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Nov
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Greeting Cards scholarship opp
Filed Under designers, photography, scholarship | Leave a Comment
There’s a greeting card company offering a college scholarship for creating greeting card. Isn’t that cool? They are running a $10,000 Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Contest for high school and college kids. The Gallery Collection sells things like Corporate Christmas cards, personal holiday cards and assorted other greeting cards.
I know I’ve seen quite a few cards and thought, “I could have made that.” So here’s my chance, right? Sadly, I’m not eligible because I’m not a high school or college student (you have to have been enrolled during the latter half of 2007). But I thought this greeting cards scholarship contest would be a great opportunity for budding designers because you can submit your artwork. So, all you Illustrator gurus, get your drawing chops ready. The contest runs until Jan. 15. I’m pretty sure everyone could use $10,000 for school. Submissions can also have original photographs. How cool would that be? To have one of your photographs on a greeting card?
It’s worth a shot, right?
Oct
1
I heart my camera
Filed Under digital photography, photography, Crafts | Leave a Comment
This weekend, I’m going to serve as the photographer and videographer for my guild’s annual quilt show. I’ll be using my trusty HP R707 digital camera and my handy JVC Everio 20GB hard disk camcorder. I love these two cameras. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love a new digital camera.
It’s hard not to fall for the latest gadget these days. For example, my camera is 5.1 MP, 24x zoom. This is pretty good, but it’s about three years old now and there are much better resolution cameras available now for what I paid for mine. My friend has a gorgeous Nikon D300 SLR camera, but that’s a little more than I need. I prefer point-and-shoot, although I’d love to be a little more skilled at photography.
On Flickr, you can search by camera type and see what pictures people are taking with your camera. I think it kind of shows what you could be doing if you were a skilled photographer. Which I am not. Luckily for me, it’s free to take 20 digital pictures of the same event. One is bound to come out okay, and Photoshop will fix the rest.
I don’t think I’ll be getting a new camera anytime soon, but it’s fun to shop around.
Aug
27
Action shots of your kids…
Filed Under NJ Sports Images, photography, sponsored posts | 2 Comments
When we were at SeaWorld, I had the hardest time getting a good shot of Shamu. I was too slow every time. So was my husband. Now that my kid is really starting to move fast (almost to a full run these days), I keep thinking how I need to learn how to really use a camera well so I don’t miss anything.
I found this company called NJ Sports Images - a group of professional photographers that are hired by schools, booster clubs, local newspapers and magazines to cover events and get good action shots of athletes. I really like their pricing structure - it seems reasonable, and it seems like there will be images available for every kid/parent. Since they also do group and individual posed pictures, it seems like a really convenient service for schools. I’m positive that they take better pictures than the yearbook staff. I know - I was an editor.
I was thinking it would be cool if they also covered the marching band. I’m sure they would. It’s almost impossible for parents to get good shots of the band members, unless they are right in front a lot.
The best part is that all the shots they take are available for purchase. It’s not like when the paper sends someone out, and they’re on the field taking great shots, but the parents never see any except the one star player that comes out in the paper. Now the parents can get on-the-field shots of their kid - whether he or she is the VIP or not. I think it’s an awesome idea.
They also offer these cool collages that look like professional athlete posters. Very cool gift idea for a graduating senior.
I hope they franchise out to my area by the time my son is playing sports.
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