Article:
Canvas prints have become one of the most popular ways to
display a photograph on the wall of your home or office. Great
looking canvas art can be created using any of your favourite
photographs and they can be based on people, places, or items.
From a family photograph to a picture of your favourite holiday
location, or even a picture of the car that you’ve been lovingly
restoring for the past six years, any picture can be used to
make a personalised canvas print.

With so much choice, the biggest problem can be making the right
choice. How do you whittle twenty photographs down to just one?
How do you accurately show give years of marriage in a single
picture? Fortunately, there is a solution – a photo montage is
basically a collection of those photographs combined into one
single image or display and then printed onto a canvas print or
any other personalised photo item.

A photo montage isn’t just a great solution to picking the right
photograph. Great looking montages can be created using a
selection of pictures from a particular event such as a wedding
or an engagement party. With the existence of so many digital
cameras and mobile camera devices, you’re almost certain to be
inundated with pictures from any event. A photo montage enables
you to collect as many of these photos and add them to a photo
canvas or any other photo gift item.

Rather than choosing a single image to display on a canvas art
print, you can use up to twenty images or more. Canvases are
available in a good selection of sizes with most services, too ,
so you can ensure that you get the best look for the montage of
your choice. Whether you create your own photo montage or
instead find a service that will do it for you before printing
the photo canvas is your decision.

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Article:
In the United States, Bluetooth gets absolutely no respect. It
is however, becoming more and more common in notebooks, PDAs,
and especially cell phones. Bluetooth will provide wireless
users a way to transmit small amounts of data over short
distances.

Now, Bluetooth is facing stiff competition from new wireless
technology. Referred to as UWB or Ultra Wideband, it promises
data transfer of up to 480 MB a second – while most current
Bluetooth devices transfer data up to 721 KB a second.

For the time being, Bluetooth devices are surely cropping up.
Below, we will look at some of the accessories offered with
Bluetooth technology.

Talking to the dashboard When pairing it with a cell phone, the
CCM Blue Warrior car kit becomes a great speaker phone that
plugs into the power adapter of your vehicle. The noise
cancelling microphone will reduce background noise efficiently,
with the large buttons making adjusting the speaker volume a
snap. Although the Blue Warrior is far from sexy or sleek, it’s
very practical.

Tiny tuning box Part MP3 player and part hands free phone, the
compact and lightweight Sony HBM-30 is an attractive gadget that
lets you accept calls with minimal interruption of your tunes.
When you get an incoming call it will automatically pause your
music, then you speak into the built in microphone that you can
wear around your neck or clip to your clothes.

The pen With Nokia’s SU-1B digital pen, you can doodle and make
hand written notes in ink on a special pad then transmit them
from the pad to your Bluetooth phone. Being an alternative to
typing on a cell phone keypad, the pen is very handy, although a
pricey tool from MMS fans.

Snapshots If you want to make slide shows with your camera
photos, the Nokia SU-2 image viewer will let you disply your
pictures on a TV or projector. Simply hook this square gray
device to your TV’s input with the built in cable, then beam the
pictures to the SU-2 from your Bluetooth enabled phone and the
photo fest will begin.

This device is a snap to set up and use, although it displays
resolutions of up to 640 by 480. If you have a newer phone that
takes high resolution photos, you won’t be able to use the Nokia
SU-2 image viewer.

Keep in mind, the 640 by 480 pixel photos will appear blocky on
TV screens, no matter what you do. If your phone can send
batches of photos, you can create a slide show – although Nokia
claims you can use sequentially beamed shots as well.

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Copyright (c) 2008 Tom Jackson

We currently face some of the most difficult economic times in
our history. It is becoming more important than ever that people
find a way to make an extra income at home. Many online business
opportunities usually make a lot of money for the owners of the
site, but it can be very difficult for anyone else to make a
part time income. As a photographer, you will be your own boss.
You will have a great opportunity to make a real income. And
with so many people losing their jobs, having a way to make an
income at home is can be a true blessing

You can make an excellent at home with your digital camera and
shooting weddings on weekends. If you enjoy taking pictures and
sharing them with friends and family, then you might consider
taking wedding photos on weekends. Wedding photography can be a
very lucrative part time or full time career. In the United
State alone, the Wedding Photography industry accounts for
approx., $5 Billion per year. That’s a very large market. And
with some know how and a decent digital camera, you can be a
part of this industry. All you need is a course that includes
business forms, technical discussions, sample ads and business
cards, and even tips on using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture.

