Neoprene Camera Bag

Lowepro Nova Micro AW

Other finds:  “THE BENEFITS OF NEOPRENE

STRETCH: Neoprene is elastic and form-fitting; it conforms to equipment of varying sizes and shapes.

CUSHIONING: Neoprene has just the right thickness and density to absorb the shock of everyday handling and “bumping around.” A high level of protection, both inside the camera bag and out.

LOW FRICTION: Zing neoprene is laminated between layers of  smooth nylon knit. Unlike plain foam or rubber, it has extremely low surface friction. This makes it easy to slide and stretch over equipment, quick to remove, and scratch-resistant.

WEATHER-RESISTANCE: Neoprene sheds water like a duck, making it an ideal outdoor material. Zing cases provide great protection against rain, snow, sand and dust.”

During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the minister with an unusual offer. I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part where I’m to promise to ‘love, honor and obey and forsake all others,” I want you to just leave that part out.”

He passed the puzzled minister the cash and walked away satisfied.

On the wedding day, when the minister came to the groom’s vows, he looked the young man in the eye and said, “Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her, obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live?”

The groom gulped, looked around at the guests, and managed to answer, “I shall.” Then he leaned toward the minister and hissed, “I thought we had a deal!”

The minister slipped the $100 into his hand and whispered back, “She made me a much better offer.”

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I tell you, my hands were shaking when I took this photo. My charm didn’t work well that day. Please bear with the artwork of an amateur paparazzi. =)

If I could spot another wedding, there’s a bigger chance that this photo will disappear.

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Photo Assignment #1 for June
Theme: Bride and Groom
Title: Let’s Make A Deal
Photo taken: Holy Redeemer Church, Bangkok-08.06.08

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Thanks to A. Siroy for organizing our Creativelens photo club assignments.

To continue, Photoshop Express allows you to do the 1.) basics (like cropping, rotate, red-eye removal), 2.) tuning (i.e. adjust white balance and sharpness), 3.) apply effects (such as turning photos into black & white or pop color).

Adobe Photoshop Express is a free site where members can upload images and edit them. Try using it now and tell me what can you say about it.

I am currently experimenting scrapbook softwares that would fit my preference of designs and user friendly menus for a dummy like me. This one was made out of Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 3.0. It got several templates to choose from not only for scrapbooks but also for cards, cd labels, shirt designs and more. Scrap wise, this software is not my type due to its limited embellishments. I really thought it has huge variety of designs as it eats up 2 GB of my disk space upon installation. Well, overall I’ll rate it for 3 stars.

Showing you the output on basic editing under the Saved Presets. I tried resizing the photo first in Photoshop and saved under flower.jpg filename. The next step was to open Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and import the flower file. Then I started experimenting on the very first button that caught my attention. I clicked the arrows pointing to one of the presets under creative category. After seeing the transformation I exported it back to Adobe Photoshop and saved the file as flower1.jpg. The same pattern applies to the rest.

The order of photos are modified as follows (left to right):
1. original photo
2. Creative- Cold Tone
3. Creative- Selenium Tone
4. Creative- Sepia
5. General- Grayscale

Going back to the topic, stretching or rescaling of photos without distorting the main subject is amazingly done through Seam Carving. It’s advisable you watch the video below of how Seam Carving works. It clearly demonstrates the algorithm of the plugin.

In the online photo club that I joined we normally have self-portrait assignments to submit every now and then. Sometimes I get too particular with the details that I wish I had this Portraiture Photoshop plugin that smoothens and removes imperfections. It has a powerful masking tool that enhances the skin tone and still preserves other important details. I find out that it’s too expensive for non-serious photographers like me but a practical investment for professionals which aims to have a photo studio.

First, I tried using compact cameras many years ago. It was fully automatic using film and disposable batteries.

My second camera was a Fuji Finepix SLR. It was good enough to allow me to drive some creative automatic control over composition and framing. What’s good with it is that it allows me to take photo and video clips together in one single device. Only then it has a lower resolution of 72 pixel per inch when transported to Photoshop software. The quality of photo was not as vivid compared to other brands of SLRs.

For now I am greatly satisfied with using Nikon D40X DSLR camera. It allows me to use manual and automatic focus. Many similar models include such useful extras like buit-in flash, changeable lens, external flash, tripod, instant viewing of photographs on monitor or TV and many other fantastic features. When transported to Photoshop it displays a clearer resolution of 300 pixel per inch on the monitor. I could also choose to save my photos on RAW file for more better photo editing. I’m loving how this gadget serves me well.

Wondered why it’s called that way?

A “plumeau” is the french word for ?feather duster?. “Chez Plumeau” is also the name of a famous restaurant located in Montmartre, Paris, nearby the Dali Museum and a few steps from my own home. This restaurant is quite ancient, it’s one of the last place that remains from the time when Montmartre was a homeland for artists, especially for painters. This restaurant was previously a Cabaret and a lot of artists used to go there. It is still a very nice place to have a diner if you come to Paris.

– Cecile
chezplumeau.com

Instructions in installing new brushes are available in Chez’ site.

Magazines and other print media sometimes rely on photo sites to find their fillers and to save other miscellaneous expenses. The shopping cart software can be one solution in generating photo commerce to a photography site. All one has to do is integrate it on the website to make it available for e-commerce.

Now you may ask, is it possible to build e-commerce on a blog? Well, after making some research on the net, I found out it is possible. Probably with the use of plug-ins. It could either be done on WordPress, Drupal or in XOOPS platform.