John Pavoncello
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I use Sony Vegas Premier pretty much every day at work. While limited on transitions and the amount of layers that you can use, Vegas is a really inexpensive alternative to Premier and Final Cut.
We are starting to see more and more feminized male bass here in PA in the Susquehanna River. Pharmaceutical companies upstream are thought to be the blame, discharging birth-control related products into the river.
The Susq used to be the best smallmouth fishery in the northeast but has really taken a beating over the past 5 years or so.John – you’ll forgive, but I could give a rat’s patootee about Grover and the PS staff as it relates to it being a lot of work.
Photographers from all over the world bit into the idea that they were a legit company, funded properly, and had more than 8 months of life in them (that’s about how long they were live out of beta).
Both Grover and Allen sold the photographers that were part of PS Collection a bill of goods – and then didn’t have a business plan worth the paper it (may have been) printed on if all they could do was stay alive for 8 months. How can any sort of critical mass build up in that short period?
Anyway – yeah – I’m still irked when I think of all the work folks put into building the Photoshelter Collection, only to see poor management cause its premature demise.
KL
Wow,
Nope, Nikon replacement only and it’s not cheap. Around the office, when the rubber starts peeling on our D2’s I just use a bit of gorilla glue on them.
I’ve been a Photoshelter user for several years and still think they are the best around for what they offer.
I started using Photoshelter after a external hard drive failure left me without thousands of images from a Colorado trip that I hadn’t had a chance to back up. Photoshelter has four storage sites in four different parts of the country so your images are as safe as they can be.
While on-line sales and stock aren’t the purpose for my having a PS account, I have made sales to several magazines and recently started creating galleries of client’s wedding photos. I also used their included templates to build a nice little website for myself. User customization is possible with CSS and if you already have a web site, you can insert the PS galleries into your site and take advantage of their lightboxes, shopping carts, etc.
Unlike Kendal, Photoshelter closing their stock program didn’t effect me at all, I made a sale or two through it, but it was a ton of work for Grover (one of the owners) and his staff and it just wasn’t producing.
If you have any other questions, PM me. Check out my site below.
http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/pavoncelloJust some Lymes facts for you all. I was infected years ago, luckily caught it early and just needed some antibiotics. My dog has full blow lymes disease and when he gets flair-ups it makes me cry watching him go lame for minutes at a time.
Anyway.Size 14 parachute Adams is always a great fly in the Smokies. You could fish there with that and a bh pheasant tail all season long.
you can pick up second hand D200’s for around $500 and they are a pro quality camera. Check out KEH.com
PhotoShelter.com
The only true digital “archival” storage solution (unless of course the US experiences an EMP)
for a few hundred bucks a year you can have your images backed up on at least four servers in different parts of the country, plus sell your images right from your site.
I use externals, DVD’s etc to archive here at home, knowing that a few years from now, all that will be worthless. All of my finished images go on PhotoShelter, some available for sale, some just archived.
I have the “50 places to fish before you die” book and can say I’ve only fished two of the 50 so far.
But, in the past 12 months I caught wild trout in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee with my cousin, browns during a caddis hatch on the South Platte River in Colorado with my son, and my very first Letrort Springs Run trout during the sulphur hatch with my best friend.Interesting to see that you said this was on a conservation area. Most of those bucks are showing signs of either serious genetic problems, lack of nutrition or maybe a little of both.
You are either born with it or will never have it. If you don’t have it yet, just send me all your camera gear and quit while you are ahead. (darn it, I can’t get the smileys to work!!)
Honestly, every photographer can develop (no pun intended) their own style, some people do have an “eye” and I’d like to think that I have one after 20 years of shooting professionally. It’s like everything else some people have natural ability, some don’t but that doesn’t mean that you can’t learn.
Don’t worry about the “eye” and just have fun shooting. Film is cheap, as us old-timers say.John,
Looks good to me, are you worried about the tone or the saturation of the orange?
The first image looks a little off, but the entire image is just a little under exposed. Other than that, I think they are fine. The blaze orange is going to look different under varying light.
You could always use your wand tool, select the blaze only, and then use image>adjustments>selective color to get the tones you’re looking forBoy are we getting pickey, want camera under $500, must use CF cards, only 24FPS. This is the first DSLR with a built in movie mode, and 720P at that!
First off, you can’t compare this with a video camera. That it’s not. But as a still camera, with the capability of shooting short HD video, that’s outstanding.
Second, you guys are missing the point with the video and lens issue. Shooting video with the DSLR allows you to control your depth of field unlike no video cam under $3000. The camera also doesn’t auto focus while in video mode, but unlike some of you new guys who never shot film, let alone had a manual focus camera, You can do it yourself!
The SD card thing is a bit of an annoyance, especially when you own tones of CF cards. But SD isn’t all that bad and on the bright side, you can’t screw up the camera by inserting the card backwards and bending the pins.
Overall, for the $1000 for the body, I think the D90 is going to end up being used a lot more by pros then what Nikon expects. I really hope Canon comes out with something similar, I’d hate to have to start switching back.
By the way, here is a great video on the D90 shot totally with the D90 by professional photographer Chase Jarvis:
Chad,
I use My Publisher to produce books for my wedding clients and have done personal projects for gifts. Their reproduction is incredible and they just introduced a true “coffee table” sized book, with the pages about 11×14. They’re not cheap, the last wedding book I did was 100 pages and cost about $300 but they continuously run specials and I wait to order my books when they are running a 40-50% off special.
Asuka books is another good one, but they are even more expensive then My Publisher.
If you are looking at printing more than three or four copies of your book, I’d suggest talking to local printing companies. You might be able to get a limited run of books at a much better price.
If you’re considering doing a book to sell, I’d suggest using My Publisher or one of the other companies to produce a sample book. You’d then have a actual book to take to a publisher, might draw more interest that way. You could also just pre-order books from your sample.
Show it around, maybe get the local book store to display it for you, and then take orders.