Motion in photo

Posted by admin on December 8th, 2006

There is this new toy known as the flying kite. It can be flown using a remote control. The flying kite is decorated with a lot of colored lights. It looks especially stunning and beautiful when you fly it against the dark sky.

Maybe you are wondering why I am talking about the flying kite. Well, the flying kite accidentally ended in one of my photos taken during a particular night shoot. Yes, I was angry because it had spoilt my photo. I was snapping the fireworks display when this flying kite appeared out of nowhere and flowed into the scene that was being captured.

After my anger was gone, I examined the photo again. I found that there is a ‘trailing blurred effect’ of the flying kite. This effect gives an impression that the flying kite is in flying motion.

You can conduct a simple experiment to see the effect for yourself. Firstly, find a road where there is a lot of traffic during the night. Secondly, set up your camera on a tripod at the side of road to capture the vehicles that are passing by the road. Thirdly, snap a number of photos on the vehicles that are passing by the road. Please ensure you are at a safe location while doing the experiment. You may also conduct the experiment during day instead of the night. But the ‘trailing blurred effect’ is more apparent during the night shoot.

Examine the photos taken from the experiment. You will notice that there is a ‘trailing blurred effect’ for the vehicles that have passed by that road. The reason behind the ‘trailing blurred effect’ is because the camera takes a while to capture a photo. Let say the camera takes about 1 second to capture the photo. At 0.1th second, the vehicle is at point A. At 0.2th second, the vehicle has moved from point A to point B. At 0.3th second, the vehicle has moved from point B to point C and so on. As a result, the camera ends up capturing multiple images of the moving vehicle creating the ‘trailing blurred effect’.
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Photo Stamps And Small Business

Posted by admin on September 8th, 2006

It just is’nt easy to stand out from the crowd these days and when a small business is stuck in the crowd, the revenues of the business can be negatively impacted.

Innovation and uniqueness are the true hallmark of a business. While most people will assume that the innovation and uniqueness need to be launched on a grand scale, the fact of the matter is that many time, small scale subtle innovations can go a long way in terms of leaving a positive impression on people who may be potential clients or customers to a business. In fact, subtleties can prove more successful than overblown attention grabbers as people general do not like being hit over the head with promotional items.

Photo stamps are such a subtlety that can great help a business by adding a small touch that will not go unnoticed by people who receive a letter in which a photo stamps are prominently displayed. For those unfamiliar with what photo stamps are, they are simply a novel spin on the traditional stamp printing device. Instead of the postage printing spitting out a generic stamp where red ink displays the dollar amount of the postage, a photo stamp device will display any photograph on selects on the stamp. So, instead of having to go out and ask people to sign petitions as was done in order to get the Universal Monsters stamps and the Elvis Stamp, a person can simply print out a stamp that displays whatever image they would wish to have printed.

Such touches do not go unnoticed by the public when they receive a letter in the mail that is carrying a unique photo that they had never seen before nor expected to appear on a stamp. It is an eye catching trick that will separate the mail they receive from a company that employs such a concept as opposed to remembering those companies that utilize traditional, generic stamps.
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