Setting Up Your Dream Scrapbooking Table

!±8± Setting Up Your Dream Scrapbooking Table

When we first think of embarking on the project of scrapbooking we immediately think about the materials that we will need to get the job done. The usual materials that come to mind are the actual scrapbook or the scrapbooking paper and the binder that will keep our scrapbook pages orderly and intact.

Then of course, one may think of the photographs or snapshots to be used along with other elements or "scraps" that will be used to enhance to the photos to be able to tell a story.

Certainly, great care will be taken in the considering what types of scrapbooking materials will be purchased. For instance, only acid-free materials will be used in the making of the scrapbook to ensure that the stories and memories recounted by the scrapbook project will remain intact and safe throughout the years.

After you have all the scrapbooking materials that you can think of like the scrapbook paper and binder, scrapbooking stickers and other scrapbooking items along with the snapshots to be used and some personal effects to enhance your layout, you're pretty much set to begin on the wonderful endeavor of your scrapbooking project right? Wrong.

Seldom thought of in the preparation for a scrapbooking project is the scrapbooking table. While you can use any surface to work on your scrapbooking project, it would be very ideal to have your own craft or scrapbooking table to be able to have the best output from your scrapbooking work.

After all, your computer has its own desk and the television set has it's own stand too. You might as well get a scrapbooking table that can be totally devoted to your scrapbook work.

The difference between having a scrapbooking table and using just any surface for your project is that a scrapbooking table is made specifically for that task and it will have the proper ergonomics that is needed to be able to do your scrapbooking projects comfortably.

It will also have the proper storage for all the scrapbooking materials and knick knacks that may be otherwise lost or damaged in any other type of storage. What's more, the scrapbooking table can be easily fitted with a scrapbooking lamp to allow you great visibility way into the night.

Another benefit to having a scrapbooking table is that you can rest assured that you will go undisturbed while you work on your project. There will be no having to set your materials and project aside to make room for dishes if in case you use the family table as the surface area to work your scrapbook on. If you work on the floor, you won't have to constantly make room or get in the way of people passing if you have your own scrapbooking table.

The best part is, it is not difficult to get a scrapbooking table. These are available from usual craft stores. What's more is that most craft tables are multi-faceted and double up as scrapbooking tables. This way, you can use your scrapbooking table for other types of crafts so that you can get more out of it.

Whatever the case, any scrapbooking project or endeavor will benefit from you having your own scrapbooking table to work on. Your scrapbooks are important and valuable and need the proper workspace and work environment to ensure comfortable execution all the time.

Setting Up Your Dream Scrapbooking Table

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How to Photograph Artwork With a Digital Camera For Use on the Web

!±8± How to Photograph Artwork With a Digital Camera For Use on the Web

Getting a good digital image of artwork is very important if you want people to get the full impact of your artwork. You need to have good quality digital images of your artwork for Online Galleries, PR materials, exhibitions and galleries. Your digital images are your artwork online, so they need to look as close to the original artwork as possible. You want to make a good first impression, don't you? If you have a great piece of artwork and it looks dull, dark and gray on the computer screen, it will automatically disengage the viewer and viewers will not want to look at it, it will not interest viewers.

Equipment -

1. Camera - I use an Olympus 4.0 Megapixel digital camera which is a decent camera, but any good quality digital camera will work. Read your camera instruction guide to find all the options for taking good quality pictures. Always take high resolution .tiff pictures because you can always decrease the image quality and file size of a digital picture, but you can't start from a low resolution image and make it high resolution.

2. Lighting - You do not have to have an expensive photo lighting system or a really expensive camera, what I use is those clamp on metal reflectors that you can buy from the hardware store and I use 500 watt photo light bulbs from the camera store in the clamp on metal reflectors. I use four of these at one time.

3. Tripod - A tripod is also very helpful, but you can do without it if you have to. Use a sturdy tripod with tilt and rotation. If you don't have a tripod, make sure your shutter speed is at least 1/60 and hold the camera steady and squeeze the trigger gently.

4. Photo Editing Software - The final component is the computer software to adjust the images on the computer, I use Adobe Photoshop software which is awesome. There are many other Photo Editing software programs available, and basically you just need to be able to crop the image and adjust the colors and the lightness and darkness of your digital images.

Procedures -

1. Shoot indoors with at least two 500-watt photo flood lamps (3200K) mounted in reflectors. If your artwork is 22" x 30" or larger you should probably use four lights.

2. Put the artwork on a piece of black matte board for a background. Fasten art to the black board with double-stick tape, tacks or use a black mat. Place on the wall or on an easel or on the floor. The art must be parallel to the camera lens, the center of the lens pointing at the center of the art. Use a bubble level to be sure camera and art are level. Tape a gray/color scale next to the art so that you will have a reference for adjusting the color of your digital image.

3. Lamps should be 4-5 feet away from the art, position the lights at a 30 degree angle to the surface of the artwork and point each of the four lights to a separate corner of the artwork so that the light will evenly illuminate the entire surface of the artwork. Check to be sure there are no hot spots, shadows or shine reflecting off the art. The room should be completely dark when you shoot. Cover the windows and turn out the lights. For textured work like collage try raking the light, using just one light from the side and adjusting the exposure accordingly.

4. Fill the viewfinder or LCD (digital) with the IMAGE ONLY, centered and absolutely square to the sides, top and bottom. Move the camera or zoom lens, not the art. Focus carefully in the center of the art.

