Photo Lab

Photolab will scan and master a digital image of your original artwork. Watercolor, charcoal and pencil drawings, oil paintings and mixed media all lend themselves well to this technique.

Photolab Studio prints are made with archival pigment inks that are suspended micro-encapsulated chemicals with extremely pure color characteristics and high end watercolor papers or canvas. This is in contrast to inks found in low cost desktop inkjet printers.

Photolab offers the extra attention and personalized services needed by busy photographers who shoot color or black & white, film or digital photos. We are fast and efficient at time consuming, demanding jobs like editing & correcting your digital files. We make all kinds of great prints, large and small.

As a custom photo lab has services for fine art, weddings, portraits, landscape and garden photography and for personal projects. Traditional photo lab for fine art silver gelatin prints from black and white negatives. They process black and white roll and sheet film daily, in many different developers. Photo lab offers optical machine proofs on true b&w photo paper.

Fully digital photo lab: Photo lab makes color digital photo prints on professional photo paper or giclee reproduction prints on fine art watercolor papers and canvas. Digital and film photographers have many new display opportunities using printmaking process that offers durability, excellent dmax, amazing tonal range and many archival paper choice.

photo journalism

Students always ask if there is money to be made in photojournalism. Sure, anyone can make money in any career, depending how you approach it I guess. But like I always say -- If you're planning to pursue a career in photojournalism, then you should make sure that journalism is in your blood and that you love it, because frankly, you are NOT going to get rich doing it.

There is a very good reason to feel passionate for what you choose to do for a living, whatever it may be. You need to love your career with all your heart because no matter where you work, there will always be something about your job that you won't like, whether it's long hours, you're underpaid, or there's somebody who's making your life miserable. Or maybe you aren't the best at your job and you're not the one who is winning all the awards. Whatever the reason, most people always seem to have a side of their job that they dislike. It is a fact of life.

If you are not passionate and love what you are doing for a living, and if you do not get anypersonal satisfaction out of your accomplishments, then you will lack the desire to get up in the morning to go to work. There are too many people who go to work every day and spend it watching the clock, year after year, because they can't wait to leave "that place" and get home. These are the people who spend their working life waiting for retirement. When they do retire and look back on their careers, they see only misery. It doesn't have to be that way.

Most newspapers also give the photographer other duties such as developing their film, editing film, scanning their pictures into a computer, adjusting the tone and color of the pictures using Adobe PhotoShop and mixing chemistry. They may also be required to read stories and work with reporters to come up with ideas of what to photograph to go with the story. The photographer might have to call sources to set up the time and place of the photo session. Photojournalists generally carry police and fire scanners with them so in the event of breaking news, they can get to the scene quickly.

Just like any other job, the job description of the photojournalist varies from publication to publication. To make it easy, I will outline a typical day for a photographer at a newspaper I use to work at.

When a photographer arrives at the beginning of their shift, they take a few minutes to get their mail, read messages left for them and take a peak at the story budget for the following day. They they will go to the photo assignment desk and pick up their photo assignments for the day. As photo editor, I would very rarely give out more that three photo assignments per 8-hour shift per photographer. I find this is also an industry average. Any more assignments, and the photographer will have to rush through shooting and not be able to spend enough time with their subjects. And because of limited resources, it is generally not possible to lower that average.

The photographer will read over their photo assignments to make sure there are proper directions, contact names and phone numbers, that they understand the angle of the story and if there will be opportunity to be able to take photographs that will tell that story. If the photographer has any questions they will ask the photo editor, reporter or desk editor.

Digital Photography

Learning digital photography doesn't have to take years and years. In fact you can get started right now. There are many great resources and education tools that help you learn digital photography. You can master digital photography.

You can learn specific aspects of digital photography. With time you discover some professional, insider tips from professional photographers.

If you want to take stunning photos with bold colour, super sharp focus and detail, clarity and depth, you can go for digital photograhy. There are various ebooks on digital photography too that are available free on internet.

