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Mark W. Leonard sounds like a genuinely nice guy. Last year, he brought a cotton farmer from Mali in West Africa to church gatherings near his farm in Holstein, Iowa, to discuss U.S. farm subsidies.
But being a nice guy doesn't mean that Leonard, who, according to a Wall Street Journal article, is a Republican candidate for agriculture secretary in Iowa, cannot also be terribly wrong.
The article, written by Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow, the reporters who bushwhacked National Cotton Council Chairman and Mississippi producer Kenneth Hood in another attack on U.S. farm programs, cites Leonard as an example of farmers who are becoming disenchanted with U.S. subsidies.
Kilman and Thurow's article contains several inaccuracies. (Example: A Wheaton, Ill., housewife who have traveled to Honduras and Kenya to meet with farmers in those countries, talks about cotton being picked with a combine.)
But that's small potatoes compared to the tired premise of the article: U.S. farm programs are responsible for poverty in the cotton-producing countries in Africa.
The article follows the standard format for Page 1 features in the Journal. Find a person who can serve to put a face on a particular problem or trend and then build the evidence to support your cause.
In this case, the authors selected Leonard, a farmer who accepts subsidies, but has seen the light about the supposed evil that U.S. farm subsidies are doing in places like Africa. "From a Christian standpoint, what it is doing to Africa tugs at your heart-strings," the authors quote him as telling a group of his neighbors.
The article then talks about "unusually broad" anti-subsidy sentiments that are growing in the United States. The headline says farmers are "joining forces" with that movement, but the article mentions only one other grower, from Kansas, who is also a field representative for OxFam America.
Most of it is devoted to celebrities like the U-2 singer, Bono, college students and groups of businessmen concerned that the current impasse in the Doha Round negotiations may deprive them of new markets for their goods and services.
It includes a reference to criticism of farm programs by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. This is the same group whose chairman said last year that out-sourcing was good for the U.S. economy.
Nowhere do the authors note that the African farmers woes might be homegrown. They never explain how U.S. farm programs could have anything to do with the diversion of 18 cents on every pound the African farmers grow into someone else's pockets.
Nor do they explain how taking money away from U.S. farmers who have endured embargoes, trade sanctions and environmental red tape from their own government will help the first farmer in Africa.
Unless well-meaning people like Mark Leonard wake up, they may force the dismantling of U.S. farm programs, throwing thousands of farm families off the land. African farmers won't be any better off than when they started.
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i might be available...where do u play at? email me [edit: email removed - see profile] thanks
I can play at Santa Anita, where do you live? Maybe we are close to each other.
There is live oak park, santa anita, Whittier narrows(although i don't know if it's open in the morning)
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Welcome to the Asia Markets live blog, a running account of what the region's stock markets are doing, along with other news. In today's edition, India surprises with a rate hike, and China goes wild for Tesla.
3:14 am | Markets check -- 4:14 p.m. in Hong Kong | by Laura He
Japan (Nikkei Average) down 0.2% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.1% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.3% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 1.3% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3% (closed)
1:12 am | China's social media goes wild for Tesla | by Laura He
Chinese car buyers are used to paying a lot more for luxury cars than people in the West do.
So Tesla's decision to charge the same price (more or less) that they do in the U.S. is generating many a happy comment on China's social media.
1:07 am | India's RBI to markets: Surprise! | by Mike Kitchen
Economists thought they wouldn't do it, but they did. On Tuesday morning, the Reserve Bank of India hiked the benchmark repo rate by a quarter point.
They also said further tightening won't likely be needed in the near term, but that didn't stop the rupee and Indian stocks from falling ... temporarily.
The announcement swung the dollar up to to 63.19 rupees from 62.97 rupees, but now the pair is back down to 62.96 rupees.
Likewise, the Sensex dropped to a 0.7% on the Bombay Stock Exchange, but now it's flat.
Well see if the RBI's tightening cycle proves to be as fleeting...
12:58 am | Markets check -- 1:58 p.m. in Hong Kong
Japan (Nikkei Average) flat
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.1%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 1.3% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.1%
11:34 pm | Shaanxi Coal soars on Shanghai debut | by Mike Kitchen
The Shanghai Composite is about to reopen for afternoon trade after ending the morning session with a slim 0.1% gain.
This would suggest a quiet day on mainland China's largest stock market, but there is in fact some action on the IPO front — namely the debut of Shaanxi Coal Industry Co.
Shares of the coal miner zoomed a little more than 25% higher in the opening minutes, prompting a trading halt. The stock is due to resume trading just before the end of the session, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited a stock-exchange notice referring to unspecified "abnormal fluctuations" in the shares.
Coming just after the lifting of a year-long freeze on new Shanghai listings, Shaanxi Coal is the biggest IPO so far, raising 9.83 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) for a 10% float of the company, which will remain securely in the hands of a provincial government holding company. That said, the report notes the amount raised was roughly half of what the company had planned just before the IPO moratorium prevented its listing.
According to Bloomberg News, Shaanxi Coal is China's third-largest producer of coal after China Shenhua Energy Co. and China Coal Energy Co. Those shares, by contrast, had an underwhelming Tuesday morning, with Shenhua slipping 0.4% and China Coal easing by 0.2%.
10:50 pm | Markets check -- 11:50 a.m. in Hong Kong
Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.1%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.9%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.1%
10:01 pm | Market closures this week for Lunar New Year
Here's the Asia holiday schedule for Lunar New Year:
Closed: China (mainland), South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
Half day: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Closed: China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam
Closed: China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam
Closed: China (mainland), Taiwan, Vietnam
Closed: China (mainland), Vietnam
Closed: China (mainland)
9:50 pm | Hong Kong equities reverse gains | by Carla Mozée
Feeling the weight of losses in shares of HSBC Holdings and China Mobile, the Hang Seng Index's two largest components are contributing to an overall pullback of 0.3% for the benchmark. That's a reversal for the index, which had a modest gain earlier in the session.
With the end of the month approaching (what, already!?), the Hang Seng is down roughly 5.8% for January, on track for its sharpest monthly loss since June. Trading in Hong Kong will be closed for the Lunar New Year after a half-day on Thursday.
9:29 pm | Markets check -- 10:29 a.m. in Hong Kong
Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.3%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) flat
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.9%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
9:28 pm | China trade reality check | by Mike Kitchen
Remember last spring when China said it would crack down on phony invoicing and other practices that made its trade numbers look stronger than they actually were?
Well, Bloomberg is out with a story saying some of the data-juicing hijinx may be back on the rise. The report points to Hong Kong reporting a 1.9% drop in December imports from mainland China (which is considered another country for data purposes), while China earlier said its shipments to Hong Kong had risen 2.3%.
To be fair, the article also offers some innocent (and not so innocent) reasons for the discrepancy. For one thing, mainland China counts items as exports the moment they cross the border, while Hong Kong waits 14 days before recording an item as an import, according to Mizuho economist Shen Jianguang.
Shen also tells Bloomberg that the gap between the mainland and Hong Kong data sets isn't that big when compared to what was going on in early 2013.
Another possibility, according to Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, involves "round tripping," in which goods are sent to Hong Kong and then re-imported to the mainland.
Either way, if the return of trade-data skewing is serious enough to prompt another round of official action, then we could see another dive in Chinese exports, as was the case last May.
8:23 pm | Markets check -- 10:23 a.m. in Tokyo
Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.6%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
8:18 pm | Japan stocks fight for a win ... and what about Mario? | by Carla Mozée
Too early to tell, of course, where Japan's Nikkei Stock Average will settle by day's end, but a win today would be the first in four sessions for the index. After opening with a modest gain, the Nikkei was up 0.2% more than an hour into trading.
But off the benchmark, shares of Nintendo Co. slumped more than 2%. That move followed a Nikkei newspaper report that the company plans to design free mini-games to be played on smartphones.
But it appears that investors aren't too keen on the idea that the games will be only be demos of console games, and that full content will be available for purchase and play only on Nintendo's hardware.
