How To: Designers earning money on the internet

Internet. The global network that removes the borders of your countries. No matter where you are, you can earn some decent money by doing what you love the most. Design.


How to make money online?

First of all, go register @ 99 Designs ! This is the best place for you to find a job as a designer. You don't have to wake up early in the morning, drive two hours and wear a tie. Instead, work from your home, your bedroom, at any time, at any place. The only condition really is - the deadline. Don't miss them, or your work won't matter and it'll be spent energy. So, after registering there, go to their Contests page and find the project you want to work on. You can choose from many categories, sort them by payoffs etc. In every project page you'll find a brief on what's the assignment. Do your best.

A bit of statistics:

May 2011 on 99 Designs: 4,258 contests, Over $1,000,000 paid out to designers

And that's all in just one month!

Good luck to you all, hope you make some nice revenue there.

Follow the blog from your Nokia mobile phones! (Symbian only for now)

Well, in order to make things easier I have developed a Symbian application to follow my blog posts. It works perfectly fine and it's free to download. If you wish to read and share my blog posts, you can download the app by following this link:

http://oviappwizard.com/get.jsp?pp=64de56


You'll have to type it in your mobile phone Web broswer.
Any comments are welcome, and thank you for the support!

Getting serious with Canon

Well, I have upgraded to a one numbered canon - the awesome 7d. Along it's side I have my lenses, but most of them are prime lenses (fixed focal length). So, the portraits, most landscapes, urbanscapes etc are fitting into my focal lengths. Also, the 7d has crop factor of 1.6x. . .
So, lately I've been across the country shooting some interiors and I am in a need of a wide angle, but yet a PRO  lens. I had to use the old kit 18-55, just to shoot wide with 18mm.

Which lens should I take?

I'm closest to the 17-40 f4 L. But I don't like that it goes from ultra wide to normal lens. (from 17mm which is very wide, to more than 35mm). Because of it the lens has more blades -> more blades that move = lower quality. The cost: around 800 EUR + shipping.

My biggest wish, I think is the 16-35mm f2.8 L which is really amazing. Maybe the best wide lens ever made. But it also costs waaay too much for me right now (around 1500 EUR + shipping).

I'm very frustrated that I can't buy a lens for 800-900 EUR that covers these kinds of lengths that I need. I can buy 10-22mm, 20-35mm, but I'd like something like 16 or 17 - 24 or 35. Also preferably with a red L next to it. The L marks the superior build and optic quality of canon - it's the best stuff you can buy.

Have you got any experience with these kinds of problems? Which lens do you recommend?
Leave your interesting comments below :)