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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Tips to get your online scrapbook ready for this year's Easter..
Be ready for the incoming Easter!!! Easter is the most important religious feast of the Christian liturgical year and celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. It also refers to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, from Easter Sunday through Pentecost. This year, Easter falls on April 8th for both, Western Church and Eastern Church.
As with many other Christian dates, the celebration of Easter extends beyond the church. Easter was a time of feasting and celebration since its origins. As you might know, in many traditionally Christian countries, Easter is the time of family gathering.
In some parts of the UK and most of the North America, on the Easter holiday most of families participate only in the attendant revelry, with the decorating of Easter eggs on Saturday evening and hunting for them Sunday morning. According to the children's stories, the eggs were hidden overnight and other treats delivered by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket which children find waiting for them when they wake up.
Many families in America and most Christian countries, attend Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participate in a feast or party in the afternoon.
It was also the custom to send postal cards to friends and family. Other people, used to send family cards, or family pictures. Unfortunately, lately this custom changed and we are not sending anymore postcards, we are sending mass emails with holiday wishes to all the people from our list. Well this option is faster and we don't spend too much time in composing a mass email, but some might feel offended that you put them together with the rest of people from your list.
Well.. Ok.... you will ask me, what is the solution then? The Easter soon will "knock at my door" and have no time to write personalized postcards to all your friends. Well, there are several solutions...
You can create a Quick Blog about you and your family, where you can add your holiday pictures. Invite all your family and friends to leave a comment, or their holiday wishes on your blog. You don't need any programming skills to do that, if you reached this article by yourself, well, you are smart enough to create your blog.. If someone helped you to reach here, you still have a chance to create your blog. Yes, it is that easy, you can build a full-functional blog in a few quick steps.
What is a blog?!? A blog is an increasingly popular form of personal, frequently-updated online journal that allow users to easily distribute and collect information on the Web. The Quick Blog tool allows the user to quickly build and publish a blog thus creating an instant outlet for his/her comments, opinions, photos, etc.
A family blog is ideal for sharing your holiday wishes with family pictures, sparking debate or exchanging ideas with your friends. It provides all of the tools necessary to build the blog, distribute and manage content, customize the site according to personal preferences. Personally, I consider this option more fun, interactive with your friends, and cheaper than sending postcards to everyone on each Holiday.
Of course, in order to have a blog, or any kind of website, you will need a domain name (i.e. www.your-blog.com), which in most places is starting from $8 and up. This is a good price to pay for a domain name, but there are also places where you can get internet services in package deals, for example you buy a blog and get a domain for $1.99/yr (with free hosting and other free services-if needed).
If you have too many pictures that you want to share with friends, it is better to organize them in an online photo filer. How to do that? Very easy, as I wrote before, so instead of creating a blog, you can create a photo filer. What you can do with a photo filer? Well, you can do lots of things, like:
- Storing and managing photos and images in one place;
- Improve your photos with easy-to-use photo editing features;
- Share your photos with anyone - without requiring them to provide an email address or log in;
- Keep sensitive photos or images private with password-protected galleries;
- Purchase high-quality prints directly from the photo gallery - available;
- Entertain your visitors with custom photo slideshows;
- It is password protected for galleries, has custom photo slideshows and RSS Feeds.
Family pictures and blogs are not enough for your loved ones? Need more and want to offer a verbal wish? Create a podcast video or just an audio podcast. Let them see and/or hear your hail. As you saw, these were several new ideas for the incoming Easter, something special for your friends and family.
This article may be distributed freely on your website and in your ezines, as long as copyright notice, links and resource box are unchanged.
About author: Flavio Gh., Visit his website at: http://BestOfficialDomains.com the fastest and easiest way to create your online blog, video podcast, or family website.
Tips For Preparing For Your Portraits
Tips For Preparing For Your Portrait
Choose a photographer that makes you feel comfortable.
Not everyone’s personality is an automatic match up. Interview a few photographers and see who gives you the feeling that they genuinely want to make you look your best in your portraits, and they’re the kind of person you will feel comfortable working with. If you have confidence in your photographer, you will have a more successful portrait session.
