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726
« on: February 27, 2009, 12:42 »
A time series of painting an optical illusion on a road. In Dun Laoghaire the "Festival of World Culture" took place from 21. to 24. of August 2008. Edgar Mller has followed the invitation and continued his series of large-sized 3D Street Art there. For this year's Festival of World Cultures renowned German artist Edgar Mller transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0[/youtube]
727
« on: February 27, 2009, 03:20 »
If the buyers want to see the exclusive content all they have to do is click a button. The eject button? 
728
« on: February 26, 2009, 23:47 »
729
« on: February 26, 2009, 23:13 »
In a discussion with Vonkara in another thread, he posted some tables comparing the CA of a prime 50mm and a 18-125 Sigma Zoom, gold band. The worst number was around 0.8 px there. I'm using the latter zoom lens on a D200 as an allround lens but some wide angle landscape shots in the tropics show fringe that is much higher. I'm posting some shots here for advice. Is this normal? The CA seems well above 0.8 px. Am I doing something wrong? Note: same lens, no CA visible in studio. 1. Overview. Location: 8 degrees N of equator, april, sun exactly in azimuth at 11.30am; time of shot 9am, sun around 35 degrees from the left, very hard, clear morning. Nikon D200 - raw with no adjustements except exposure from 1 to 1.15; Sigma 18-125 DC 1:3.5-1:5.6 ISO 100, 1/160s, F10, 18mm, all raw settings "normal" 2. Clip 1: shadows on pavement right-center-bottom Top: 1:1. Bottom: 700%. Seems to exceed 0.8 pix, right? 3. Clip 2: trees left-center-top 300% and 1:1 4. Clip 3: tree stem left-center-top Only 500% 5. Clips 4: uploaded version  Since the shot was borderline focused, I uploaded it reduced from 10 to 4MP, with lightness channel sharpening of 0.9px, 22% and removed the fringe. The process took 20mins which is not really productive. The clips are 1:1. Thanks for any thoughts.
730
« on: February 26, 2009, 21:07 »
As you see the 2 lenses don't really go over 0.8 pixel width aberration. I never saw chromatic aberration on my 24-70. Though I almost only does studio with Thanks for your extended info. I don't get CA in studio, but when I do tropical landscapes (with very hard sun and shadows) I have apparently often CA of more than 3 pixels wide. I try to post some full size crops later, in a new topic since it doesn't involve Hitler. Maybe it's not CA, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
731
« on: February 26, 2009, 20:54 »
I understand image processing pretty well. This is a discussion that leads to nothing since you don't show a link to your full-size photo. Put two big diagonal lines over it and just show it.
732
« on: February 26, 2009, 19:27 »
Sounds like a plan. Although one has to wonder if getting your work accepted by a site with low standards is really a goal. The goal on microstock is to make money. SS made me 8X as much as IS lately, just the opposite of 2006. Follow the money.
733
« on: February 26, 2009, 18:50 »
Thanks, Flem. I'm sure we all appreciate your criticism but I hate for such a successful photographer to be wasting so much time criticizing us less successful beginners. How does such a successful photographer find the time to offer so much criticism?  What criticism? Me? Portfolio size is not criticism since everybody passes from 0 to something. I didn't mention your photos, right? My remark was that if one has a low production at microstock (many people, like me, are more active in assignments for instance), a paying package like PSM might be overkill if there are free alternatives. Plus I tried to give some help on Filezilla. Where is the criticism?  Just leave it ok, forget Filizilla. I won't "waste my time" any more explaining it here, nor reply to you. Good luck! 
734
« on: February 26, 2009, 12:05 »
I remember, a year ago, 25.000 new images were added every week. Now, it is 85.000 new images every week. And there is definitely not 3x more buyers on SS to compesate it... Welcome to the wonderful world of free market, supply and demand. Ten images per day is 70 per week. If just the top 1100 photographers (0.6% of the total) do it, you'll end up with the same number of new images. The only solution is to go out with a shotgun and kill everybody with a cam.
