Hi folks,I just got a Kodak v705. I"m not loving the photos I'm getting? I can't get a crisp shot. The Kodak Easy SHare software doesn't appear to have a "sharpen" feature? Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong - just by looking at this one?It's the foyer of my own house - please don't look
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10/22/2007
Every now and again, a house comes along that everyone loves. No-one can tell you why. It's a feeling. A sense of space and calm. The essence of belonging. Home.So it is with this home listed by Victoria Carter in South Orange, NJ. With 4 spacious bedrooms, 2 full baths and 2 half baths, 2
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10/17/2007
Aw, c'mon, really? No. Well, sort of, yes.Actually, staging principles can apply to presenting vacant land for sale. They would serve the seller well. In fact, anyone selling a sizable lot should take these points to heart. 1. The buyer needs to see what you're selling. i.e POST the perimet
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10/17/2007
I am in that most delightful of all places - the mid-season lull. I do love it. That it coincides with crisp Fall days, and pre-Halloween festivities with my boy (Pumpkin Picking at right) is luck indeed. And since I'm about to be assigned another cotton-picking Split, I reckon I've earned it!T
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10/15/2007
Art in Staging.Back to this magazine shoot last week - Lessons Learned on a Magazine Shoot - the photographer does really wonderful panoramic shots as another revenue stream (and art form, presumably). His name is Stuart Tyson and he's a remarkably talented man.He said a friend of his had borrow
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10/10/2007
I tell you, I've arrived. If someone wants to send me hate mail, I must be getting important, worthy of note. And for that, I say thank you.I consider a rude, snide mail hate mail, don't you? After Cindy's very good, amusing post on fake/faux stuff defining us all as amateurs, I thought I might
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10/10/2007
I thought I might share a few things I learned while staging a magazine photo shoot last week.I had been hired by the architect. It was a spec shoot for Architectural Digest, at their invitation. Which apparently means, I find out later, that they may take it, they may not. If they do, chances
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10/09/2007
Perhaps by way of karmic reward for the unstagable house I did this week, I was rewarded with the opportunity to accessorize a photo shoot for Architectural Digest on Thursday. What a hoot!Such a cast of characters - the tall, stately photographer, the fastidious, finicky interior designer, the c
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10/07/2007