In this article, I will explain some technical considerations of
picture taking. Available light photography and many people
often have questions about the aperture and how to use it
effectively.

Available light photography is pretty much as the term says. You
take photos using just the available light in the scene. You do
not use the flash on the camera or other portable light sources.
Reflectors can allow you to reflect the natural light where you
need it to remove hard shadows and give a more pleasing effect
in the final image. In my blog, the address is below in the
resource box, you will see some sample photos, including a scene
from a wedding which does not use a flash.

If you look carefully at the photo, you will notice some very
obvious things about the light. Overall, the light is very even
right across the whole image, including the background of the
image. This is because the light is bouncing off the walls of
the church and lighting the whole scene. A flash on the other
hand, will only light a small part of the scene, usually just
the bride. The problem with flash is that it will product a lot
of hard shadows both on the bride and dress, and also on the
background. With flash, you would normally see a big shadow of
the bride on the wall in the background. Available light allows
you to eliminate most of the harsh shadows that can ruin a
normal photo. Also, the shadows on the brides face are also very
soft.

The biggest problem with available light photography is the
shutter speed. Usually this will be relatively long, so the
cahnce of spoiling the image due to movement, either from the
subject or the photographer, is quite big. One should always use
a tripod in this situation. So, you need to let people know that
this is a special lighting effect and that they need to stay
very still for the exposure. The image shown in the blog, had a
shutter speed of a quarter of a second. Photographically
speaking, that is a long time. Exposures under normal
conditions, will be using a fairly fast shutter speed so that
the movement of the subject will be frozen to give a nice sharp
image and a pleasing photo as a result.

We need to consider two things to when using available light to
get correct exposures. One is, as we mentioned, the shutter
speed, and the other of course, is the aperture.

Lets take a look at how a correct exposure works. The shutter
speed, in a wedding for instance, will freeze the movement of
the subjects, so that the images appear sharp and pleasing to
the eye. So, the shutter speed determines how long the light
affects the sensor on the camera, and the aperture affects how
much light hits the sensor. So the combination of how much light
hits the sensor for how long determines by the shutter speed,
gives us a correct exposure.

The secondary effects of the shutter speed is the amount of
movement shown on the image. A fast shutter speed will show no
movement, and a slow shutter speed will cause a blur of the
image, either from the movement of the subject or by not holding
the camera perfectly steady.

The secondary effect of the aperture is how much of the image is
in sharp focus. With either shutter speed or aperture, a lot of
people get confused about the numbers involved. The aperture
shown on a camera lens is usually shown as f5.6 or f8 etc. The
confusing part for many photographers, is that the larger the f
number, the smaller the lens opening. But do not let the numbers
confuse you. The numbers are only written this way because of
space constraints. The number is really a fraction, and every
number technically should be written with a one on top of the
number. So, f8 is really f and 1 over 8. And f16 is really f 1
over 16, or a sixteenth. What this means is that each stop
downs, halves the amount of light coming through the lens.

The effect of closing down the aperture this way, is that the
smaller the aperture, the larger the depth of field. In other
words, the smaller the aperture, more of the image will appear
in focus. So, when shooting portraits, we usually want a shallow
depth of field, so that the background does not affect the
appearance of the subject. But as we adjust the aperture, by
letting more or less light reach the sensor, we have to adjust
the shutter speed to allow the light to be on the sensor for a
longer or shorter period to make a correct exposure.

About the author:
Tom began his career, like many photographers, by shooting
weddings part time. He is a consultant to the graphic design,
advertising and publishing industries, teaching digital
technology. You can get more info on photography and see
examples of his work here; http://www.howtoshootweddings.net For
free tips visit http://learnweddingphotography.blogspot.com