COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

You Don't Need to be a Pro to Take a Pro Family Portait Top 5 Tips to Take Family Photographs Like a Pro Photographer Take your own professional quality family portraits at home! Follow these easy insider tips to make high quality digital photos of your family and friends. Digital Photography Tip 1: Buying a digital camera You will need a digital camera or smartphone that takes high quality images. If you have the cash, opt for a high end Canon or Nikon. Buy a digital camera that has both auto and manual functions, manual zoom and focus, and the ability to take pictures at full resolution at least 8x10. Many smartphones and tablets today have options and apps that can help you with this if you don't want to buy a camera.  Digital Photography Tip 2: Setting up a studio For a digital studio, all you really need is good lighting and a blank wall. If you cannot afford top of the line lights, use what you have - a sunlit window, desk lamps, halogen ...

Living Machinima Green Screen Fun for Bluesy Urban Night: Sounds My most recent project involves delving into the world of living machinima . What is living machinima? Well, for the lack of a better explanation, in living machinima I immerse my real time self into the virtual machinima world using film techniques . Now this isn't a cut and dry definition, but this is what I am going for in my latest project Urban Night: Sounds, for the upcoming International Alliance for Women in Music Conference, which is coming up online (and FREE) this spring.  Singing in a Machinima World! Using a green screen technique and a scene created using the Machinima software Moviestorm , I have immersed myself in a virtual world , complete with the entire machinima band Nano Ensemble 21, for the song "Baby Blues". This is my first experiment involving machinima and full body green screen (as a side note, for a couple of weeks, my dining room was covered in a giant green scre...