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2007-07-27T14:59:00.000+03:00

Photography Tutorial - Depth of Field

2007-07-17T11:31:00.000+03:00

This video shows a very interesting photography tutorial on depth of field with Shelton Muller of Total Image magazine (www.total-image.com.au)

Thomas Heatherwick innovative design

2007-07-02T11:36:00.001+03:00

Thomas Heatherwick (born 1 March 1970) is an English designer, often mislabelled as a sculptor or artist. He is known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments.

Thomas Heatherwick describes himself as a three-dimensional designer. His projects are diverse, innovative and breathtaking each in their own individual way. Just have a look for yourself!

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Bill West: War Shock

2007-06-28T13:35:00.000+03:00

War Shock

"In war, truth is the first casualty"

Aeschylus

Like the politics implicit in these photographs, we first glimpse patterns that demand our scrutiny if we are to gain deeper understanding. Armed forces fighting, frenzied and jagged, shadowed, merging with the muddy earth, fading into ashes. The names of thousands of American soldiers dead in Iraq, crumpled, torn, hung out to dry. The faces of the dead haunting the memories of those left at home. The wasting away of vibrant young lives, the destruction of American values.

War Shock is a protest: a protest against governmental deceptions; against the reckless loss of American soldiers; against the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. It is a protest against the desecration of the Constitution; against the dismantling of American freedoms, the disrespect for our law; against the toleration of torture.

Read the names of the dead, see their faces. As Americans we are all responsible, we are all complicit. In a democracy, the country's policy is the policy of the people; our government acts in our name. Can we sit idle, constructing excuses about how powerless we are to initiate change?

There is no alibi to standing by in silence. As a country, we voted for the people who started this. Volunteer. Protest. Write a politician. Vote! We must care enough to exercise rightful influence on our government's actions. We cannot become numb as more lives are tossed along this ill-considered path. Please honor these men and women by demanding a path to change. Cry the names of the dead until everyone sees our tears.

Bill West

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

General Westmoreland

(source: http://www.photoarts.com/gallery/billwest/statement.htm)

Art materials

2007-06-21T11:43:00.001+03:00

Dick Blick's first catalog originated in 1911 in the form of a small pamphlet issued by its two founding partners, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Blick. The warehouse was located in their kitchen and shipping was done through the local post office.

Today, Dick Blick remains the premier art supplies source for professional artists, students and teachers, and continues to be a family-owned business. Dick Blick also publishes annual school and artists' catalogs, and its website features a wide range of art materials available at the best prices.

Sicaf Seoul, 2003

2007-06-17T22:42:00.000+03:00

The Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) is an annual showcase festival of animation, cartoon and related art genres held in Seoul, South Korea since 1995.

Among the most notable SICAF events was a 2003 performance by Ferenc Cakó, a Hungarian sand animation artist, which has been widely distributed online. Cakó uses fluid, economical movements to express the creation myth.

(source: Wikipedia)

Farnham Young Arts, slideshow

2007-06-17T13:00:00.000+03:00

The FYA is a group of artists from the south of england. The FYA is working to bring together young artists from the south to network, collaborate and exhibit.

5 Quick Steps To Instantly Improve Your Outdoor Photos!

2007-06-16T20:53:00.000+03:00

By Gary Bunn

We all love taking outdoor action shots that really capture the moment, so below we’ve compiled a short 5 step guide to help you snap outdoor action in a really exciting way!

Keep a low angle..

Use a medium to long telephoto lens to compress perspective and fill the frame with the action. You can then shoot from a safe distance and still be head-on to the action. Also, try shooting from a really low angle -lie on the ground - as the foreground will lead the eye into the action.

Try going wide..

Alternatively, you could use a super wide-angle lens. Getting in this close to the action gives your images another increase in the level of impact. Try to use a low camera angle on jumps to emphasise height and action and then a flashgun for fill-in flash to create motion blur, again enhancing speed.

Stop the action..

The minimum speed for achieving biting sharpness is l/500th of a second. In low light or under the shade of trees push the ISO speed up a little - 200 ISO is fine, with no loss in quality but ISO 400 can start to get a bit more noisy so a 'fast' but pricey f/2.8 telephoto lens will help here.

Add a splash of colour..

Colour can make all the difference. Dress your riders in bright tops. Red, orange, yellow, bright greens and blues create eye-catching splashes of movement. Choose complementary or sympathetic colours. Colourful bikes help too -a lot of single track is under dark, drab trees.

Master that exposure..

