AVAN IVAN REVIEW

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Bala known for his sharp, decisive screenplays & also for his ability to handle any kind of scripts. He adds value to the script by choosing the exact cast & crew. This time he goes with Vishal & Arya, hopefully this will be his fifth success in a row.


Story:
Movie begins with the trade mark scenes of Bala. Both Arya & Vishal are the brothers with same father but different Mother's. Both doesnt maintain the good releationship on each other. There will more ego rifts between two & that makes the movie more humourous.

The Ego clashes b/w Kumbudren sami(Arya) & Walter Vannangamudi(Vishal) will carry us to the interval in a simple way. GM Kumar who acts as a Jammen is an one big plus for the humour scenes. Arya, Vishal & GM Kumar are outstanding in their timing comedies between them and its a perfect one to watch.

Ambika plays the role of Vishal's mother and Jaya Prabha plays the role of Arya's mother. Both the family will come together due to a incident which happens at a interval block.
Post Interval, RK will be introduce as villain. Then comes some serious things will happen around at the beginning of Climax. What happened to Arya & Vishal?? The climax answers all. Surya plays a cameo in the movie where he comes for a public meeting & he will explains his Agaram foundation & its operations.


Performance:
Vishal, who is an hero for the masses earlier have choosen the script where he comes as transgender here with Squint eyes and he delivers his best. Can see his effort in each & every scene of the movie. And for the first tym he comes out with this genre. Avan Ivan certainly a landmark for Vishal.
Arya as an younger brother in the film has did his best with his comedies & his dialogues are added flavour to the movie. Should appreciate bala for his casting sense, he can make any one to act like Sivaji or Kamal. Yuvan's songs & back ground scores adds value to the movie. The Vishal's intro BGM is Yuvan's treat to the masses. Avana Pathi Nan pada poren & Oru malayoram songs are one of the best from him. Suresh Urs's editing is slick and neat.
Janani Iyer who is the new comer did the justice role as innocent police constable and he is the pair for Vishal. Another lady lead role of the movie is Madhu Shalini who is the pair of Arya also did her role well. 
However on the flip side, some dragging moments in second half could have been avoided. On the whole, it was an different experience watching a different film.


Verdict:
This is certainly not the kind of movie that you can munch popcorn through. Hats off Bala and team and three cheers to Vishal.

Best Practices for Ranking #1

Curiously, though perhaps not entirely surprisingly to experienced SEOs, the truth is that on-page optimization doesn't necessarily rank first in the quest for top rankings. In fact, a list that walks through the process of actually getting that first position would look something more like:

1. Accessibility - content engines can't see or access cannot even be indexed; thus crawl-ability is foremost on this list.
2. Content - you need to have compelling, high quality material that not only attracts interest, but compels visitors to share the information. Virality of content is possibly the most important/valuable factor in the ranking equation because it will produce the highest link conversion rate (the ratio of those who visit to those who link after viewing).
3. Basic On-Page Elements - getting the keyword targeting right in the most important elements (titles, URLs, internal links) provides a big boost in the potential ability of a page to perform well.
4. User Experience - the usability, user interface and overall experience provided by a website strongly influences the links and citations it earns as well as the conversion rate and browse rate of the traffic that visits.
5. Marketing - I like to say that "great content is no substitute for great marketing." A terrific marketing machine or powerful campaign has the power to attract far more links than content may "deserve," and though this might seem unfair, it's a principle on which all of capitalism has functioned for the last few hundred years. Spreading the word is often just as important (or more so) than being right, being honest or being valuable (just look at the political spectrum).
6. Advanced/Thorough On-Page Optimization - applying all of the above with careful attention to detail certainly isn't useless, but it is, for better or worse, at the bottom of this list for a reason; in our experience, it doesn't add as much value as the other techniques described.

Learn from ignorance

Joy and sorrow, day and night are inevitable. Sorrow or sadness is the offspring of ignorance. 


Ignorance is symbolised by darkness. Darkness has its own importance, without darkness, without night, the circadian rhythm of life will go for a toss. Biological systems will lose their balance; so to make your life perfect, to maintain complete equilibrium, night or darkness is essential. Therefore, if sadness comes, it's there for a purpose. When night comes, it has a purpose and the purpose is to strike a balance. If you don't sleep for two or three days nothing would work properly in your system. Ignorance is there and it is a very important part of the game. Ignorance exists because of Divine will. 


