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Blues Various

Blues Various

Using various kind of filters. Is there a website which tells us WHEN it is effective?

I bought a circular polariser and it turned out, it wasn't that kind of bluer skies & whatever I expected. I then found out that I am supposed to take 90degrees e or w or something like that.

Is there a website/book which explains when it is effective?

There are only three primary filters used on dSLR cameras.

The protective UV or clear filter to protect against this from happening to your lens instead of the filter and lens hood.

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The second filter used by some photographers is the polarizing filter. Until a decade ago, most photographer took at least one or two classes in photography to assure near perfect exposures (36 exposure rolls limited the amount of experimenting as well as, "hold the shutter release down and hope for a good shot syndrome). It was in these classes that one learned about the effective use of polarizing filters, that is when the cameras lens is pointed 90 degrees to the suns arc as well as other details about lens coverages, colour balance using special films and other techniques that prevented wasted film.

The last filter that some photographers use, is the ND (neutral density) filter. This is used when the photographer wants to take long exposures, but there is far too much light to shoot at say 1/8th second to capture flowing water to make it look like cotton.

There are some specialty filters made by Cokin that cover just about any possible combination of graduated ND and coloured filters.

http://www.cokinusa.com/

Perhaps someone needs to make such a website that covers all the variations in the world of filters.

No longer needed are the conversion filters used when shooting tungsten film in bright sun or daylight film under incandescent lighting and all those warming and cooling filters in between. At one time, there was even some filters made for shooting both daylight and tungsten film under fluorescent lamps, the FLD and FLB respectively. "B" referred to tungsten film.

At one time, photographers used to buy a full case of their most used film and shoot colour charts to determine if the film was dead on or if they needed to use a colour correction (CC) filter when using that batch of film. It as NOT uncommon to see a pro with a 75 mm 5 point CC filter in a filter holder shooting while on assignment for a magazine. The transparencies had to be perfectly colour corrected and perfectly exposed if a photographer wanted to get a job from that magazine in the future.

Blues Sing-a-Long Various Artists - 1966

Classic Jazz

Classic Jazz

A Classic Jazz Treat, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong

Country Rock

Country Rock

Brooks & Dunn - Rock My World Little Country Girl

Live Japan

Live Japan

Perspective Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan III --- --- Return to Original and

Japan is a country which is modern, fashionable but also traditional, low-pitched…

In Tokyo, those skyscrapers and modern fashion designs will make you dazzling, and their high-tech tools also very advanced and high-developed, but if you entered in some common families in Japan you will find their foods, living room, and daily-use articles still been kept very traditional, especially in Kyoto, there are very few high-rise buildings, and most of buildings there are traditional low living houses, inside which there are tatamis, Japanese are accustomed to sitting and sleeping on the floor, that is a most traditional way of life in Japan.

In past time the demand rank of life in most Japan families was arranged according to food, clothing, transportation and living, now that has shifted to a new order as living first, transportation next, then clothing, and food last, which put the improvement of living conditions to the first place. And during the peorid of post-war, Japan began to emphasis much on both technical quality and talent development, which constructed a solid base for Japan’s rapid development later.

Now the space characters and home design concepts Japanese pursued could incorporates as following:

1. More Purified and Abstract Design thus to Attain a More Pure beauty…

2. Appreciate Natural Materials, Sights Stirs Up with Feeling, and Return to Original and Natural

Think much of the surface material processing when to create a space, and emphasis on the textures of material commonly, that imply its functions to break through frames.

Keeping those surfaces of concrete, wood textures as well as metal plates such as aluminum alloy, steel and other metal composite panels, artificial stones, mosaic revealed intact and boldly.

To show the material texture or its original forms specially, plus precise polishing, and let the quality of the surface materials which throughout modern technology processing entirely same as them shown on photographs from camera, or as quality viewed from a color filter, a particular method of material application with visual effects.

This type of filtering space effects featured with cool, smooth visual effects on surface, which could affects people's emotion, so that people living in cities could get some redeems for their potential moods of nostalgia, nostalgic, and back-to-nature.

In the process of design forms purification and abstraction, the more attention paid on material’s texture and quality will bound to rise to an unprecedented level, and the modern technology also has built good conditions for this rise.

Now, to create new texture effects, and the psychological effects people respond to these texture effects have become one of particular parts pursued deliberately by modern home designers.

Michael Jackson Human Nature Live In Japan 1987

Last Songs

Last Songs

How To Write Original Songs That People Like

So you would like to write your own original songs. However the few attempts that you have made did not turn out as you would have liked because the tune or the melody were not flowing so well or were not catchy enough for people to like.

So how do you write songs that people will like or will sing and hum along as you are performing them? Well, brace yourself because one of the methods to write catchy and be rather controversial, but it not only works and works darn well!

Sometimes, when somebody's original melody sounds good, they also sounded like another song. But you just can't figure out which other song it sounded like. There is this vaguely familiar feeling that you have heard a sort of similar song before. Have you had that feeling?

I am sure all of us had this feeling before and I can even dare to say that it will happen again and again with other new songs. Actually, this subconscious feeling is rather common as after all because every song is a somewhat recycled tune given the limited number of musical notation, chords and rhythms. So all new songs will somehow or other overlap other songs that are already in existence. Therefore all songs will have parts of their tune similar with another song or even songs. Therefore it is perfectly alright if parts of your song sounds like another song although you did not intend it that way.

As a matter of fact, if your new song sounds familiar, that may be a good thing. Before you jump up and shout copyright infringement, please be aware that I am not talking about infringing other composer's copyright, I am talking about a part of your tune that sounds somewhat like another song.

So why is this similarity a good thing? Well, it is simply because people can relate to your tune even more and so, they will like the song and remember it. They will want to listen to your song because of the familiarity. Song familiarity invoke a pleasant feeling of emotion and most of the time, they don't even know why they felt good hearing your melody. This is why your song can easily be remembered and will keep humming in people's head.

Even if your listeners realized parts of your song is somewhat similar to another song, so what, no big deal because as a whole, the song is in your own original song with your own original lyrics, your own melody and expressions and thus it is your own original song!

I must stress the point that you must not intentionally infringe upon other people's copyright. This is not about ripping off other composer's works. This is about creating your own melodies and tunes that sound like a familiar tune.

So how do I go about writing familiar sounding songs? Well, let's start by choosing a song that you like and is familiar with and hum the tune. Just hum it but don't sing the lyrics out. This will get you thinking 'melodically' and soon, you should be able to hum certain variations of that tune. Just let your imagination take over and toss the melody around as you imagined it and let your creative juices flow.

Once you can jumble out the tune nicely, then sing it aloud and this will become your own tune. It is really that simple.

Another way to do this is to choose a song that you don't even know or heard of before. Listen to this song once, and then listen to it again. The second time when you are listening to it, sing along with the song. Yes, you probably will not remember the tune very well, but nevertheless, just sing along and this is when you make up a melody line of your own with the melodic structure of this obscure song.

Whichever method you have chosen to write a song with a somewhat familiar tune, you must feel good about it. It is your gut feeling of feeling pleasant that you know you have written a good catchy original tune that people will like and remember.

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