Digital photography is good for landscapes, portraits, macro, flowers, weddings, fireworks, night scenes, etc. You learn how to master the shutter speed, aperture and how to easily over-come common exposure problems such as capturing fast action shots indoors without blur. You learn how to shoot professional photos - just like those you see in glossy magazine covers.

upsc papers

UPSC papers are available in the bookstores which sell the books of upsc various subjects. These upsc papers will give you an idea of the IAS Paper Patterns that are given by UPSC. Every year the new papers get added to these upsc papers book. If you have bought the upsc papers and are giving the exams after two year, you need to get new upsc papers that are missing. For that you can visit online upsc papers for latest upsc papers of all subjects. Practicing the previous UPSC question papers is a must specially now with the introduction of negative marking by UPSC. However, the upsc prelim has changed now afer 2011 so you wont get papers for that.

As you can see there are many subjects for which we have no resources on IAS Question Papers. You can visit various sites and get your upsc papers too. Some good publications publish upsc papers with answers too. They are costly but very beneficial. You can get upsc papers from the one who has given the exams. This way you can collect the upsc papers for your subject.

upsc exam 2011

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to overhaul the civil services examination from next year, as the aspirants are likely to face a different pattern of examination.

Replacing the existing preliminary examination which shortlisted candidates for the main exam, it will now be replaced with Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), in which they will have to appear in two objective-type papers having special emphasis on testing their 'aptitude for civil services' as well as on 'ethical and moral dimension of decision-making.'

Both these papers will be given equal weightage and will substitute the one common paper (general awareness) and one optional paper (any particular subject of choice) which emphasized on subject knowledge.

The change, as of now, will be effective only for the first stage of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) from next year onwards while the consequent stages, which are the CS (Main) Examination and interview, are unlikely to change until a committee of experts goes into various aspects of the entire system and submits its report.

"With regard to the CSE, the Prime Minister has approved the proposal for introduction of CSAT in place of the existing Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination," said the minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Prithviraj Chavan in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

"The CSAT is expected to come into effect from CSE, 2011," it added.

The UPSC which conducts CSE every year to select candidates for privileged all-India services, including IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS and others Group 'A' and Group 'B' central jobs, had sent a proposal to this effect to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) last year.

"Various committees including the second Administrative Reforms Commission, in their reports submitted over the years suggested the changes and laid greater emphasis on the 'aptitude' of candidates than their knowledge of a subject," said the officials.

The committees argued that specialists or experts in any particular subject might not necessarily be good civil servants.

Commenting on the introduction of CSAT in the recruitment process, the official said that, "Since all candidates will have to attempt common papers, the new system will be a field leveler unlike the existing format providing only one common paper."

UPSC 2011

The examination system of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is updated from time to time to keep it in harmony with the changing environment. In regard to the Civil ServicesExamination (CSE) the Prime Minister has approved the proposal for introduction of Civil ServicesAptitude Test (CSAT) in place of the existing Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination. The CSAT is expected to come into effect from Civil Services Examination, 2011.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Shri Prithviraj Chavan in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

CSAT will not only enable us to choose civil servants with right aptitudes but also end the use of scaling system, a matter of concern to some.

From 2011 onwards there will be change in the pattern of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination as students will be tested with a Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) which focuses on analytical abilities rather than their ability to memorise.

Students would have to give two objective-type papers that have emphasis on testing their "aptitude for civil services" and "ethical and moral dimension of decision-making". These two papers will have equal weightage and will be common to all candidates and will replace the common paper (general awareness) and the optional paper (subject of choice). "The CSAT is expected to come into effect from 2011," Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Prithviraj Chavan, told Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Nearly 1.7 lakh candidates take the objective-type exam in May every year. However the second and third stage of the exam, CS (Main) and interview respectively may remain the same till a committee of experts evaluates the system and submits its report. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the revamp of the exam on the suggestion of the Union Public Service Commission. An official said regarding the CSAT, "The new system will also provide a level-playing field and equity, since all candidates will have to attempt common papers unlike the current format which provides for only one common paper." The UPSC had told the government two years ago there was a need to test not just the knowledge of aspirants in particular subjects but their aptitude for a demanding life in the civil services.

"The committee has been given time till April-end. Then the UPSC will discuss its recommendations with the government and finalise the content of the paper," the official added. The UPSC had earlier recommended bringing down the number of attempts a candidate could take. But the PM has kept this aspect on hold.