With wide lenses, meter for the highlights and leave the shadows. With full-frame telephoto images, meter for the rider or a mid-tone on the ground - washed-out backgrounds can be a useful contrast to action. Red or blue fleeces are often mid-tone so meter from them if needs be.

We have many more useful digital photography tutorials Here

Gary Bunn is the Editor of Your-Digital-Photography.com, the Complete Digital Photography Resource Site, with News, Reviews, Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for the Photo Enthusiast!

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Make Money Blogging

2007-06-16T20:41:00.000+03:00

By Matt Bacak

You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:

1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.

2. Updated regularly.

3. Enough back links (Don't worry for it. Directory submission would be enough to begin with)

4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad recommended), and

5. High quality articles or news items supported with images.

Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah... You are ready to Make Money Blogging.

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging

Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could make money blogging:

1. Google Adsense
Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the authorized websites/blogs depending on the content of the website. Small code is required to be pasted at proper locations on a webpage and Google automatically recognizes the page. Google shares the revenue it gets from the advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads.

Google bills advertisers on price per click basis (PPC). Advertisers are required to pay only when any visitor clicks on their ads. They bid against each other for the keywords in order to receive better placement and thus prices for each keyword differ from one another. It is better to choose keywords for your blog which pays high $ per click.

2. Amazon
Amazon Associate program is another important way to make money blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives opportunity to website/blog publishers to promote any product from its inventory by adding a predefined code to their website/blog, which, when clicked by a visitor, takes them to the relevant product page. Once the visitor buys the product, the blog owner will be compensated with a commission.

3. Blogads
You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better control over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze and compare your profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.

Alternative Services:
• Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs. You can put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. You can move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generating revenues.

• Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select the ads and their price.

Users can place their text-based ads in the site within minutes and the ads will be displayed instantly on the website.

4. Affiliate Programs
Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money for selected products and services. Lot of websites offers you to become affiliate members. These affiliate programs can provide a better reach and an in-depth exposure to the products. The commissions for the sales differ according to the quality of the product, sales and marketing strategy involved. You can gather information related to the commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share and Commission junctions.

5. Text Links
Text links has emerged out to be the best form of moneymaking source that you can use instead of cluttering or crowding the page with ads. You don’t have to make these text links prominent within your website. This link can act as an extra value to your site and will also help to promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the cases you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the web pages. The best part of this strategy is that the publishers send and accept links as the market continues to grow.

Matt Bacak, The Powerful Promoter and Entrepreneur Magazine e-Biz
radio show host, became a "#1 Best Selling Author" in just a few short hours. He has helped a number of clients target his specialty, opt-in email direct marketing systems. The Powerful Promoter is not only a sought-after internet marketer but has also marketed for some of the world's top experts whose reputations would shrivel if their followers ever found out someone else coached them on their online marketing strategies.

For more information, visit Bacak's site at http://www.powerfulpromoter.com/ or sign up for his Powerful Promoting
Tips at http://www.promotingtips.com/

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Get Paid To Draw, Paint and Take Pictures Online

2007-06-15T10:26:00.000+03:00

By: Stephan Smith

Drawing and Sketching

There are millions of people in many different countries all over the planet who love to draw. A good percentage of those people are quite talented and can create entire worlds on a single sheet of paper. The most common median used to portray the imaginations of these artists is the pencil, however many do use pens, and charcoal. These tools can be used to draw anything from the smallest of animals to aliens from the 4th dimension. Sadly, it's a pity to learn that almost 99.9% of these wonderful pieces of art are going unnoticed and not generating any revenue. Aware that great art usually takes a great deal of time and mental concentration to create, it confuses me why many are not getting paid for them.

Painting

Nothing draws the eye quite like a beautiful painting. There are so many ways to paint a picture, it would take me around 4 hours to explain them all. Though painting with standard paint is the most common form of painting, the two other types that I feel I am the most knowledgeable about is oil and water coloring. If you simply do a search for any oil or water coloring paintings, you will be blown away at their beauty. Though the well known artists make millions of dollars from each of their paintings, there is no reason why the millions of less established artists cannot make an income online from their paintings.

Photography

The saying goes "A picture is worth a thousands words". It can also be worth a thousand dollars or even more. There are hundreds of well know photographers getting paid untold amounts of money. What about the other hundred of thousands of aspiring photographers. I've personally seen countless photographs that have taken my breath away and I know they weren't taken by some professional photographer. There are tons of everyday photographers taking wonderful and astounding pictures. It's time you get paid for them.