Plan Ahead
Your photographer should offer to have a meeting with you to discuss and plan your portrait with you. During that meeting/ consultation, you and your photographer will get to know each other a little better, and he’ll get your ideas about what you want for your portrait. You should talk about color schemes, discuss hair and makeup options as well as the overall look and feel you want in your portraits. A thorough consultation will also help you start planning how to incorporate your portraits in with the other furnishings in your interior decoration scheme.
A Helpful Consideration
At the elite level of sports competition as well as in business, a method called visualization is used with excellent results. It can have a measurable effect in the end results of your portrait session as well. Obviously this will require some serious thinking. Consider who you are as a person, a couple, and, or a family. Condense your description down to one or two sentences. Then consider how you could best portray that “essence of who you are” in a portrait. Imagine what the portrait should look like. Imagine your pose, your clothes, your expression…visualize what it will look like, and the feeling of great satisfaction you will have as a result.
Wardrobe, Dressing For A Portrait
They say, “the clothes make the (person)”. The art of portrait photography is to capture not only the best view, or countenance of the subject, but also the personality and mood. It is a person’s eyes and face that tell the story of their personality. (Include body language in ¾ and full-length portraits). So, the goal of wardrobe in a portrait is to flatter the subject, and influence the mood. To that end, the clothes should be relatively subdued. Colors should be muted rather than bright and loud, and solid colors are usually better than prints. Aloha prints with a color print over a color background are better than those with white over a dark color. Those present too much contrast and will distract the viewer from the subject(s).
Keep in mind that the clothes help to set the mood or feeling of the portrait, so it’s best to avoid the ‘latest’, ‘greatest’, “in” styles in favor of more timeless standards. That is, if you want your portrait to have a lasting quality and value, and not be too dated.
Light tones in clothing, bright and cheery though they are, are not necessary for a portrait to have a bright and cheery look. It is also true that dark clothing will not necessarily present a somber mood. Again, it is the eyes and facial expression that dominate and tell the story.
In photographic portraiture, the fact that light colors diminish shadows produces the result that the figure appears slightly fuller. Also, very light or white clothes can tend to wash out your skin tone. The opposite is true with dark toned clothes: they intensify shadows, have a slightly slimming effect, and skin tones appear deeper.
Here are a couple more tips about dressing for your portrait: loose fitting, long sleeves will draw attention away from your arms. If you feel your arms are too big, or you have blotchy skin or band-aids on your arms, wear long, loose fitting sleeves. An open, scoop or V-neck shirt or blouse will add the appearance of length to your neck, where a crew or turtleneck will give the appearance of a shorter neck.
Jewelry And Accessories
Keep it simple is the best advice here. Remember, the part played by accessories and jewelry, the same as with clothing, is simply to flatter the subject, not steal attention from the subject: you. Unless an accessory or piece of jewelry is essential to the look or feel you want in the portrait, or is something you wear all the time, or has special meaning to you, leave it out.
On the other hand, if something is important to you such as your great aunt’s locket, or great granddad’s walking stick, or plays an integral part of your life such as a stethoscope, or a canoe paddle, talk with your photographer about how to include it in some of your portraits.
Makeup
Men will tend to skip right over this while women will zoom in…MEN: before by-passing this whole topic, look in a mirror at your face. What color is your skin? How’s the complexion? Circles under the eyes? Are your nose and forehead shiny? You want to look your best in your portrait, and it’s perfectly OK for men to blotter the forehead, put a little powder on for portraits. Even a little lightener under the eyes or blush on the cheeks! Even Arnold, and Steven Segal wear makeup when on camera!
Now, Ladies, just do what you do normally in applying your makeup, as if preparing for an evening at a benefit gala: tastefully a little stronger than for daytime. It’s a good idea to bring all your makeup to the session along with some tissues and cold cream. Your photographer may have some suggestions for color changes or additions.
