Aubzie Arts And Photography

Alas! You have finally chosen your knight in shining armor! And boy, are you excited for your wedding day! Each little detail of that special day is planned out like an architectural structure – bold and sure that everything will fall into place and none of the unforeseen or unfortunate will happen. It took quite a while to choose your groom to be. So will it be in your pursuit of the “perfect” photographer – the one who will capture every darling moment on your wedding day.

We know of the Chinese proverb that says “A picture is worth ten thousand words.” Photos are the most dynamic souvenirs a newlywed can ever have. Viewing wedding photos together, whether right after the wedding day or twenty five years later, creates that magical moment that no other kind of photo can evoke. Wedding photos are special in that way.

Brides are the ones who can best recommend the PERFECT wedding photographer or “bad mouth” the worst of them. Great wedding photos do not come by accident. Achieving them requires you to first know what you want to see in your photos and to be clear and bold in communicating that to your photographer.

Do you prefer casual and candid shots or the more sophisticated appeal of posed shots? Would you like to combine traditional poses with totally wacky ones? What particular moments do you want captured in your photos? How about the venue? Would you like to have some really beautiful snapshots of your chosen venue for good memories? Close-range shots of the bouquet, ring, or souvenirs before they disappear? Be very specific. Do you need some props to achieve a certain photo effect? How about interesting angles and shots for a more post-modern appeal? Oh, and let us not forget the guests! Will you go around tables to take photos with them or prefer the guests to move to your table for some pictures? For each photo with the guests, do you want just one traditional shot or have two of them — a serious shot and a wacky one? There are many things to consider and choices to make. It will be best to write them down on a sheet of paper and organize them by priority. Hand a copy over to your wedding photographer so you have something to begin with. Remember, just as communication is crucial in a relationship you’ve just entered into with your groom-to-be, so it is with your photographer. As mentioned, beautiful wedding photos are not accidental.

Here is a great traffic-building tip: you can get tons of visitors from Google by using photos on your site.

Google has an “Image Search”, and when people look for pictures there, they will see your photos. Let’s say your website is about roses. If a person searches for a picture of a rose on Google image search will get a whole page of pictures of roses.

If the person clicks on a photo that they like, they will be sent to a page with a small version of your image along with a snapshot of your web page. A lot of people will click through to your web page.

If you use a really cute or unusual picture, you can really get a lot of traffic from it. I discovered this by accident, but I have been using it deliberately ever since.

Some ideas for using image search:

1) Make sure Google knows what the photo is about.

- Use your keywords in the file name. Don’t use some random letters or numbers. Use some words that are related to your post.

- Use keywords in the alt tag of the photo. Just use a few words. Don’t make it excessively long.

- Words found near the photo influence the meaning also. Google uses this to figure out what the photo is of. So watch what text you have near your images.

- Adding a caption to the image will give Google additional text to figure out the photo’s subject.

- For a blind person, the alt tag text is what they get instead of the photo. And for people who have images turned off, this alternate text is what that they will see instead of the image.

2) How to keep your pages loading fast while using images.

- Be sure to specify the height and width of the photo. This way the page load is not slowed down while you are waiting for the picture to load.

If the browser knows the size of your photo, it can leave room for it and continue loading the rest of your page. Otherwise, it has to wait until the photo loads before it knows how much room to leave, which slows down the loading of the rest of your page.

- Check the size of your photo file. It should be under 20-30k. This is especially important if you use a lot of images on one page. If your file sizes are too large, it can really slow down your page load.

If your image files are too large, use and image editor to save them at a lesser quality. A lower quality image will still look good on a web page.

Pictures of great leaders get plastered over the newspaper everyday, and it is just impossible to use these pictures as inspirational pictures. However, if you are really serious about using leadership pictures to make you be a good leader, then you can try using pictures that are from online photo books like photo bucket and image share. It might sound impossible to you that such random pictures might spur you to be one of them. If you are still having doubts about the capability and reliability of these leadership pictures, then read up.

