WordPress 2.7 Complete

WordPress 2.7 Complete
Packt Publishing | 2009-06-02 | ISBN: 184719656X | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Using WordPress you can easily create dynamic blogs and web sites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and although it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plug-ins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. While it is easy to get started with WordPress, its full power is not obvious.

If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured blog or non-blog web site in no time, this book is for you. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state-of-the-art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so you can build your complete web site. You will see many of WorPress's hidden powers that will help you build a fully functioning web site.

You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog - users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds - and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will learn to install WordPress and customize the look-and-feel of your web site. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. By working through the book you'll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.

More advanced users will also pick up tips on creating your own themes and plug-ins, and such technical steps as backing up your WordPress web site and moving it from one server to another.

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How to Make Animated Films

Tony White, "How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principles of Animation"
Focal Press | 2009-05-26 | ISBN: 0240810333 | 512 pages | PDF | 16,4 MB

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. Includes hands-on Tutorials, demonstrations and final sample animations. . Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D, 3D, Flash or any other form of animation, Tony White's foundations bring you closer to that goal. The DVD is invaluable, in that readers are not only taught principles and concepts in the book, they are able to see them demonstrated in action in the movies on the DVD.

*Look over the shoulder of award-winning Master Animator, Tony White, as he works at his animation lightbox. Watch, listen, experience as the author demonstrates everything you need to know.
*Tony White is a legendary animator with a strong following. His best-selling title: The Animator's Workbook has 80,000 copies to date.
*For aspiring animators on their own - without backing or funding. Get the same results the Disney animators do with bare minimum technique and equipment.
*DVD offers a perfect audio/visual companion to the book with movies of the author at his drawing desk, creating art in front of our eyes - demonstrating difficult techniques like flipping, inbetweening and superimposition.

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Digital Painting in Photoshop

Susan Ruddick Bloom, "Digital Painting in Photoshop"
Focal Press | 2009-02-16 | ISBN: 0240811143 | 248 pages | PDF | 29,5 MB

Have you ever considered using Photoshop to create fine art?

Photoshop is usually used for enhancing photos, but this extremely powerful software package is capable of so much more. Every feature, from brushes to background, can be customised and optimised for artistic effect. With a little guidance from a pro, your photoshop results can go from competent retouching of images to visually stunning re-interpretations of them, turning everyday pictures into breathtaking works of art.

In this beautiful and inspiring book, acclaimed artist, author and lecturer Susan Bloom shows you how to do just that. Starting with the fundamentals: creating your own artistic brushes and textured papers virtually, she goes on to demonstrate how to create a variety of classic artistic styles in Photoshop, with chapters on watercolours, pastels, charcoal and oil. Further chapters cover illustration techniques in photoshop, and using third-party software to create painterly effects.

While the results are highly polished and realistic, this is not a book written specifically for artists. The techniques are aimed squarely at the Photoshop user looking to broaden their pallette, with emphasis on altering photographs to create artwork, rather than creating artwork from scratch.

Beautifully written, clearly laid out, and guaranteeing inspiring results, this book is a must-have for every Photoshop user.

* Guide to using Photoshop to create fine art from photographs, covering many different artistic styles
* Highly visual, inspiring content with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots
* Backwards compatible approach: author has taken care to ensure that this fully up-to-date title also applies to previous editions of Photoshop

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"Medium and Large Format Photography: Moving Beyond 35mm for Better Pictures"

Roger Hicks, Frances Schultz, "Medium and Large Format Photography: Moving Beyond 35mm for Better Pictures"
Amphoto Books | ISBN: 0817445579 | 2001 | 408 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB

This fine book by two accomplished photographers offers an excellent introduction to medium- and large-format photography.
For 35mm photographers eager to move up, it is one of the few titles available about medium-format photography and the only recent one. The authors first discuss the many advantages of working with negatives and transparencies in formats larger than 35mm.
They next deal with medium-format equipment, which uses roll film, and then large-format cameras, which rely on sheet film in various sizes, most often ranging from 4" 5" to 8" 10". Each of these chapters includes examples of some of the best equipment available in each category. There is also a separate chapter on lenses and accessories, including tripods, light meters, and filters, and another chapter devoted entirely to the darkroom.
The book concludes with brief personal essays by each of the authors and appendixes that include information on Polaroid processes, custom cameras,
and suggestions for making better photographs. This informative book is beautifully illustrated with examples of camera equipment and of excellent photographs. Appropriate for all libraries, especially public and academic libraries with good photography collections. Highly recommended. Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, IL

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Kelby Training Seeing The Light | 1.3 GB

The video series follows one of the industry's best photographers as he explains some of his techniques for creating spectacular lighting.
Eddie Tapp is an award-winning photographer, lecturer, consultant and author on digital imaging issues. As an award-winning photographer with over 20 years of experience in computer technology. Eddie has been actively involved in educating and consulting with corporations, studios, and agencies in the applications of digital imaging workflow, color management, pre-press, and digital photography globally. Clients include Epson, Eastman Kodak, Foveon, Polaroid, Apple Computer, The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Dynacolor Graphics, Marathon Press, H&H Color Lab, CPQ Color Lab, PhotoLogic (Ireland), PGC (Japan), DOD, DOE US Army, US Navy,and other Government agencies along with a list of photographic studio operations.