Hair
Real basic here: Make sure your hair is clean and styled the way you want it when you get to the session. And bring your brush, comb, spray, gel, whatever you might need to re-do it! If your hair needs to be cut before the session, have it done at least a week prior to having your portraits made. If you are having your hair styled specifically for the session, have it done just before going to the studio.
Posing
Whether your portrait style will be literal or interpretive, if you give some thought to posing before going into your session, it’ll be easier to work with your photographer, and you will look more natural and relaxed in your portraits. In the weeks or days preceding your portrait session be particularly aware of people you see in commercials, movies, magazines, TV shows, at the park, at home, at a friends house. Try to see poses of individuals, or groups, which look good, and portray a quality of feeling or emotion as in a good painting. Imagine yourself or your group in the same or similar pose.
When we see ourselves in a photograph, or portrait, we don’t always look the way we think we do, or should. Fact is all faces are asymmetrical to a greater or lesser degree, and we can present different looks from different angles. It’s a good idea to look at your face in a mirror and ‘practice’ looks that you think are flattering to you. Check your smile from different angles. Look at your nose and chin from different angles. What looks best to you? Work on reproducing two or three looks that you like. When you get to your portrait session show your photographer what you like, and ask for help if you think you can use it. Remember, the lighting your photographer uses wont be the same as you have in your bathroom or hallway where your mirror is, so if he knows what you like, he’ll be able to reproduce it for you with his lighting.
About the author: Stan P. Cox II runs a Portrait and Commercial photography studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has been a professional Hawaii photographer for over 30 years. His web address is: http://hawaii-fineart-portrait-photographer.com/This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.
Keeping your carpets so fresh and so clean
Maintaining your carpets.... Doesn't sound very possible, but is it? We have all been over to a friend's home and looked at their carpet? Some may say "yes" it looks like a horrible episode of C.S.I., at the actual crime scene. Everyone have definitely all seen the really dirty ones, probably not quite that bad, but we have seen them at one time or another. You may wonder how many of your "other" friends keep their carpet so clean that it looks like they have just had it installed. The answer is preventative maintenance! I'm sure that those friends have a few rules about walking on their carpet. Go walk on it I wouldn't recommend walking on it with a little mud on your shoes, because you will probably be looking down the barrel of a fully loaded twelve-gauge shotgun with the safety off. Well I hope they're not that bad, but I am sure that you will hear a warm but stern "will you please take off your shoes".
Some preventative maintenance tips that I would implement if I were trying to keep my carpet clean would be first to not allow shoes on the carpet. Also, have a no food rule in any carpeted room that you can help (if you have a carpeted dining room I wouldn't suggest eating on the kitchen floor). Respond to spills/stains immediately the longer you wait the better chance the stain has to set. Vacuum regularly- twice a week would be beneficial, but it should be vacuumed at least once a week. Try to have your carpet steam cleaned every 4-6 months.
When cleaning spills up, don't use the abrasive action of back and forth. This will only start to fray your carpet, and I promise you that you will be able to tell if you look. Then that frayed spot will nag you to insanity until you have that room re-carpeted. In small cases I use a towel that is wet on both ends but dry in the middle. One end has a little dish soap, and the other end is good and saturated with plain water. Use the middle and press on the stain soaking up as much as you can. Then use the soapy side and blot in the soap. Finally, end with a soft rinse with the other side. Good luck!
Tips:
Try runners in some heavy traffic areas to cut down on the soiling.
Have your carpet cleaned by a professional! The cheaper store rentals don't extract all the soap and if you ever do decide to get it done professionally it will look like a giant bubble. In addition the rentals don't do nearly as good of a job compared to a good professional.
You may want to check into those robotic vacuums. I have seen them used and they don't do that great of a job, but it's better than having your carpets vacuumed once a month or worse.
If you ever try any kind of spot remover make sure to pre-test in an unnoticeable location. Nothing like a nice bleach spot right in the middle of you living room.
The author is the publisher of a True Light Wall Tapestries supplying Wall Hangings to help you put the finishing touches on your wall decor. Also offering Picture Weave Photo tapestries, for some of the most amazing personalized gifts.
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