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For Artists and Photographers they will be happy to know that Johnson’s Fine Art will be opening on the Internet soon at http://johnsonsart.com The company, owned by Jason Johnson, will specialize in fine art gallery canvas prints and large gallery mounted prints only. This gives experienced and new artists and photographers a great new venue for their works.

There is no monthly fee for the service, or ongoing fees of any kind, the artist or photographer actually has a sellers page to put their bio, works and even a link to their home page if they desire. Jason would prefer that the artists create their own page, but he does employ Tag Craig of http://am-nuke.net as web master for this gigantic project. There is no charge if the artist/photographer creates their home page.



All prints on the site come either in gallery canvas or mounted prints. Each piece comes with a free gallery style frame for canvas, or outstanding frame or mounted gallery frame. In most cases the buyer has the choice of free frames and in some cases the authors and photographers want the finished product to look as how they know it should look. Either way, the buyer of the print has choices and freebies. After all how many Art Galleries include a $100- $300 frame free with a purchase?



The artist can choose what sizes they want their work to be available in as well as the pricing. Most pieces on the site that I have seen, so far, range from $459.00 to over $2500 (usd) depending upon the size. The artist gives their price for the smallest canvas or mounted print, and the other sizes are calculated from that.



Although I did not see an affiliate program as yet, you may want to keep in mind that most affiliate programs give about 15% of the cost. Keep that in mind when setting your price. I am sure the site will have an affiliate program before they open.



This is a great opportunity for the advanced hobbyist to professional photographer to earn their keep and a natural resource for any starving artist to supplement their income. The site will require the actual scanned 4×6 at 300-1200dpi (@ 1222% for 30×40) or better print for testing to see what the maximum size can be. Of course if you have an 11×14 print your scan will be less. They will also need a 300 pixel wide thumbnail that Johnson’s Art will watermark to keep folks from reprinting. Although they are still setting up, you can get a sneak preview.



To get your work listed and for the details, you can contact the web master: tag AT am-nuke.net he will have some of the questions I stated here for you and will set up each piece of your work exactly how you want it. The site is scheduled to open December first, but like most major sites that is an approximate date but as you can see the news is already going out and will probably have several major links before it even opens.

Randy Redhawk
New Mexico, USA
Contact: randy@rwpbooks.com
Website: http://rwpbooks.com
The father of five (four adoptions), Randy is a published novelist - Please visit his site at http://rwpbooks.com

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Most people allow their cameras to stay in the drawer for most of the year. They may see the light of day during a vacation or some celebration or festivity.

If that describes your camera, then it’s OK. You are a “snapshot” photographer and most images are taken by people like yourself. That’s great and if that’s what you want, then carry on.

After all, cameras were designed to take images. There was no predefined usage pattern prescribed for any model of camera and there will be nobody checking up on you and for what purposes you use your camera for.

It is a little unfortunate, though, that you are not using your camera to its fullest potential. In fact, if you are a snapshot photographer, you are probably not using more than 10 or 20 percent of the functionality that was built in to the camera.

Modern digital cameras are not only easy to use but they come with a whole host of added functions. Things like shutter speed selection and aperture control. There are also ISO setting, fill flash and anti red eye features. Most cameras have the ability to vary focal length and to allow mounting on a tripod. Many will allow short videos to be taken and a great number allow additional add-on lenses. If you look in your instruction book, you might find that you camera has a self timer mechanism and full manual control options.

All of these features, and more if your camera has them, can enhance your photographs in many ways. If the functions are unfamiliar to you then you need to read around a bit and experiment.

But, utilising these functions in the correct way (and it’s easy to do) will bring added life and sparkle to your snapshots. Who knows what might follow after that?

Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com

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