20 Free Windows 7 Wallpapers

Windows 7 Blue Wallpaper

JurgenDoe just played a little bit in Photoshop to create this beautiful Windows 7 Wallpaper.

Windows Leopard Hackintosh 7

FateZoom have done good job with this wallpaper. The background looks great and its interesting what he did with the Apple logo

Windows Seven Glow Wallpaper

Another Windows Seven Wallpaper from dj-corny. It is available in different resolutions for wide and normal screens:

Windows 7 Wallpaper Concept

A minimal and clean background by JurgenDoe

Windows 7

I like the green color in this wallpaper designed byLfcmaniac

Windows 7 Ultimate II

Super wallpaper designed byRfSouza.

Windows 7 Cold Light

Very detailed artwork with nice contrast colors by frezorer. The glowing effect is awesome.

Unofficial Windows 7 Wallpaper

JurgenDoe designed this Wallpaper to be used for Windows 7 but now it is called “Unofficial Windows 7 Wallpaper”.

Windows Wallpaper HD Green

Windows logo placed on grass. Very simple and clean styled wallpaper by CezarisLT.

Windows 7 Revolutions

Great idea shown here with Matrix effect by potasiyam.

Windows SEVEN

Windows Seven Wallpaper inspiration by havocki. This also include some color variation.

Windows Se7en Midnight

This minimalistic, dark, midnight blue wallpaper was named “energize” before and changed to “midnight” later.

Windows Wallpaper HD No Color

Nice and simple styled wallpaper by CezarisLT. Available in the following resolutions for wide screen: 1920 x 1200, 1680 x 1050 and 1400 x 900

New experience – Windows 7

This is custom made Hi-Res Wallpeper by russanov.

Minimal Windows 7

Elegant and simple looking wallpaper with nice textured background by surag.

Windows 7 Blue Wallpaper

Blue color in this wallpaper looks really bright. The designer killer7ben has used some 2 other wallpapers to create this one.

Windows 7 Ultimate wallpaper

A bright Windows 7 Ultimate wallpaper by darpan-aero. Available in following resolutions: 2560 x 1600, 1440 x 900 and 1600 x 1200

Win7 BoxArt Wallpaper- Preview

Nice work by lordalpha1.

xAlta Wallpaper Pack

This wallpaper pack available in different resolutions design by musicislife1995.

Windows 7 Simple Wood – EN

Simplicity. A basic wallpaper with the logo of Windows 7

photography accessories. High-teck tools

High-tech tools to keep your images secure when you’re in the field

By Jon Sienkiewicz

Among the latest cameras and lenses showcased at the big PMA trade show every winter, there’s also a slew of new gadgets, technological innovations and services that don’t drum up the kind of attention that a hot new D-SLR does. While we can’t cover everything we saw, what follows is a look at some of the offerings from those smaller, “back of the show” manufacturers that caught our attention.
PICTURE SPOTTER

Spot your next subject or location from afar with the Minox MD 50 W spotting scope. At 20 ounces and 8.5 inches long, the small scope delivers a big 16x to 30x magnification, allowing you to zero in on the birds. The scope’s close-focus range lets you go from just 16.4 feet from your subject to infinity. A multilayer M* coating on the lens helps ensure the quality needed to make detailed observations. The MD 50 W is dustproof and waterproof to 16.4 feet. Estimated Street Price: $384. Contact: Minox, www.minox.com.

WIRELESS SD CARD Transferring images has never been easier with the wireless Eye-Fi 2 GB SD card. Using your home WiFi network, images are automatically saved to your PC or Mac as soon as you walk through the door. The Eye-Fi can also transmit photos to photo-sharing websites like Flickr, Phanfare and Snapfish using the Eye-Fi Service, which gets them to the site, takes care of log-ins and passwords, and resizes your pictures if required. Estimated Street Price: $99. Contact: Eye-Fi, (877) 873-9334, www.eye.fi.

COLOSSAL COMPACTFLASH Shoot high-resolution photos all day long with the Pretec 48 GB 233x CompactFlash card. As with all memory cards, figuring out how many it holds depends on the camera and file size, which vary according to the format and quality setting. But at transfer speeds of more than 35 MBps (read) and 25 MBps (write), you can do more high-speed burst shooting, view images faster on the LCD and minimize the download time. Estimated Street Price: $499. Contact: PTI Global Inc., (510) 249-9055,www.ptiglobalusa.com.

SUPER CUTTERS The Trim Gear Heavy-Duty Rotary Trimmers are tailored for the demands of digital printmakers. The locking rail mechanism holds paper firmly in place while the carbide blades ensure precise and accurate cuts. The sturdy metal base is calibrated and features common preset measurements. The paper guide is adjustable and magnetic for making the same cut repeatedly without having to readjust. The device can slice multiple sheets of photo paper at once and also cuts card stock, black core artist mat board, 1⁄8-inch foam board, plastic sheets, acetate and more. The Heavy-Duty Rotary Trimmers are available in select sizes for accommodating 12- to 25-inch sheets. Estimated Street Price: $138 to $406. Contact: Carl Manufacturing, (800) 257-4771, www.carlmfg.com.

