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The Arborist Inc Business E-Card
The Arborist Inc. is a top notch tree service company that I have had the honor to work with the last few weeks. I love photographing processes, people at work, doing what they do best. Check out the business e-card I did for them. I think these 35 seconds really capture what they do.
JPEG v. Raw
Today in class, I explained the difference between a JPEG and a Raw file. I used an analogy that I had not used before.
I explained that getting a photo from a file is like going to a store to get a brownie. You have two choices. You can buy a brownie or you can buy the ingredient to the brownie. Now the brownie you buy could delicious and perfect, just what you are looking for...but it is hard to change it once bought already baked...you can certainly tweak it, add sugur on top, break it up into ice cream and so on. But it is hard to make huge changes without destroying it. That is like a JPEG...it comes out cooked, any digital device can read it, but you can't change it too much.
Or you can buy the brownie mix, go home, use your cookware and oven and bake it yourself. Before you bake it, you can add things and change the recipe so it comes out better or just very different and it will look like a brownie, you don't destroy it. Just like a RAW file...it is a recipe, changing it is much easier and it takes longer to cook. Of course, you can change a RAW file time and time again, but once you bake the brownie, you can't change it and once you export you can't change the JPEG much either.
There is a time and place for both of them.
Business Ecards
Want your clients to have you in their contact list so they can email you whenever they have a question or pass on your contact info at a moments notice. Want to make sure new contacts don't loose your business card...than check out business e-cards.
Artbot at the NoVa Mini Makers' Faire
I photographed the Children's Science Center hands on Artbot exhibit at the NoVa Maker's Faire on Sunday March 16. Children made robots that drew as volunteers walked the children through the scientific process if they got stuck in their design or testing of their product.
I went to the Faire with my daughter. We planned to alternate between both of us photographing and doing special time (where I just pay attention to her and not take photos). However she was so engrossed in the exhibits and demonstrations that special time didn't happen. She spent 3 out of our 4.5 hours there, carving...with great results.
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