You are a photographer, so remember that you have a powerful tool of creativity in your hands… the camera! Try to create a masterpiece every time you click. Take the composition and balance in your photographs seriously. Follow the Great Masters of painting Rembrandt… Renoir… Rubens… Da Vinci (every painting was carefully composed in sketches, and thought out a great deal.)  and I’m sure you will turn out masterpieces as well.

Happy Shooting!

Photopreneur have just posted a list of 60 Sources of Inspiration for Photography. Lots of great ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Here are just a few they suggest-

"1. Play with Photoshop
So much of photography these days happens after the shutter release has been pressed. There’s probably a ton of things that you don’t know how to do in Photoshop. Learn something new and see what that does for your photography potential.

2. Read the Manual
It’s not just Photoshop that can do all sorts of things that you don’t know about. Your camera probably has more settings and functions than you know… or know what to do with. You might find a lot of new ideas in the middle of your camera manual.

3. Watch a Movie
Manuals are all well and good, but movies have cinematographers too. There’s not much you can’t learn about landscape photography by sitting back and watching an old Sergio Leone film.

4. Read a Newspaper
Or you can be a little more intellectual and read a newspaper. The Sunday magazines have the best photos but the work by the staff photographers can be great models for creating striking images for amateurs as well as for photojournalists.

5. Visit a Flea Market
Strange objects mean strange shapes, odd shadows and plenty of potential

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It must be hard for Sony being number 3 or 4 when it comes to cameras, especially when it dominates just about every other category it enters—other than that little iPod thing the company wishes would go away. HDTVs? Sony is number one. Home audio? Camcorders? You guessed it. The list goes on but you get the idea. Sony wants to be a leader in whatever field it enters. As far as point-and-shoot digital cameras, Sony gives top-seller Canon a run for its money. Yet when it comes to more advanced and expensive D-SLRs, Canon and Nikon are the 1,000-pound gorillas in the room with Olympus, Pentax  and Sony trying fiercely to make inroads (with little success, I might add). Not that the competitors have bad cameras, it’s just Canon and Nikon have sold millions of film SLRs and there are as many compatible lenses floating around. So when it came time for those film folks to go digital, it was only natural they stuck with the Big Two since they had investments in glass sitting in their closets. To capture some of these buyers, Sony introduced the alpha DSLR-A100 (LINK) well over a year ago and I liked the 10-megapixel D-SLR (around $700 USD with an 18-70mm lens). It was based on the Konica Minolta 5D, whose D-SLR assets Sony bought around two years ago; that camera sold well but still is only a relatively small slice of the pie compared

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Latest - Sample Test Photos at CNET Australia (added 27 November ’07)

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2 features:

• 8.1 megapixel
• 4 GB of internal memory
• 2.7″ touchscreen
• Face detection
• ISO up to 3200
• Smile shutter

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If you need to find out the hexadecimal color code for a particular color in your digital imaging project(s), you need to visit mathisfun.com.

Bookmark this page:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html

You’ll be surprised how much time you can kill on this site.

And there are two things I wanted to share with you.

1. Xerox is sponsoring a website Let’s say Thanks, were you can send a free card to military personnel station overseas. It could not be easier, you pick a card, personalize the message, and hit “send”. Done. Xerox will then print out the cards and mail them. All free. All for a very good cause. So be sure to visit Let’s say Thanks and send a soldier a card.

2. Toy safety is a big issue, and I would be hard pressed in finding anyone who was not buying a toy for a child, be it their own or the child of another. All the recalls have certainly not made shopping any easier, but U.S. PIRG has. U.S. PIRG is a clearing house of information on toy recalls and toy safety, so if you want to take a little of the worry out of what you bought (or will buy) stop by their site and find out what is safe and what is not.

If you have any links that will make Christmas happier and/or safer for another, please don’t keep them to yourself, share them with us.

Last update: Review & Sample Photos @ Cameras.uk (28 November’07)

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33 is a 8.1-Megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera features 3.6x Optical Zoom (35mm equiv: 28-100mm) with Image Stabilizer, Intelligent Auto Technology, 28mm Wide-Angle LEICA Lens and a 2.5″ LCD screen. [Full Specs]

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars | Latest Price Info

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