735
« on: February 26, 2009, 11:53 »
It makes sharpening basically impossible and even selective blurring doesn't really get rid of it. To a certain extent, the D200 has this too, starting from raw. You won't get rid of it by blurring or noise reduction since you'll get infamous blobs. Try this: in the raw developer, the "shadows" are set by default to 5%, at least in mine. What happens is that the left side of the histogram is cut off, making all near-blacks totally black. Slide that to 0% and don't do any autolevel or autocontrast in PS since it gives the same. There are better ways to enhance vibrance, like unsharp mask. Instead of blur or noise reduction, paint over the noisy area with a slightly lighter tone, sampled from the vicinity, soft brush, 20%. The blobs and squares will disappear but original sharpness stays. For blue skies: getting rid of the blobs is very difficult unless you gaussian blur them 30px and up, but then you will get banding. Just do that in a separate layer and mix it 30-60% with the original: blobs gone and no visible banding. The in cam noise reduction on jpegs is pretty good and natural. Consider this: shoot raw and jpeg finest and largest resolution both. Superimpose both in PS, top layer = raw result, and selectively erase the problem areas so the jpeg layer shines thru.
736
« on: February 26, 2009, 00:47 »
Compared to PSM, that's a real pain in the behind. Might be better to use filezilla for DT and continue PSM for the rest ... until they shut it down too?  I don't know PSM, not even in the demo version. I don't trust any site that has no real business info and street address on it, shields its info on /whois, bluntly ignores questions about its identity and has only sitemail, especially when it concerns money. Sorry, the PSM guy here said DT has all his info, yeah right. The Nigerian banker in my spambox said that too. The "Russian" link at the bottom of the said says enough. If there is nothing to hide, why just not put it online? For your modest port size (sorry) Filezilla wouldn't be a problem at all. 97 images on DT from June till now? You could even use Filezilla the simple way, one site at a time. Piece of cake, just take 10 minutes to change habits. The only "difficult" site is Istock, but for that there is deepmeta.com, a free application from a small company that puts all its business info online.
737
« on: February 26, 2009, 00:18 »
Consider the new 24-70 f/2.8... It's expensive but I never had a sharper lens and I only use it on my D300. It would be even greater on a FF sensor What about fringe at the wide angles? I noticed lately that I spend a lot of time removing fringe on wide angles (18) of my Sigma 18-125. I do a lot of landscape and editorial. I was so desperate I planned buying a prime 50mm.
738
« on: February 25, 2009, 20:50 »
I heard of a possible new D400 either 14mpx or 24mpx. I really hope for the 24mpx D3x sensor in the D400. Nikonrumors.com? The # of megapixels isn't that important, but the density is. A large sensor with relatively little megapixels gives very low noise levels, even at higher ISO. I was thinking about the D5 too, especially since LisaFX spoke so high of it. Update: Nikonrumors. PMA starts in a week. For our not-so-regular readers, here is a recap of the PMA Nikon rumors:
* D400: the one thing we know for sure is that the D400 will be released by July 2009 - this is when a Nikon D400 book will be available in Germany (the book was confirmed by multiple sites in Europe).
* New entry level Nikon DLSR - it should be similar to the D90 but without the built-in AF motor and the top LCD screen (Nikon D40 is now officially discontinued and Nikon has to release a successor):
o could be called D5000
o with a new type of built-in flash (something like a built-in SB-400)
o with a swivel display
o video + LV.
* New Nikon flash SB-700. The SB-400 will be discontinued, since the new entry level camera will have something similar buitd-in. If this is true, it will leave Nikon with 2 flash models: SB-700 and SB-900 (and of course the close-up and commander models), which makes complete sense. 
739
« on: February 25, 2009, 18:35 »
How can I schedule filezilla to upload files to seven or eight sites, while I sleep? There is another thread about this started by Patrick, and Dragon gave a good answer. The way I do it is opening the sites one for one and drag the files to it. They get added to the queue, and that queue stays even when you disconnect the site and start another. Of course, there is a common final path, which is your upload bandwidth.