Nintendo is expected to unveil its strategy on Thursday, according to the report.
6:55 pm | Losses greet Sydney, just back from holiday | by Mike Kitchen
Down in Sydney, the ASX 200 is off 1.3% as investors price in yesterday's sell-off, along with drops for gold and copper. (Read details here.)
While Australia's market had lost ground last Friday, falling 0.4% on the back of an unexpected contraction in Chinese manufacturing (at least, according to the HSBC flash PMI), the "slide for that day that didn't come close to preceding the U.S. equity markets' continued response ... as Asia's ongoing contribution to world growth gets questioned by market-watchers," wrote Rivkin CEO Scott Schuberg.
Indeed, the S&P 500 lost 2.1% in the U.S. on Friday, helping lead to drops of 2.5% and 2.1% for Tokyo's Nikkei Average and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, respectively.
But Schuberg adds: "Thankfully, this is not a liquidity crisis in North America and Europe; however, as I stated late last week, it is certainly enough to prompt some profit taking in equity markets after a great run."


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Emily Hancock, a professional Hampshire Photographer recently submitted the following tutorial to on Capturing Motion in Photography.
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Photographs, by definition, capture and immortalize a small slice of life. There is little for the viewer to infer what happens before or after that moment. However, there are images that need to communicate motion. For example, you may want to capture a dog running, a train barreling down the tracks, or trees that are blowing in the wind. Each of these scenes can come alive within your photographs if you learn how to convey motion properly.
Today, I'll describe how you can use different shutter speeds and panning to capture motion in your photography. I'll also explain a potential issue you might experience along with tips to resolve it.
Reasons To Capture Motion
Beginning photographers have likely seen captivating photographs that capture motion which they'd like to duplicate. There are several ways to accomplish this and each has a slightly different goal. Sometimes, there is a need to blur certain elements in the image while focusing sharply on a few subjects in the foreground. Other times, you may want to freeze or blur everything. The direction you take depends upon your objective for your photograph.
A lot of photographers capture motion simply to convey that an object is moving. But, there are other reasons to so. Movement can communicate mood. Trees rustling in the wind suggest serenity while throngs of people on a busy city block imply harried activity.
You can also use motion to eliminate elements in a scene that may serve as distractions to the viewer. For example, you may want to photograph a person standing on a sidewalk corner as cars move behind him. By blurring everything but your primary subject (i.e. the man on the corner), you can eliminate potential distractions and focus the viewer's attention.
Two Primary Techniques For Capturing Motion
The shutter speed that you use while photographing a scene plays a key role in capturing motion in your image. The faster the shutter speed, the sharper the focus on your subject. On the other hand, a slower shutter speed will blur a moving object. There are two main approaches (we'll discuss a couple of alternatives in a moment).
photo by paulaloe
Let's assume you're photographing a speeding train against a wall of trees in the background. You can blur the train while leaving the trees in focus. Doing so would instantly communicate to the viewer that the train is moving quickly. To accomplish this, you would use a slow shutter speed. (It's also important to use a tripod. That way, your camera remains steady.) You'll often see this technique used in nighttime photographs with car headlights cutting through the image.
Image by Extra Medium
This second technique keeps your photograph's subject in sharp focus while the background is blurred. Using our train example, the train would be in focus and the wall of trees would be blurred, thereby conveying the train's movement. Similar to the first method, you need to use a slow shutter speed. However, instead of using a tripod, you'll be panning your camera along the directional path of your subject.
Panning Explained
Photo by fabbriciuse
Most beginning photographers are trained to "secure" their cameras. That is, your camera should remain as still as possible for certain types of shots. By contrast, panning requires that you move your camera with your subject. Specifically, you'll be matching your subject's rate of movement and the direction in which it is traveling.
In our train example, assume the man on the bike is moving from east to west. In that case, you'll need to pan your camera along the same direction, matching the speed of the bike. The best results occur when you have a clear view of the moving object and ample room to swivel your camera along a parallel axis to it.
Panning effectively can be difficult. You can practice and perfect your technique by photographing athletes who move quickly (for example, basketball players). Try to capture their facial expressions while blurring everything in the background. It will take some time to get it right, but once you do, the technique can be a valuable addition to your repertoire.
Besides the two main techniques described above, you can also freeze the entire field of vision or blur everything. Freezing the entire scene can give your photographs a unique look, especially if the objects strongly imply movement. For example, consider a bird that is flying in front of a waterfall. Both imply motion to the viewer. Freezing the entire scene captures that motion in a single moment and can produce a breathtaking image. You should use a shutter speed of at least 1/1000th of a second for this type of shot.
Photo by llimllib
Blurring everything produces the best results when the scene offers bright, contrasting colors or varying shades on the grayscale. In most cases, capturing motion in this manner is done purely for artistic purposes.
Another effective method for capturing motion within your images is 'chrono photography'.
Photo by monkeyc
Using the continuous shooting feature on your camera, you can capture a series of shots and join them together in the post processing stage to create the effect shown above. A tripod is essential when attempting to shoot motion using this method.
Image by Jolantis
A lot of novice photographers ask what the proper shutter speed is, given their objective for their photographs. Every situation is unique. One speed doesn't suit all circumstances. To identify the right shutter speed, you'll need to ask yourself a few questions:
The faster the shutter speed, the more frozen and crisply-defined your subject will be. Most cameras today will allow you to freeze a scene using 1/8000th of a second or faster. That being said, the numbers only serve as a rough guideline. You'll need to experiment with different shutter speeds in a variety of situations.
When you slow your shutter speed to blur elements in your image, there's a chance that too much light will enter and impact your photograph. It's a common problem, but there are a couple of ways to resolve it. First, check the aperture on your camera. The larger it is, the more likely excess light will enter. Try adjusting the settings to reduce its size. Second, review the setting of your ISO. When it is set high, the image sensor in your camera may be overly-sensitive to light. This can create unwanted noise in your image.
Like other photography skills, becoming proficient at capturing motion requires practice and experience. You'll need to spend time learning how shutter speeds will impact the quality of your images. Even if you're just setting your camera on its tripod, timing a perfect shot of a fast-moving object can be difficult. In the end, capturing motion in your photography is part technique and part art. Fortunately, with practice, you can master it.
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Great article! Thanks for sharing awesome tips and inspiring your readers to get out there and try it!
I am just learning how to use the different aspects of my Nikon Digital SLR and oh my it is so overwhelming. I want to know it all now and i know that is not even remotely possible. Trouble is i have learning issues and i know more and read something and it's forgotten 3 minutes later. So frustrating. Anyway, i just want to say how much i truly appreciate your generosity of your time and knowledge on here. Thank you for the opportunity to learn. I would love to take a class but for one thing i couldn't afford to and for another i am just afraid with my learning issues i would never be able to keep up. Anyway, thank you so very much! Have a great day!
Your tips are top notch. It really helps me to learn new skill in photography.
I love all your posts. I tried many similar websites but yours is the best. The way you explain makes it so easy to get the idea. Thanks so much!
My own attempt: http://thephotophile.blogspot.se/2012/08/motion-blur-another-good-reason-to.html
Capturing in motion needed to have some skills on how to capture it correctly with sense of creativity.
Fantastic blog. I just wanted to say thanks for your work!
I really like this topic, at my site http://clickitphoto.net/2011/04/21/rulebook-time-shutter-speed/ I have some info on motion blur and shutter speed as well
Can anyone tell me how the muti frame picture of the lady on the beach is created ?
If I use the sports feature on my camera it will give several pictures of the subject, but how is this done that they are all on the one image ?.
A similar question came up in my mind whilst watching Sky Arts 1 on a series about the New York photographer Bob Gruen. He has a famous picture of Tina Turner that has her moving on stage with 5 different images of her as she moves, but all on the one image. My question is that if it was a long shutter speed surely it would show a blurred image of her rather than 5 images on the one photo ?
