Buy my photos! (or start selling your own)
I have joined an online stock photo store recently and started to upload some of my work for sales purposes. Some of you contacts me asking to get a print or so from a photo they like. Now without worries it’s easy to go to my online store to simply buy them! Easy enough, by clicking on the banner below you’ll be taken to my online gallery where you can purchase any number of my photos for cheap dollars.
For those of you who have had thoughts of starting to sell photos online as well, just do it! Does not cost you a penny to join up, nor does it hurt getting some dollars for the hard work you have put in. Click the buttons below and join up! You can choose multiple companies to multiply your revenues, just make sure you don’t give any company full/exclusive rights to your photos.
Community site for photo sharing
Found a very cool place today on the internet which I think will grow very fast. It is similar to Flickr and MySpace and does already show good potential. Tabblo lets you via an intuitive interface create albums/collages of your photos. It then lets you choose styles/templates/designs for your album and arranges/resizes them neatly automatically. Very easy signup and you are ready to go. Take some of your photos and create an album. Make sure you add me to your circle of friends network. Here are my first tabblos - check them out!
Summer vacations arrive
So, after attendning multiple end exams from various people at school, things are finally calming down for sure. It was a quite busy end of the school year I must say and I totally enjoy the free time! I am playing the last show of Jesus Christ Superstar tomorrow and have time to get ready for the preparations for the North Sea Jazz Festival. We start rehearsing the 10th.
Tip for the summer musicians: I'd like to recommend surfing in on Jeff Helgesen's marvellous home page for solo transcriptions. He has numerous pdfs on his site with transcribed jazz solos from famous trumpet players like Chet Baker, Conte Candoli, Clifford Brown a.o. Great if you are getting tired of your practising material and want to try new stuff. I'm glad he is sharing this great resource with us!
For those of you who wonder what/where I'll be doing this summer I give you my summer schedule:
- 10-14 July - Rehearsals for the North Sea Jazz Festival
- 14-16 July - Enjoying the Festival with mom!
- 16-19 July - Showing mom Holland and Belgium (beers)
- 21 July - Gig in Holland with the Young Sinatras
- 22 July - Gigs in France with the Young Sinatras
- 24 July - GOING TO SWEDEN
- 26-28 July - CD recording with the Malmö Fire Brigade Band
- 29 July - 1 September - vacations and Liseberg Marching Brass
- Early september - back to Holland for my last year at Codarts in Rotterdam!
Web site recommendation for camera flash stuff
I am sitting in my room for a parcel to arrive with my recently purchased camera gear. Great! Mainly what is coming is some camera maintenance, extra battery, lens hood for my 24mm lens, boy it needs that - and a Manfrotto tripod-head combination! Finally some legs for the camera that are truly profesional. My tip is to not waste some 50 euros on some halfly working tripod. They only make you and your photos dissapointed.
In conjunction with this new stuff, I’d like to direct those of you interested to a beautiful blog on the net that treats the usage of flash, lighting and do-it-yourself lighting. It is called Strobist and does a great job of showing you how to get more in control of your photos using lighting and strobes/flashes. Lots of cool, cheap ideas how to improve your existing gear too.
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Try GoogleTalk
For those of you who run into problems with Skype, VoipBuster or just had enough of MSN messengers bad voice quality, make sure you give the tne GoogleTalk application a try. It features a very simple interface without conference call or webcam support, but provides in many situations a much better voice over IP experience. GoogleTalk requires a GMail account (GoogleMail), which is a hotmail-like webmail service that boasts more than 2600Mb of storage for your emails!! Rather amazing. You cannot open a GMail account just like that; you need to be invited by a friend that already has it (like me).
Lessons in photography
There is an amazing resource online called the Radiant Vista - a site for learning photographers. There are professional workshops and lessons to attend to , but most interesting might be the video and pdf tutorials and the Daily Critique. The daily critique features the photographer Craig M. Tanner who critiques photos that people submit to their site, one new every day. Very nicely done in a quicktime movie format and teaches you new ways of seeing pictures and how to compose them. Here is the link to Radiant Vista!
Wonderful underwater photography
Found a great webiste today from Alexander Mustard with amazing underwater photgraphy. He uses a Nikon D2x digital SLR camera with an underwater housing. He has collected photos during about 180 dives around the world. Among the places is Grand Cayman’s Stingray City, and sandbar full of Stingrays - a place I visited myself when I cruised the caribbean. Fun to see again (I held those stingrays in my arms!) Great stuff! Here is the link!
Loads of Music Videos!
Just found a great web resource with old 80’s music videos and interviews with David Foster. For you who don’t know, he is a pianist and producer of huge amounts of records from all kinds of artist like Al Jarreau, Barbara Streisand, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, NSync and many others. He produced many CDs in the 70’s, 80’s with himself at the piano, and composed and performed the theme song for the Calgary Winter Olympic Games ‘88. His name is on countless CDs and is well known in the Slick, West Coast rock genre. Fun to see those old movies! On the page are even movie clips with Michael Bublé, Chicago and some others too! Have fun!
LINK to the page
BEST music service on the Internet!
Just want to inform about probably the best internet music service there is at the moment. It is called Pandora and it is project that helps you to find new music. You simply enter an artist that you like in the box and Pandora will find music that has the same style, feel or mood, and keeps playing continously music that you like. You can have as many channels as you like, and it just GREAT! You can register with your email address to get more than the 10 free hours, and it is free, except for some small commercials on the top of the site; you have it minimized to the task bar anyways… And here comes the best!!… If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer as your internet browser you can now after listening SAVE all those temp files and make them to normal mp3 files! Search on google for ‘pandora’ and ‘access files’ for instructions.
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