740
« on: February 25, 2009, 18:23 »
He said he lost the war. Sometimes it's fun to be multilingual  In fact, Herr Schicklgruber (the real name of "Hitler") was right. The D3x is a big disappointment for the Nikonians, especially its price setting. Can't imagine they sell many. If Nikon doesn't come out with something really appealing around summer (like an upgraded 700), I might as well shift to Canon and put my Nikon glass on ebay. It's good to know mr. Schicklgruber only shot JPG. Anybody not using RAW we can call "nazi" now.
741
« on: February 25, 2009, 18:06 »
The upload is a lot faster, since my web provider has a lot more bandwidth to most of the sites than I could get from my DSL connection, and once it starts, I can go on and use my connection for other things. Great idea!
742
« on: February 25, 2009, 18:03 »
Give the guy a break
743
« on: February 25, 2009, 17:54 »
No mather what i do, i can only connect to one site at the time. When connecting to the second site first connected is closed.
What am i missing here.?. Even if you close the server you are transferring to, the current transfers keep on going in the bottom (queue) window. You can drag and drop files to the new site then, and so on. You can do that with as many sites as you like. You can even disconnect on top with the current server, the queue keeps on going.
744
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:41 »
When they don't even mention how many watts the lights are that's a good indicator it is not very good.. The usability of objects shots is determined by DOF. When using strobes, DOF is determined by aperture. Aperture is determined by amount of light. Therefore, the key point is how many watts you can deliver, and how it is optimized on the object.
745
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:34 »
Is there a way to upload to multiple sites using FTP? Filezilla.
746
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:32 »
After using FileZilla for a while to upload images to several agencies, I am looking for a way to streamline upload process. I found out by accident last night that this isn't true. You can easily queue files over several upload sites. The point is that if you break the connection with one server, the files stay in the queue with server info attached. You can pause/resume that queue at any time. Look at the bottom window with the queue. After completion, you can click on the "Failed Transfers" tab and reschedule those easily.
747
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:26 »
"Status quo" as always there. Better than going down! I have noticed downloads stop once I stop uploading just as SS. SS is totally different than most sites. The secret to sales is presence in the first pages of the search results, not photo quality as such. The SS algorithm of emphasizing new shots therefore gives everybody more equal chances. The downside of it is that if you stop uploading ( feeding the beast), your sales will drop dramatically. I didn't upload in 6 months to stock, and on SS my earnings were down by 60%. On sites like 123RF, the view count seems to play a role in search engine placement, and that can only be built up by time. That's why new shots sell less than fresh ones. It's always amazing that some people report BME's when others report WME's.
748
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:16 »
When your data is important it is crazy to have it all on any one drive or even system. Backup is essential no matter what system you go with. Yes, I think I was not clear enough for Leaf. RAID is great for a reliable online presence of a large amount of data, like in a store or on a server when you need the data online or available all the time and let's say an hour for restoring a backup would be disastrous for business. Imagine the cash registers would go down for an hour during a saturday afternoon for a multi-outlet seller. This is different from backup. You don't need your data available immediately, but security and integrity is the main goal. One of the ways to achieve that is having them on independent sites and media. For instance, if a RAID fails by some external causes, like fire, dropping it, voltage calamities, software failures, you lost all. The premium price of RAID is not caused by more security in long-time backup, but in fast and reliable access online. For the same price, you can have two independent mirrored non-raid disks, one of which you can store unpowered in a safe place. If you want RAID, fine, but don't think it's backup. You will still need backup media.
749
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:05 »
For what it's worth, I will have my WME on 123RF. With half the portfolio online a year ago, I then made 5-6 times more than in February 2009.
750
« on: February 25, 2009, 09:57 »
On Veer Marketplace submitted keywords will be mapped to the Veer controlled vocabulary. CV is the way to go, but as the iStock experience learned, it puts a lot of overhead on the contributors (in terms of disambiguation etc), especially since microstock is a numbers game. I'm curious with what you will come up with!
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