The idea of using leadership pictures to be a good leader is somewhat similar to the idea of using self-hypnosis tracks influence the brain to make the person be the good leader that he ought to. The only difference is that these self-hypnosis tracks are more interactive and the positive affirmations are embedded directly into the subconscious mind.

Using the leadership pictures would definitely require more effort. When pictures of leaders get plastered all over your room, your subconscious mind will get tuned such that you will be able to see yourself in place of these leaders. The other alternative method is to use subliminal audio tracks. Subliminal audio tracks use positive affirmations and soothing sounds to send the message to the subconscious mind while in pictures, the images of leaders will act as the positive affirmations that will help to tune the mind.

You might be immune with the pictures of leaders over time. You might even be oblivious to the existence of these leadership images but believe it or not, your subconscious mind will continue to take in all these images of leadership and tune your brain accordingly.

If you are looking for a great leadership picture, then you might want to choose pictures of successful businessmen or inventors. Pictures of Einstein for example will signal to your brain immediately that he is a successful person.

Putting a couple of pictures of great successors of life does not hurt. In fact, these pictures will eventually become your role models. While it might sound a little bit kiddish, the idea of keeping pictures of great leaders can make you think big and start acting “big” too. This would mean that in the long run, your mind would be tuned to go the extra mile when it comes to work. Your subconscious mind will feel that there is a need to be like the leader in the picture and you will subconsciously be able to do greater things and behave in like a leader-kind of way.

Have you ever wanted to display your treasured digital photo collection in the living room TV instead of your computer? It certainly makes sense to do this if you’re showing off your pictures to many friends or family members. You wouldn’t want your guests to crowd around that crummy computer screen would you?

Well, there are many ways to display photos on TV. Let’s step through the various options in this article.

Option 1: Use the Digital Camera

The most obvious way to display digital photos on TV is to make use of your digital camera itself. Most, if not all digital cameras these days come with a video-out cable. Simply connect one end of the cable to the video-out of the camera and the other end to the video-in of the TV. Simple as that – play back the pictures on the camera and they will display beautifully on the TV.

The drawback of this approach, of course, is that you can only show the photos available on the memory card within the camera. So if you only have a 32MB memory card installed, then you probably show very few pictures.

Option 2: Use a Photo Viewing Device

Another approach is to use a photo viewing device. One device I which has served me well is the SanDisk Digital Photo Viewer. This neat little device sits on top of your TV set and it accepts popular memory cards like CompactFlash, MultiMedia, Secure Digital, SmartMedia and MemoryStick as input. There is a video-out port to connect the device to the TV. In summary, this approach is similar to using a digital version of a 35mm slide projector, so to speak.

I’ve also noticed some DVD players coming out in the market which accept memory cards as input. One of these is the Sampo DVE-631CF. It’s a reasonably priced DVD player which also allows you to play back MP3s and JPEGs from both CD-R/RW and CompactFlash Type I cards.

However, whichever of the above options you choose, you’re still limited by the amount of memory available on your memory card. Hence, if you have a small capacity memory card, you probably can’t show to many pictures at one go.

Option 3: Use a DVD Burner

The best approach of all, in my opinion, is to convert your digital photos to DVD format. The DVD you create can then be played back in any DVD player to display all your pictures as a slideshow. The chief advantage of this approach over the others is that you can store many, many photos on a 4GB DVD-R. It’s also pretty convenient to send a DVD of pictures (instead of a memory card) to your friends or family members who live faraway.

All you need is a DVD burner and some special software. The best software I’ve found for doing this is Photo2DVD Studio. With its easy-to-use wizards, this software allows you to convert all your digital photos to DVD in a few simple steps. What’s more, you can add special effects to your photo slideshow, including transitions, music and DVD menus. There’s a full set of tutorials at the Photo2DVD website to guide you if you have doubts.