I’m test driving Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Beta. The interface is intuitive and well laid out on first impression. I’ll post a detailed one, once I run through it. In the mean while, you can download the trial version and enjoy the ride.

UPDATE 26 June 2008: Tiltviewer, check my latest Flickr gallery using Tiltviewer
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UPDATE 21 May 2008: easyFlickr - If you can play around the code, and put your own styling, this is quite a flexible one.

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UPDATE 8 Jan 2008: Pviewer, this is a cool new site not only for your Flickr photos, but also for your photos hosted on Picasa Web. They have not given an option to embed the gallery. But I guess that won’t be far.

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Lately I got some mail from some visitors of my Photo Gallery, to help them set up their gallery. Though I’m not a hardcore techie, I’d used Dustin Senos version of Mark Sweeting’s FlickViewer which are built upon AirTight Interactive’s popular SimpleViewer. So it’s a long story and it uses some PHP and Flickr API key. And Thanks Dustin for listing my site in your page.

Now for the less techie who are scared to play around. There are some cool online stuff, which will do the job for you. And all you need to provide is your Flickr ID or number.

• PictoBrowser
• Flickr Gallery
• 123Flickr
• Flickr | FlashApis.com

Hope you find it useful and let me know if there’s more :)

Flinders Street Station
Originally uploaded by haobam

My picture of the historic Flinders Street Station, Melbourne is featured on Lets Take Pictures, you can view the same under Misc.

This was shot using my tripod, I took quite a number of shot from the pavement, some shaky due to people bumping into me. Straight from the camera, not photoshopped ;)

You can view my photo collections on
http//www.haobam.com/photo/

Seems like Mr Gates cooking up some interesting stuff for all those Microsoft bashers. After Surface, check out Photosynth.

Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. So who knows my Opera House Sydney photos on Flickr might be the next ;)

Its quite an experience when I tried it. But a higher system configuration recommended.

Jaw dropping demo by Blaise Aquera, architect Seadragon MS Live Labs,
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Experience Photosynth online
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

Victoria Memorial
Originally uploaded by haobam.

This is a little experiment with HDRI (High dynamic range imaging) achieved using Photoshop. I’d used this old picture of Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India, which I shot with a Nikon analog SLR on a visit to the wonderful city.

I’ve simulated multi-exposure shot through duplicating the same image, treating with different levels to suit the various areas. The shot originally shot on very low light, I haven’t concentrated much on the trees, in the foreground.