You have to change your attitude towards happiness and sadness; try not to see sadness with a negative attitude and don't see happiness in an extremely positive light. When you are sad, it only proves that there is a lack of understanding of something. With your misunderstanding you are creating that atmosphere of sadness; you are attaching too much importance to a situation or too little, so you are creating sadness with your lack of understanding. 


How to get rid of sadness? Get rid of that attitude which creates divisions and says, "This is very good and that is very bad; this is day, this is night". In reality, day and night are not two, they are one, sadness and happiness are not two; they are one. Death and life are not two they are one, but we have to evolve to perceive that. 


Cultivate understanding, consciousness, knowledge and awareness of life, and these can awaken in you a healthy system to help you learn to deal with every situation with perfect balance. We are enslaved by our senses; we tend to lead an impulsive life. Use the senses, but don't let them overwhelm you. 


When you experience sadness, it could help you to look within, take you deeper inside, it sharpens your perception. Sorrow comes to give you possibilities of betterment in life. Sometimes you see people become happy and they lose their balance, or become too sad and lose their balance. Such situations bring with them joy or sorrow, we have to learn how to treat them, how to deal with them. They come to help us evolve; they have a purpose. It is time to progress and with that learning attitude, deal with both situations; then joy and sorrow will both help you and give you something constructive. 

‘I have a dream’ – Martin Luther King, Jr

“So do the 270 million uneducated children in our country. They dream of standing on their own feet and touching the sky. However, they are chained down by poverty and their dreams remain a distant mirage. Education is every child’s fundamental right. Yet, for want of monetary backing, these children are deprived of the most basic necessity. Poverty is the river that separates them from their dreams, and we want to open up the bridge of knowledge. Education is the most precious gift anyone can give or receive, and that the children deserve to be more than mere thumb impressions.“ 

Educate & Emancipate is a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that is working to provide quality education to under privileged children in India. Educate & Emancipate was founded in 2007 to provide education for the extremely under-privileged and deserving youngsters in the city of Bangalore and Chennai. Since then the organization has grown in scope. 
Educate & Emancipate’s team consists of a group of spirited youngsters from a wide range of backgrounds such as professionals, students, corporates, social activists and media personnel.

Our efforts are focused on the following:
1. Students should not opt out of education for the want of money.
2. Proper mentorship and quality education should be made accessible to the poorest of poor.

http://educate-emancipate.com/

Vision - EDUCATE & EMANCIPATE CHARITABLE TRUST

Educate & Emancipate was founded on the firm belief that education is a fundamental right of every child in this country and that talent should not be wasted just because someone is born into unfortunate conditions. 

We also believe that it is the duty of every citizen of this country to look after each other and that it is only through that way we can uplift the millions of unfortunate people who were born into poverty and misery. 

Facilitation of a favorable environment for education and growth is the key to producing tomorrow’s world leaders. Educate & Emancipate believes that the desired changes in the lives of children will come only when more and more privileged people start participating proactively in finding a solution.

Therefore, our vision is to facilitate quality education for every deserving child in this country and in the process aid the growth and development of the country.

http://educate-emancipate.com/

100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography


Since I found photography two and a half years ago I have learned different things which I would like to share with you today. These lessons have made me richer and I hope that you will find them refreshing and inspiring on your journey with the camera, too.