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Amateur Photographer - 18 July 2009

Amateur Photographer - 18 July 2009
PDF | 94 pages | 44.6 Mb | English

News: Turin Shroud 'a fake'; Leica S2 on track after Phase One split; Pentax launches waterproof camera; AP Editor in landscape showcase; World's smallest art gallery opens

Competition: We have £1,000 worth of digital cameras from Samsung to be won

Photo insight: David Clapp explains the importance of luck, and why it's always worth shooting a subject in a variety of formats

Last resort: Richard Sibley offers a step-by-step guide to using the digital darkroom to recreate an in-camera panning technique

Testbench: The Think Tank Streetwalker Pro photo backpack and The Pixel photo frame from Fridge Frames

Q&A: Our experts answer your questions

Olympus E-P1: The new Olympus Pen E-P1 is the smallest Micro Four Thirds camera yet. Barney Britton finds out if this is a Pen for the 21st century

Crystals and numbers: Geoffrey Crawley, our photo-science consultant, explains how images are formed on film and digital sensors

Icons of photography: Ivor Matanle recounts the history of the Ermanox, the miniature plate camera that created photojournalism

Gallery: Another selection of superb reader images

Appraisal: Damien Demolder examines your images, offering words of wisdom and constructive advice

Reader masterclass: Three readers join Bob Barclay at Oulton Park race track for a masterclass in capturing motion. Gemma Padley reports

How to get the best from a… digital compact: Steve Gosling on the advantages of using digital compacts for your photography

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Hasselblad cameras on moon in July,20 1969

Photography and July, 1969 moon landing

What camera were used to take picture in moon (July,20 1969) by Astronouts ? Hasselblad cameras.
Recalling the history of its cameras in space Hasselblad said: 'In 1962, astronaut Walter Schirra took his Hasselblad on board the Mercury-Atlas 8 and took the first images of earth from space. Hasselblad followed NASA, on space flight after space flight, with Hasselblad cameras proving that they could meet the stringent demands made by extraterrestrial travel.

'And in 1969 when the world watched in awe as the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first men to set foot on the moon, those astronauts also carried Hasselblad cameras, capturing some of the most definitive images man has ever captured.'
Hasselblad customers who buy an H3D11-50 or H3D11-60 camera until 21 August will be eligible to take part in the trip to Florida, which will include a weekend of seminars, training and photography, followed by a competition.

The event takes place from 24-26 September.
(From :http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Moon_landing_was_huge_leap_for_photography_says_Hasselblad_news_285858.html)

Astrophotography : Camera lens vs Scope?

Taken from the forum : http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=721809
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I'm assuming you're not intending on imaging the Moon and planets only from your comment about a computerized mount. First and foremost I would think about a mount that is capable of good results at such focal lengths. Without one it won't matter what you place on top of it.

To address your lens/scope comparison question depends a great deal on the optical quality of each instrument. Is your 500 a Canon "L" f/4? For discussion sake I'll use it to expand on a few things. The Canon 500L would hold its own very well against Achromat refractors and even some of the ED doublet refractors of the same focal length. It would have an advantage in most cases with its faster focal ratio. But for deep-sky long exposure work you would have to be willing to accept some field curvature(distortion that both refractors and lenses have, visible by distorted stars at edges and corners of images) from the 500 lens since correcting the curvature wouldn't be possible. A refractor or Newtonian(called coma in reflectors) can have this corrected by placing a field flattener/reducer between the camera and the scope. I'm not aware of any that will work for a lens. I use the 1.4X TC for daytime use with my 500L with good results but I don't think I would use it for astro work since some quality would be lost and focal ratio would be increased as well.

One other thing about using a lens is the diffraction spikes you'll see on bright stars. Some people like them some don't, just thought I'd mention it. You can see them here:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...hlight=antares

Your 30D will do very well. I use a non-modified 20D and am very satisfied with the results. Once you get a mount that can get you the length of exposures you want you'll need to fine tune alignment and set up skills as well as learn how to best process the exposures you get. There's much to learn so take it slow and continue to do you homework before jumping in too deep. There are plenty of knowledgeable people here that can help so don't be afraid to post any questions you may have.

