Snapshot vs. Portrait
“I’m really bothered as to what really makes a photo a portrait?”
I saw this at one of the photography forums that I am a member of. Having at one point wondered about it as well I decided to put down my thoughts on the topic.
I myself follow a quick guide, which I found on yet another forum:
Candid = The subject was neither prepared nor ready.
Snapshot = The photographer was neither prepared nor ready.
Thus leaving us with the definition of a Portrait – both the subject and the photographer are prepared and ready.
For the subject, prepared and ready means he/she is posed and positioned as the photographer has instructed. The subject has been “arranged” to get the desired effect, which may sometimes require the assistance of a make up artist, or any third person who will take care of what the subject should look like.
For the photographer, it means that he has adequately positioned and lighted his subject for the desired effect, and that he has determined the correct settings for his camera.
For example: the following photos are of my friend Evangeline, with whom I had a funshoot a few months back.
Snapshot:
Candid:
Portrait:
Preparing for the Inevitable
Finding out about life insurance is one of those things that people return to again and again because they do not know where to start. When you get online insurance quotes, you take a giant step into finding out what it is. What is life insurance? What do I need to know to become an informed buyer? How do I know that I am a good deal on a life policy?
For someone young and healthy, the concept of life insurance is not tops on their list of priorities. Of course, death can occur at any time, even among young people, due to an accident or catastrophic illness, but the probability is so small that it deserves negligible concern. In middle age, perhaps we are beginning to respect the ephemeral quality of life and may even have a family to consider. In examining why life insurance may make more sense at this point in life, think of two ways: for use as a time to pay in the event of his death: for use as an investment, accumulation of interest on the period of the policy.
Life insurance is an agreement that in case of death of the insured, the insurer agrees to pay an agreed amount of money to a specified recipient. The agreement also provides that the insured paid during the period covered by the insurer an amount in the form of monthly installments. Life insurance can pay benefits based on death from natural causes, deaths from disease and accidental death. In addition, life insurance policies may pay a lump sum to a beneficiary, or are prepared as a pension fund.
Vitamin intolerant
If you happen to be a pregnant woman reading this post, and also happen to be like I was when pregnant — intolerant of high-calcium and iron pre-natal women vitamins, do read on.
The main difference between taking regular vitamins and prenatal vitamins every day is the amount of calcium, iron and folic acid. These are the three most important things for a pregnant woman to keep herself and her baby in good health. Calcium helps to maintain the strength of the mother’s bones when so much of the calcium intake is going to help the baby build up its own bones. Iron helps blood flow, which is very important during pregnancy when the body must work harder to pump up to 50% more blood per day to maintain the health of the child. Folic acid is essential for baby’s development which has been shown to help prevent diseases such as spina bifida, a serious birth defect where the spine is not completely closed.
The good news is that all three of these nutrients are easily incorporated into your daily diet, even without adding vitamin supplements. Calcium is readily available, naturally, in dairy products and nuts, green leafy vegetables and some fish. Iron is available for the consumption of meat, and fortified grain breads and cereals. Folic acid is also very common, found in green leafy vegetables and well-being added to orange juice, cereals and other fortified foods. This means that if you have a bowl of cereal with milk and a glass of orange juice in the morning for breakfast and have added significant amounts of these nutrients to your body, even before you take any vitamins at all.
What is the Law School Admission Test (LSAT)?
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day standardized test administered four times a year at designated test centers worldwide. All ABA-accredited law schools, most Canadian law schools, and many other schools, the law requires applicants to take most recently as part of the admission procedure. It provides a standard method for measurement of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants.
The test consists of five 35-minute sections of multiple choice questions. These sections include one reading comprehension section, one analytical reasoning section and two logical reasoning sections. The unscored section, commonly referred to as a variable section, typically used to preview new test questions and pretest new test forms. Placement of this last section will vary. The score scale for the latter is 120-180. A 35-minute writing sample is administered at the end of the test. Writing process testing is not of LSAC scored, but copies are sent to all schools law that you seek.
The LSAT is designed to skills measured as essential for success in law school: reading and the understanding of complex texts with accuracy and insight, organization and management of information and the ability to appropriate conclusions from it, the ability to think critically, and the analysis and evaluation of reasoning and arguments of others.
What is the best way to take to prepare?
LSAT measures skills and knowledge developed over a longer period. You can not prepare for the test by trying at the last minute to master specific subject areas. Finding lsat prep courses should not be a problem, to help you get familiar with test directions and question types.
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