FUNCTION WITH STYLE Pairing attractive exteriors with functionality, Jill-E Designs is bringing a fashion sense to camera bags. The large Moss Green Suede Rolling Camera Bag holds two camera bodies, two flashes, two moderate-sized lenses, a 15-inch laptop, and various accoutrements like batteries, cables, filters and manuals. The bag has dual carrying handles, a telescoping handle for rolling the case, a polka-dot, padded interior with adjustable Velcro dividers, a netted pocket and a toiletries pouch with a detachable tether. Jill-E offers a range of sizes, from small wristlets to medium and large bags. Estimated Street Price: $279. Contact: Jill-E Designs, (888) 445-4553, www.jill-e.com.

FOUR-IN-ONE If you’re the type who comes back from a shoot with multiple memory cards full of images, check out ImageRouter from Delkin Devices. The high-speed USB 2.0 reader lets you unload four CompactFlash cards at a time. With speedy transfer rates of 19 MBps (read) and 18 MBps (write), you won’t have to wait long to start working on your photos. The software that enables the simultaneous download isn’t available for Macs yet. Mac users can still use the router, but you see four separate drives and lose the convenience of dumping thousands of photos all at once. Estimated Street Price: $149 (without software), $249 (with software). Contact: Delkin Devices, (800) 637-8087,www.delkin.com.

Amazing Conceptual & Creative Photographic Work

Photography is one of the art that helps you to freeze the moment to see it and get the most ideas out from it. Conceptual photographic or the photos that include special meaning behind the scen of the real objects in the photo lets you get inspired and fuel your creativity with the ability to see the creative idea behind the conceptual photo.




Here are Amazing Conceptual and Creative Photography

Great Tips for Shooting in the Rain

Rain, I feel it on my finger tips, hear it on my window pane. Your love’s coming down like rain….  Okay, don’t shoot me for quoting an under-appreciated Madonna song, because that song has inspired me to take well over 100 photos with the self-imposed constraint of shooting during the rain or just after the rain has fallen, and the streets and/or land are still soaking wet (that’s an added tip, put self-imposed constraints on your photography and look at the results, they will amaze you… i.e. only shoot vertically).  

If you’re shooting in the rain (you did make sure that you camera is going to be water-tight or you’ll need to perform an immediate drying maintenance after shooting), one of the things to consider is — do you want to see the raindrops or not?  While this is not always possible unless the rain is heavily falling, but if it is, you can stop the rain (and thereby see the raindrops) or have the rain be a blur, more like a semi-opaque curtain that’s laying awash your entire image.  To stop the rain, you need to have the shutter speed cranked up fairly high (at least 1/250, and that might not be enough).  However, at that shutter speed–and considering that your main light source’s power is reduced by the cloud cover–you need to set the aperture so you can achieve a fairly deep depth of field… otherwise only your subject will be in sharp focus, and then the point of the image will be diminished. 

Photo by kitti

Now maybe your cup of tea is to use the falling rain as means to add additional soft focus to your rain-drenched background.  This is easy to achieve as well, all you need to do is drop the shutter speed to maybe 1/30 or 1/15 (so you might need a tripod, monopod or learn how still your body enough to avoid camera shake on these lower shutter speeds), and open up the aperture to a fairly wide f-stop (where the DOF is shallow; time to use the DOF preview button).

Once you’ve decided on how you want to portray the rain (while it’s raining), you can fire away with reckless abandon or carefully calculated skill and measure.  Controlling the DOF is critical for creatively using the falling rain in your photos, and adjusting your shutter speed and aperture to effectively manipulate the DOF requires practice, practice, practice.  Good thing you’re working in the digital world, so you can see your attempts immediately.  However, if you’re not gone fully digital and still enjoy the physicality of working in film, shooting in the rain requires thinking out your shots and all the elements that go in to making up a shot carefully ahead of time.

Photo by Richard Ford

The beauty of shooting just after the rain is that when most objects are wet they glisten and the water bends the reflected light coming off an object’s surface.  You must take advantage of this, because something as simple as wet pavement provides a glowing sheen that will elevate a perhaps mundane photo and increases the apparent depth of any image… why is that the case?  The water reflects the light (whether it’s the sun, headlights or sodium vapor municipal lighting) in multiple directions and intensities and this optical phenomenon gives distinctive and definitive shape to whatever happens to be wet and falls within your line of sight.  When angling yourself for your photo and seeking that “sweet spot” shot, see if you can have the light reflecting off the wet surface(s) aim directly into your lens.    
 
When you’re done shooting in the rain, be sure to wipe down your camera, dab the lens dry with lens cleaner cloth and detach the lens from the camera during the drying process. 

30 Beautiful Examples Of Rain Photography

Most photographers do not feel comfortable in taking photographs in bad weather. Yet bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of our skills. In particular, in the beginning of autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to capture wonderful photos.

Shooting in rain produces dramatic atmosphere and soft romantic scenes. Whether you are after lightning strikes or water drops, alone the incredible cloud formations can produce quite exciting and impressive photos. Reflections can occasionally produce mirrors or blurs of dancing colors, making the photography in rain beautiful and unpredictable.

Below we present over 35 beautiful examples of rain photography. This post is supposed to provide you with some inspiration for rainy motifs and is not supposed to be the ultimate collection of best photographs. There are definitely thousands of beautiful “rainy” photos &ndsash; feel free to share links to them in comments to this post!

All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their Flickr collections or their personal sites.

You may want to take a look at the following related posts:

• 45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos
• 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
• Beautiful Black And White Photography
• (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

[Offtopic: By the way, did you know that Smashing Magazine has a mobile version? Try it out if you have an iPhone, Blackberry or another capable device.]

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