Top Gift Ideas for Photography Enthusiasts and Photo Business Owners

These top gift ideas for photographers will help you to choose a tool that a photo enthusiast in your life will appreciate. If someone you know is considering turning their hobby into a means of earning extra income, these ideas will help you find a gadget that can help them to achieve their dream.

Apart from cameras, there are several devices that can help a photographer earn money from their work. They can also offer related services to people who have other documents that they need help with.

Wireless Printers
Wireless printers are convenient to use. They make it possible to feel and me more organized and are more convenient to use than wired printing devices. There are several good brands which are preferred by consumers who are looking for these peripheral devices.

The Epson Wireless All-In-One inkjet printer is suitable for the woman or man who needs to do a bit of extra printing and earn money. It is a scanner, printer and copier. It prints pictures and graphics quickly, so jobs get done in less time.

Since it is wireless, it’s possible to print images from a smart phone or tablet anywhere. This device supports Google Cloud Print. It comes with a 2.5 inch LCD.

Roll laminator kit-via Wikimedia, CCA 3.0

 

Laminators
People in certain professions laminate materials often. They usually have a lamination machine available at work for their purposes. However, people who need lamination done on occasion for personal reasons usually look to a copy shop or a photographer. People who are looking to earn extra money can offer this service in their community.

A Fellowes Saturn Laminator is one of the devices in this category that performs well whether you need a laminator for personal use or want to earn money from it. It can laminate business documents, school projects, photos that a hobbyist alters using photo editing software and children’s school certificates.
Disclaimer: I did not receive sponsorship or payment for writing this review. This article is based on my opinion.

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How To Become A Better Sight-Reader

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If you are like most people, your performance of a piece of music “at first sight” could probably stand some improvement. Oh, to be able to breeze through a brand new piece without all the stops and starts!

What you may not realize is that sight-reading is an art in itself, separate and apart from pianistic ability. Many conservatory musicians, even many soloists, are not the great sight-readers you might expect. Sight-reading is a special craft within the art of music that won’t come automatically.

You must work at it just as you work at technique, or interpretation. You could have the technique of a Horowitz on the keyboard, or a Segovia on the guitar, but still be a laughable sight-reader.

There are many tricks to the sight-reading game, no matter which instrument you play. If these tricks can be used properly, and with regularity, two things will happen: 1) your sight-reading improves, of course, and 2) your over-all technique automatically improves. And if you regiment yourself to a daily sight-reading program, even just fifteen minutes’ worth, your entire outlook on your instrument will change drastically in a matter days!

If you practice scales, for example, you only improve your ability in playing scales. Nothing more. However, with sight-reading practice, you improve your scale playing technique, your octave technique, your arpeggio technique, because you are using actual pieces, which can encompass all of these techniques and more.

Let’s talk more of those “tricks” that will get you on the road to better sight-reading.

First of all, you need a metronome. That’s trick number one.

What A Metronome Does For Sight-Reading:

Have you ever played chess, or watched people play chess by time-clock? The object of time-clock chess is that each player has a stipulated amount of time in which to make his or her move. They cannot exceed the amount of time allotted, or else the bell will sound and s/he will be penalized. This is exactly how we use a metronome in sight-reading. We must make our ”move” to the next note, or next chord, within a set time period.

And that’s the trick that gets our reflexes going. Sight-reading is nothing more than training our reflexes. In order to do this we have to fight the time-clock. In the case of music, our time-clock is the metronome. It’s an absolute necessity if you are serious about becoming a good, or better sight-reader. Besides that, you will find it invaluable for other practice purposes, which we will deal with in the future.

There are all kinds of reasons for having a metronome. So you might as well invest.

To learn more piano "tricks of the trade," you are invited to visit: http://www.mrronsmusic.comand http://www.playpianotonight.com 

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