Here are four amazing online photography (摄影) classes to improve your photos.
Mastering Lightroom & Photoshop (By Andrew Kerns)
Every professional photographer uses post-processing (后期处理) skills to make their images stand out. In fact, editing and post-processing your images is a major part of the photography work. Luckily, Andrew Kerns has put together an amazing online class to help you learn the latest professional Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop skills.
Wildlife Photography Workshop (By Charly Savely)
Professional wildlife photographer, Charly Savely, has recently decided to share her secrets with the world through her online Wildlife Photography Workshop recorded in Alaska's Katmai National Park. Learn how she chooses camera settings using art to influence your style, where to find wildlife and how to photograph animals safely in the wild.
A to Z of Selling Your Photos(By Lola Akinmade)
Lola Akinmade is an excellent travel photographer whose works are regularly published by brands(品牌)like The New York Times and Travel & Leisure. She has also put together an excellent online photography class that goes into detail about how to make your photos be brands, including getting close to brands, how to deal with copyrights, working with editors, getting model shows and much more.
Photographing the World (By Elia Locardi)
Elia Locardi is a very successful landscape photographer who's been travelling the world for years. His course Photographing the World is full of tips and post-processing skills he uses to create his landscape and travel photography. With 15 lessons and more than 12 hours of video content, his photography class takes you from the on-location capture (外景拍摄) all the way through his post-processing skills in the studio.
Danielle Hatherley Carroll is an artist. She shares her talent with others, taking groups on field trips around various locations in New York City, setting up easels (画架) and drawing the beauty of the city.
When Danielle returned home one night from Battery Park in New York City, she didn't realize that she had lost her wedding ring somewhere along the day's painting journey until early next morning. Then, at 6:00 in the morning, her husband and she went out to search for it.
The last place she remembered the ring on her finger was in Battery Park. By the time they got there, all the garbage cans had already been emptied. Desperately, Danielle wrote a note and put it on the windshield (挡风玻璃) of a nearby rubbish truck, hoping that someone might be of help. "Help," the note read. "I believe my wedding ring might be in this truck."
Battery Park's employee Gary Gaddist discovered the note when he started his work in the morning. He turned to the management office with the note. Later he gave Danielle a call and explained the whole story, "I had to go to the management office of Battery Park, and when I got there I showed the guys the note. They told me if I wanted to look for a needle (针) in a haystack (干草堆), go ahead." However, after that, Gary began to do what he thought was worth doing.
In New York City, tons of garbage is moved every day in various directions. Gary was looking for a clear plastic garbage bag among hundreds of piled-up bags, containing an artist's a day's waste. He was sure to complete the task.
At 10:00 that morning, Gary called Danielle again with the good news. When asked why he would take the extra time to help out a stranger, Gary simply said, "I could tell you and your husband love each other. That's what I desire to gain. I'm glad to help you."
The beautiful monarch butterfly is facing an unprecedented decline (前所未有的减少) and Utah State University (USU) wants to make sure that doesn't happen.
To help the struggling butterfly, USU students have been capturing and tagging (给……贴标签) monarch butterflies in the Uintah Basin.
Tagging butterflies will allow researchers to know their migration path and protect their feeding grounds. Every year, monarch butterflies start "3,000-mile migration, traveling south to Mexico each fall and back up Canada in the spring," according to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
Because of habitat loss and increased pesticide (杀虫剂) use, monarch butterflies have experienced a population decline upwards of 90%, according NWF.
"Monarch butterflies are facing a large historical decline over the last 40 years," says USU senior Carson Liesik, a student on the project. "The population, as of the beginning of 2020, was about 30,000 monarchs in the Western United States, which is about a 99% drop as compared to information from the 1980s. We are hoping to learn how to help the monarch butterfly population recover from its historical decline. This project is an important step."
When tagging the butterflies, students record information about each one including its wing condition and location of discovery. Then students map migration path as well as habitat use and activity. They tag each butterfly with unique number so that if it is recaptured at a later date, they can know growth stage. With the collected information students get an idea of where these monarch butterflies are and how they are using the resources around them.
Researchers say the public can help protect the monarch butterfly population, too. "The best way is by growing milkweed plants wherever you may have space. Milkweed is the main food source that monarch butterflies depend on. If you plant milkweed in your yard, you might be lucky enough to see monarchs stop and breed (繁殖)." says the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR).
As AI art generators (生成器) take the world by storm, some people wonder if their works should count as art at all. The technology is still developing and has some wrinkles to iron out, which means there are indeed flaws to consider alongside the incredible artwork a good artificial intelligence can produce.
Art is classed as the product of imagination, skill, experience, and emotion, usually meant to represent something for the public to enjoy. Artists spent time and effort putting their inner worlds onto these works. Machine intelligence also puts a lot of work into sorting through tons of data, linking someone's prompt to datasets, and trying to represent it as best as possible. The difference is that the AI is driven by commands instead of an emotional desire to express itself.
AI painters can produce over 1,000 original works of art with every tap of the enter key on a keyboard. But a mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Why? Scarcity — there's only one of the original. Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale, what should the price be?
AI art involves a program mimicking (模仿) the work of existing artists to create a new piece according to the request of a human. But who made the artwork, the machine or its user? And can the original artists sue for copyright (版权) violation? Such questions complicate the merging of artificial intelligence and the art industry, while fueling arguments against recognizing AI-generated art as marketable artistic products.
