david king
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You might be able to buy a D200 or D2Xs cheap now used because a lot of photographers are moving up to a D300 or D3.
John that Blue Collar scientist story is a scream! The Hummingbird pictures used in the Aperture 2 intro are great! Who shot them?
The P for Professional thing came from Jay Meisel or some other famous photographer. A lot of Pros have lost income and others have benefited. I was a early adopter of digital workflow and it has helped me somewhat. I hear a lot of complaints and when peoples incomes are on the line it can get serious.
I would register anything that I thought had any real long term repeat sales potential just in case. I think it cost 10 dollars and you can register a whole group of photos in like a proof sheet form. Sueing over copyright infringement I would think would be the last option and would of course kill any future sales. The only case I know of here locally, the photographer asked for a usage fee when his photo when used again from a previous project and the printer was such a jerk about the whole thing that the guy sued him and won. Off course there have been bigger cases reported in Photo District News etc but it seem to be pretty rare.
You birdie guys might find this site interesting http://www.avianstock.com/ Its Scott Bournes site, nice bird photography and a interesting sales model. http://www.asmp.org/ and http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/ are good resources for professional standards and copyright info.
I think as A Professional Photographers of America member you get some legal services for copyright issues.A woman once told me “a man that loves his work never works a day”.
I’m curious what do these publications pay? What do they pay for a cover, 1/2 page 1/4 page etc. Do they pay ASMP standard. Scott Bourne said on the This Week In Photography podcast that he earned 64k off 1 image back in the day. Now thats what I would call a good sale!!! I think some people are making some money on IStock Photo and I have a friend that has sold some stuff on Alamay. I get the feeling the Beck’s etc make most of their money on hosted trips tackle endorsements etc. The only full time pro shooter that I see in fly fishing circles frequently is Val Atkinson the rest are part timers and people selling pictures as a by product of participation which isn’t a bad gig as long as they aren’t being suckers and getting used.
With the proliferation of distribution venues there has been a lowering of business standards and the value of images have gone down. If you have a really good image and a company wants to publish or use it for advertising remember that they are going to profit from its use and you should share in that profit.
If your dealing with a professional organization they will have a budget. If you have images that you think have sales potential learn how to register and copyright them. The copyright symbol and your name isn’t enough. A local guy had a printer infringe upon 1 of his registered images and he asked the printer to pay him the usual usage fee and the printer told him to kiss his ass! The image was registered and the photographer sued and collected a hefty settlement. I have heard of some images being pilfered off of flicker too.
Labrati I have a Nikon 8400 it shoots a Raw file but it really takes a while to save the image. I’m going to try to get a close up look at a G9. I haven’t heard a bad word about it!
Labrati how long do you have to wait for your G9 to store a raw file and be ready to shoot again?
The feature set in Aperture really pretty complete. You can spot crop color correct and retouch images. The new vignette feature is nice too. If you want to do local correction using a selection or mask you have to go into Photoshop or something like Capture NX. If you’ve got guys that shoot for National Geographic using it it must be a pretty good tool, check out the video at Apple. I would think if you were doing editorial work, weddings or sports it would be a great front end workflow only going to Photoshop with your “selects”. You could use Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop too, or Capture NX for Nikon shooters.If the sun is at you back and there are no strong light sources near the edges of the image area a lens shade is not essential, but in high flare conditions a lens shade is a good idea. You will see flare in the dark areas of the image and color saturation will be adversely affected. Its a good idea to keep direct light off the lens whether using a polarizer or not. If you don’t have a lens shade you or a helper can cast shadow over the lens with a hat or anything just keep it out of the picture. If you look at pictures shot in a light tent there is often flare and the blacks in the image are milky and the color saturation is down unless the lens is carefully shaded.
Version 2 of Aperture is fast, much faster than version 1.5. Download the trial and check out the tutorials at Apple. At $200.00 it does 95% of what you need to do on most pictures, spot,color correct, scale, email etc,etc. You ave to commit to it for a while though. Its nice to get out of the Adobe herd sometimes. I use Photoshop pretty much all day and its great software but Aperture is very cool place to start and then if you need to move to Photoshop to do extensive image editing you can. I haven’t used Lightroom since he beta expired but I have committed to use Aperture for all my small format work as the starting point in the image editing and prep process.
David King
PhotographerWell maybe enough people will complain and it won’t happen! I pay taxes in GA but I am not a resident. It would seem like it would be a good investment in Georgia to fund the needed changes and help the states economy.
Zach from a legal standpoint is there any recourse that could be taken by a sportsmens group etc to keep something like that from happening? Isn’t the money collected supposed to be used for conservation etc.
In a act of desperation GA is trying to have its border with TN extended to the TN River so they can suck it dry to water lawns in the sprawl of Atlanta. The legal fees over that would build a pretty good reservoir I bet.
I don’t know how it is where you are but I can see the economy slowing in my area. This can’t bode well for Flyshops. Internet sales is probably killing shops too. People go try a rod at the shop and order it online with free shipping and avoid the sales tax.
“His statement about liking to fish, but loving to take pictures pretty much sums up the core difference, I think.” When a guy talks about Stieglitz and Strand you pretty much know he is hard bitten with the photo lust. Rich thanks for the link to Kendrick’s images. I caught a story on him on National Geographic World Talk. I only found 1 or 2 pictures on the internet pretty cool. 15 to 45 second exposures for a portrait amazing.
One thing that really amazes me about digital is how well it enlarges. With the lack of grain digital goes BIG really well. I have attached a shot I did that was enlarged several time life size on a Inca large format printer. Even at that scale you can see fiber in the towel and the Model is absolutely tack sharp. I used a medium format DSLR with a 22 megapixel back. I think the larger pixels in the Eyelike/Sinar back really make a big difference and there is some serious magic going on in the printer too.
Check out The Digital Photographers Handbook by Kevin Ames and Welcome To Oz By Vincent Versace and The 7 Step System by Scott Kelby
lynda.com is a great Resource as well as kelbytraining.com and photoshopcafe.com
