Infrared Saunas

If you could, I am sure you would go on vacation at least twice a month to relief all the stress cause by the series of minor problems we all have to deal with daily. Unfortunately, this is extremely far away from being possible (at least for almost all of us, mere mortals), but I recently found out that, for way less money than paying for real vacations, you can install one of the new world wonders in your own house: infrared saunas.

They will not only help you relax, but I guarantee that a infrared sauna will help you get a better skin, relief pain, decrease joint stiffness, it will give you a complete body detoxification, and those are just a few of the benefits among a huge list!

You must be thinking that with the price of one of those you sure can pay for a vacation in a paradisaical place for all your family, but trust me when I say that the price of this sauna will surprise you as much as all the benefits it will bring to you and your whole family!

Farsi translation

If there's one place that I love to travel to more than any other it's got to be India, but first I'd have to find someone that could do hindi translation. With such a varied landscape and some of the friendliest people I've ever met, it's an incredibly fantastic place to dash off to for a relaxing vacation. In addition, there are so many amazing business possibilities as well. With several languages spoken, India is truly a hotbed of culture and an epicenter of global economy.

Not only do millions of Indians speak English and Hindi (but still it is really hard to find someone able to do farsi translation), but there are also multitudes of other languages used every day in India. Farsi, as might be expected, is quite widespread, while Arabic, which is incredibly important and increasingly so in today's worldwide market, is also very up and coming in Indian commerce. With all of these languages in daily use, I was lucky to find a great india translation website for all of them in one place!

From its lavish natural beauty to the boom of big business, India truly is a one-stop shop for everything that one needs, and it is an increasingly valuable and well situated link between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

FD-EOS Adapter

Last year I bought an FD to EOS adapter so I could use the old FD lens from my dad's camera in my Canon XT (350d). I bought it without knowing almost anything about it, cause there wasn't any kind of photo examples of the results brought by this adapter.

That's why I decided to post some pictures comparing the FD lens with my EF 28-135mm in a forum that I used to participate.

So know that I found those pictures, I decided to make a post here so I could show people who might be interested in buying one of those adapters what kind of results they should expect.

Here we go:

All pictures have the 100% zoom crop in a box on one of the corners
The first one is a reference shot with my 28-135 EF Lens, at 28mm 1/250 f10:



The second is still with the 28-135mm, at 135mm 1/320 f9:



The third is with the FD 200mm 2.8f at 200mm 1/250 f8:



And the last one is with the FD 500mm 4.5f L at 500mm 1/250 f8:




The photos were only resized and don't have any kind of retouching, the objective was only to show the lens behavior when used with the FD-EOS adapter.

I hope this post is useful to anybody looking for this kind of adapter.

References

This post is to ask for (if there is any) readers to send me all bibliographic or electronic references of advertising photography and anything related to it. I found a couple references already, but I really need to collect more information so I can write my conclusion paper.

Thanks in advance ;)

Psych ward

I'm really weird. But for a reason that might be not the worse:

Sometimes I just leave photography aside, my camera in a box (well closed so it won't get dusty, or moldy, or anything disgusting) and live my life with other priorities. But, every once in a while, I have this urge to photograph, and to learn, and, specially, to buy new stuff. And this is happening right now.. I bought some new stuff - that I'll reveal when they come, including a lighting tripod for some off-camera flash fun.

I just wish that taxes here in Brazil were lower, so we could get more for le$$.

Conclusions about photography

This semester I need to create a project for my conclusion paper at school - by the way, I'll be a bachelor in Marketing and Advertising - and because of this, I need to decide the theme for this paper.

I always wanted to write something related to photography, but I always thought that this would be an over analyzed area, but, for my complete surprise, the teacher who is orienting me during this semester, told me that photography is the least explored area for conclusion works in our university and in our entire region.

Of course it surprised me in both positive and negative way - positive, because now I have already decided my field of analysis for the paper; and negative, cause it makes me a little disappointed that in an university dedicated exclusively to communication and marketing, so few people show interest about photography.. I don't know, I think I just expected tons of people with the same interest in this area as I and some of my friends do.

Well, but maybe it is just me.

Deviantart

If you never visited it, a great place to find wonderful pictures and art in general, is DeviantArt. There are pictures in several different categories, sorted by date or popularity.

If you're like me, you'll spend hours looking in those amazing pictures posted by incredible amateurs and pro's.

By the way, this image on the top, is just one small sample of what you'll find!

Don't miss it.