Once we've answered those questions, we can tackle the really big one: When an AI-generated painting wins an award, who gets the prize?
"Don't judge a book by its cover", the popular saying goes. "All that glitters is not gold" is another.is a third. What do they have in common？They remind us that something's appearance should not be the most important thing when determining its value. The message is that we should value ourselves for who we are—accept our shortcomings and stop judging ourselves against our imperfections.
But it's easier said than done. Many people still feel insecure about themselves and their appearance because it may not measure up to the standard of perfection. .
Learn to accept praise. Don't push it away or play it down. And praise others too. If you think someone looks nice，or someone has a good idea，tell them. It can lift them up.
We're surrounded by these perfect images of what it is to be beautiful. That comparing only creates，a standard we think we need to pursue and leads to feelings of disappointment if we aren't up to the standard.
Appreciate your body for what it can do—walking, yoga, playing sport or otherwise. You can be an incredible human regardless of your shape or size. Attend the gym and realize how strong and capable your body
is, even though it may be fat.
Finally, the only person who can truly affect your body positivity is you. Becoming comfortable with yourself is unlikely to be accomplished overnight, but don't give up. Remember that everyone is insecure sometimes. Love what you look like.
A. "Birds of a feather flock together."
B. "Fine feathers do not make fine birds"
C. When someone says something nice, embrace it
D. So there are some ways to help you to be more popular
E. Be certain about who you are and what you want as a person.
F. Don't compare your body to others', particularly celebrities.
G. So what can a person do to improve their own body positivity?
In a huge building after a long day work, I found myself standing next to a young man with a nice 1 . His smile was so warm that we began a chat. The chat 2 what we had in common: We all came to New York from different countries. I come from Germany while he comes from South America.
We exchanged 3 about the difficulties of starting a new life in a new country. Italked to him,"I've been searching for an apartment within walking distance from my 4 .And what I want is to rent one with a 5 view of Central Park! Maybe I'm just 6 . Ican't afford to 7 a room like that myself and I haven't found a roommate to 8 the expense."The young man wrote a number down on a piece of 9 ."Her name's Sally and she is a good girl,"he said."You'll like her, and she needs a roommate."
I called her right away. Later, she 10 my best roommate. Sally told me that she and the young man were not 11 at all and they just met once.
"Maybe he knows of you before because you are 12 in that big company for your hardworking 13 ,"I told Sally. Hearing that, Sally was so happy. Even though you are a small potato in your life, you can still win your 14 by working hard or doing something15 to others.
It's a race against time, as generations of cultural heritage conservators at the Dunhuang Academy make a great effort to protect the artistic charm of the Mogao Caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The team (devote) to protecting the 45,000 square meters of murals (壁画) and more than 2,400 painted sculptures of the 735 caves of the site, the construction of takes about a thousand years, from the 4th century to the 14th century. The cultural relics are the product of the cultural exchanges that took place over (century) on the ancient Silk Road.
Commonly (see) "diseases" affecting the murals include cracking and flaking, as well as erosion that is caused by changes in temperature and humidity of the caves, and the deposition of salts. To restore a mural requires an all-rounder. Restorers should know painting, master the skills of a mason (石匠) and have some knowledge of chemistry and physics (be) able to recognize the problems ad their corresponding causes and deliver a solution. They must also select proper materials and tools, and conduct experiments, formally carrying out the restoration and evaluating the effect afterward.
The restoration should respect the (origin) work and aim to maintain the status quo of the murals rather than repainting them. When the restorers find some parts of murals missing fading away, they never repaint them to create a "perfect" (appear) in restoration.
"This Saturday, we'll be visiting cats at the animal shelter. If you'd like to join us, here's an application form", said Ms. Delgado, the school librarian who had held the reading engagement event for students.
Ben loved cats and he had always wanted one, so he hurried to take an application form. Then Ms. Delgado added, "We'll be reading to the cats and award readers who make most progress." Ben stopped. Reading al oud can be a challenging task. Ben might feel his heart racing, his palms sweating, and his voice shaking as he read. He might stumble over words or lose his place in the text. He might feel like everyone was watching him and judging him. Still, he really wanted to visit the cats, so he took an application form anyway.
On Saturday, Ben arrived at the shelter with some of his classmates. "This is Max," the shelter worker told Ben as she handed him a gray cat. Ben carried Max to a beanbag chair and sat down. Max settled onto his lap. He took a book he'd been working on and started reading. Max, very different from other cats walking around the room while the kids read, purred (发出呼噜声) on his lap as if he had understood what Ben read.
"I'm glad Max is staying and listening to my reading and he is the best cat ever," Ben told Dad excitedly. "I'm glad you two are friends," Dad said. All week, Ben's heart was filled with anxiety as he waited for Saturday to arrive. He was eager to read to Max and the anticipation of spending time with his feline (猫咪的) friend made him restless and nervous. When it arrived, Ben got to read to Max again.
"What if someone adopts Max?" Ben asked Dad later. "I guess you'd read to a different cat," Dad said. "But I don't want a different cat. I wish we could adopt Max," Ben said to Dad. He knew they couldn't because Mom had allergies (过敏). Ben loved the cat so much that he even told his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Patel, about Max. "Max sounds like a special cat," said Mrs. Patel.
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Week by week, Ben realized that reading seemed easier with Max's company.
But on Saturday, Ben couldn't find Max at the shelter.