Hope someone can help.
Good article and stunning photos. Thanks Darren.
GREAT writing, so very informational! Could you put the settings you used with the photos to provide a baseline? Thanks.
Good article, thanks. I loved the photo of the lady stood in front of the train.
Could you please discuss on Chrono Photography and how to process them in Photoshop in coming article ?
Thanks in Advance,
Tapas Mallick
My attempt a couple of years ago...
Another great post! I learn so much from your writing. Thanks.
My attempt a couple of years ago..:
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I find Panning particularly difficult in games like basketball. It's much easier in athletics where U can predict where the athelete is moving towards.
Even after years of trying, I can barely say I'm good at it.
wat is post processing stage ?
Can someone guide me on proper lens for a motion photography? I have been trying with 50mm f1.8, but the result is not impressive.
Todo el blog tiene una fotografia con efectos especiales... sobre todo movimiento. felicitaciones
I made this shot 2,5 years ago, but it still remains one of my favorites..
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This article is very useful! Thank you!
I do panning because I don't have the lens to properly photo roller derby with crystal clarity. I really really want a 24-70 f/2.8. It's easy to get the hang of but kind of annoying to have to do almost all your shots like that.
Don't forget image stabilization. It's going to fight your motion....
what focus setting (on a Canon DSLR) should you use for panning. I obviously have the wrong one, as the focus is set while the subject is still far away, and as it comes closer and I swivel with it, the subject obviously moves out of focus.
thanks for your help!
All this information is wonderful, but how about some help and guidelines to use with a digital point and shoot camera. Is there any way we can capture some of this stuff?
Nice descriptions with some terminologies. Good to know these techniques.
wow this is so awesome came right on time just learned this at school and i have to take some photos with fast and slow shutter speed
This is a classic example - easy to shoot as well! Find a Carnival, Stabilize, 3 -5 seconds and you have got it!
Spin Me Round, Santa Monica, CA: http://t.co/r8Wtwr6
Regards, Erik
this is a great article...thanks for sharing!
Can you please let me know what technique you used for the close up of the skateboard (the first picture)?
Panning is also fun if you're the one moving, eg out of a train or car. Find a point of interest to keep in focus and have everything else blurred according to their distance to the focal point. It looks.. different. ^^
Setting the flash sync to fire at the end of the exposure is called "Rear Curtain Sync" and you should be able to set it from the custom functions menu. Set Shutter Curtain Sync to second curtain snyc. On the XTi it should be custom function #9. You'll find it amongst the menu settings.
Thanks for the great article. am definitely bookmarking it. My biggest problem is with panning and getting the sync of the speeds just right. I guess that just comes with practice.
I did a pretty nice (if I may say so myself) HDR photo with the car lights motion, but I guess that is the easiest type of motion photo.
HDR photo Paris - Light streaks
Great article with some great examples. I especially like the shot of the woman standing in front of the moving train.
Here is an example of one of my favourite panning shots I took while in Paris.
I highly encourage anyone who is interested in capturing motion to attend motorsports events as it gives you lots of opportunity to practice almost every type of motion photo. For the IndyGP race last summer, I struggled a bit during the first day of practice but by the second day and race day, I was dialed in pretty good:
I worked specifically on selective focus (honing in on the riders' helmets) while panning as the motos were leaning into curves and getting on the gas on Indy's short/back straightaway.
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Thanks for the article!
Here's my try: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=204487892902374&set=a.174879819196515.40455.170070809677416&type=1&theater
This is a different technique....static train, moving clouds generate the motion blurr
"Locomotive Breath" http://t.co/jXahj46
Here is another good article
Motion - especially combined with lights in the dark - is one of the topics that amazes me the most in photography! Here are two examples:
Hotel Victor on the Ocean Drive in Miami Beach:
I actually wanted to capture the nice architecture and lighting of the building, but due to the traffic cars were always passing by. Well, doesn't look bad, does it? ;-)
The next one is from my hometown Bielefeld in Germany:
I took this photo from a bridge above a local highway. What I like about it: it was just the perfect timing. The sky with clouds was still visible, but the cars already made long and beautiful light trails.
Great article but would be so much easier to follow if your examples were consistent with the images you are showing vs. going back to the 'train' example. In a few places I think you actually got mixed up even. You talk about the train and the bike in the same place.
Repost of a great article, motion is so often overlooked yet so effective.
A set of motion photos from Europe: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lendog64/sets/72157626496640100/
Great article - similar to one I wrote for CurrentPhotographer Motion Blur Photography http://cpurl.net/f0VRvB
Here is one of a static train, clouds give the motion Locomotive Breath: http://t.co/jXahj46
great site. I will share with my students as a good resource
Very helpful. I play a lot with conveying motion.
Very interesting article.I think that I am too late to visit here. Though I shoot blur photos but I learned here something more.I can not explain much.
Thank you
After reading about long exposure shooting on your site, i went out and experimented with some interesting results last Friday night. i have posted the results on TREKEARTH under CPD66 the baltic four mill, if anyone is interested in looking at it.
thanks very much for the pointers as this has now opened up a new area of photography for me, i love the information available that is to people, and the generosity of those how supply it.
kind regards
Love this post...!!
Will be awesome for weekend Assignments..!!
Great tips there. However, I wonder if it's possible to have such results (capturing motion) when using a Sony DCS-W30 digital camera.
Great tips in this article!! i sometimes find myself getting stuck in just freezing the action and not thinking outside the box. I primarily capture people doing everything from weddings to touring with bands. From time to time i play around with dragging the shutter and definitely need to work at it more to keep my images from being stale.
Great work everyone!!!
Jared Polin
I looked up some tips but failed to use a tripod as most posts didn't specify one.
I'm going to make this my personal assignment for the week. I have tried the second technique many times hoping to get the moving subject in focus and the rest blurred, never been very successful but practice and practice some more and hope to accomplish... thx for the tips.
dude. these photo's are sick.
to jessica. i have the same problem with rear (or second) curtain sync.
my flash flashes at both beggining and end. i dont have a rebel, i have 30d. reasonable similar.
thanx for the tips broseph
Thank you so much. I had missed my Photo101 class and our assignment was capturing motion, this helped me clear up so much confusion. Thanks!
This is great tutorial on motion photography. It helped quite a bit with a project I'm working on. Thanks very much.
What a fantastic lesson on motion photography. Mastering my camera has been a challenge, and I'm still not quite there yet, but things are just starting to "click" for me. I absolutely love this website and find the lessons invaluable.
2. Blurred Background With Subject In Focus
-i used to take a pic of myself with my camera phone while spinning on a swivel chair- try it guys just to see hw it works
Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
I would really like to try the Blurred Background With Subject In Focus. It sounds pretty hard but the result must be all worth it!
A very helpful tips for a beginner like me. I'm using a d50 nikon dslr with 18-70mm kit lens. I would like to purchase another lens with low light capability, which is not that expensive. I like shooting nature, landscape, portraite, sport and school indoor activities for my kids. Could you give me an advise for which lens is good to purchase. thanks.
Sweet! Love it. Gotta try it. Again, sometimes (rarely) this effect happened for me and I thought it was tres cool... but I had no clue how to replicate it.
I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !
nice blog... just learned how to shot well.. really learn a lots.
I just love your weblog! Very nice post! Actually you can do many thing to imporve it.
Generally Ido not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! really nice post.
Thankyou! Wonderful article for the beginner... me! I took notes so that I can have them with me when I'm out shooting ;)
Great article - enjoyed the variations.
One of my personal favs. Stood over my brothers shoulder with a longer shutter.
My Ultimate motion photo:
Great timing, we have a comp at the local club with 'dreaming' as the theme, how good is this information
I can't believe you failed to mention neutral density filters for reducing the amount of light coming in, under the heading "Potential Issue: Excess Light". ND and GND filters can be quite useful. Not to knock the article; it's a great posting.
