Take Beautiful Landscape and Nature PhotosWritten by Kelly Paal
We’ve all been there. Spent a lot of money to go to someplace we’ve never been before. We’ve taken photos and brought them home expecting family and friends to ooh and aah over shots we’ve taken. You open envelope and take out prints and somehow landscapes and nature shots that looked so beautiful there look flat, dull, and you don’t remember seeing that couple in corner of your shot when you snapped shutter. First thing that you must know is that to get really great landscape and nature shots you really need an SLR with appropriate film for job, but these tips will help you even if you are using a point and shoot. 1. Appropriate film. I use 100, 200, and 400 speed maximum. Film brand is a matter of personal taste. I use 100 and 200 when I know that it’s going to be bright out and I use 400 if I think that I’m going to capture wildlife or if I’m deep in forest. 2. Natural light. I try to avoid using flash. If I do use flash I only use my fill flash. Whenever you use flash you rob scene of most of it’s natural charm. Think of it how many times did you take a shot because light was just to pretty. 3. The right lens. A slight wide angle lens in very valuable for landscapes and a slightly telephoto comes in handy for tight shots of beautiful flowers. I personally have a favorite lens 30mm-70mm that is a staple for me and I use it ninety percent of time. Now that technical stuff is out of way. 4. Decide what it is EXACTLY that you are trying to capture on film and crop accordingly. Not cropping enough is one of biggest mistakes amateur photographers make. Great thing about landscapes is that they don’t move. So to learn take a few shots cropping closer each time.
| | Say bye-bye to Illegal music downloads?Written by Syd Johnson
Both Napster and Microsoft Music Service are working on new way to get customers to download music file to their iPod and otherportable mp3 players for less than $1 per song. Actually, significantly less. Both of these music service are working on a way allow customers to downloads as much music as they want as long as it goes directly to an iPod or similar portable music player.This is great news for customers who still think $1 per song is too steep. Although price model words for one song, 10 songs or even 100 songs, it starts getting outrageous when you go by factors of ten. If an iPod holds 10,000 songs and you want to fill it up, you would have to spend $10,000. Most people can fill up iPod in less than a year. Unfortunately, they probably won’t spend $10,000 on music, in any single year. So, what you could have is a legal product, iPod, being used to hold thousands of illegal songs because space is there. (assuming iPod would be open later on to all mp3 formats.) Napster has a workaround Napster is first to announce that it is working on a subscription model that would allow it’s user to pay a cheap subscription fee with no restrictions on how many songs they can download. By their estimates, a user can probably download 10,000 songs for about $180. Unfortunately, Napster system does not work with iPod so customers can only take advantage of this offer if they purchase either of two Napster approved portable mp3 players.
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