards away from mine. So, I went and told him about my condition. I sold all of my equipment, except my pet camera, to him at a throw away price, and closed my studio.   Now I am happily conducting free photography classes for beginners!                        

comparing laser and ink- jet printers

I have used both types of printers. I had a photo copying shop also. So, i thought it will be good to share my experience here.There are advantages and dis advantages for both.So, I will write it in steps.
 Ink jet printer.
Advantages:
 Initial cost is very less:compared to laser printer, the cost of the inkjet printer is nearly 1/3rd. This is the very big advantage and in most of the places, it is because of this reason, inkjet printer is preferred.
  1.  colour printing is also possible for less money: in many inkjet printers, with an additional cartridge, colour printing  will also be provided.
  2. Compact; inkjet printers will be very compact.
  3. less number of parts, hence maintenance will be less.
  4. Consumes  very less electrical power.
 Disadvantages:
 Quality of print:   This depends upon the quality of paper. Most of the paper will absorb more ink and prints, especially  of photos will smudge. A very good quality paper should be used.
  1. Inkjet replacement: only original will reproduce the same quality. Duplicate cartridges will produce low quality prints.
  2. Only some companies use water proof ink. So, even after one month, if the print becomes wet, colour will be washed out.This is the biggest disadvantage.
  3. Speed of printing will be less. This is measured as ppm that is prints per minutes.
  4. Running cost is high, that is cost per copy will be more.
  5. we have to take at least one print in two days, or else, ink will dry out at the tip and it will have to be cleaned.


Advantages:
 Laser printers:
  1. Once the cartridge is replaced, it gives about 2000 copies, so no frequent replacements.
  2. quality will be very high.
  3. High speed printing  will be there in most of the machines.
  4. large paper tray, more adjustments and so on will be there.
  5. Duty cycle, that is number of copies per day will be more.
  6. Less noise and very easy.
  7. Always water proof, we can wash  the prints!
  8. Running cost will be very less.
  9. Any kind of paper can be used.
  10. Robust that is it is not delicate.
  11. No ink drying problem because, it uses dry power only.
Disadvantages:
  1. Initial cost will be high
  2. Bulky, containing too many parts.
  3. Too much of electrical power consumption
  4. Rollers are to be replaced frequently.
With all the factors listed above, no printer is good or bad. It depends upon our usage and requirement. 
If large number of copies or required, then it is laser printer. If less number of copies or required, it is inkjet printer and so on.
So, many institutions will have both the printers and use them selectively. 


Monday, June 8, 2015

our speed is 1000km/ second!

According to scientific discovery, we are moving with 1000 kilometers per second towards a big galaxy. It means 1000 x 3600 = 3600000 kilometres per hour! There are some 1000 galaxies are also moving in the same direction towards a galaxy called 'grate attracter'. But the mystery is that there is no such huge mass for that galaxy to attract all these!
This is a new thing found against the big bang theory, but all other galaxies other than these 1000 are moving according to big bang theory.
Scientists are yet to find out the real reason for this thing. We cannot even feel that we are moving with the highest local speed of galaxies.

Google handwriting input app



Google handwriting input app is very useful for writers like me. My typing speed is very slow. If I were to write one article of 1000 words, I used to take very long time up to 2 hours. I used to struggle a lot to type, by monotonously sitting in front of my laptop. That too, once there was a defect in my keyboard,with cursor jumping from one position to another like an aimless monkey. I used to get lots of spelling,grammar and meaning mistakes in many of the sentences.
Then I tried google Voice recognition app. That was better than typing but required a noise  environment. A slightest disturbance from fan or a moving truck was giving errors!
For a big truck sound, it used to give letters like rrr, for fan sound, it was giving sss and so on.
Then, desperately, I tried to drawing hand writing apps. These were storing handwritten text as it is, in the form of jpeg file. There were 2 disadvantages.
1] My handwriting is not very good.
2] jpeg file will take too much of memory, compared to saving as text.
finally,Google People realized my difficulties and developed Google handwriting input app.
It is free to download. After reading this, you download the app to your mobile and write a comment to this blog with Google handwriting input app only.
The advantages are:
a) Not only English, but there are hundreds of language inputs available. In fact, I am also using my local language called Kannada, which look like [ ಕನ್ನಡ ]
b) we can easily change language in the middle of a line, as shown above.
c) we can easily write anything, by our finger  tip.
d) If you are not comfortable with fingertip, for capacitance type  touchscreen, a very good stylus pen available.

e) you can call the  google handwriting input app.for any application like face book, twitter, Whats App and email.
f)  google handwriting input app.will automatically correct many spelling mistakes (very much helpful to persons like me, who are likely to do many such mistakes in a hurry).
So, start downloading !

Sunday, June 7, 2015

A strange lady agreed to come down with me !

Me and my wife went to a shopping mall. We used lift and went to the 4th floor. It was so peculiar, that for going to the 4th floor, it is lift but for coming down, we should use only the escalator! But my wife is having strange fear and so, will never use escalator! 

She started quarreling with me for no fault of me. I was trying to convince her to use escalator. I was unsuccessful.
I then went to a shop girl and told my problem. But that shop was little away from where my wife was standing. Shop girl agreed to help and she went to convince my wife. Within minutes, she came and told me that she has convinced my wife! It was unbelievable. When I was about to move, she told me to go along with my “wife”. But she had unknowingly convinced some other lady! That strange lady was willing to come and was smiling and looking at me! I was terribly embarrassed and I told the situation to shop girl. She laughed and went. Then I told all this to my wife. Surprisingly, she agreed to accompany me to come down by the escalator.

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