No more Arms Length Self-Portraits with your iPhone
Tired of trying to capture every moment at arms length, the new iPhone Shutter Remote will extends your arms by 30 feet!
The one thing I hate about taking pictures with the iPhone is that if I ever want to be in the picture they often come out like this…
Google+ Creative Kit – Another Online Photo Editing Tool.
Looking for another option to edit photos online, check out the Creative Kit tool from Google+
For the past several years the easiest way to make changes to an image online was using Google’s Picnik. I loved being able to edit image straight from Flickr, Picassa and even Photobucket. It was and is a great solution for bloggers; however in a few short months they will be closing their doors. So if you have images that you want to keep you need to download them using Picnik takeout before April 19,2012.
You will have the option to download a zip file of the images or you can simply transfer them over to Google+. If you were a Premium member of Picnik you will be receiving a refund for the entire annual fee – even if you are on the last day of your year.
And for those that never experienced the premium services you can use them from now until April 19 for FREE. So feel free to play around while you can. From now until the last day of service you can touch up, add textures and so much more.
So what do you go when Picnik finally does close down?
You can now use some of the same features from Picnik on Google+ with Creative Kit. Creative Kit allows you to edit, add textures and more to your pictures all online and all with Google+. Be sure to check out the Creative Kit on Google+.
Our favorite online photography resources
I’ve decided to compile a list of all my favorite photography resources and place them in ALL one post. I’m sure this list will be ever-changing and ever-expanding as I’ll be adding new resources as I find them. Feel free to list some of your favorites in the comments.
Photography Blogs
Photography Communities
Photography Resources
Photography Inspiration
Photography Workshops/Courses
Photography Resources for the Consumer
Do you have any favorite photography resources?
Article provided by a Bizzie Living guest contributor.
We live in a world swamped by technology. If we want to learn more about the War of 1812, technology can help inform us. If we want to research black diamond rings, technology can help bring it to us. It is no surprise then, that technology has pervaded every facet of our lives – the time we spend with family as well as the time we spend alone, the days we spend at work and the weekend we have to ourselves.
So it stands to reason that those of us with busy work and personal lives are never far from technology. Regardless of whether you think this is good or bad, you can probably agree that technology is not going anywhere. Still, we want to create balance whenever possible in our lives, and drawing a distinction between technology we use for work and technology we use at home is a good way of doing this. It has certainly helped me compartmentalize stresses that occur in one facet of my life.
If you’re like me, and you want to create a balance between work and home technology, here are a couple words of advice that I found useful:
Keep Your Personal Life More Flexible and Portable
In theory, it would be easy to completely separate out different tech devices for different tasks. That smartphone? Delegate it for you. The laptop? Promise yourself not to use it when you’re not in the office. However, of course, this is easier said than done, and certain devices (e.g. cell phones) are instrumental in all realms of our lives. But we can still try to separate out the two by keeping our tech devices as flexible and portable as possible.
It’s certainly much more helpful to have a smartphone when you’re lost on the highway than sitting in the office, and trying to detach yourself from your home desktop computer may be a good way to get outdoors more and try some new activities. The determination process here is not too difficult: if it’s something that normally sits on a desk, it’s probably a device best used for work.
“For the Love of It” vs “Out of Obligation”
Even if you love every minute of your job, there are still elements of work that amount to an obligation. For the most part, we use technology at work because we need to or because it makes our job easier. At the same time, whether its watching a movie or browsing the web, technology use at home is usually something that we want to do. This key difference is good to keep in mind.
If there’s a piece of technology you use at home that you get no enjoyment from, you might want to toss (or sell) it. If you enjoy a device at work, but it doesn’t help your bottom line, maybe it’s not worth having. All too often we blur together our work and home lives, but it’s important to remember that they are often driven by very different motivations.
These are just a few thoughts for getting you started. As I said, we can’t get rid of technology, even if it starts to overwhelm our lives – but we can certainly create a healthy balance.
Kitchen accidents are no match for these protective plastic iPad sleeves
I love all the recipe paps on the iPad, but I’m always printing them out so I don’t ruin my iPad, now I don’t have to.
Pre-iPad I use to scourer the internet looking for awesome dishes to cook. I would print out the recipe, then proceed to make the spectacular dish. No matter how careful I was I would always get something, milk, oil, chicken fat or WHATEVER on the recipe and will have to toss it in the trash.
Then if I ever decided to make the dish again, I would have to reprint the recipe and start over. But ALL that changed now that I have an iPad. Now I can just take my iPad into the kitchen and follow the recipe step by step. The problem with is I’m a messy cook so I’m always worried about ruining my expensive “cook book”.
Enter the Chef Sleeve, a simple sleeve that can protect your iPad from all kinds of kitchen mishaps. If you spill a little spaghetti sauce while cooking, you iPad will be safe. If your kids accidentally drop an egg on it while helping make cookies that’s okay too! With the Chef Sleeve your iPad is protected from the mess.
So what is it exactly?
The Chef Sleeve is a re-sealable plastic sleeve that protects your iPad from unfortunate messes and designed specifically for the iPad. The sleeve can be sealed via a plastic strip on the top. The plastic is so thin you will hardly know it’s there, and it won’t hinder your ability to access the apps.
Now every time I decide to use my iPad to cook, I keep it protected with the Chef Sleeve and that avoids having to wash my hands every step of the recipe.
But you don’t have to limit the use of your Chef Sleeve to the kitchen; you can also use them when reading an e-book at the hospital or on the beach. Protect your iPad with a Chef Sleeve when you are following step by step directions on a car repair, you wouldn’t want any oil to spill.
There are a variety of uses for the Chef Sleeve that you may want to snatch up some for yourself right away. You can purchase a 25 pack for $19.99 at the following retailers.
Amazon.com | ThinkGeek.com | ClicktoShop.com
For more information about the Chef Sleeve visit www.chefsleeve.com.
Because who wants a drab boring bag that SCREAMS I’m a camera bag!
A product review of the MiMi DSRL Camera Bag designed by Kelly Moore
I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem. I LOVE camera bags, I love shopping for them I love reviewing them and I love BUYING them. I’m the type of person that carries her camera every where she goes so lugging around a bulky, style deprived, and boring bag around and a separate handbag/purse doesn’t seem practical. It makes perfect sense to use a camera bag that is designed for woman that can be used as a camera bag and a purse.
One of my favorite designers totally gets that. Kelly Moore’s DSLR camera bags are perfect for everyday use. You can pack her bags with your camera, all your purse necessities and the newer models even have space for your iPad!
I received one of her recent designs, the MiMi bag (gray) a few months ago and love it. Ironically it arrived on my birthday, so that was an awesome surprise. We were knee deep in unpacking and really didn’t get a chance to test it out until recently.
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