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48 Free iPhone Camera Background Textures

Russell Martin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:40:31 +0000

I have really begun to enjoy taking photos with my iPhone. I recently started using the instagram app for my iPhone and that has challenged me to take more and more creative pictures. One thing I have begun is to take photos of textures that could be used as iPhone backgrounds, or textures for web and other projects. I thought I’d share some with you.

Go to Free iPhone Texture Dropbox Folder

These textures hosed on Dropbox. Find out how you can your own free 2g Drobpox.

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50 Free Neon Backgrounds

Russell Martin — Mon, 02 May 2011 04:04:14 +0000

Looking for some different backgrounds to use with your worship songs, or presentations. What about something on the neon side. At one mission trip I attended last year, one night we had a glow in the dark dance. Participants painted their own glow in the dark shirts, we got a few hundred glow sticks, turned out the lights and turned up the music.

As always I wanted to get photos of the event, so I set out on the dance floor. Every time I tried to take a photo it ended up being blurry. After a while I decided just to go with it, set the shutter to a slow exposure and see what happened.

Here are the results. 50 free backgrounds for you to use.

While you are at it you might want to check out some of these posts…

1. 50 Free Worship Backgrounds

2. Flowers and Plants- 61 Nature themed photos

3. Water- 14 water themed photos

Your 4 Favorite Recent Posts.. and The Stories Behind Them

Russell Martin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:12:57 +0000

Recently there have been a few posts that have seemed to have caught your attention. These are the most read, and most commented posts I have had in the past 30 days…

Free Background- Palm Trees— I wrote this over a year ago as part of a series of free backgrounds I was offering. For some reason in the past month many of you have read and downloaded them.

Wearing Hats in Worship. Big Deal?— I started this with a question on facebook. How do you feel about hats in worship, especially youth, camp etc…? This post was my compilation of your thoughts, with my own thoughts on the topic. Very interesting.

Top Ten Iphone Apps I Use for Ministry- Upon purchasing a new iphone, a friend of mine asked me, as a pastor, what are some good apps for him to use. That prompted me to write this post. It includes some links to other top 10 iphone app lists as well.

Four Problems Bigger than the Iphone Antenna. and What You Can Do- Wrote this one only a few days ago. The whole idea is that there are much bigger problems in the world we should be writing about, being vocal about, and doing something about, than cell phone antennas.

Iphone Background #1- Water and Melon

Russell Martin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:56:15 +0000

This past week I attended our 4th of July picnic. Here are two iPhone background wall papers I grabbed while there.

Instrumental Reflection #11- Veteran’s Day

Russell Martin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:45 +0000

This past week we created a video of member of our church, who was in the military, sharing his thoughts on what veterans day means. This weeks instrumental reflection is the background music I composed for that video. Click here to see the whole video.

Just a reminder.. Instrumental Reflections is now available as a podcast. Click here for the feed for the podcast or here to subscribe in itunes

Video Tips- One Way to Capture Audio

Russell Martin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:08:37 +0000

Video is something I have just started doing at our church. Even though it is new to us as a way to communicate, we are already seeing some awesome results. We started out doing all of our youth updates as a video and have had some fun with that.

To start off with though, all the videos have been kind of funny and light. That changed this past week when our pastor wanted me to video the testimony of one of our members. When doing the funny, light videos it was good to hear what was being said, but with background music and other elements in the video sound quality could be compromised a bit. With the testimony, however, I knew that we had to get the best sound possible.

First you should know we are using two Everio Hard Disk cameras, set up in two locations with different angles. Its a good consumer level camera with a decent microphone. We have not invested in higher quality equipment, extra microphones or any thing else up to this point because we are just getting started and want to build slowly. But I did need to find a way to capture good audio. When telling a testimony, we really need to hear the story.

This is when I got the idea to just use the church sound system. We used the wireless lapel mic as our input. I then captured the audio three different ways. First it was captured by one of the two cameras I had set up; Second it was captured by sending it from the board, to a wireless earphone pack, to the second camera’s microphone input; and third it was captured by a CD recorder running on the sound board. We recorded the interview and I used my computer later to sync up the video, and audio from the different sources.

The best thing would be to purchase a good microphone for the video camera, and I hope that is in our future. However, this way gave great results and did not cost us anything.

Do you use video in your church? If so how? Is it effective? What is your setup?

Your Favorite Blackberry and Iphone Music Apps

Russell Martin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:27:08 +0000

For about a year the most searched for and viewed posts on my blog had to do with worship backgrounds. That was until I posted a list of my most useful iphone applications for musicians, along with a link to a friend’s post on iphone audio applications.

Since I wrote the apps for musicians post I know that many more applications have come out for the iphone, and you may have different favorites than me. I also know that there are a lot of you out there who use Blackberrys and use apps for them in your ministry.

So here is my question. What applications, for Blackberry and Iphone, do you use in your worship ministry and would recommend to others? List the name of the app and what platform it’s for in the comments below. If you have a link that would be great too.

Instrumental Reflections #5

Russell Martin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:58:16 +0000

This weeks Instrumental Reflection is a song I wrote in college at East Texas State University. It’s kind of a theme and variation type song and it’s called Autumn Leaves. I hope you enjoy.

Click to listen. Right click and choose “Save as” or “save target as” to save to your computer.

Download Autumn Leaves

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Free Background- Palm Trees

Russell Martin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:17:51 +0000

Took this photo on Galveston Island last year. Feel free to use it for your worship slides, announcements or other publications. Enjoy.