Calling Artists, Authors & Photographers

Calling all Artists, Authors and Photographers.

My site is for artists / authors / photographers to be interviewed by myself and so to show off their work.

This site was only started in February of this year, but it already has got a good following and we have had well over 2000 unique visitors since we started.

We have also generated sales through the interviews.

I have 10 interview spaces for artists. 10 for Photographers and 19 for Authors.

These will be published over the next 4 months.

If you are interested, please email me direct at iam [@] 1stangel.co.uk with a link to view your work and a small introduction.

Guest bloggers also welcome.

If anyone would like to guest author now and again about art and, or literature, please email the above address, again with a link to view something your have already written and a small introduction about yourself. No payment but you are able to link to your work in a signature at the bottom of your piece.

Thank you for your time.

1stAngel
1stAngel

Adobe Photoshop Express Beta Site

You may or may not find this site performing well but it is worth a look. At no charge you will be able to tweak your photos, with a 2 GB space. I can already hear you. "That's not much room", but it is free. And since Flickr may not end up being the same as usual, IF it ends under the ownership of Redmond WA's Microsoft, this may turn ou to be quite a nifty site for those of you who are not professionals, but still need minimal photo editing software.

You can take a peak here but I'll warn you as of this post the site is in Full Metal Jacket Beta state. There are others but with as much clout and membership in Photoshop currently, it is hard to believe this site won't eventually lead the pack, rock the house, command center attention. So click on over for a look.

Just try it at a time when most of the free world is sleeping, and I don't know when that will be, yet.

Uhoh...WARNING...It appears Adobe has let slip by some terms involving any of your content uploaded:
But there's a policy pothole on the ramp that almost broke my axle: Adobe's claims on your publicly shared photos. From the Terms of Service: Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

But as ZDNet reports Adobe attorneys have been apprised and are working on a rework. Wait till this gets worked out before uploading any of your work, as you'll want to maintain all rights to your work or risk giving it all away.

A Guide to Shutter & Aperture Settings

Interview on 1stAngel.co.uk

I am tooting my own horn here if you don't mind. 1stAngel has been interviewing a number of artists and photographers from ImageKind and I was fortunate enough to be included. There are a number of really creative people at her site and the interviews are well done. Take a side trip on over to read a couple and you might be impressed by their work. Of course my link is to mine but it is just a right column link away to read more or even better if you are also a photographer or artist to get an interview for yourself

Tell us how you liked the read.

Take a Look at Prints for Your Home or Office

When you are looking for something new to hang on your walls, often you can search for days or weeks before you land on something you really like. Here are 2 Galleries you'll find which might offer you something that fits within 5 minutes.

Take a look and if you don't agree, leave a note for a reminder the next time a new gallery is placed.

See Prints for Your Home or Office

Just Beginning to Learn Photo Shop?

Try this site, "http://epaperpress.com/psphoto/index.html and you'll find a wealth of How To's to gain the beginning ground for your journey through Adobe's Photo Shop techniques. It is also a great refresher course for those of us, of which I am too am guilty of, who have learned a way, stuck with it because it works, yet forgotten the other ways in which the same technique can be applied.
When you open the first page you'll see this

This site is based on Photoshop CS2. For Photoshop CS3 read the New in CS3 section. All downloads, including Photoshop Actions, have been verified in Photoshop CS3. Looking for a book? A search for "Photoshop" at Amazon.com returns 8,822 entries! Here are a few of the best.

It's simple but thorough. Post a comment here when you get a good look and let our readers know what you think of the site.

Is Unsharp Mask Still the Gold Standard?

Some of us who've been using Photo Shop for a long time now have come to rely on certain tools we know work in the way we like them to work, for example, if we want to bring some overall light to oue images we simply click on Image > Adjustment . Brighten/Contrast and we notice that by dragging the Brightness slider to the right that we get the effect we want. And that by choosing Filter Unsharp Mask that we can easily sharpen an image. However for those of you who haven't taken the time to look into the tool added in CS2 called Smart Sharpen, we can choose not only from from Amount, Radius & Threshhold, but a host of other options which I think you'll find somewhat more appealing and adjustable. Take a look at this video and see for yourself.

Lunar Eclipse

Did any of you get the chance to shoot the recent Total Lunar Eclipse? I set a tripod on my deck and used a remote shutter release. And I got a decent shot but even with sharpening I wasn't able to capture a saleable shot. I have a Manfrotto 190 set of legs with a 141RC Head which is more than adequate for the 30D with a 70-200 F2.8L IS with a Canon 1.4xTC extender. The problem was that the center rod, with legs fully extended, still had to be raised beyond the extension connection and with the turning of the earth or the decks boards movement, or that I didn't use mirror lock up as Peter mentioned from the forum at Ik, even as still as I was I could not quite get a sharp focus. And yes I remembered to shut off the IS. This one is just as soon as the Full Eclipse had passed and I could get a good orange color.



Leave a Comment with a link if you have one or you've seen one. If it's yours let us know the settings. Mine was captured using Manual, F Stop was 4.0, Shutter Speed was 1 sec, Focal Length was 280mm, and ISO was 1600. We have about a year if I recall until the next one. If anyone has a more accurate date, let me know.