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 ...

A few super quick tips: 1) Save, save , and SAVE again! And before you embark on a radical change to your computer animation , save it under a different name. 2) Remember that RENDERING (essentially the process of computing all the information to create an animation) takes a lot of time. 3) Check your animation before rendering a full version of your piece. You can do this with wireframe, rendering versions without textures/shadows, etc., and rendering out video at smaller resolutions and sizes. 4) Figure out what your computer can handle and work within those limits. You will learn more through working on hours of simple animations, than working forever on making sure that two seconds of a highly reflective object shines right because your computer cannot handle all the additional information of refraction/reflection, etc. 5) Learn all of the computer animation vocab - refraction, render, texture, material, object, etc. 6) Get used to thinking in animation 3D. (I stil...

Image via Wikipedia Easy Ear Training has released the album Unravelling Music: Introducing Intervals on CD Baby and Amazon. The Unravelling Music Series from Easy Ear Training helps the average listener learn more about music just by listening. It's a great resource for music educators and students. You can buy the full album from CD Baby or Amazon, or just check out the individual tracks below! Check out this album for some great music and a new and fun way to learn about music! Body Crash (Track 2) An upbeat electronica work about love, aliens, and the beginning of a new world. Desert Run (Track 8) An ambient piece with a great beat! Desert Run was inspired by the millions who sacrificed everything to give hope to a younger generation. As I wrote this song, I imagined a mother and child fleeing poverty towards freedom. Fallen (Track 13) A beautiful easy listening piano ballade complete with luscious strings. This work was inspired by the sacrifices made by those who have fo...

Hello Everyone, As we get ready to take a break for Christmas , I thought I would share one of the projects I worked on this semester. It is a relaxation album specifically for mothers and children , but it also is very relaxing for just about anyone. There is a free download of the entire album here : http://www.easyeartraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RelaxationPlayer/ Angels Take Flight The flowing rhythms and melodies of the marimba embrace you and your child in a warm auditory embrace. Fluid melodies, repeating, enclosed within circles of luscious synthesized chords, send you into a heavenly realm of sweet slumber. Eva Sleeps Tonight The simple melody of the lullaby, sparse and innocent, conjures up feelings and emotions associated with sleep and childhood. Single notes play together like children. Before the Dawn Soothing arpeggios and orchestral strains greet your ears with pleasing chords and a melody that wander...