5. The best combination is a slow speed setting (1/8, 1/15, 1/30 sec.) with a high f/stop (f11 or f16) for color saturation and sharp image. If you don't have a tripod, you will need to use at least 1/60 shutter speed. The best setting for balancing the light is "tungsten" (which is the type of light bulb you will be using). Tungsten is under "white balance" in the camera settings. Change your white balance setting to tungsten, if your camera has that option.

6. Always take the highest resolution .tiff image possible (for print applications), you can always save that as a .jpg or .gif or .png for use on the web. For the web, a .gif file at 72 pixels per inch resolution is good for most web applications because it has a small file size and loads quickly.

7. Edit your digital image, in your photo editing software, so that it matches the look and feel of your artwork.

8. Organize you digital artwork files on your computer in folders so that you can easily browse to them for upload to online galleries.

Miscellaneous -

Group your artwork by size and shoot the same sizes in sequence, so you don't have to adjust the camera or easel so much. If your pieces are a standard size, place tape on the floor to mark the position of the camera, lights and easel or art stand and also the placement of the art. It will save you time when you shoot again.

How to Photograph Artwork With a Digital Camera For Use on the Web

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!±8± Smith Victor TST-P2 3- Light Photoflood 1250 total watt Shooting Table Kit

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Smith Victor TST-P2 3- Light Photoflood 1250 total watt Shooting Table Kit

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For product photography, reproductions and stills, amateurs and professionals alike use shooting tables to get the job done with minimal space and effort. Smith Victor offers a shooting table system that is economically priced, yet capable of meeting all of your tabletop photography requirements. Smith Victor offers an array of lighting options that can be used with the TST Shooting Table System to make it a complete solution for all your tabletop photography needs. The shooting area is 24" wide, 24" deep, and 24" high. The Smith Victor Shooting Table consists of the ST24 Opaque Base Module and CM24 Clear Module, used together or separately. The TST24 will hold approximately 25 to 30 lbs. It also includes a floor stand. Total Maximum wattage of the kit is 1250 watts. The Table is constructed of heavy-duty square-tube steel and rigid curved 24" wide plexiglass. The floor stand allows for lighting from underneath the table. The kit also includes two 12" and one 5" tungsten flood light, with bulbs, and 8' black aluminum stands. Also included are two white umbrellas. The 32" umbrellas are used for bounce light, or to shoot light through. The Pinacle 900 tripod with it's 3-way pan-tilt head, supports a camera up to 5 lb (2.2 kg). Each 12" Flood Light is is rated to 500 watts maximum while the 5" Flood Light has a 250 watts maximum

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Why don't the pictures of your new living room, basement, kitchen or bedroom look as nice as the pictures in the catalogs? After all the money you spent on furniture, drapes, carpet and accessories, it should look beautiful. The human eye sees an angle of view of almost one hundred eighty degrees and at the same time can resolve sharp detail. In order to come close to this feat of magic, the camera's abilities must be stretched to the limit.

A twenty-four millimeter wide angle lens sees an angle of eighty-four degrees, sufficiently wide for our purposes. A wider angle lens starts to show too much distortion through foreshortening and a less wide lens will make the room seem smaller. A second choice of a twenty-eight millimeter lens with an angle of view of seventy-five degrees is acceptable. A trick I have used to increase the width of view is to shoot through a doorway, just missing the sides of the opening. Unless you own an expensive perspective correcting lens, a distance of four feet from the floor is ideal to prevent convergence (when the walls appear to tilt in). If you own a digital camera with a 28mm lens, perspective can be corrected digitally with software from Adobe Image Ready or the equivalent. Most wide angle lenses share the fault of barrel distortion. This can be corrected with software from radcor.com.

Walk around the room and choose a view that includes the best look for most of the furniture. Two different views may be necessary to tell the whole story. For a spacious look, shoot into a corner, slightly to the right or left of dead center. Pictures taken at right angles to a wall look constricted and less spacious. Interesting table tops will look better from a higher angle. Be sure to light all lamps in the rooom.

Another method of presenting a whole room in one picture is to use the stitch method. First find the center of the lens node. This is a point halfway between the front element and the sensor chip. Place the camera on a tripod, attached at the node point. Level the camera, set the lens on 50mm* (equivilant) and take several slightly overlapping pictures. The images may be stitched manually or helped with software for that purpose. Be sure to smooth any indications of joining.

While flash on the camera is safe and will render the whole scene in accurate color, too much is lost in the way of depth, highlight and shadow detail and in attaining an interesting look. Flash on the camera flattens the scene, reflects unnaturally off flat surfaces and introduces a dark shadow around every object in the room. A better lighting includes a single bright light in a large reflector and a second light bounced off the back wall not appearing in the picture. Items of a dark nature like a dark stained cabinets need an additional spotlight in order to balance the tones in the picture. Night time pictures avoid the problem of overly lit windows, but if the window treatment only looks good with light coming through the window, time your photos at dawn or at dusk. The bluish light entering the window at these times while not matching in color temperature is quite dramatic and attractive. This blue light can be corrected later in the computer.

For sharpest results, use manual camera settings. The best f stop to use is F11 or F16. These stops provide the most depth of field and the sharpest detail. Wider f stops might produce a softening of focus near the camera and a more narrow f stop (F22 or F32) will bring in less detail due to the diffraction effect. Take a meter reading at the recommended f stop for the appropriate shutter speed. Animals or people may be included in the composition, but remember to make sure they don't move for the duration of the exposure which may take several seconds. These photographs are great for your album, insurance records and an aid to decorating. Good luck!

*A wider lens setting will introduce too much foreshortening for stitching successfully.

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!±8± Dimond D1735 Ethan Adjustable Tripod Floor Lamp, Restoration Black

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