I'd also like to add zooming, which I don't think I saw mentioned. Another very unique blur effect to enhance feelings of movement. At a relatively slow shutter speed, zoom in or out while the shutter is open. That's the basic premise. Results are something like this - http://blogs.reuters.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/Zoom%20-%20Low%20Res.jpg Although that photo hasn't much to do with lightning movement per se, the same effect can be used with something that does move fast to build upon that notion. On the search for examples, I ran across this. I hope the moderators don't mind if I include a link to another article. It explains the technique in detail and gives it a name. http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Creative-zoom-bursts
All of this information is great for those folks who don't have vision impairment. Although my Nikon has a diopter, it just isn't enough for me to use my camera in the manual mode.
Because of this, I manipulate most of my photos in PhotoShop.
It's 'cheating' in a way but it's all I can do for now. The flip side is, I have taught myself a great deal about PhotoShop and am learning more all the time.
I envy all of you who use just your camera to achieve such marvelous images without the aide of imaging software. YOU are the professionals! Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos.
Are you sure that the first flash going off is actually the 'flash' and not the flash probe for autofocus? You can confirm this by switching to manual focus and then trying out the 2nd curtain flash.
Blurred Background With Subject In Focus,
I was just reading about this a couple of weeks ago and one of the tips that was mentioned is to turn from the hips/waist. I tend to turn my shoulders. It was also mentioned that, "You'll be lucky to get one useable shot out of ten-twenty." so take many pictures until you get one that works.
great.....it's good to informed by u...can't wait to practice it...thx a lot.:)
Hey all this i a great post I love slow shutter speeds. I was at an air show not so long ago and I learned a very simple thing that can help with panning. Keep both eyes open one on your subject and one through your view finder. I could never pan properly because when the shutter opened I couldn't see my subject anymore until it closed again, by which time my subject was either a blur or completely out of the frame. Maybe I was just being dumb, but I'm sure this may help someone
thank you for the great tips. i can't wait to try these out on my future photos.
I was just playing around with the 2nd curtain, and I noticed that the (internal) flash goes off at the beginning AND the end. Is there a way to set it to it only goes off at the end?
Good article with very informative tips. Thanks good work
Thanks for the tips. I found the custom function. I guess I need to use my trip as well, to get a better effect and prevent blurring
Wow nice post, It really help with my next pix,
@ Mandy:
It's pretty easy!
All you need is to have either PhotoShop, FireWorks, or GIMP.
What you do is open all images (in the case of the skateboarer above it's 3) as separate layers in one document. Then, pick the image with the clearest overall composure (you can eyeball this) and designate it as the "base" image. Then take the the other images (layers) and using the polygonal lasso tool select the item of interest (ie the skateboarder). Then use the "invert selection" tool and feather the selected area for about 4-7 pixels. Then press delete (not backspace). Do this for all of your points of interest and you should be all set!!! (Send me an email at email@example.com and tell me how it goes!)
also... you can just cut and paste one pic on top of the other..just make sure that you align everything.
here's a really detailed instruction... from another forum:
Great post! I love how simple the information is laid out. Last weekend I tried taking some shots of a band in a very low lit atmosphere and they moved around a lot and I found myself very frustrated as all the pictures came out blurry. I looked up some tips but failed to use a tripod as most posts didn't specify one.
I like the effect you get with 'chrono photography' but I'd like to know more about the post processing side of that technique... any offers!
On the XTi you can set it to shoot with the rear curtain. Click Menu then find Custom Functions. It'll be Custom Function #9. You'll want to set it to second curtain.
That should do it!
@Jessica First off, I think you need to be in Av, Tv, or M modes to have manual control of the flash. Once you're in one of these three, go to Menu -> Flash settings, and select something that says 'rear curtain' or 'second curtain' sync.
Great article... very comprehensive. Panning is a technique that I like a lot but it does take practice! Here's one of my favorite panning shots:
There are also some great motion photos here:
great how-to on shooting motion, a technique that is not the easiest to do... well... but makes for some great dramatic images, thanks for the how-to.
I want to learn how to make the flash go off at the end of a long exposure, to capture motion while holding the camera still, in a dark environment.
Do you need an external flash for this? (I have a Rebel XTi) I just ordered an external flash, but don't know how to set it to go off at the end vs the beginning.
Wonderfull post, thanks for sharing your indsight into this subject.


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One of the most encouraging aspects about the .NET Framework is the degree of openness that Microsoft has shown during its development. From the earliest public previews, core specifications detailing the C# language, the classes in the FCL, and the inner workings of the CLR have been freely available.
However, this openness was taken to a new level in November 2000 when Microsoft, along with co-sponsors Intel and HP, officially submitted the specifications for the C# language, a subset of the FCL, and the runtime environment to ECMA for standardization.
This action began an intense standardization process. Organizations participating in the effort included Microsoft, HP, Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, Sun, Netscape, Plum Hall, OpenWave, and others. The work was performed under the auspices of ECMA technical committee TC39, the same committee that had previously standardized the JavaScript language as ECMAScript.
TC39 chartered two new task groups to perform the actual standardization work: one to focus on the C# language, the other to focus on what became known as the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
The CLI consisted of the runtime engine and the subset of the FCL being standardized. Conceptually, Microsoft's CLR is intended to be a conforming commercial implementation of the runtime engine specified in the CLI, and Microsoft's FCL is intended to be a conforming commercial implementation of the class library specified in the CLI (although obviously, it is a massive superset of the 294 classes ultimately specified in the CLI).
After more than a year of intense effort, the task groups completed their standardization work and presented the specifications to the ECMA General Assembly. On December 13, 2001, the General Assembly ratified the C# and CLI specifications as international standards, assigning them the ECMA standards numbers of ECMA-334 (C#) and ECMA-335 (the CLI). Copies of the ECMA standards are available at http://www.ecma.ch.
Critics have claimed that the ECMA standardization process was merely a ploy by Microsoft to deflect Java's cross-platform advantages. However, the qualifications and seniority of the people working on the standardization effort, and their level of involvement during the lengthy standardization cycle, tell a different story. Microsoft, along with its co-sponsors and the other members of the standardization task groups, committed some of its best and brightest minds to this effort, spending a huge amount of time and attention on the standardization process. Given that this effort occurred concurrently with the development and release of the .NET Framework itself, this level of investment by Microsoft and others flies in the face of the conspiracy theories.
Of course, for standards to have an impact, there must be implementations. At the time of this writing (January 2001), no fully conformant reference implementations were shipping. However, there are several efforts already under way to provide open and shared source implementations of the C# language and the CLI, for both commercial and noncommercial use.
Microsoft is working with Corel to provide a shared source implementation of the CLI, as well as C# and ECMAScript compilers that target it. This project, codenamed Rotor, is expected to ship in 2002, and will run on both Windows and FreeBSD platforms. Although specific details of the shared source license were not available at the time of this writing, it is expected that this CLI implementation will be licensed for noncommercial use by researchers, hobbyists, and academics.
However, Microsoft's implementation is not the only game in town. Other CLI implementations include the Mono project and dotGNU.
The Mono project (http://www.go-mono.com), started by Ximian Corporation, is aiming to provide full open source (GPL and LGPL) implementations of not only the CLI platform and the C# compiler, but also a larger set of classes selected from Microsoft's .NET Framework FCL. In addition to the internal resources that Ximian has committed to the project, the Mono project has also attracted attention from the broader open source community, and appears to be gathering steam.
Finally, consider the open source (GPL) dotGNU project (http://www.dotgnu.org). While not as high-profile as Mono, dotGNU has also been making headway, and includes some interesting and unique concepts. The core of dotGNU is Portable.NET, which was originally developed by a lone developer (Rhys Weatherley) before merging his project with dotGNU in August 2000. There are unique aspects to the dotGNU project, including the fact that it was originally designed around a CIL interpreter rather than a JIT compiler (although the team plans to add JIT compilation at a later date), and the developers' plan to support directly executing Java binaries.
