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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

You Will Be A Professional Photographer!

You Will Be A Professional Photographer!


As long time as you have a keen desire, you can be a good and professional photographer and start your own photography business doing portrait photography or wedding photography or any other of the many niches in the photography business and use your good ideas and use natural. As a photographer with your own portrait and wedding photography business you could offer all types of photography services, or you might choose to specialize in the types of photographs that you most enjoy taking. The information in a professional photographer guide can save you many hours of research, help you avoid some costly mistakes, and give you information you need to become a professional photographer and start a portrait photography or wedding photography business or both.

The most important thing if you wish to be a professional photographer is not how expensive your camera is, but how to capture the best moments and take this time and light your fire. A professional photographer knows how to make scenes look like they aren't staged or faked. It might be taking official photos for a wedding, or handling a group of children; a professional can work well with people and get them where he or she wants them. As well as taking pictures and working out a good composition, professional photographers also have to consider photo editing and manipulation. Another aspect to consider as a photographer is negotiating fees and copyright permissions.

Most legendary portrait photographers are regarded for their unwavering ability to capture the characteristics that are at the very root of the soul of the subjects they document in each single still photographic image. As a professional photographer you can work in an indoor studio, or you can choose to shoot photographs at peoples homes, event locations, or outdoors. With more inexpensive and user-friendly digital cameras hitting the market every day, there's never been a better time to become a professional photographer.

Though photographs are technically two-dimensional, a skilled portraitist can make that flat piece of paper jump off a wall or a page. Your own unique style of portrait or wedding photography will be your greatest asset in the photography business. When you think of portrait photography, you may be inspired by the work of celebrity portrait photographers like Annie Liebovitz, or the heartwarming sleepy infants of Anne Geddes. Discover how to become a photographer and start your own portrait photography or wedding photography business.

Of course, it takes hard work, creativity, and good business sense to achieve success as a professional photographer, but you can break into this career and start your own photography business much more quickly and easily with the right knowledge and striving to be professional at all times. It can cost hundreds of dollars to take courses on starting a business, and chances are they will not include specific information about starting a photography business























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Monday, November 2, 2009

Space Photos For Free

Of the countless equinoxes Saturn has seen since the birth of the solar system, this one, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth ... none other than our faithful robotic explorer, Cassini.

Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini had no such problems. From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator.

The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's angle to the ring plane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes out-of-plane structures to look anomalously bright and to cast shadows across the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. Before and after equinox, Cassini's cameras have spotted not only the predictable shadows of some of Saturn's moons (see PIA11657), but also the shadows of newly revealed vertical structures in the rings themselves (see PIA11665).

Also at equinox, the shadows of the planet's expansive rings are compressed into a single, narrow band cast onto the planet as seen in this mosaic. (For an earlier view of the rings' wide shadows draped high on the northern hemisphere, see PIA09793.)

The images comprising the mosaic, taken over about eight hours, were extensively processed before being joined together. First, each was re-projected into the same viewing geometry and then digitally processed to make the image "joints" seamless and to remove lens flares, radially extended bright artifacts resulting from light being scattered within the camera optics.

At this time so close to equinox, illumination of the rings by sunlight reflected off the planet vastly dominates any meager sunlight falling on the rings. Hence, the half of the rings on the left illuminated by planetshine is, before processing, much brighter than the half of the rings on the right. On the right, it is only the vertically extended parts of the rings that catch any substantial sunlight.

With no enhancement, the rings would be essentially invisible in this mosaic. To improve their visibility, the dark (right) half of the rings has been brightened relative to the brighter (left) half by a factor of three, and then the whole ring system has been brightened by a factor of 20 relative to the planet. So the dark half of the rings is 60 times brighter, and the bright half 20 times brighter, than they would have appeared if the entire system, planet included, could have been captured in a single image.

The moon Janus (179 kilometers, 111 miles across) is on the lower left of this image. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across) appears near the middle bottom. Pandora (81 kilometers, 50 miles across) orbits outside the rings on the right of the image. The small moon Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 miles across) orbits inside the thin F ring on the right of the image. The brightnesses of all the moons, relative to the planet, have been enhanced between 30 and 60 times to make them more easily visible. Other bright specks are background stars. Spokes -- ghostly radial markings on the B ring -- are visible on the right of the image.

This view looks toward the northern side of the rings from about 20 degrees above the ring plane.

The images were taken on Aug. 12, 2009, beginning about 1.25 days after exact equinox, using the red, green and blue spectral filters of the wide angle camera and were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained at a distance of approximately 847,000 kilometers (526,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 74 degrees. Image scale is 50 kilometers (31 miles) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.