1. Never do photography to become a rock-star.
2. Enjoy what you are shooting.
3. Prepare well for your shooting, realizing that your battery isn’t charge when you’re setting up for that sunrise shoot is too late!
4. Always take one warm garment more than you actually need with you
5. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting
6. Set goals you can achieve
7. Write tips about photography, because writing is also learning
8. Never go shooting without a tripod
9. Be pleased with the little prosperities
10. Build relationships with potential photo buddies
11. Watch the place you want to shoot first with your heart then with the camera
12. Always stay calm
13. Know that you tend to overestimate yourself
14. Perspective is the killer
15. Dedicate yourself to photography, but never browbeat yourself too much
16. Take part in a photography community
17. Keep your camera clean
18. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context
19. Find your own style of photography
20. Try to compose more and to hit the shutter less
21. Seek out and learn to accept critique on your images
22. Do something different to recover creativity
23. Get inspiration from the work of other photographers
24. Criticize honestly but respectfully
25. Get feedback from your lady
26. Don’t copy other photographer’s style
27. Be bold
28. Take care of the golden ratio
29. 10mm rocks!
30. Take selfportraits
31. Read books about photography
32. To give a landscapephotograph the extra boost, integrate a person (maybe yourself)
33. Every shooting situation is different than you expect
34. Pay attention to s-curves and lines
35. Always shoot in RAW
36. Keep your sensor clean, so you can save some work cleaning your image in post production
37. Discover the things you think are beautiful
38. It takes time to become a good photographer
39. The best equipment is that what you have now
40. You can’t take photographs of everything
41. Break the rules of photography knowingly, but not your camera 
42. Pay attention to the different way that light falls on different parts of your scene
43. The eye moves to the point of contrast
44. Clouds increase the atmosphere of a landscape
45. Start a photoblog
46. Accept praise and say “thank you”
47. ‘Nice Shot’ is not a very useful comment to write
48. ‘Amazing!’ isn’t useful either. Try to describe specifically what you like or don’t like about an image.
49. You are not your camera
50. Ask a question at the end of your comment on a photo to get a ping-pong conversation with the photographer
51. Do a review of your archives on a regular basis, the longer you photograph – the more diamonds are hidden there
52. Always clarify what the eyecatcher (focal point) will be in your image
53. No image is better than a bad one
54. Everyone has to start little
55. Your opinion about photography is important!
56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment
57. Speak about your experiences with your photo buddies
58. Limit your photograph to the substance
59. Participate in Photocontests
60. Post processing = Optimizing your image to the best result
61. Shoot exposure latitudes as often as possible
62. Use photomatix as seldom as possible, HDR’s always have a synthetic flavor
63. Always remember what brought you to photography
64. Never shoot a person who doensn’t want to be photographed
65. Always turn arround, sometimes the better image is behind you
66. It’s who’s behind the camera, not the camera
67. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!
68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work – Do it anyway. When in doubt – always shoot.
69. Understand and look to your histogramm while shooting. It delivers very important information about your image
70. Know your camera, because searching the menu button in the night is time you don’t want to waste
71. Shoot as often as possible
72. Believe in yourself
73. Don’t be afraid of getting dirty
74. Pay attention to qualitiy in your image
75. Your photographs are a personal map of your psyche
76. Re-check your ISO-Settings. It’s aweful to detect the wrong settings on your screen.
77. Be thankful for long and thoughtful comments on your images
78. Never trust your LCD. Normally it is brighter and sharper as the original image.
79. Provide for enough disc space, because it’s cheap and you will need it.
80. Learn to enjoy beautful moments when you don’t have a camera with you.
81. Always arrive at least half an hour earlier before sunrise / sundown, composing in a hurry is a bad thing.
82. Try to amplify your mental and physical limits. Takes some extra shots when you think “it’s enough”
83. Pay attention to structures in the sky and wait until they fit into structures in the foreground
84. Visit the same place as often as possible. Light never shows the same mountain.
85. Print your images in big size. You will love it.
86. Calibrate your monitor. Working with a monitor that is not accurate is like being together with someone you can’t trust. It always ends badly.
87. Don’t think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it’s worth publishing.
88. Never address reproaches to yourself. Learn from your mistakes and look forward, not backward.
89. Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline.
90. Ask yourself : What do you want to express in your images ?
91. Always try to think outside the box, collect new ideas about photographs you could do and ask yourself : Why not?
92. Search for a mentor.
93. Photography is never a waste of time.
94. Every community has it’s downsides. Don’t leave it out of an emotional response.
95. There will always be people who will not like what you are doing.
96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
97. A better camera doesn’t guarantee better images.
98. Always have printing in mind when you postprocess your images.
99. Photography is fair : You gain publicity with the quality of your images. Unless the images are stolen, there is no way of cheating yourself higher.
100. Write a 100 things list

Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time

Light

Dancing with light

• Light from the side brings out shapes, textures and structures. That’s why early morning and evening are rich times to photograph.
• With the sun behind your subject, you get some of the most dramatic visual effects … but exposure could be tricky to get right. Try it anyway!
• When the sun is high and the light is hard, don’t fight it to try to get it all. Concentrate on exposing the bright parts properly and work with the shapes of shadows.
• For light and shadow effects you need the sun, of course, but colours are often more intense on half-sunny or overcast days.

The color of color

• Natural light is white, while artificial light is often shades of yellow, orange or green.
• Our eyes naturally adjust to colored or tinted light sources to make them appear white and so will your digital camera but only within certain limits
• If you want warm-colored pictures work earlier or later in the day when natural light tends to be more orange.
• This image shows warm light from an evening sun but bluish shadows from the cloudless sky

Mastering flash

• Balance the flash with day light for stunning results. Your camera may offer a ’slow flash’ or ’synchro flash’ or ‘daylight synchro’ setting.
• Direct flash on groups of people produces better-looking images than direct flash on a single person.
• The latest cameras allow you to set high ISO speeds e.g. ISO 800 which can help avoid using flash altogether.
• Avoid red-eye by turning up or providing more light in the room.
• If you use your camera’s red-eye reduction setting when taking flash photographs of people you avoid red-eye, but there’s a delay in taking the shot which may cause you to miss the moment.