Beyond these three, it is very likely that more implementations of the CLI will arise over time. While it is too early to say whether the .NET Framework (in the form of the CLI) will ever be available on as many platforms as Java is, the degree of openness and the level of community interest is very encouraging.
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By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
VIDEO: Hawks vs. Pacers: Game 7
INDIANAPOLIS – Maybe this is how it's going to go for the Indiana Pacers.
No "A" game, no style points, no drive-by games or series. Real skin-of-their-teeth stuff.
No collapses either, though, not in any complete or fatal sense. Stubbed toes, sure, but no missed steps. No coach or teammate thrown under the bus, even if Frank Vogel and Roy Hibbert had a few telltale scuff marks from getting kicked briefly to the curb.
The Pacers, the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, dispatched their first-round opponents with a decisive 92-80 beating Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, advancing to the East semifinal round against the Washington Wizards. That represents everything they could have done to this point, right? There was no bye available to skip directly to the East finals, no bonus to be had (beyond a few extra days off) for doing in four or five games what they accomplished in seven.
Then again, it took Indiana the maximum to get past the No. 8 seed, a sub-.500 entry whose best player (Al Horford) hasn't played a lick since December due to injury. The Pacers were pushed to flex their home-court advantage about a month earlier than they'd planned and even then, they only went 2-2 at BLFH in the series.
Even then, it took the Hawks missing 59 of 79 3-pointers (25.3 percent accuracy) in Games 6 and 7 combined for the Pacers to put them down. Atlanta shot 38.5 percent in the series, 30.4 in the clincher. Indiana did block 13 shots (six by David West, five by Hibbert and a breathtaking snuff at the halftime horn by Ian Mahinmi against a dunk-minded Jeff Teague), but it was clear the Hawks felt they misfired way too often on their own.
"I think it's always important," Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer said, "to give the defense credit when we don't shoot well, but … I thought we had some good looks at the rim, some good looks in transition. We had some good looks at three's."
In other words, no disrespect to the Pacers but Paul Millsap (6-of-21), Teague (5-of-16), Mike Scott (5-of-14) and the rest would like a few of those looks again, please.
All of which is to say, Indiana got done what it was supposed to and, frankly, what it had to do to avoid a summer of a thousand cuts. People have been poised to either proclaim the Pacers back or pronounce them dead, and here they are, two weeks into the postseason, right where they and everyone expected them to be.
Mission (gasp!) accomplished.
Dominant? No. Despite Paul George's huge game (30 points, 11 rebounds) and series (six double-doubles) and some early-season defensive stats, most inside and outside the Pacers' circle have been fooled too often by false starts – vs. Chicago, vs. Miami, vs. OKC – to claim they're back-back.
But disqualified? No, not that either. They remain somewhere in the middle, not exactly who they'd been but stirring a bit from what they had become. No longer headliners, not yet flatliners.
Pacers' coach Frank Vogel couldn't lie when asked if the mood in his locker room afterward was more elation or relief. "I don't know, maybe a little of both," he said.
Vogel has been the guy with his fingers in the dyke as Indiana, so stellar in the season's first half, sprang leak after leak after leak. Defense, confidence, George's shooting, chemistry, Hibbert's emotional state and so on – Vogel was on the verge of doffing a shoe and a sock, the way the leaks kept opening.
"I don't feel like we ever strayed that far from who we are, especially on the defensive end," Vogel said, resolutely half-full vs. half-empty.
Hibbert's big fade late in the season was blamed on fatigue. His near-disappearance in this series got attributed to a "matchup challenge," Atlanta's "stretch five" attack stranding him in no man's land defensively. While there was considerable truth in that, the 7-foot-2 center and the guys who play around him were relieved that he roused from the slab in Game 7.
He'd been no factor in the previous three, totaling six points, five rebounds and four blocks in 49 minutes. But he topped that in just 31 this time: 13 points, seven rebounds and five blocks. Vogel gave Hibbert credit for 4-for-6 shooting in the first half and the big guy tied for the game's top plus/minus with 16. He'd been minus-12 in a mere 12 minutes in Game 6.
This was a man who finally could exhale. And look forward to a foe in the next round with some legit bigs (Washington's Marcin Gortat and Nene).
"Despite what everybody says, we know we're a good team," Hibbert said. "Nobody said it was going to be easy. One thing Coach talked to us was, when the Celtics won their [2008] championship, they got taken to seven games by the Atlanta Hawks [in the first round]. So I'm sure people were talking about them as well."
Uh, not like this.
But that's where Indiana is at now, the what crowding out the how as they try simply to win four more in the next seven.
"I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't concerned. Of course," forward Chris Copeland said. "I hate to get into that. I believe it feeds negativity. I don't like to acknowledge anything other than the success we've had. For me, we should just keep looking up.
"When you keep looking back and saying, 'We've had struggles, and this and that,' I think it brings on second-guessing yourself. Are we back? You start to question.
"Everything to me, despite the bumps in the road, has gone fine to this point, when you really think about it. Where did we go? We went to the next level. Now we're 0-0 just like we would like to be. Let's just keep it moving."
Maybe it goes like this for Indiana, grimier, less convincing, for another round. Or more.


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By now all the rabid George Clooney fans have oooh-ed and ahhhh-ed over his schmoozy Ryan Bingham persona in Up In the Air. The Golden Globes are always a convincing force, pushing everyone else into the theatres to see the greedy award-grabbers like Avatar, The Hangover and Up in the Air for themselves.
So I went, because I like to be pop-culturally informed. If you are holding out for the rental so you don't have to pay $12 for popcorn, there's no spoiler here. Ryan Bingham's life revolves around flying. In fact, being grounded leaves him unbalanced and twitchy. However, when love tempts him, he begins to reconsider his whole life. Maybe everyone else has it right. Maybe love, permanency and a home with a full fridge and drawers is attractive and natural. Bingham's solace had long been the routine and simplicity of airline travel. He had no baggage other than what he checked in at the airport. Or did he?
His motivational speeches on the absurd weight of the physical and emotional baggage that we carry turns as flat as an open Coke left on the counter overnight. His sister's impending marriage reveals his estranged relationship with his entire family. When he meets his match in Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), Bingham re-evaluates his life spent in the sky, travelling 320 days of the year.
The movie should have convinced the audience that baggage is good. It represents a life well-lived, friends and partners well-loved, dogs, cats, the whole sloppy and gorgeous mess.
So, why did I find myself in the travel section of Indigo Books minutes after the movie ended? Up in the Air reminded me of the anticipation that pulsates in airports. I wondered where I would/should go next. I pulled a guide book from the shelf on volunteer opportunities abroad and decided to play a game with myself. I let the book fall open to a random page, and decided that would be my next destination. I averted my gaze (to avoid cheating myself). I looked at the page that fate had opened to: Thailand's Elephant Sanctuary.
Because I'm a Switzerland when it comes to making decisions, I've decided this will be my new tactic. The 100-acre sanctuary is located 50km from Chiang Mai in the Mai Taman Valley. Many of the elephants are rescued in an injured state from poaching activity, as seen with one individual who arrived with only one tusk. Once rehabilitated the elephants are released into "Elephant Haven," a 2,000-acre natural forest where they can live safely with the herd of 25 that has already found a forever home in the Haven.
Volunteers stay in bamboo chalets, collect fodder with machetes during the dry season and can accompany a vet on the "Jumbo Express." Working elephants kept by remote hill tribes receive veterinary care during such missions. Mornings begin with car-washing the elephants in the river. Because they are prone to parasites and other skin conditions, they require a daily squeegee job. At noon, when the pick-up truck rolls in with papayas, pineapples and bananas, "you are covered in fruit pulp and elephant snot" in minutes. Awesome!
