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From Joan Acocella's just-published New Yorker article entitled "The Child Trap: The Rise of Overparenting": "We've all been there—that is, in the living room of friends who invited us to dinner without mentioning that this would include a full-evening performance by their four-year-old. He sings, he dances, he eats all the hors d'oeuvres. When you [Read More…]
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SEVIERVILLE, Tenn.- The Brevard College men's golf team opened their 2013 fall slate at the Smokey Mountain Intercollegiate earlier this week, finishing in 13th place.
Sebastian Strehl paced the Tornados with a 147 in the two-day event, shaving three strokes off his 75 on the opening day to hit an even 72 on day two. The freshman finished tied for 12th in a field of 96 golfers.
Sami Vanni was BC's other top performer at the tournament hosted by Carson-Newman, finishing tied for 29th. The sophomore cut his score on the second day by four swings, hitting a 73 on Tuesday after carding a 77 Monday.
The Tornados golf team is back in action September 23-24 at the Tusculum Fall Golf Classic at Link Hills Country Club in Greenville, Tennessee.


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Not sure if this is the right place to put this post.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to take good pictures for your shopping cart, to make them look more professional.
Or know of any good tutorials?
Take high resolution photos, and then resize with photoshop or Gimp. (gimp is free)gimp.org/downloads/
Thats about it.
There are some script online that will resize them for you. But by hand may be the easiest.
What about lighting and background. I have tried taking some photos just like that and found that it looked very amateur. Maybe I am doing something wrong or maybe camera sucks though.
Remove all background put it on a white or black sheet.
Get a good camera... that makes a world of difference.
Taking professional photos requires having the right equipment/setup and the right eye. The equipment can be as simple as a basic DSLR (or even a point and shoot although that's going to give you less flexibility) and a white backdrop. A more powerful DSLR, external flash and proper background [white sheets are difficult to pull tight enough not to have lines] are ideal for getting really sharp photos but if you set it up right, you can avoid these.
As far as getting the right shot, there are a lot of tips and tricks to setting up size, playing with shadows (or removing them) and angles to make the photo pop. Here's a few articles on the subject:
A table-top 'light tent' and some spotlights fitted with special 5000K daylight fluorescent bulbs (they run cool, but shine bright) can be a big help. It's very quick to set this all up, and it allows you to produce consistent and repeatable results.
Type 'light tent' into eBay if you don't know what I mean.
The most important thing when photographing is the lighting. Some other things can be fixed up later, but lighting can't. This includes what angle the light is coming from and what quality it has - it is sharp (creating crisp shadows), or diffused (soft shadows). Probably the worst lighting is either an on-camera flash or direct sunlight, because these are only single points of very sharp light. They will create a very defined shadow in the background which is distracting and will make it look like you didn't go to any effort to illuminate the subject. In addition to this, using an on-camera 'direct' flash (where the flash is on the camera pointing at your subject) will create that 'amateur' look, despite how much money you spent on the camera or the flash unit if any. You need to bounce the flash off something or diffuse it somehow. Try to bounce the flash off something like a white wall or cardboard. Professionals use a variety of stuff for bouncing or diffusing flash.
If using natural light instead of flash, make sure what you are photographing is not in direct sunlight but that there is plenty of light coming in to the room and bouncing off the walls onto the subject.
If what you are photographing is translucent, like plastic or food, then adding some light coming from below or behind is often pretty interesting.
Getting a better camera will not improve the lighting in a shot. Don't get a better camera, get a flash that you can bounce or you can use remotely so it is not coming from directly on the camera.
I agree that lighting is the main issue. You want plenty of light so that the shot (especially for digital cameras) isn't "noisy".
Using a tripod may also be helpful.
Thanks guys for all your input.I will take some test shots this weekend and see how it comes out.
Thanks again!!
As others have said lighting makes the most difference, I wait to take mine all at a certain point of the day when my studio has the most natural light come in.
For the website I also found it best to take photos on a black sheet and cut out the background in photoshop as shown in our girls clothing range.
same could work for white too i just go for whatever gives the best contrast
Hey, erm steel from google hehe,
It'll be worth your while to hire a professional photographer too. If your budget doesn't permit that then try to get a friend of a friend who's an amateur photographer. Most amateur's are pretty good at what they do.
Interesting topic.
This goes along way, esp if you're just starting out and use auction sites as your webcart. As for me, the image is equally as important as the professionalism of the site and the description used the describe the product.
I agree with not spending out on an expensive camera until you've explored lighting options.
Certainly try and disable your cameras flash and use an external flash along with difused lighting...
