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There are only a few ways to control blurring in your images. But there is only one element, light. How you add enough light to prevent blur is the key. Increase ISO, widen your aperture or Flash. The first two tools for adding light are the quickest and easiest options. The third, adding flash, may be easy too for those whose cameras include the unit in their models, but for those with a semi-pro to pro body camera without flash built-in, it becomes more challenging. Adding light through the use of raising ISO, while quick and easy, can create another problem, noise, though unless you show it full size or print it full size you may not notice the noise. I generally shoot in the 100-200 range ISO, but I have found myself in situations where even after opening the Aperture to it's widest I have to raise ISO to 600, 800 even higher to gain any acceptable images. The price the image pays is, as stated, noise. But that can be acceptable too if you are not shooting a wedding or a

Rich Collins Photography Ratings Tools for Buying Art Storm Lifting by Rich Collins When you look at art which you are evaluating for your home or office, what criteria do you use before you purchase? For those of you who take a subjective approach, that is you simply are overwhelmed by it's effect on you, this tool may not be as helpful, yet it won't hurt to look it over. And by the way I do believe that most art is purchased under the auspices of beauty, or a sense of connection, or its profound statement on us as individuals. And of course I am not speaking to auction houses such as Christies or Sotheby's , as this art is rarely bought for anything other than the value a collector sees as a future sale, though clearly there are some collectors who enjoy their art, the majority is beyond the scope of this tool. So let's say you have been "In the Market", if you will, for a few pieces for any number of reasons. Maybe you have just moved into a new h

Happy Mother's Day. This is in honor of my Mother, whom most of her friends call Dot. I caught her in the midst of preparing the kitchen for dinner.     I should say that Mom, Dot, is much more than a Mom to me, she is an Angel. She has been my inspiration for positive thinking for a lifetime and continues to inspire me. Why? I can recall when I was very young and was tied to the farm, milking cows, slopping hogs, feeding horses and chickens, gathering eggs, all of this twice a day, that I used to complain about not having enough time to spend with my friends who were all free of these (work duties - ahem) activities, and she'd say, "Well what would the animals do without you?" How could I argue with that? Or when I'd come in with near frozen fingers from winter's chill and she'd have a warm steaming wash towel for my hands. "Here", she'd say, "this will warm you in no time". Why else? She has spent many, many years helping