Camera Samurai

Have those camera settings been mystifying you? Want to take your photography to the next level? Learn photography in five short weeks with veteran photographer Carl Weaver. Carl has taught photography to numerous others and now you can learn as well.

The schedule is set for five Sundays, starting May 4th and ending June 1st. Two sections will be available, so you can choose either 12-2 or 3-5 in the afternoon. That’s ten hours of instruction. In that time, we will look at the camera as a technical tool and will get practice with portrait, product, food and other types of photography.

You will get theory and practice in a real studio setting, giving you the knowledge and experience to take the great shots you want.

Students should bring their cameras with them to the first class, and if possible should also bring a sample of their work for us to talk about.

Cost: $295

Reserve your spot now before the classes fill up! If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

What: Introduction to Photography Class
When: Five consecutive Sundays, April 4th through June 1st
Time: 12-2 or 3-5
Where: Carl Weaver Photography, 5407 36th St. N., Arlington, VA

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I just got a Nokia N95 cell phone and am delighted with its camera capability. Actually, this post is a might bit premature, as I have not even paid for it yet, officially still testing it out, on loan from my friend Don.

One feature I was especially excited about was being able to connect to ShoZu. ShoZu allows you to directly send photos and videos darn near anywhere you might want them online. I love to share photos on Flickr and quickly got online and signed up at ShoZu.

It didn’t work. I tried again. It didn’t work. After messing with it for a while, I said to heck with it and took it off my phone. As a last-ditch effort, I emailed their tech support. They got back to me today and explained the drill. It took about three minutes to fix. I quickly posted on Twitter about this solution and had more than one person ask me for the solution. Apparently it wasn’t obvious to many people.

It’s wicked easy to fix but not obvious, as their initial instructions online don’t seem to work. Here is the solution. If this helps you get set up, let me know and show some link love!

It sounds as though you may have activated ShoZu
on your phone as a ‘new user’ rather than an ‘existing user’. To see if
this is the case, open ShoZu and click on ‘Options’ -> ‘Go to’ ->
‘Settings’ -> ‘My account’. If the username displayed on the ‘My
account’ screen is different to the one you log into the ShoZu web
portal (http://www.shozu.com/portal/login.do) with you will need to
deactivate ShoZu and then reactivate it using your existing username and
password. You can deactivate ShoZu from the ‘transfer status’ screen in
the settings menu and when you reactivate just make sure you activate as
an existing ShoZu user (this can be done by clicking on ‘Options’, then
‘Sign-in to account’).

If you added Flickr as an upload destination from the phone, you would
have been sent an email with a Flickr authorization link. Clicking on
the link will authorize ShoZu to upload images to Flickr on your behalf.
If you did not complete this step, this may explain why your images
aren’t arriving at Flickr.

And now here I am, happy as a clam that everything works:

Technorati Tags: Nokia, N95, cell phone, camera, ShoZu, Flickr, Twitter