One point I might add is that I can't take an image.. when ever I'm on holiday, I hand the camera to the Mrs as she tends to capture the picture better.
Eqipument can be limiting, but I also think it's important to know your limits as a photographer - it can sometimes be more of a problem between the seat and monitor
You can buy a set up that's made for exactly for this type of thing.
It's a box with professional lighting, backgroud, etc.
I don't own one myself, but I see them all the time in those Sky Mall magazines that they have on Airplanes.
Interesting, could you provide a link to an example product? What's the prices like?
A lot of people have been suggesting a white sheet, but I actually recommend getting a green or blue screen (like they use for movies), and then removing those back drops with Photoshop (or After Effects is even a little better).
Also, try to get a really strong ambient light, but set it far away from the object you are shooting, so it is bright without having any light points. Something like a lamp with an 80+ watt bulb standing behind you and off to one side is a good start. You need to be more careful with the lighting if what you are taking a picture of is overly reflective.
Also, take LOTS of pictures, especially if you are using a digital camera. Take them at the highest resolution and take lots of them. Then you can go through them and pick the best one(s). Then remove the back drop with image-editing software, then crop it down to the size you require.
EDIT. I didn't realise Sky Mall was online - here's a link incase anyone else was interested in what it was.
Quite cheap too http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102215550&c=10280
We starting doing this a little while back, and here's what we ended up doing with good results.
First, you need a decent camera and a tripod. Nothing super, but good. 4MP is sufficient with a high quality lens. Most Nikon or Canon 4MP cameras are sufficient. You don't need a SLR for product photos, but you do need a tripod.
Now the hardest part is the lighting and back-drop. Go to ebay and find a light tent that is big enough for what you are wanting to photograph. Usually they come with several background colors. Personally, I like white the best, but black is very good as well. Blue, green, and red photograph well, but just don't look professional in my opinion.
As for the lighting, you need a lot. For a 24 - 26" light tent, I would suggest a minimum of 4 super-bright compact fluorescent spot lamps. 6 is better but 4 works. If you are really good with photoshop, you may be able to get away with 2, but I highly recommend 4 or 6. I would consider myself very proficient in photoshop, and 2 lights was nearly impossible to get professional results with. You can also purchase these lights on ebay, usually in the photography section. Make sure you get compact fluorescent bulbs that are around 5300K color temp. Higher is too blue and lower is too red. Normal fluorescent or incandescent lights will make everything look yellow and nasty.
Basically you now just need to setup the light tent and back-drop. Iron the back drop sheets so there are absolutely no wrinkles. These will make shadows that are a pain to digitally remove. Put the camera on a tripod, turn the lights on and experiment until you get what you are looking for. Try with and without the camera flash. It shouldn't take long before you get exactly what you're looking for.
You may need to adjust the levels,brightness, and contrast in photoshop, because the images are initially washed out and overexposed.
This setup will get you professional looking photos.
Example (excuse the watermark):Before: http://www.merchantequip.com/images/products/supers/nurit-8000-2.jpgAfter: http://www.merchantequip.com/images/products/supers/vx-570-5.jpg
download adobe photoshop trial version and learn how to make pictures look good, lots of tutorials are online.
I would recommend against this, as you tend to get the green or blue light bouncing back on to the subject, so the green or blue tinge will remain visible after the background is removed. If you photograph in front of a white (or light grey) surface you only get neutral light tones reflected onto the subject. The benefit to green screen is in video where it would be time consuming to trace around a moving subject on every individual frame, but with a still image you can get a better result by tracing around objects manually. For most purposes you probably want the background white anyway.
'Ambient' light is light which exists already in the room. So there is no such thing as an 'ambient' light bulb that you can install. Ambient is light that is already there, and you didn't put it there. In addition to this, moving a light further away decreases its intensity a bit but doesn't really change its quality. Spreading it out (diffusing it) or bouncing it does change its quality. For product shots you want there not to be a single source of light such as a bulb, as this will create a harsh 'low key' (horror movie like) result. You want as much light as possible, spread out as much as possible, that is unless you are going for a particular unusual effect and you know what you are doing.
Also, take LOTS of pictures, especially if you are using a digital camera. Take them at the highest resolution and take lots of them. Then you can go through them and pick the best one(s).
I agree with this. Film for a digital camera is so cheap, it's free


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She's a winner
Utah soprano Rebecca Pedersen won the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Rocky Mountain Region Auditions in Denver and will compete in the semifinals at the New York City opera house in March. The 15 regional winners, accompanied by piano, will sing in a closed competition to determine the finalists, who will perform in the Grand Finals Concert with the Met Orchestra on March 10. Up to five winners will receive $15,000 apiece. Pedersen, 21 and a native of Bountiful, is a student of Darrell Babidge at Brigham Young University.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins' impressive musical career includes an extensive catalog from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and up to the present. Visit parkcityshows.com for information.
