Cathy Healy

Cathy Healy works with K-12 classrooms worldwide as they make a difference in the world.

Cathy Healy

Advocate for K-12 Global Collaborations

Continuing story: iPad and Kindle

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To buy a Kindle 3 in the UK, plan to “wait weeks,” according to my googlenews tracker this morning, which quoted Benchmark Reviews.

Meanwhile, today’s Daily Beast’s cheat sheet quotes CNBC that iPads are the fastest electronic gadget ever adopted, with 4.5 million sales a quarter now. Says the Beast: “The iPad is on track to overtake both gaming consoles and cellphones to become the fourth largest consumer electronics category behind televisions, computers, and smartphones.”

How To: Blur backgrounds on automatic

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Naturally the photo workshop instructor, David Luria, recommended that I turn the dial on my new Panasonic point-’n-shoot to “P,” so that I could control my camera. 
Naturally, after class I turned it right back to iA, meaning intelligent automatic. This super-fast Lumix DMC-ZS7 (with a Leica lens) takes the best photos I’ve ever shot, and I’ve used some superb cameras.  
With iA, I can focus on other techniques. Says Luria:
     1– Get close and get low. Note to self: need stronger thighs. 
     2 — Stabilize yourself by standing with your legs apart with one leg ahead. Note: And squat low at the same time?
     3 — Telephoto always blurs the background; wide-angle always gives a sharp background. 
     4 — Move the center-of-interest out of the [damn] center.
     5 — Golden hours when everything looks beautiful: hour before/hour after sunrise and sunset. Note: Kindest time to shoot friends, not in dark restaurants after a wine or two.
Set the Speed (S) to 1,000-2,000ths of a second and you can capture raindrops falling.
Set S to 2 or 3 seconds, put your camera on a tripod, and passing cars will disappear from your photos — they are traveling too fast to be recorded!!!!
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Penn Camera Classes: “Photo Safari – The Essence of Good Photography,” Newseum, August 1, 2010.