I guess it’s not so much where I’ve gone, as where I’m going to. After months and months of trying to come up with the right remodel plan for our house to give me more space to shoot, a house just 5 houses down from us was going up for sale. We jumped on it before it hit the market, and have been in a whirlwind of real estate transactions ever since. We are so excited for the new space… much bigger kitchen and a whole room dedicated to be my studio… all without leaving our neighbors who we couldn’t imagine leaving. It really couldn’t be better.

With one tiny problem. I have been queen of bargain prop shopping over the last year or so. Today, I’ve already packed 8 large boxes with my props, and I don’t think I’m even half way done yet. None of the boxes are liftable anymore (at least not by me). The only thing keeping me going is the beer and ice cream that are clear requirements of any large moving job. That and the fact that I HAVE to be done with the kitchen by tomorrow night, as the floor-sander-dude is coming to the house this week to redo the floors.

If I end up with an hour or two free at some point this week, I have some great posts that just need to get written up! Otherwise, see you in the new house!

PS: Our existing house will be on the market in early

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In this episode you’ll learn recreating a billboard ad design using a candy stripe background, a polar coordinates filter and an image of Matt Beer and making an Action that applies a variety of black and white effects to your image and gives you a couple options to choose from.

The integrated digital camera/printer is a full featured digital camera with a built-in full color printer. Take digital photos like any other digital camera, review them on the digital camera’s color display, and print just the ones you want. The digital camera with integrated printer prints full-color 2″ x 3″ digital photos.

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Author: David W Sussman

I often wonder why more photographers don’t use colored lights for photography. The movie industry has used this technique for many years to give subtle to dramatic effects. The gels I most use are blue and an orange or amber colored gel. Not only are they complimentary colors to each other but simulates natural and man-made lighting we see every night.

One of my favorite and simple uses is to take a blue gel light and bounce it off a white ceiling flooding a room with saturate fill. I then use a spot grid to project a warm beam onto a subject. To enhance the effect gel this spot light with an amber colored gel and instant mood is created.

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The Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z1050 is a 10.1 megapixel compact camera with a 3x optical zoom and wide aspect 2.6 inch LCD screen.The EX-Z1050 is more than just convenient, stylish and cool: this camera is a truly high-performance device. It is built with the highly sophisticated EXILIM Engine 2.0 — a high-performance, image-processing module that not only improves image quality, but also boosts performance by, for instance, delivering new motion analysis technology. This latest model in the EXILIM series also delivers best-in-class* high-speed, continuous shooting at 7 shots per second until memory is full, empowering users to capture every split second of an action-packed scene.

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no rules, no limitations, no boundaries it’s like an art

HARAJUKU GIRL are the New GEISHA

Very good timing!

Roar!, originally uploaded by ToastyKen.
If you’re new to wildlife photography and wanted to improve your animal photos, make sure you read the Ten Tips for Great Animal Photos by Stephen Oachs

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