john michael white
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Nice Work John! Beautiful. I really like the one of the hunter shooting at the flushing pheasant (#4)! The hen flying is a beautiful one as well, and the #1 & #3 rooster. I can see those in magazines.
I wish we had pheasants down here. About an 11 hour drive for me to pheasant country.
Thanks a ton for your help Ben, and the rest who chimed in.
If anything does come of my submissions, I’ll let everyone know. It has been really cool to see other IA folks’ work get published recently. It’s nice to be reading a magazine and see an awesome photo, and say, “Hey I know that guy!” and celebrate with them.
EDIT: Ben, I reviewed the contact sheets last night after they had dried 24 hours, and I ended up going with the ones where the printer was set to Adobe 1998 after all.
Sorry, Ben. :-[ Guess this thread kind of evolved…
I went ahead and called them to ask them how they want it, and they said that it was fine to do an 8.5″x11″ sheet with 1.5″x2.5″ thumbnail images (about 8 – 12 per sheet). They wanted it to be able to reference and such without having to sort through lots of big TIFF files on the CD.
On one submission category, I plan to submit 7 images.
The other submission is for a photo essay and I plan to submit 22 images.
I plan to submit a brief cover letter, inventory sheet, contact sheets, CD with TIFFs, and business card with website in each submission.
Oh! ;D Thanks for the explanation on the Jewel Case Contact Sheet Ben.
The only other thing they asked for was an inventory sheet identifying all people, animals, etc in the photos and any captions as needed.
They say to send a color thumbnail contact sheet, along with your CD. They say image files can be RAW, TIFF, or HI Res JPEG. They say that the contact sheet expedites their photo-editing and evaluation process. They did not specify or say anything about a JCCS.
I’m not familiar with a jewel case contact sheet? Are you saying that the JCCS is 4.5″x4.5″ with smaller thumbnails on it? I was going to print an 8.5″x11″ page contact sheet with about 8 – 12 images per sheet and load TIFF files on the CD.
That is really cool Aaron and some great shots there as well. I don’t do this often but, I will be more than happy to drive over and hold your gear while you go out and play with those cute little Kitty’s. 🙂 I would love to have some new free extra gear LOL…
LOL Excellent Ben. 🙂
My first good laugh of the day.
Aaron – you really are lucky you know – those cool critters being around like that – I only ever get a quick glimpse of bobcats, as they’re so skittish, and here you are with a pack, just hanging out.
Lucky dog. 🙂
Kendal
I don’t know how it is in Arizona, but you rarely see them here in Texas because the ranchers and folks will shoot them.
I would much prefer just to send a CD with images, but the submission guidlines ask for a proof sheet as well as the files on a CD.
Last night I checked everything out, and actually the colors looked pretty awesome on the sheets I printed the night before….not sure if they “dry” over time and become richer.
The current proof sheet I am producing is really pretty close. In some lighting, the black background looks black, in other lighting it looks a little hazy (like a black t shirt that has been washed a little and is not quite crisp black). The images on the proof sheet are just thumbnails about 1.5″x2.5″, and they look pretty close as well. Maybe I am just asking too much print quality from the printer I have?
John B., I am not sure DPP will allow me to specify whether the software controlls or the printer does. I will have to look into that further tonight. When I get ready to print, it brings up a menu, and you can select the printer settings menu for the printer (within this you can select a profile). I believe origionaly there was no profile selected and it looked more off. Then I selected my monitor profile and relative colormetric and it looked pretty close. But my work space is Adobe RGB.
Ben, I’m definitely not changing monitor profile, it is correct for the monitor. I was talking about selecting a profile for the printer in the printer settings…there I can pick Adobe 1998, none, or my monitor profile. I don’t believe my printer allows you to calibrate it, at least I couldn’t find anything in the manual about this. It is not a pro level printer. I had relative colormetric checked instead of perceptual…not sure if that might make a difference? I also need to recheck the paper setting tonight.
Thanks for your help and explanations.
John,
What do you use to make proof sheets? Do you make them custom in photoshop? I only have Elements and DPP, and I am not sure Elements has a proof sheet option, maybe it does…I’ll have to research and see. DPP’s proof sheet feature is so easy to use. If I can make proof sheets in elements (with medium size thumbnails on a 8.5×11 page), then I can do as you suggested and print directly from photoshop.
It seems like you are on the right trail with the printer choosing the color. Something has to be set incorrectly on the printer. Barring using photoshop to print from, I think the first thing I need to do on the printer is get rid of the setting of my monitor profile and switch it to Adobe 1998. Then maybe experiment with paper settings.
It’s interesting that in the East, BBQ is predominately pork. In Texas, it is predominately beef! Although, pork ribs, sausage, and chicken will do just fine as well. I am not that much of a cook, so I can’t offer any recipes, but I can tell you where to find two of the best Sauces in Texas:
If you’re ever in Central Texas (or want to order it online), make a stop at Rudy’s BBQ. https://rudysbbq.com/c-2-sause.aspx
or the Salt Lick BBQ. http://www.saltlickbbq.com/
Rudy’s is more spicy and traditional while the Salt Lick’s sauce is more of a sweet sauce, which is amazing! It is different from the traditional “red” Texas BBQ sauces.
There are also many lesser known local joints all over.
Scott, the picture you displayed is a good exapmle of what I have been able to come up with (I like the second picture by the way). I have tried experimenting with higher f stops etc, and it still didn’t give me the results I was looking for. Twisting the zoom on the lens may work fine in some situations, but what I am looking for is something with more of the picture in focus like this image from Doug’s site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31084482@N07/2913562511/in/set-72157607742300779/
Sometimes I am slow I guess….it didn’t dawn on me to just move the camera. ;D Doug, in your photo above, did you just use motion to get the zoom effect, as in focusing on the fish and then physically moving the camera away from the subject as you tripped the shutter? If so, that would be a lot easier. Maybe I am trying to make it too difficult 😀