I walked home from Indigo in the spitting rain, inspired and imagining elephant snot. I went online and read more. I checked out the Tennessee elephant sanctuary again and made notes in my not-so-official Five Year Plan book. Then I saw a Facebook posting from PASA Primates in need of volunteers at the Drill Ranch in Nigeria, working with orphaned chimps and mandrills. I jetted off an email immediately for more details. Then I received news that the J.A.C.K. sanctuary in the Congo (where I volunteered in July) has three more chimps arriving after being found at an abandoned captive facility in DR Congo. That made me want to fly back to Lubumbashi tomorrow.
I've come to the conclusion that I will probably volunteer more than I will work in my life.
It was just over a year ago that I watched Entebbe, Uganda disappear below me. The tears in my eyes made the few lights of the 'city' double. Landing at Schipol and taking the train into Amsterdam was a rude slap. Winter! That hospitable African sun no longer warmed my skin. I immediately forgot about the nuisance red dust that came with that lovely sunshine.
I rented Out of Africa the very next day. I looked at all 800 of my pictures on a regular basis and cried for the dogs and pals that I left behind. I missed the frenetic pace of the Tuesday night market. Having a warm Nile beer with a bowl of salty grasshoppers as the sun dropped into Lake Victoria. I wanted a Stoney Tangawizi (fiery ginger beer) and a rolex (an omelette with chopped cabbage and tomoato rolled into a greasy chapatti) from a shifty street vendor. As I ran in the sopping BC rain along McKee creek, I wanted to feel that stupid dust in my eyes and ears. I was sad to not be dodging scrawny goats and fleet-footed chickens and 'boda-bodas' (mopeds) with 400-pound Nile perch flapping on the back. I missed Africa in an almost pathetic way. Like a heart-broken lover.
And then my friend Heidi reminded me of all the things I had casually forgotten about when living in Africa. Travelling as a videographer with World Vision, she spent the last two weeks in Entebbe, Gulu and Kampala. I was thrilled to tell her about each place—what she had to eat (pizza at Anderita Beach, Nee's green curry at the Gately) and how the sunsets would catch the sky on fire. My only warning was about the darling vervet monkeys who were prone to stealing bananas from your hand, or anything else that they assumed was edible.
And I think I mentioned that Kampala was a zoo, but I didn't want to be like a movie reviewer with a spoiler in the first sentence. I did send a photo of the Kampala taxi park as a subtle warning though. It's a football field of 'matatus' (mini-van taxis), each with a horn which is blared in response to other blaring horns. Just like barking dogs, one starts, and the rest join in. But Heidi had been to Zambia, she knew the drill.
The flight to Entebbe alone is enough to cause exasperation in any sane person. Sitting upright for what seems like 108 hours is the first hurdle. Sleepless and rattled by disappearing time zones, you arrive in the vacuum cylinder that is Entebbe. It smells like one big armpit. The skeletal dogs you pass by are like a non-stop Humane Society commercial with some achy Sarah McLachlan song cooing in the background.
The dust begins to blow, the sweat begins to drip until you feel like you've taken a dip and are stuck wearing your wet swimsuit for the rest of the five hour car ride.
Heidi's first post mentioned her exhilaration in finally arriving in Uganda, despite the cold shower (yeah, I forgot about the frequency of those too). She was looking forward to sleeping on her single bed with the lumpy foam mattress. I nearly spit wine all over my laptop screen. I remembered the foam mattresses well. They make you sweat so much that when you wake up, you think you've pissed the bed. And then there's the mosquito net to wrangle with. If they are hung from the ceiling on a hoop, there is a fantastic chance that by morning, there is a huge gap somewhere in the netting and 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes are trapped inside the net with you.
Heidi's Twitter-ed dinner reports were the most dramatic (and realistic). I think after being in Entebbe for four months, I had become used to the starch intake. A typical lunch or dinner would include: matoke (steamed green plantain), potatoes, yams and rice. Served with, as Heidi eloquently described it, "chicken parts."
Yes, there were always mystery parts. I think I had part of a goat's stomach in some broth once. But I conveniently forgot about the stench of fish for sale on the sidewalk in Kampala. The body odour that permeates all air molecules. There were several matatu rides where I had to do a lot of self-talk in tandem with my iPod and The Killers at a deafening level.
And then there was the internet and electricity issue. The patchy communications home made my mother routinely WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. In Entebbe, the power went off in the airport as soon as I arrived. The luggage carousel was halted, but speech was not! The airport was alive with the raised voices of wilting missionaries and UN workers and Tilly-hatted tourists in safari suits fanning themselves as they complained to anyone who made eye contact.
I forgot about the crappy internet connection. I forgot about the stretches of three or four days without electricity. And the hurried cold showers that accompanied them.
When Heidi returned to Nashville, I relived my return home. Clean sheets, clean surfaces, meat without flies on it, ice cubes, soap! Deodorized people! No one yelling "Mizungo! Mizungo! Give me money! Mizungo, buy this!"
And I had space. I have probably only yelled twice in my life, and not even at a dog the other time. However, when I was flying out of Lubumbashi in July I had to yell against my will. Maybe it was more of a really loud voice than a yell, but, the man behind me had his passport pressed into my back. His jacket was practically slung over my shoulder and I could feel his hot, stale breath on my neck. I could feel myself cracking my own molars, trying to resist an eruption. "STANDING CLOSER TO ME DOES NOT MAKE THE LINE GO FASTER." I erupted. It happens to the best of us when travelling.
And this is another blessing of North America (besides meat without flies and reliable wi-fi). We give each other personal space. It's an unspoken rule that doesn't exist everywhere in the world.
But, if we don't travel and put ourselves in unfamiliar landscapes, how do we ever appreciate laundry detergent, $5 coffees and toilet seats? Or being served chicken instead of chicken parts? Distance from comfort, family and friends refines gratitude.
Even though I was reminded of all the nerve-fraying aspects of African travel, I am still halfway there in my head. I can always come home to a toilet seat and pocket-coil mattress again. It might be time to rent Out of Africa again. Apparently I miss corruption, using 500 Q-tips a month, parasites, starch and riding in matatus with 19 people, 6 chickens, blaring gospel music and an oily car-engine half on my lap.
Doesn't everyone?
"Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." –Pat Conroy
Heidi's World Vision Zambia footage featuring "All the Days" by Jann Arden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYidUQIY0r4
Elephant Sanctuary in Thailand: http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/
Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee: http://www.elephants.com/
The Drill Ranch in Nigeria: http://www.pandrillus.org/projects/drill-ranch/
J.A.C.K. in Lubumbashi: http://jack.wildlifedirect.org/


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Picture This:
Flashy Digital Signage
Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM,
By Jeff Sauer
In the future, Flash could take digital signage to a new level.
In the June issue of Sound & Video Contractor, I offered an overview of digital video file and compression formats (see svconline.com/mag/avinstall_digital_video_compression). It was, by design, basic stuff for AV contractors who, while probably familiar with digital connectivity such as HDMI, DVI, and SDI, may not be aware of the nature of the bytes being moved. It's becoming increasingly important for AV pros to distinguish between digital source artifacts from infrastructure shortcomings, but also to appreciate the business opportunities from using digital video technology.
Flash could be increasingly used to lend richness to digital signage displays such as this one driven by Scala.
Most of the formats listed in that article should at least be somewhat familiar. There was, however, one format — Flash video — that was tucked down at the bottom of that article with web video "streaming" formats that may be less familiar to AV contractors, at least professionally. Flash is, of course, all over the Internet, bringing rich media to otherwise static web pages. For example, the main consumer interface at www.sony.com is driven by Flash, with menus and graphic elements flying in — as are the majority of banner ads that include anything more than old motion GIFs (i.e., flaming or spinning logos).
Flash is also the format behind those annoying web ads that appear to walk across your computer screen while you're trying to read an article. You've been accosted by them — those transparent background figures or graphics that seem to take over your browser until you can find the close box, which good convention, if not good conscience, in the developer community mercifully includes in most Flash ads. Exasperating, perhaps, but those ads do hint at some powerful possibilities for a tool that was born 10 years ago as a rather straightforward vector animation tool.
