Paintings for SALE!

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female nude painting
20x15 inches
medium: acrylic on board




"This is my second time to use acrylic as a medium. Yeah! We(classmates) were actually asked to do a female nude painting, and it is for sale. I named this one "BOLD". Capital B-O-L-D. haha. The picture speakes for it self! Hey, it's art. Female body is one of the best subjects for painting for me. This one is not a live painting session though. We were asked to copy it from a book. Hope you'll like it. Enjoy! :D" *message me for the price*

"HERO"

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japanese art painting
10x15 inches
medium: acrylic on canvas

"This painting is an art reproction project. If "BOLD" is my second time to use acrylic, then this one is my next acrylic experience! haha :D I actually like acrylic more.... than oil painting. Cheers!"

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"Whole New World"

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abstract painting
15x20 inches
medium: water color on board

"Oh yeah! This was really fun. haha! I will never forget the day I made this. This painting was actually a classroom activity where we get to paint and draw on each other's board as it rotated 'round the room! :D and it is for sale!"
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"Love by the Beach"

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art reproduction
10x15 inches
medium: oil and acrylicon canvas

"This is one of my favorites. Well, i find this painting classic and uhmm..meaningful! And you.. How would you describe it? Mother and her child on the sea shore...very calming.. full of love. yay. Oh well, I'm starting to get sentimental here.. =D"
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Fireworks Photography

Photographing fireworks presents some technical challenges, it needs quite a different approach to most other subjects but follow these few steps carefully and you will be successful. What are we photographing? Basically we are photographing streaks of light that develop over a period of time against a black background. The great thing about a black background is that it makes no impression on the film, or sensor in the case of a digital camera. So we can leave the shutter open as long as we like, the black will still be black.
So, in short, the way to photography fireworks is to set the camera to manual exposure, set the aperture to a suitable f-stop and the shutter to b or bulb. Open the shutter just before the firework bursts and close it after it's finished. Easy!

Tripod
The first thing we need is a sturdy tripod. The alternative methods of support that I mentioned in the photographing buildings tutorial won't cut it here. Here we are talking about seriously long shutter times of several seconds so nothing but a good sturdy tripod will do. The second piece of kit that would be very useful is a remote shutter release so you don't have to touch the camera at all. In the old days this was a cheap piece of kit called a cable release but nowadays it is more likely to be an electronic gizmo with a higher price tag. I, personally, don't use one but that's because I'm a cheapskate.
Focus
I'm afraid all the modes and settings that you paid all that money for are all useless when photographing fireworks and auto focus is one of them. If you leave your camera set to auto focus the lens will whirr backwards and forwards in a demented fashion trying to find something to focus on in the black sky.
Set the focus to manual and then focus on something in the far distance. Don't just wind the focus ring around to the end of its run, check it against a distant object if you can.

*copy and image from geofflawrence