When • Today, Feb. 3, 6 p.m.
Where • Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City
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When • Tuesday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Grantsville High School, 155 E. Cherry St., Grantsville
Tickets • Free; visit www.slsw.org
An Evening with Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer and bandleader Branford Marsalis will perform. Visit bit.ly/101G3WI for information and tickets.
When • Tuesday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $34.50-$64.50; visit bit.ly/Vha8Dg
Wind ensemble at U. of U.
The University of Utah's premier Wind Ensemble's program will feature original works for band by Philip Sparke, Eric Whitacre and Frank Ticheli, as well as a transcription of two Bernstein works, Symphonic Dance Music from "West Side Story" and Profanation from "Jeremiah" Symphony No. 1.
When • Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $10; free for University of Utah students
Tesla Quartet at Libby Gardner Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City will present Tesla Quartet. Pieces include Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet, Pann's Quartet No. 1 ("Love Letters") and Respighi's Quartet No. 1. Visit cmsofslc.org for information.
When • Thursday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $25; visit bit.ly/UWTKqt
BYU Winterfest: Young Ambassadors
Four Brigham Young University performing groups will perform in the Conference Center Theater during February as part of BYU Winterfest. Tickets are required and cost $10 per person; call 801-570-0080 or visit www.lds.org/events.
When • Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 7:30 p.m.
Where • LDS Conference Center, 60 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $10; visit bit.ly/W5Ykk4
Arthur Greene
Arthur Greene, the 1978 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition winner and current chairman of the music department at the University of Michigan, will perform Scriabin's complete sonata cycle. Call 801-355-ARTS or visit arttix.org for tickets.
When • Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $15; visit bit.ly/SkqCLz
'La bohème'
The Utah Lyric Opera will presents Puccini's "La bohème," an opera of youth, passion, heartache and death, amid the fervor and fire of Paris' Latin Quarter. Call 801-852-7007 or visit www.coveycenter.org for information.
When • Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo
Tickets • $12-$25; visit bit.ly/10fJte4
Aulos Ensemble in Provo
Formed in 1973 by five Juilliard graduates, the Aulos Ensemble was at the forefront of a movement that has captured the imagination of the American listening public. The five musicians will perform European Baroque music. Visit arts.byu.edu for information.
When • Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo
Tickets • $17; visit bit.ly/TmOsa6
Gretchen Windt, mezzo-soprano
Gretchen Windt will perform Dominick Argento's "Diary of Virginia Woolf" and Robert Schumann's "Frauenliebe und -leben," among other works. Visit bit.ly/XSIlGj for more information.
When • Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Where • First Congregational Church, 2150 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $5; $20 per family
University of Utah choral concert
Join the University of Utah choirs for their first concert of the semester, featuring a variety of traditional and contemporary choral works. Visit www.music.utah.edu for information.
When • Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $10; free for U. of U. students
Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony at Abravanel Hall
Music director Thierry Fischer will conduct the Utah Symphony conductor in Elgar's "In the South" and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 ("Italian"). Baiba Skride is the soloist in the Stravinsky Violin Concerto. Call 801-355-ARTS or visit arttix.org for information.
When • Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m.
Where • Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $27-$67; visit bit.ly/11fPrXn
Russell Schmidt at Libby Gardner
The University of Utah School of Music director of jazz studies Russell Schmidt will perform a program of original compositions and classic jazz repertoire in solo piano and piano trio settings.
When • Sunday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m.
Where • Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free


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Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:22 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:51 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:19 am
elvispresleyfan1935 wrote:I'd say he needed a new show wayyy before 1976 how about after 1970!
Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:17 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:49 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:00 am
ian wrote:bquick wrote:I would love to have been able to see Elvis at any stage in his career just to see him...but thinking his 1977 concerts could compete quality-wise with any other top act is just ludicrous! Some people here would claim Elvis mumbling through Teddy Bear, spending 1/3 of the show on introductions, asking Kathy or the Stamps to sing songs and hardly being able to move would be a better experience than a Springsteen-type putting their soul on the line for three hours of true rock and roll. INSANE! Elvis AT HIS BEST was untouchable...but Elvis at his worst was not still better than other artists' best. Gosh, if Elvis in 1969 could have looked at a crystal ball and watched a 77 show he would have puked in disgust. c'mon people.
I wish someone would puke on you.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:04 am
ekenee wrote:It's all relative.
Perhaps the Eagles were doing better shows "for the period" for them.
Same with LS.