In the June 2006 article of Sound & Video Contractor, and in the context of digital video basics, Flash was listed simply as Flash video, and video is an increasingly important aspect of Flash's capabilities. Yet, motion video is hardly at the core of Flash, nor is it likely to be the focus of Flash for AV communications.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Flash, Adobe devoted a section of its website to the tool. Visitors to the site voted for the best Flash-enabled websites from each of the last 10 years. Road Runner's website (the current version pictured above) is the winner for the 2003 poll.
Why is Flash important to the AV contractor? Admittedly, it probably isn't all that important just yet, but I see a couple of strong reasons why AV pros ought to at least understand it — particularly those who work with digital signage or with increasingly sophisticated houses of worship or image-conscious corporations. But first, what is Flash, and what can it do?
Flash is a vector animation tool capable of flying shapes, graphics, and text around your computer screen. Flash animations originally played in a standalone Flash player, much like Macromedia Director projects did — if anyone remembers the early days of computer multimedia. The difference was that Flash animations, and the Flash player itself, were small files that were capable of surprising richness in the old dial-up days.
More interesting: That was the age of the emerging web, and the tiny Flash player shrewdly became one of the first browser plug-in applications to get installed automatically when you installed Netscape Navigator and, shortly after that, Internet Explorer. The result was, and still is, almost universal compatibility on personal computers. Independent studies going back to before 2000 regularly put Flash player penetration at more than 97 percent in the United States. In other words, just about every computer out there can now play a Flash movie without installing or configuring anything new. Admittedly, not all those Flash players are up to date, and newer Flash content may require a player upgrade.
That alone is pretty cool, but Flash became even more powerful. Along the way, Flash gained the ability to incorporate other data types, such as JPEG photos, GIFs, PNG files, audio files, and, most recently, video of all different types. Flash video does imply a default compression format that enables special features such as non-rectangular and/or interactive presentations of video, but Flash can play virtually any video format in a traditional 4×3 window. More importantly for web and kiosk development, Flash became interactive, driven by a dedicated scripting language called Actionscript.
It's Actionscript and interactivity that have made Flash powerful enough to be the programming tool for sites such as Sony's and many others. It's also what could make it so important to the AV industry. Indeed, it already is used for kiosk development for museums and other public spaces. StrandVision's Digital Signage service is also built on Flash. It uses Actionscript to automatically generate custom digital signage content from text and images uploaded by the client. (See my review of StrandVision Digital Signage in the July 2006 issue or at svconline.com/mag/avinstall_strandvision_digital_signage.)
This year marks Flash's 10th anniversary, and its new owner, Adobe, is marking the occasion with a section of its website (adobe.com/products/flash/special/flashanniversary). The site reflects on Flash's history and growth, offers tricks and tips from Flash developers, and has the winning Flash-enabled websites that visitors voted on from a number of influential Flash-driven websites from each of the last 10 years. There are some amazing websites, especially when viewed in the context of traditional HTML or even Java-scripted websites.
It probably won't take too much looking at those sites to realize that Flash is extremely capable and presents information in a rich way. Indeed, it is far more mature and proficient at developing eye-catching content than any of the digital signage creation tools currently on the market. Of course, Flash doesn't inherently have the scheduling component that digital signage products have, and while it does have serious network management tools, they are not specifically designed for signage infrastructures.
Still, there is an army of Flash developers and creators out there on an order of magnitude far in excess of any digital signage tool, and many are already working in the creative and web departments of companies that might be interested in using digital signage. Therefore, it's inevitable that more Flash content will start to emerge as signage and information presentation reach the next level.
Nobody's arguing these days that digital signage won't be big, but thus far, it has been a slow road. That's mainly because of the human costs, rather than the hardware costs. StrandVision smartly helps smaller potential users move past those inherent roadblocks. Leveraging existing Flash content and expertise could very well be the catalyst for getting larger companies to move, too.
None of that means that AV contractors need to become Flash developers; however, it's becoming increasingly clear that contractors who enjoy success with digital signage will be the ones who understand the underlying technology and the possible solutions first — and that will probably include an understanding of the content itself and where it comes from.


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It's Dr. Seuss' Birthday today. I hope everyone is having fun celebrating Reading Across America Week.
Today I have many activities planned that we have done in the past like eating Swedish Red Fish as we read One Fish, Two Fish.
Or making our own Foot Books.
Or making "The Cat in the Hat" Hats.
We ALWAYS have green eggs and ham for dinner. There are also so many activities to print (and I have printed many of them).
Here are some more ideas, by book, to do with your kids:
Green Eggs and Ham
Eat Green Eggs and Ham snacks or meals
Make a list of green foods
Make a list of words that rhyme with favorite foods (Sam-Ham)
Wear Green
Make Egg Carton Creatures
Egg Spinning activity (one hardboiled and one fresh)
Upper/Lower case egg matching Game by Making Learning Fun
Horton Hears A Who
Make Cotton Candy Snack
Cut out elephant ears and attach to headband to be elephants; now walk like an elephant.
Have a sound activity. Listen to different sounds through earmuffs, earplugs, etc.
Try to make as much noise as you all can. What works best, pots and pans, instruments, or our voices?
Talk to your children about the meaning of, "a person's a person no matter how small."
Talk to your children about how each of us can make a difference.
Watch the Movie
Hop on Pop
Jump on bubble wrap (get it? hop on pop! ha ha)
Jump on a trampoline (or bed if you have one you will allow this), or just jump in different ways (hop on one foot, hop over things, jump high, jump far, etc).
Play with bubbles (pop)
Say words and every time the kids come up with a rhyme they get to pop a balloon.
Read the page about Mr. Brown and Mr. Black, then eat brown and black snacks (pretzels half dipped in chocolate, wheat bread with blackberry jam, graham crackers and chocolate frosting).
Hide pictures of puppies around the house. Give each child a cup and they are to find as many pups as they can and put them in their cup (references to pup in cup in this book).
Watch this video of the book from game equarium.
Yertle the Turtle
Wear Green
Wear backpacks while crawling a preset path.
Make turtles out of a bowl you paint green and green paper for head, arms, legs and tail.
Make turtles out of a smooth round rock.
Have turtle races: Tie shoes together with laces as long as you can. Then kids can only take small steps during race.
See how many cups your children can stack without them falling over (or blocks, or whatever).
The Cat in the Hat
Juggle with different items; balls, blocks, fruit, etc.
Printables from PBS kids
Watch the Movie
Watch The Cat in the Hat marathon on pbs
Make Hat snacks with 3 red gummy lifesavers and a ritz cracker
Have a hat that you put items that rhyme into (mat-cat, mouse-house…obviously these would be my children's toys as no house would fit in a hat).
Thing 1 and Thing 2 Pencils have been on my list since I first saw them at Skip To My Lou!!
Kraft Jr has these amazing Seuss Puppets. Super easy, too!
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Make Oobleck (slime)
Experiment with the Oobleck
The point of this list is to see how easy it is to come up with activities to go along with which ever Dr. Seuss books that you have!
Monday I had asked for links to what other people are doing. Here they are:Please feel free to keep adding to my Dr. Seuss linky to share what you have done/are doing for this fun week!


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The famous Tunisian actress Hend Sabry traveled to the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank for the first time with a number of Egyptian actors to participate in the opening of "Al Qasabah" cinema festival.
The film festival will be held October 8th through the 26th.
According to the Jordanian daily Al Rai, Hind's participation also celebrates Jerusalem as the 2009 Arab cultural capital. Hend plans to visit different Palestinian sites during her stay in Ramallah.
Hend is preparing for her new film called "Asma," written and directed by Amro Salameh. She also agreed to star in another film called "Make-up," written by Zuhair Qanoo from Syria. The film may be directed by Ahmad Yusri.
