Soft Focus Imagining

Added new galleries locally in the thumbnail galleries.

Also added Cooliris support for their 3D Wall of photographs. If you've not seen it this is a pure "trip".

Each sub-catagory in the thumbnail galleries has this support but I also added an independant link (in top level of galleries) to show all the photographs in the sub-catagories plus a few more.

Follow this link to access the 3D Wall or explaination on downloading the plugin from Cooliris  All Thumbnail Gallaries

Making a Simple Video using Windows Movie Maker.

These pages are meant as a simple tutorial on using Windows Video Maker for the amateur video maker, this is solely intended for models and photographers who do not have a suite of video editing tools. This is not intended as a comprehensive guide to editing video. To be truthful, as a serious video producer you would not be using this tool! (My introductory video on ModelBuzz could not be done (or come close) to being produced using Windows Video Maker. As an indication that actually took about 12 hours of work (syncing to music being the hardest part). This tutorial is so you can easily produce a video in about 20 to 30 minutes! Quicker than it took me to write this thing :) )

But, for our purposes it is ideal. It's simple to use, produces what is called "windows streaming format" ( files with extension .wmv - WindowsMediaVideo) that can be used on ModelBuzz. The other important aspect of using this tool is that it comes built in (for free) and is fully supported in Microsoft's ME, XP, XP64, Vista and Vista64 products. (As we all know, free is good!)

Video can tell a story that still photographs will never tell. They show a flow of character and poise and this is especially important to the serious model and their prospective photographers.

This Link will take you to the opening page.