Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Since my last post was a photographic tribute to India, I’d like to take this time to encourage every photographer in need of some inspiration to book a trip to this amazing country of contrasts and colors. What follows is a helpful lodging suggestion for anyone planning to make that trip.

Traveling to developing nations like India poses challenges the average jet setter to Europe might not be ready for. Until recently there was no well organized and inclusive hotel web site for visitors to study before making their trip.

That’s why, despite some minor faults, inasra.com is a goldmine of information for the tourist planning an Indian vacation. The site listed dozens of Indian cities often found on the tourist circuit. Simply click on the city of your choice and scroll through listed properties, which range from decadent palaces priced at hundreds of dollars a night, to simple abodes that cost less than a trip to McDonalds.

You can book Indian hotels online at this site, a positive convenience factor.

The site has some work to do: hotel descriptions can be sparse, and the web design is lacking imagination. It might also be more appealing if small thumbnail pictures were present before clicking through on each property.

But it’s really the first comprehensive hotel website of its type that I’ve seen for India.

As someone who has traveled throughout India, sometimes it’s best to skip the Lonely Planet lodging recommendations, which will be packed and often over booked. This website gives the traveler another tool at their disposal, and one that I believe is sure to come in handy. This is a sponsored post.

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Bowls of Color, originally uploaded by sportyjac22.

This is the first personal photo of my own that I have posted to this blog. It was taken on a rainy monsoon day in a covered market in Mysore, India.

There was a Lonely Planet India book cover that was very similar to this photo. I was lucky to get there while the rangoli, or colored chalk, was still in its perfect mound form.

Bazaars and covered markets are a photographer’s dream: all the colors, sites, sounds, and humanity and you don’t know where to point your camera first.

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shott-maxim, originally uploaded by danny bird.

A brilliant piece of fashion photography. There was much work behind this shot. When asked how he accomplished this photo, the photographer had this to say:

“Just threw it in the air - lucky shot i guess…No just kidding - jacket is suspended - velvet background - fishing line retouched out.”

The lighting and shadow is exquisite as well.

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One of the many features on the highly-touted Apple iPhone is a 2MP camera, which is decent by mobile phone standards. NY Times tech writer David Pogue was one of the lucky chosen few to preview the iPhone. He put the camera to a field test. His photos show that the iPhone takes brilliant photos of still, well-lit figures. Action shots are almost always blurry, and shots with low light…forget about it.

Sounds like a pretty typical camera phone to me. So the camera isn’t going to be one of the major selling points…I think this little gadget will do just fine anyway.