Hend's last film, "Ibrahim Al Abyad" starred Egyptian actors Ahmad Al Saqa and Mahmoud Abed Al Aziz. The film was written by Abad Abu Al Hasan and directed by Marwan Hamed.
"Al Qasabah" cinema festival features the Egyptian film "Ehki Ya Shahrazad," which stars famous Egyptian actress Muna Zaki, Mahmoud Hameeda and Hasan Al Radad. The film is directed by Yusri Naser Allah and written by Wahid Hamed.
Source: http://www.albawaba.com


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2010-2011: At the Northeast Conference Championships he won the long jump event in both indoor (13.73m) and outdoor (13.77m) competitions...He placed third with a 2.01m mark (indoor) and fifth with a 1.98m mark (outdoor)...At the UConn Men's Husky Invitational he placed second in the 100m (11.60), fourth in the 400m (53.14), and seventh in the decathalon (5580)...At the Hartford Multi Meet he placed third in the 60m (7.34) as well as second in the long jump (6.86m).
2008-09: Recorded best high jump of the season at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championships, jumping to 1.98 meters and placing second...Also tied for third at the NEC Outdoor Championships in the high jump with a mark of 1.89 meters...Best long jump of the year came at the outdoor championships, recording a distance of 6.93 meters to place third.
Before Central: All-Conference in indoor and outdoor track during senior year...All-State in the high jump for indoors...All-State in the triple jump for outdoors...Holds Southington records in all jumps for indoor track and high jump, triple jump and decathlon for outdoor track.


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"Youth in Revolt" is a very random movie that enjoys wallowing in a state of confusion. The film is smug and largely unfunny, but it's consistently bewildering, and not in a manner that encourages further inspection. It's a grab-bag experience built around iffy irreverence born from author C.D. Payne, yet the film seems to have tied its own shoelaces together in its eagerness to pay tribute to the writer's intricate, darkly comic vision.
Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a precocious teenager living with his mother (Jean Smart) and her slob boyfriend (Zach Galifianakis), passing the time idolizing Frank Sinatra and masturbating. On a weeklong vacation to a trailer park, Nick meets Sheeni (Portia Doubleday), a like-minded soul who takes a shine to the shy guy's tastes and general soft demeanor, though she remains infatuated with her ex-boyfriend, Trent (Jonathan Bradford Wright).
Nick, fearing he'll be passed over as a romantic partner, forms an alter-ego named Francois Dillinger, who's reckless, profane, and sexually bold. Allowing Francois to raise hell, Nick takes on the incoming danger with growing confidence, hoping to attract Sheeni with his rebel status, but also concerned that all this newfound troublemaking will land him in jail.
Because "Youth in Revolt" is based on a novel, the screenplay needs to pack plenty of locations and characters into a brief 85-minute running time. It's a confusing jumble of diverse tones that never truly settles into a comfortable groove, with the sinking feeling that director Miguel Arteta is chasing his own movie, not guiding what he has to a proper equilibrium.
There's a slyness to "Youth in Revolt" that establishes itself early on, making the first reel of the picture promising in the way it introduces the audience to the insular world of Nick. He's a kid who can't catch a break with girls, is roughly 40 years too young for his taste in music and movies, and abhors his last name. Finding some hope for a future in Sheeni, Nick thrusts himself into action, looking to win over his dream girl with a series of escapades that will prove him a virile and decisive young man. It's a proper launch for an idiosyncratic character journey, as Nick is comedically shoved into the battlefield of life to find a way into Sheeni's heart.
Of course, not everything goes as planned for Nick. The screenplay by Gustin Nash (who penned the equally useless "Charlie Bartlett") is confused quickly, caught between the demands of adaptation and the needs of the film. Nick simply bounces episodically from incident to incident, with Cera deploying his mousy act to passable results. The actor and the film itself are more interesting when Dillinger arrives, debuting a nasty streak that's good for a few laughs.
Dillinger also offers Cera an opportunity to stretch as an actor, plausibly playing a mustachioed bad-ass who nudges Nick into trouble wherever he can. "Youth in Revolt" is the first glimpse I've had of Cera as a plausible actor, capable of breaking his one-note habits. While still buried under his kitten-voiced smarm, "Youth in Revolt" promises a brighter future for the prince of sarcasm.
Hopelessly affected at times (Sheeni's got a thing for the French New Wave) and marked by a few meaningless turns into animation, "Youth in Revolt" runs out of gas long before it ends, signing off with a drug-induced, cross-dressing climax that stops the film cold. There's little to care about in "Youth in Revolt," and even less to laugh with; the film lost in a stupor it never successfully navigates out of.


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It's been a minute since my last journal entry but I'll try my best to capture a few highlights of my work life, specifically pertaining to my Comic Book work and my Automotive Design work - my two different worlds.
In one world, I'm a Comic Book Artist, started back in 1992 with Image Comics, then Marvel Comics and currently with DC Comics.
I was thrilled that our BATMAN: Earth One book was a great success. Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, myself and the rest of the team are ready to tackle on Volume 2.
In another world, I'm an Automotive Artist involved in creating a design and style for builders and tuners as well as my own personal car.
I had a few cars that I got to design that made its debut at SEMA last year one of which is the FR-S GT designed for Daniel Song.
But there's a rare moment when both of my Comic Book work and Automotive work worlds collide.
And this was for the DC COMICS collaboration with KIA Motors in support of the "We Can Be Heroes" charity campaign.
It was a great honor working with the legendary artist JIM LEE to design 3 of the 7 Justice League-themed cars for this project. The characters we based the designs on are Green Lantern, Superman and Wonder Woman.
Green Lantern based on the KIA Soul revealed at the 2012 SEMA show.
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Part 2.
Superman based on KIA Optima revealed at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show
Part 1.
Part 2.
Wonder Woman based on KIA Sportage revealed at the 2013 New York Auto Show
Part 1.
Part 2.
I have to give credit to MV Designz, AutoKonexion, Source Interlink Media, BOWLS LA, DC Comics and KIA Motors for making this build a reality.
We have a few projects lined up this year but when both of my worlds collide like this, it's certainly an experience I will not soon forget


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Dezeen has teamed up with French illustrator Jean Jullien and his animator brother Nicolas to create this exclusive film, in which Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder tells the story behind five of the American furniture brand's chairs.
Jean and Nicolas Jullien, who work collectively as the Jullien Brothers, have illustrated products from across Emeco's 75-year history in the playful style that has marked Jean's rapid rise to prominence as an illustrator in recent years.
The film starts with the iconic Navy Chair that launched the company in 1944 and ends with the 1 Inch chair by Jasper Morrison, which Emeco launched in Milan last year.
Emeco's classic Navy Chair was first produced in 1944 for the US Navy
Dezeen brought the duo and the furniture brand together almost a year ago, when Emeco asked us to suggest innovative ways to tell the brand's story. Since then, Dezeen has been working with the Pennsylvania-based brand and the London-based artists to produce the six-minute movie, which features Jullien's trademark style of wry, amusing illustrations in pencil, brush pen and watercolour.
Created by Emeco founder Wilton Carlyle Dinges, the Navy Chair was originally designed for use on US Navy ships and submarines during World War II.
The Jullien Brothers created animated pencil drawings to illustrate the key qualities of the Navy Chair, a playful sequence that ends with two sailors using the chairs to hit each other over the head.
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Sioux Falls Police Search for Suspects in Lincoln High School Burglary
SIOUX FALLS - Police in Sioux Falls are looking for the people who broke into Lincoln High School over the weekend and stole three trophies from the trophy case and two rugs from just outside the school auditorium.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says the two Lincoln High rugs, both six feet by ten feet, were found rolled up in the backyard of a house near 57th and Cliff, but the trophies are still missing.
Clemens says more than one burglar was involved, but the exact number isn't known yet.
He says they forced their way into the building and broke into the trophy case to steal the basketball trophies, at least two of them for state championships.
Information Officer Sam Clemens on Burglary: