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		<title>Photography moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life day by day we passed many moments and events for granted, but when there is a media that is named photography, we can record and immortalize the moment. Photography is an expression of its own, when we took a picture, we can release and channel the emotions it into an image, and also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In life day by day we passed many moments and events for granted, but when there is a media that is named photography, we can record and immortalize the moment. Photography is an expression of its own, when we took a picture, we can release and channel the emotions it into an image, and also record the emotion of the object we take. so that the image have meaning, even the soul, which make the photo feel alive, that is photography moment.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t ever close the information beside you, even its just passing by, either its a good information or bad, both of them will create a great knowledge. This is how you won&#8217;t missed the moment, because you have learn all the information, so its easier for you catching the moment.<br />
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Knowledge and experience are very important! Always tried everything come over you, and prepare to embrace new things in your life, seek it and get positive value of all that you live.</p>
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<p>So how about your hard work being price down? Well as long as we make this work of photography nice, then we do not<br />
fatigue needs to slam the price to get a client, even when typically picture has its unique, which are not obtained by other photographers, we get a price above the average.</p>
<p>The original skill got better price then copying. These days capturing moment doesn&#8217;t have to get the feeling, some could do it in editing room with complete computer technology, but there&#8217;s not much satisfaction with you&#8217;re doing it alone, its priceless.</p>
<p>As if you&#8217;re playing <a href="http://www.macpokeronline.com/us-poker/" target="_blank">US Poker</a> or <a href="http://www.macpokeronline.com/" target="_blank">Poker on line</a> trying to get better <a href="http://www.macpokeronline.com/online-poker-deals/" target="_blank">Poker Deals</a>, but photography isn&#8217;t a gambling, for some its a career path, way of living, and hobbies. Just like playing <a href="http://www.macpoker.eu/" target="_blank">Mac poker UK</a> which requires you to be in front of computer and equipped with certain knowledge, its the same with photography, get more knowledge and resource to increase your skill, then the moment you could get it by yourself by learning.</p>
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		<title>Capturing Fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fashion industry has been rapidly increasing, along with promotion through advertisement and many other ways. Those advertisement usually presented in a picture or photo and its a new chance for photographer. Unlike other objects, such as landscape photography, capturing moving object like human got its own difficulties which makes it more challenging.
Certain knowledge, combine with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fashion industry has been rapidly increasing, along with promotion through advertisement and many other ways. Those advertisement usually presented in a picture or photo and its a new chance for photographer. Unlike other objects, such as landscape photography, capturing moving object like human got its own difficulties which makes it more challenging.</p>
<p>Certain knowledge, combine with experience, and talent are things you should have to break those challenge. Learning from basic will give you bigger perspective, basic knowledge combine with artistic and fresh ideas would make a big different. Basic knowledge could be gather from Photography Schools, or closer into it is Graphic Design Colleges.<br />
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<p>Like any other field of interest, there always obstacle, but if you&#8217;re thinking those obstacle is just another challenge to beat, than success already in your hand. In fashion photography the key point is the object, which ended requirement of model, stylish and make-up artist, this might be quite hard for an amateur and became the biggest obstacle, especially if you&#8217;re not afford to hire them.</p>
<p>Here comes the challenge, but if you know how to handle it, eventually you could play some trick in here. Those expensive model, make up artist, and all those beautiful dresses wear by the model, could be minimize. If you have friends that could work together with you as a model, then tell her your condition, and if possible she could do her own make up and dresses, with a promise that you&#8217;ll capture a photo to remember.</p>
<p>In order to get good result, you got to be maximal. And fashion photographs are always fashion for product or commercial use only, but also emphasis on the concept and mood or strong expression. To get a photo or portrait of good fashion, getting to know each model characters is way more important. Its sort of making a chemistry between a model with the photographer.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[You love your point &#038; shoot digital camera but now you yearn for something more. A camera that offers more versatility and interchangeable lenses. A camera that lets you get closer to wildlife than the zoom on your small digital.
Perhaps you want to shoot birds — with a camera, not a gun.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You love your point &#038; shoot digital camera but now you yearn for something more. A camera that offers more versatility and interchangeable lenses. A camera that lets you get closer to wildlife than the zoom on your small digital.<br />
Perhaps you want to shoot birds — with a camera, not a gun.<br />
Be forewarned, if you want to get into photographing wildlife, especially birds, you must have have a LONG lens. The very minimum focal length would be a 300mm with a 1.4x tele converter. I have used that with some success in photographing birds.<br />
When I was first starting out as a photographer I was on a nice drive with the ex and children. I really wanted to photograph the great blue herons we saw in the fields outside Davis, Calif. But every time we got even a little close to the birds they would hop/fly off just out of range of my wimpy 200mm lens.<span id="more-38"></span><br />
So I figured if I got out of the car and sort of crept up on them I could get a good shot. Slowly, ever so quietly, I approached the herons. And off they would go as I brought the camera to my eye.<br />
In frustration I finally gave up and went back to the car. My ex said wryly, “It is really hard to sneak up on a bird — especially if you are wearing reds pants”.<br />
Smart aleck. But the lesson stayed with me and I never wore red pants again.<br />
But seriously, even with a 300mm lens and tele converter you cannot get really close to birds. I usually settle for a hawk on a telephone pole like the one shown, or a scenic with a bird in it — not a close up of the bird.<br />
The really good bird and wildlife photographers are shooting with lenses that start about 500mm and go up from there. With lenses that are that big one needs special tripods and supports so to really dedicate oneself to wildlife shooting means spending a lot of money.<br />
One of the best web sites I have seen on learning the basics of bird photography is www.richditch.com/page0/PhotoTurtorial/PhotoTurtorial.html<br />
Much of what is discussed can be used in any type of image making: lighting, composition and lens techniques. (Sound familiar?)<br />
But what if you just want to make that switch to digital SLRs to further your photographic journey? I use Canon gear so what I suggest is biased by that experience.  Canon’s entry level camera is the EOS Digital Rebel XT. It has an 10.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor, Canon’s DIGIC III Image Processor and compatibility with more than 50 EF Lenses.<br />
I have played with this camera and it is sweet and easy to use.<br />
And the price is perfect. B&#038;H photo has the Rebel with a 18-55mm kit lens for $529.95. Considering the first digital body I ever used for newspaper work cost $15,000 for a whopping 2 megapixels; what this little Canon costs and what it can do is amazing!<br />
If you have been considering the switch this is the perfect time for it. The 18-55mm lens is not a great one but it is a good beginning lens that you can cut your photo baby teeth on. Once you have gone beyond the basics, you can look to expand your gear list. — like for a BIG lens for shooting birds.<br />
Remember to have fun!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Wedding photography is one of the rare good careers in photography. It is also a fun challenge for amateurs to try to do something creative at a wedding where a professional has been hired to get the essential photos.
All wedding photographers are competent users of state-of-the-art equipment, but the great ones are distinguished by their [...]]]></description>
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Wedding photography is one of the rare good careers in photography. It is also a fun challenge for amateurs to try to do something creative at a wedding where a professional has been hired to get the essential photos.<br />
All wedding photographers are competent users of state-of-the-art equipment, but the great ones are distinguished by their people and posing skills. Wedding photographers work with models that they&#8217;ve never met, wearing clothes that they didn&#8217;t pick, under lighting conditions established by a whimsical God, all while watching the minutes between the ceremony and the reception tick away. This photography resource guide includes information on how to take the best wedding pictures and photos. It also includes example photography of brides in their wedding dresses, wedding ceremonies, and best men. </p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still buzzing after a wicked weekend in a gorgeous château in southwest France with a group of strangers all seeking to improve their creative streak. My goal was to take better travel pics and here I was on that first step to photographic wizardry.
Creative Escapes&#8217; tutors &#8212; Roger and Jon &#8212; waited at Toulouse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m still buzzing after a wicked weekend in a gorgeous château in southwest France with a group of strangers all seeking to improve their creative streak. My goal was to take better travel pics and here I was on that first step to photographic wizardry.<br />
Creative Escapes&#8217; tutors &#8212; Roger and Jon &#8212; waited at Toulouse airport with wine and baguette. With September temperatures in France promising a weekend away from the steady downpours at home, I already felt a million miles from the office.<br />
I&#8217;ve been taking pictures on my travels ever since I received a little instamatic for a birthday present at school. About 20 cameras later (some due to damage on nights out with friends) and upgrades every time I moved to another country, I finally had a digital SLR (Canon 30D) and was immediately stunned with the numerous little dials, symbols, buttons and numbers. <span id="more-31"></span><br />
So this was my challenge &#8212; to move the dial to manual (M) and say goodbye to the days of pressing the green button.<br />
Four days of intensive tutoring, copious bottles of red wine, and lashings of strong coffee and pains au chocolat for breakfast, I finally have 11 pictures I&#8217;m really proud of. 11, I hear you say, is that all? Well, yes. But they are 11 quality photos, the likes of which I have never taken. I learnt about apertures and depth of field, although I think I developed a few frown lines in the thinking process; shutter speeds came next and this one made sense; then we covered histograms and brightness. Phew! Pass me the red wine again?<br />
But it wasn&#8217;t all hard work. The B team (as someone supposedly nicknamed us) were three of us made up of a writer from Roger&#8217;s writing course and two of us amateur photographers. The challenge was to make up a story with pictures from a little jaunt around Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, a medieval village just 30 minutes from our château and one of the locations used in the film Charlotte Gray. Anyway, to gain inspiration, we headed to a caf?? only for Jon to catch us red-handed with a beer in hand. Maybe that was what the B stood for?<br />
That evening we put the words and pictures into a PowerPoint. Lounging around in the château&#8217;s sumptuous sofas, we laughed and smiled at the amazing stories compiled by our now-able student writers and admired the inspired images of our fellow photographers. Our team&#8217;s love story produced a few ah&#8217;s and was hopefully enhanced by my close-up shot of an old rusty heart.<br />
The next day&#8217;s challenge for the photography crew (after last night&#8217;s hangover) was to search out the village celeb and shoot a whole load of paparazzi shots. Was Brad Pitt in town? I think we missed him while we set up our shots &#8212; and had to make do with Jon<br />
Final practice we set off to the town of Cahors and its Saturday market. Despite a few raindrops, I couldn&#8217;t believe the quality of images my co-students had taken from close-up shots of sticky cakes in the pâtisserie to a squashed tomato in a puddle. I took courage after a few wise words from Jon and a 10-point plan on a laminated cheat card and approached the leek seller who was more than willing to have his photo taken by me.<br />
Not only did I achieve my goal to take better pics, I enjoyed the added bonus of a weekend in France with good food, wine and great company. On top of all that, I came home armed with 11 images that I will always treasure and the email addresses of a bunch of people who I hope will remain great friends. So guys, when&#8217;s the next course?</p>
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