Elvis was doing sub standard shows in relative terms that he was capable of.
But to say, "they were producing better shows than Elvis Presley" is pure bias.
Never cared for the Eagles personally. They suck as far as I'm concerned. Yes that may be bias but its
the truth as I see it.
How about this for comparison.
I'd rather buy an Elvis concert ticket in 1977, and hear the Sweet Inspirations opening act, then leave the arena before Elvis
goes on, long before I would ever sit thru anything by the Eagles.
Why? because in 1977 the Sweet Inspirations were putting on better show than the Eagles!
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:07 am
ekenee wrote:
I don't think you can criticize him for mumbling.
He had done that all his career.
I still can't understand what he says on some songs.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:28 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:15 am
elvispresleyfan1935 wrote:ekenee wrote:
I don't think you can criticize him for mumbling.
He had done that all his career.
I still can't understand what he says on some songs.
Your right, i love listening to concerts where the singers mumble through there lyrics.
I'm sorry but you just defined fans with rose colored glasses. You actually set the mark with that one.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:22 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:34 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:39 am
elvispresleyfan1935 wrote:You are right Ekenee.
Lets compare these two videos.
LS 1977 Free Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation ... feature=iv
How Great Thou Art
If you can honestly watch those, and tell me theres no excitement in the LS video are you day dreaming son.
I consider a good job, live, action, moving, not sleep walking through another same setlist, town, costume etc.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:41 am
Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:56 am
ekenee wrote:elvispresleyfan1935 wrote:ekenee wrote:
I don't think you can criticize him for mumbling.
He had done that all his career.
I still can't understand what he says on some songs.
Your right, i love listening to concerts where the singers mumble through there lyrics.
I'm sorry but you just defined fans with rose colored glasses. You actually set the mark with that one.
You call your self elvispresleyfan1935.
And yet you have no understanding of Elvis' ways of singing.
You sound like one of the critics from a newspaper that has never
heard his records but can't stand the fact he mumbles.
He had been mumbling, slurring, and running the words together ever since the sun days.
It is very hard to understand everything Elvis says, but that doesn't matter in the least.
It's always been that way. It is part of his style and I wouldn't want elvis coming out there
and perfectly enunciating every word so that it is understood by you.
When singers have a unique "phrasing" such as Elvis, it is what make them special.
The fact is, a singer doesn't have not be understood to be appreciated.
I have no idea what Elvis is saying in "Guadalahara" but I like the song.
How can I have rose colored glasses. I admit that he does mumble.
I am just saying, that's ok with me.
As far as your other post concerning LS live show.
Explain to me why their shows are so good.
You see this is where it gets into subjectiveness.
What criteria do you use, to define a good show??
They don't mumble?
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:03 am
bquick wrote:but in 77 he sounds like he was singing while being put under for surgery...
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:25 am
ekenee wrote:midnightx wrote:ekenee wrote:But wasn't the colonel offered a million bucks for some huge arena in Australia or the UK?
So, he could have been packing them in.
Well, perhaps a few stadiums would have been filled in countries never performed in, but in the United States, where all of Presley's live work was produced, he rarely played stadiums - and in 1977 (which is the focus of this discussion), he was playing a lot of secondary markets. Other "so-called great acts" of the era were selling out multiple nights at MSG, LA Forum, and playing various stadiums around the United States while Elvis was filling up the Omaha Civic Auditorium and playing other stellar markets like Madison, Abilene and Johnson City.
I have said this before and I'll say it again, I don't think an artist really needs to play large stadiums to prove themselves.
Secondary markets and college towns aren't a bad idea as long as its not overdoen.
Elvis also in later years could have even stepped down even more by playing to very smaller indoor theater type venues once in a while. It give the singer a much more intimate repoire with the audience.
Of course with this and or an international gig he would have to have been prepared, in that Elvis would have gotten himself into
fighting wieght. Get healthy.
Cut out the orchestra.
Did some serious rehearsals.
And changed his set list.
He needed new show after 1976.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:49 pm
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:14 pm
midnightx wrote:The issue isn't about Elvis needing to prove himself by playing stadiums. The point was to show that Elvis wasn't "pack[ing] in more people than the so-called great acts of the time." Other mainstream acts were playing to massive amounts of people and were as much, or more, of a draw than Elvis in 1977.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:27 pm
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Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:45 am
It was the end of an era.midnightx wrote:It was a "classic" era.
Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:46 pm
Phoenix78 wrote:Oh God..............I've abandoned what I was going to say. Yes Elvis sucked in '77. This period should be frowned upon with great disgust & embarrassment. All opposition shall be put to death!
Give me a break!
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