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Steve

Canon Gear: 1D Mark II / 5D / 20D / 500L IS (f/4) • 100-400L
My Astro Gallery http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y67...OTN%20Gallery/

Aura Photography

Taken from this website :http://www.stephanyhurkos.com/aura.htm
An AURA is the electromagnetic energy field that surrounds, encompasses and permeates the body as well as all living things. The colors and patterns within this energy field constitute a blueprint (the results of the energy we radiate from our feelings, thoughts, and physical being). Until recently, Aura's were only seen by the special few who had a gift to see the rainbow of colors.
The first aura photo was taken by Nicola Tesla in 1891. The USSR expanded on his work through the development of Kirlian photography, and by 1975 UCLA researchers (Thelma Mose and Valerie Hunt ) were measuring the Aura with precise accuracy.
Guy Coggins took this work a gigantic step forward by combining his research on Kirlian photography with the research on biofeedback to produce a very usable camera called Guy Coggins Aura Camera 6000.

What is Aura Photography?
Aura photography is a visual image of how we are functioning.
The technological process is complicated. The hand-shaped plates are sophisticated sensors. They measure your electromagnetic field, based on the Ayurvedic (acupressure points on the hand) system of meridians. The camera codes the energy readings into frequencies (which correspond to certain colors) and process the photograph, a computer sorts the information and prints the Aura Photograph.
These measurements are expressed as vibrational levels which a computer chip turns into their relevant colors. A data cable from the sensor takes the information to the camera which takes a double exposure (your image plus superimposing of colors collected from the sensors). This amazing photograph of all the collected data superimposed on the image is the Aura photo.
Through the use of this remarkable technology, we gain a deeper insight into our emotional - mental states, heal and spiritual well-being. Thus we are now able to give a more accurate reading of the Aura based on the colors that are photographed.
The color interpretations are universal in meaning. The reader takes the photo and interprets the particles of colors based upon their placement on the photo.
The magnetic energy of the planet controls the flow of energy by which we all live. Above the equator to the north, all energy circulates from right to left. South of the equator, the energy circulates from left to right. If you live in the northern hemisphere you receive energy from the left as it passes through us in a clock like flow then leave's our aura to the right.
This Camera produces a mirror image of your aura. The Future is seen to the (photo) right, the Present is above the body, and the Past is on the left. Most of the cycles of our goals and desires shift every six months.
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Another aura photography sistem is The Kirlian Aura Camera system.
The Kirlian Aura Kamera™ Price includes HV/HF generator, camera body, camera case, sample instant Polaroid film (3.25" x 4.25", type 669 or equivalent), instruction manual (click to view pdf file-81KB), interpretation guide (click to view pdf file-540KB), 11x17inch Laminated Poster, & "Life's Hidden Forces". Specifications - Shipping Weight: 7lbs, Dimensions: 15in x 11 x 6, Power: 110/120V or 230/240V, please specify).

Amateur Photographer

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Avoid the pitfalls of wedding photography.
You may not be a wedding photographer, but there's no reason you can't take pictures like a pro. The AP technical team offers hints and tips on how you can overcome the challenges you'll face.

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Zeiss Planar T* 85mm and 50mm lenses

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This mounth our focus is on lenses and pro Steve Bedell checks the specs and weighs in on why may or may not want to keep using pro-quality lenses for your work. In addition, we have a Test Report on the lates Zeiss Planar T* 85mm and 50mm lenses. Aside from optic, we have an exclusive interview with master craftsman JOe McNelly, TIPA Awards, and talk with several photographer about what's new in their wedding photography business...

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Canon FD-Lens Workbook, 1986 Edition

Informatin about old Canon lenses, with best quality optics.

This book illustrates how Canon has accomplished its goal of meeting photographer needs over the years. Through the use of photographs, our aim is to reveal as much as possible the traits of each lens. Whithin these page exist the basics for uderstanding the Canon FD lens system. The chapters are arranged in a manner which will acquaint the reader with photographic principles and in turn will demonstrate their practical application. And as ypur understanding grows from chapter to chapter, so will your confidence in lens choice and use. In addition to lens handling you may wishto delve more deeply into optical principles. Hence some subjects are approached from a practial standpoint while other concern the more theoretical aspect of optical design and image quality. Our aim is to present a basic overview in an enjoyable style.

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Other edition of Canon Lens Workbook:
Canon EF-Lens Workbook, 8th Edtion-2006 (PDF, 29853 KB)
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