What I liked at BCB5?
Frankly, I didn’t spend much time in any other collective. Jace,Balaji, Vinayakdas, Arul, teKnofreaK and lunatech were there. It was one of the groups that I was looking forward to meet after BCB4(mahen,lavanya,mdemon were missing).
The first day, Vinayakdas(the-one-who-found-his-wife-at-bcb4) answered a lot of questions, and showed us some examples of Multiple exposure option, where in up to three exposures can be combined into a single image. This feature was quite impressive, it could pick out which regions needed more exposure and which needn’t. Got to know about BSOAP, and BWS from them. Later that evening, it was Amit’s talk.
While browsing, I came across Nikon D40’s ad. Quite impressive. Forget the ad, the page has almost everything that a person wanting to buy DSLR needs to know - in simple words.
The second day, Arul organized a photo-review session, where in people could show their photos and everyone could comment/review it. Akshath’s showed his photostream, and explained a few tricks that he employed.The strobist set in his photostream is worth noting. One of them, which he explained - a 2 minute exposure photo, while he ran around firing flashes in around 3-4 directions. *awesome*. And, flickr is getting really addictive.
Around evening when the discussions for BCB6 was going hot, Hobbes`,tuxplorer,teKnofreaK and tuxmaniac and myself got together and discussed about random topics around #linux-india. It was surprising to note that Hobbes` has been living in PST since the past 8 years, in India.
What I could note from BCB6 was that, there were a lot of people coming, but there weren’t much talks. Collective format worked out really well, and the Dari’s - super! What I would like to see at BCB6 is good discussion, and of course the photo collective.
PS: Btw,I came across chittr, an Indian Twitter. Man, Web 2.0 is so commonplace!
