I work with a fellow that is a beta tester for Adobe. He tells me that Bridge in CS4 really screams on a MAC. Can't comment about Windows machines though.

Oh this gives me an idea for a shot:

A mushroom cloud of oatmeal dancing on the head of a screwdriver, with oversaturated flowers spewing forth all over 

I go cross-eyed looking at my monitor for more than 15 minutes. 10 Hours??!!
Did this guy never hear of color fatigue? You cannot look at anything for too long or the colors will seem to shift.

This explains why we get some of the really whak rejections sometimes.

Hmmm,

It says F-1.
That would be a film burner....
I wonder what a roll of 36 exposure would cost for that puppy!

Got my vote too.
Always was a sucker for those slot canyon shots 

Good thread.

I am in the same boat, but I have less than a month to wait now and I can pull ALL my images off of DT.
Only hope that I can get $5 more in downloads before then, because then I will make a payout before I shut 'er down

I just hate the idea of giving away images, which in effect is what we are doing when we close an account before hitting a payout threshold.

In the final version you CAN import your existing libraries from Lightroom 1.xxx

The new version has some things that were not in the beta , such as a gradient tool.

Quote from: Cooper on July 23, 2008, 02:04

I agree that they're great images but would be interesting to see if any old schmuck could get them accepted. 

It has been said over and over and over again by JJRD that the "overfiltered" rejection is not used in the case of artistic images that are very well done. Bruce himself has stated that their inspection philosophy is that for a borderline image, they are to look for a reason to accept. It is really sad that some people are so adamant that any rejection they ever get MUST be because they are not exclusive or because istock sucks or any other thing except the flicker of possibility that it might actually have something to do with the merits of their own images.

In my opinion, it's really rude and disrespectful to have even posted this thread at all. Any beef you may have with istock should not involve singling out and calling into question another artist's abilities on a public forum. It comes across as petty and jealous, and really lends no credence whatsoever to any of your conspiracy theories.

Hey Bitter, I am the OP so this must have been addressed to me.
I posted it as an honest question, since from a lot of my readings on this site people have stated over and over that IS does not like heavily processed images.

I certainly was not trying to be disrespectful to the artist, and if you read carefully you will see that I did say the I thought they are wonderful character studies. So, I actually am agreeing that the work is deserving of praise.

BTW, I don't have a 'beef' with IS and juggernaut that they are, I am sure that they don't need you coming to their rescue either.

BTW who is JJRD?

First, let me qualify this by saying that I'm an illustrator, not a photographer.

However, isn't the majority of that effect coming from a ringflash, not photoshop? They look like the pictures my friend takes with her ringflash + some strobes.

For certain this is not simply lighting, although that is a necessary foundation for this sort of work. It also is not a ringflash. Just check out the catchlights in the subjects eyes or the reflection from glasses. It looks more like softboxes of differing size from both sides.

I believe that the first person to popularize this style of post processing was Andrzej Dragan. Although his work is much more over the top than what I see from Sarahlen.

Dave Hill also has a similar post processing technique, although his results are also a bit different. In any case, it is more of an 'illustrated' look than a pure photograph.

Hence the reason for my original question... since it started out as a photograph, why the inspectors let it through. Although I think jsnover, pretty much answered my question.

I have stopped uploading to DT as I am planning to see how being an exclusive at IS works.

Having said that, it was never a fast sell through for me there, even though I had an 'editors choice' once.
That file did turn out to be my best volume seller there, but not the biggest $$ maker. That honor went to a file with an extended license.

Bottom line, I can't find rhyme nor reason as to what their buyers want, but I can't discern any changes either.

He's not the only one on a MAC 

Notice I did not complain about the people themselves.

No, I was there working sometimes very closely with many Indians. By and large they are wonderful, intelligent people, and yes their faith runs very deep. Sorry but I am not impressed by that. I consider most 'faith' to just be a remnant of our primitive brains not fully able to comprehend nature. In other words superstition.

Oh, another story I just remembered from the trip. All air traffic had to be delayed from landing on an airstrip, due to the fact that a 'family' of lizards had wandered onto the tarmac!

@Leontura - My wife is from Indonesia and I have spent a great deal of time there. Also 'third world', but waaaay ahead of India.

@Tina - Glad you and your family were not ill. I was with a group of 30+ people from the USA there on business. Many of my co-workers  are originally from Japan, China, Korea etc. About half of us fell ill. One poor young man was in the hospital for two days.

What I saw was much more than litter. Cows, dogs, sheep and goats in a major metropolitan area walking casually through the streets. Defecating wherever they please. People as well. There was a large open field that the people from the slum used regularly as a toilet. This was directly across the street from my office building. During monsoon season, which is June-July, all this raw sewage runs into the streets and the rivers. I need not explain what this does to the water supply.

People see what they want to see.
If you go there seeking faith and the way to nirvana, possibly you will find it. I am a hard core realist. I see the suffering, disease, poverty and also the extreme wealth of the few and wonder why it has to be that way.
Their government is to blame. Nothing gets done the until the proper palms are crossed with $$$. Some people are becoming very wealthy on the backs of the poor (the poor in the US don't know how comparatively well off they are) and I find it offensive.

End of rant...for now 

Hi all,

Just came back from a month in Mumbai, India on business.
Had to get 5 vaccinations just to go there and I am still on malaria pills for several more days.

Interesting experience, but I for one am not in any hurry to go back.

It does make one feel grateful to live in the 'developed' part of the world though.