Get Paid To Draw, Paint, And Take Pictures
I bet you're wondering how can you get paid to draw, paint and take pictures. Well it isn't difficult to start earn money from your art, simply look around the Internet. If you're thinking eBay or a similar auction site, I wouldn't depend to much on those sites.

There are many people earning over $2,145 per week with their art. If you want to start earning serious money with your art visit the following: Get Paid To Draw | Squidoo Get Paid To Draw | YouTube Get Paid To Draw

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Digital Photo: Things to Know

2007-06-15T09:06:00.000+03:00

By: John Oxton
The best thing about a digital photo is that you can manipulate it to the extent of your imagination. This manipulation can be achieved thanks to various software packages available on the market, varying in complexity from the feature packed Adobe Photoshop to Paint Shop Pro.

Still, there is magic when a digital photo is modified by experienced hands and eyes, allowing that unbelievable moment to be captured in such a way as to never be forgotten, but even then they can be refined further. It is the story or the impression behind that moment that keeps the viewer enamoured with the photo for a longer period of time.

It takes time to become a perfect photographer and one needs to grow though experimentation and experiences.

However a basic knowledge of the techniques of photographing is must. A digital camera is not all that is required to make a good photographer.

Primarily, know your camera well. Read the manual top to bottom, and then go out to play with the machine.

Now come back to the basics and learn about other things like exposure, shutter speed, aperture etc that helps you to customize your digital photo in real time. You can find a lot of hand books online and offline to get an initial idea of how this is achieved.

As a brief explanation of some of the primary terms; exposure is the point in the process of taking a photo when the light sensitive film or sensor is exposed to a light source. Over or under exposure may destroy the image, so be careful while setting it in your digital camera and capturing the photo.

Shutter speed is the time period for which the shutter is held open for light to reach the digital photo sensor. Depending on the variations of combinations of lens aperture and sensor's sensibility, it regulates how much light the camera will record when taking a digital photo. Shutter speed can directly affect the quality of your digital photo dependant on the situation and whether the object is moving or still.

An aperture is a hole or the gap through which light enters into the camera sensor or the film.

One should always remember that they cannot go far when skipping the basics of the trade when taking these elements into consideration.

There are so many other important aspects that you need to know for taking visually good digital photo. We will come to them later.

Now, when you go out again to play with your digital camera, try to realise the potential for variance with all aspects mentioned here. With a digital camera you always have the option to know about the quality of the photo without taking a print.

One last thought: while taking a digital photo try to sort out by yourself the relationship between "object" and "film-depth".

Last minute experiment: keeping camera settings the same, change the location of the object in respect to the frame. Download these digital photos in your computer and study them critically and objectively.

You have all the answers.

Author Bio
John Oxton is a professional photographer, printer and a freelance investigative writer. For more information regarding digital photo, and cheap online prints he recommends you to visit, www.colorama.co.uk

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IKEA's CEO, Anders Dahlvig, on Hardtalk

2007-06-14T15:36:00.000+03:00

I just watched the "interview" of Ikea's CEO, Anders Dahlvig, on Hardtalk (BBC). What a disappointment! Although there would have been a lot to say and learn about this highly enigmatic and succesful company, both Stephen Sackur (the interviewer) and Anders Dahlvig missed a great opportunity. Most of all, Stephen Sakur in his inquisitive (anglo-saxon) way of conducting interviews didn't manage to get any valuable answers. Rather the whole show turned out to be a succession of accusations of unethical practices, may be founded, and questioning about whether or not the company should go public to put itself under shareholders scrutiny.

However, if we didn't get answers I think that this interview revealed a couple of very interesting issues:

First, regarding the accusations about Ikea's lack of control over its suppliers in term of possible child labour and unsustainable forest management. Ikea admitedly fails to control all its suppliers on these issues (only 30% of its suppliers are regularly contolled). My question is how much ethical control should we expect/demand from private companies, and how much from government and ourselves? The problem here is that control comes at a cost and nobody is really willing to bear it! should the cost be covered by Governments (that is tax payers money of the sourcing countries)? By private companies out of their profit? Or by the consumers out of their pockets? The right answer is probably all of them.

Second, on the legal form of enterprises. Stephen Sakur argued that shareholders' control and screening over public companies is more efficient than that of stakeholders over private companies (such as Ikea). He further stated that given the private status of Ikea allowed it to avoid pressure on ethical issues. Does that argument really hold? If I admit that public companies are subject to very tight disclosure regulations and thus have to act in a more transparent manner, I still feel that private firms whose shares are in the hands of a few can more easily be held accountable for their wrong doings. Or am I wrong?

The brain knows you!

2007-06-14T10:12:00.000+03:00