Floral and Plant Photo Art Zazzle Gallery Showcase

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Welcome to my Zazzle Showcase of Floral and Plant Photo Art Gifts!

I am passionate about plants, their textures, colors, and flowers. I even find their life cycles to be fascinating! I have always also loved art and even in early elementary school the art teacher would comment to my parents how much fun I was having. Now I've merged my passions with art at Zazzle, Imagekind, and Redbubble.

I made this page because I work hard on my Zazzle gallery and my designs, and wanted a fun way to reach new people like you

Here's the link to my Zazzle Gallery. Head on over and look around. http://www.zazzle.com/livingnature*.
Don't forget to check out my art blogs. Visual Art Gifts, Fair Art and Crafts, and my travel photo blog.

Looking for my photo art products with Holiday Messages? Visit Holiday Greetings at Zazzle

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Where do I take my flower and plant photos? 

Most of my flower photos are taken right at the plant, bush, or tree. I frequently take my camera on different "inspiration walks" where I go to a different area and go down every street looking for flowers, plants, etc. really anything interesting and then I try to get as many different photos as possible from different angles because it is difficult to get good shots in the street due to uncontrolled lighting, obstacles, and cluttered backgrounds. It is still worth it because street flowers are often much larger and healthier blooms than cut flowers. I have on occasion bought flowers and plants to photograph at home. In this case I have good control of light, but the flower quality is lacking.

Be sure not to miss...

http://visualartgifts.com my visual art blog and art catalog!

How do I prepare my photos for Zazzle and other Print on Demand? 

While I know many people just directly upload images for sale that is not what I do.

First after finishing a photo shoot, I copy the images to a new directory on my hard drive and then I do a first pass through them. I delete the ones that are blurry, have bad lighting and other strong defects. Then I look at the similar images and keep the best. Out of the remainder I fix the contrast, color balance and make my final selection.

Even then I'm not ready to upload. I erase any artifacts or crop out what doesn't belong, check saturation, scan the image for tiny artifacts, and then apply effects as desired. If and when I'm happy with the image I upload it to Zazzle, Imagekind, and Redbubble for viewing and possible sale.

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What tools do I use to take and prepare my photos for Zazzle and other printing services? 

I take my photos with a 10.1 Megapixel Casio Exilim. It is a pretty good camera, but it is not pro. I've had it since spring 2008. It does well with daylight, shade and indoors during the day. It isn't good at night and it can't take any true macro photos only close up shots. If I try to get too close everything goes blurry (yes, in macro mode) I use Adobe Photoshop to edit my Photos.

Visit my Blog, Visual Art Gifts 

http://visualartgifts.com

Keep up on all my visual art gifts and visual art prints on my blog.

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How long does it take to prepare a photo or image? 

It takes me on average about one hour of editing to prepare a photo. This is after

taking the photo. It depends more on the level of detail than the number of effects.

P.S. Start your own Zazzle gallery 

if you haven't already

And once you have, don't forget to make a free Squidoo Showcase for it. Just in time for the holidays, a new way to sell more stuff.

by ChristopherInMexico

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