Choosing your time

• Low or cross lighting at dawn or dusk produces wonderful lighting and colors.
• At dawn and dusk there are natural shadows to help give depth and form to your subject.
• For early evening shots, you will need longer shutter times i.e. longer exposure to make up for the low light. This makes it likely your photographs could be blurry due to camera shake, so lean your camera on something - anything steady - to keep still during exposure.
• Don’t be afraid to point the lens at a setting sun , but whatever you do avoid looking at the sun directly, especially through the viewfinder of your camera.

Landscaping your photos

Composition essentials

• It’s best to keep your horizons level in your photographs, otherwise your shots will appear crooked (unless that’s what you want!).
• Keep the main points of interest away from the centre, and from the extreme edges - better, still, try placing them in different parts of the image and see which works best.
• Don’t shoot everything from a standing position. Look for unusual angles by changing yours (and the camera’s position).
• Better to avoid completely empty space in your photos.

Framing the lines

• Don’t be afraid to use take portrait photographs - that is, with the camera on its side.
• Use natural features in the environment to create a frame for your subject or to lead the eye through the image.
• Zoom in to create a sense of intimacy. Remove from your shots elements like the sun or the sky, which give a feeling of open space.
• Experiment with framing. Try framing your shots with lots of foreground and very little sky, or lots of sky and very little land.

Zooming around

• Zooming-out allows you to capture more of the view.
• A wide-angle lens will keep everything in focus while helping to maximise the ‘depth of field’, or feeling of depth in your shots.
• Zooming-in will flatten the sense of perspective and make distant objects appear closer together.
• Zooming-in will also affect the amount of your picture that is in focus allowing you to isolate details against an out-of-focus foreground and/or background.
• Be careful to avoid camera shake when zoomed right in, as tiny movements in your hands become magnified.

Prospecting the perspective

• Create perspective by using the lines and shapes within the shot to draw the eye.
• Tall buildings can appear to ‘lean back’ when photographed. Getting something in the foreground of your shot helps balance this.
• Increase the sense of perspective by using a wide-angle lens and adding foreground interest.
• A low viewpoint and wide-angle setting helps to contrast the size and shape of objects in interesting ways.

Foregrounding

• Foreground is the area that is closest to the camera: the stronger it is, the stronger the rest of the image.
• An object in the foreground first invites the eye, then lead the viewer deeper into the photo.
• Include foreground objects to add a sense of scale and perspective
• Experiment with allowing the foreground to totally dominate the photo

Cool proportions

• The central part of your scene usually draws the camera like a magnet so it ends up in the centre - try resisting that tendency
• Place the main point of interest towards the sides of your photographs for more dynamic compositions
• Place your horizon near the top or bottom of your shots to add emphasis to the ground or to the sky
• In this picture you can see there is a smallish amount of sky while the rocks have been placed high in the image to allow the silhouette of the trees to be significant.

People with you

Lighting faces

• The soft light you get on overcast days is especially good for photographing people, as it delivers the best skin tones
• Side or ‘cross’ lighting is more interesting because it gives depth and form to your portrait sitter
• Keep backgrounds and other distractions to the minimum so that the viewer can concentrate on the face
• In this picture, soft light from a window lights the faces of the girls from the side, while a zoomed-in setting throws the foreground face out of focus.

Depth of feeling

• Use your zoom lens to shorten the ‘depth of field’ (depth sharpness) in your photograph, and throw the background out of focus. This adds emphasis to your subject.
• Use your zoom lens to fill your photograph, rather than leaving your main point of interest floating in space.
• Zooming in will flatten perspective, which generally produces a more flattering shot of your subject.
• In this picture, a zoomed-in setting focuses on the girl, throwing the foreground objects out of focus.

Natural frames

• Use a person’s surroundings to be a natural picture frame the photo
• People will often smile and pose stiffly for their portrait: if you don’t want a smile take two or more pictures - a second or two after a smile, the pose relaxes and you have a more natural shot.
• Look for the natural junctions of the human body (where it seems natural to ‘cut-off’) if you are not including the whole person in the shot.
• Soft light is easiest to work with: try sitting your subject near a window.

