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From Yen!

1. When shooting with a hand-held camera, try leaning against a rail, building or tree to steady your body during exposure. It is actually more difficult to steady the camera when holding it at arms length and using the screen of a digital camera. It is easier to steady yourself while looking through the viewfinder during exposure. The exposure of an image is caused by light, shutter speed and aperture. Aperture is controlled through the iris, the smaller the iris, the less light strikes the sensor. However, smaller apertures improve depth of field. Make your decision about aperture first. Shutter speed controls the amount of time the shutter is open and letting light strike the sensor. The faster the shutter speeds, the faster the action you can freeze. When photographing sports you should have a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second minimum. Faster is better for freezing action. Adjust the ISO sensitivity so that you can achieve faster shutter speeds.

2. Use a tripod whenever you can. Get to know your tripod; have a relationship with it. I believe a serious photographer needs two tripods: a large sturdy tripod used for scenic views and portraits at the best ISO sensitivity to capture the detail. This may require slow shutter speeds and small apertures and even the use of a cable release to make sure you have no camera movement. The second should be a mini tripod that you can pack up in your camera bag. Sometimes I just can’t carry a big tripod with me.

3. Take the time to know your lenses. Longer focal length lenses are great for sports but very heavy. I can steady a 200mm lens at a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second. The more zoomed in you are to your subject, the more difficult it is to steady the camera. Larger lenses have image stabilization systems but they can be very expensive.

4.Test your own ability at each different shutter speed. Take hand-held pictures of an object that doesn’t move. Take a picture at each shutter speed with each lens. Review the images and see which ones are blurry. This will give you a personal guideline as to when you need to get out the tripod. Blurred motion can be great way to photograph moving objects but only if you can control it. Take the time to learn your own limitations so you can make creative decisions about when to use slow shutter speeds with bodies in motion.

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Ito ay ang mga bulaklak na nakuhanan ko ng litrato nung kami ay magpunta sa Flower Farm sa Silang, Cavite.

Ito ang aking lahok para sa Litratong Pinoy, na may temang BULAKLAK. Dalawin din ang ibang lahok sa Litratong Pinoy

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Anna Aspnes Torn and Tattered
Ali Edwards Everyday Word Art

January 15, 2009

I went to take a bath after lunch one day and had Kuya look after you. You were dreadfully quiet and when I got out of the bathroom, I saw this! You pulled all the neatly folded clothes from the cabinet into the floor! You started saying, "I’m sorry Mommy, I’m sorry Mommy" over and over but as soon as I grabbed the camera you stopped and hid under the blankets – you knew you would not be in that big amount of a trouble!

A few minutes before this happened I saw you INSIDE the cabinets with your crocs. You said, “Mommy dirty shoes eh”. You were cleaning your Crocs with the CLEAN clothes!

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I saw a friend who works from home post this on her blog: “Just because I work from home doesn’t mean I’m available 24/7“.

This is so true. I actually lamented the fact on my Facebook Status: I have never been this busy – I was even busier now that I stay at home than when I was working! Not that I am complaining. I get to stay at home, take care of my kids, see to it that my kids are doing great and still get to earn (more than what I earn when working for a company). However, the stress is nothing I would like to get. Sometimes, there will be weeks I’d be working so hard so that I can take a week off for a month – with working from home, you don’t get a day off or take a leave of absence.

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I have to be honest here – I am attached to the internet. I really do. My work is there – it lets me earn in dollars just by staying at home. My hobby and passion is there – with the help of the internet, I’m able to download kits, join groups who share the same love for scrapbooking and share my work. My friends are there – yes, my friends! I have found one of my closest friends online and even if we really don’t see each other every year since she lives in Boston, we talk daily. That is more often than talking with my best friend who lives four hours away. I have also found a group of friends who are mommies like me, addicted to shopping like me and who have the same work as I have so staying at home is never boring.

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