Childish tricks

• Get the children used to you and the camera by firing off lots of shots first.
• For small children , pre-focus the camera. This is done on most digital cameras by pressing down halfway on the shutter button. Then move yourself backwards and forwards with the child to keep the shot in focus.
• Get down on your hands and knees to stay level with your subject and appear less intimidating.
• Use something to draw the child’s attention away from the fact that they are having their photograph taken.

Coloring the essentials

Bolder colors

• Redder colors will create a warmer feel for your shots than blues or greens.
• color affects the way we look at pictures, so try to use color creatively in your shots.
• Look for images that contain contrasting colors, such as red and green or yellow and purple, to add tension or drama.
• Using shades of the same colors will create a sense of harmony.

The best light is free

• Bright sunlight gives colors a more intense or ’saturated’ feel.
• Midday light has a bluer quality, which can give photos a harsher feel.
• Try to place strong colors against large areas of even tone or color - this helps bring out their intensity
• Look for color contrasts - red with blues and greens, for example.
• Photographs taken at the beginning or end of the day will have a warmer tone due to the natural orangeness of the light.

Emotional colors

• Different dominant colors lead your viewer towards different emotions which impacts on the way your shot is experienced
• Yellow is associated with happiness, but orange may moves us toward concern - hence the use of amber as a warning light.
• Red is the universal color of warning. Use it with caution - a little bit of red in your shot goes a long way!
• Greens and blues usually have a calming effect, hence their association with landscape
• The many colors in this shot are held together by the large areas of yellows, giving it an unmistakeable sunny Mediterranean mood.

Composition

Lines of force

• You can create a sense of direction using naturally occurring lines.
• Slanting or ‘oblique’ lines imply movement, action and change.
• Curved lines or S-shaped lines imply quiet, calm and sensual feelings.
• Lines that converge imply depth, scale and distance, for example, the outer edges of a road converge as it disappears into the distance, giving a two-dimension image three-dimensional depth.
• Repetitive elements create a sense of rhythm, which is often more interesting if the rhythm is broken by a missed element.

Thirds

• Imagine two horizontal and two vertical lines equally dividing your shot, then place subjects on the lines or where they intersect with each other: this can be a help in deciding on compositions
• Place your horizon on the top or bottom line to add emphasis to the ground or to the sky respectively.
• In this picture, the composition combines color contrasts with proportions closer to another principle, the Golden Section, which gives pleasing proportions.
• Just pushing your composition slightly to one side so it feels a little uncomfortable can give your photos a dynamic it wouldn’t otherwise have.

Focusing away

• The human eye is drawn to elements that are in focus, and this will influence how your photo is seen.
• Auto-focus (standard on most digital cameras) will focus on what is in the centre of the frame. Use pre-focus to move your subject away from the centre of the frame. (This is done on most digital cameras by pressing down halfway on the shutter button.)
• Use your zoom lens to reduce the ‘depth of field’ (sense of depth) and throw the background out of focus. This will emphasise any in-focus element in the foreground.
  Photo © Wendy Ang

Being ready

Drive your motor

• Take lots of pictures. With digital cameras shots cost you hardly anything at all.
• Move around as you photograph to experiment and give yourself plenty of choice later.
• Stay alert for that chance-of-a-lifetime shot: keep your camera turned ON, keep your mind switched to ON.
• In this picture, the golden eagle put its wing on the falconer for only a few very short seconds, and the falconer grinned for even less time!

Vantage points

• It is almost always worth clambering up a wall or steps to get a little higher - but don’t get yourself into trouble with authorities.
• You may also have to wait for the best light.
• And you might have to wait for a composition of passing people to arrange itself
• The best position may depend on the zoom setting that you choose.
• In this picture, I had to wait nearly thirty minutes for everyone to get themselves into position.

Shutter lag

• Shutter lag is the time a digital camera needs to capture a picture after you have pressed the shutter button.
• Reduce shutter lag by focusing beforehand, hold the shutter button down half-way or half-pressure and wait for the moment.
• Reduce shutter lag by turning off any unnecessary automatic features such as red-eye reduction.
• In this picture, the only way to catch the air force jets at the right instant was to release the shutter just before they reached their ideal positions.

Always ready

• If you see a good picture you may be early: an even better one may come in a few seconds
• Get your exposure and focusing and framing set up while you wait for the perfect shot
• Hold the camera to your eye all the time; in the half-second it takes lift the camera you could miss the shot
• In this picture, I spotted the shepherd from a car, screeched/skidded to a halt, got the car to disappear and waited for the flock to approach me - using the time to work out the best viewpoint to meet them.