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Cameras / Lenses / Re: advice wanted on studio lighting
« on: February 01, 2007, 17:29 »
What I was taught for studio portrait lighting was, at a minimum, to have one 650W main light and two 350W, fill and back lights.  In some cases you'll need more, primarily for lighting whatever backdrop you have, but these, along with various reflectors, should get you by for most circumstances.  These would be for a single person portrait.  For full body or group shots, you'll probably need either more lights or higher wattage fixtures.  Like professorgb says, the more light, the better.  At least until your model begins to develop burns or cancer from exposure. :D

Also, these are photography lights, not cheap tungsten or halogen lights that use up their wattage in heat, rather than lumens.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: worth signing up?
« on: February 01, 2007, 16:27 »
On the SS home page, just below the performance stats there's a little button marked "details."  Click on that.  When the stats page comes up, click on the "By Subscription Download" tab.  That will show each of the images that have been downloaded and the number of times it was sold.  Easy way to see what's sold and how many times.

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StockXpert.com / Re: New rejection reasons
« on: January 17, 2007, 14:26 »
Is it posible this is a result of new criteria from Jupiter Images?  I don't know if the sale of StockXpert has been culminated yet, but they could be influencing the review process to more closely align with their RM procedures.

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New Sites - General / Re: Question about Stockxpert
« on: December 28, 2006, 20:47 »
A material you may wish to try is the diffusion film used on theatrical spotlights.  You can get it at most theatrical supply stores.  Fairly inexpensive.  It comes in 2' to 3' square sheets and is very heat resistant so can be used with most any type of light.  It can be combined with different colored gels to get most any lighting effect you desire and to get greater diffusion, combine multiple clear sheets.

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Cameras / Lenses / Re: Confusion over DPI in new camera purchases
« on: December 27, 2006, 19:04 »
For some reason, this topic seems to confuse many people, so don't feel bad about asking.

The primary source of confusion seems to be a misunderstanding of what DPI actually means.  It has nothing to do with the image size in the camera.  That number is fixed by the width and height of the sensor.  For example, your camera has a sensor that is 3072 wide x 2048 high.  These numbers represent individual pixels on the sensor.  Thus you have a 6.3 megapixel camera or, expressed differently, 6.3 million pixels in each image (3072 times 2048).  Short of cropping your image, you will always have this many pixels, regardless of how large or small the final displayed image may be.

DPI, on the other hand, simply means how many of these pixels will be displayed in a one inch length.  This in turn tells you how large (or small) the picture will be.  You will always have the same number of pixels in the image (6.3 million).  You just have more or less of them in a one inch long space. 

Again using your camera as an example, if you displayed an image at 300 DPI (that is 300 pixels displayed in a one inch length) your picture would be approximately 10" wide (3072/300) by 7" high (2048/300).  If you were to change this to 150 DPI, now you only have half as many pixels in the same space, but since you still have the same 6.3 million pixels to work with, your image is now 20" wide (3072/150) by 14" high (2048/150).  The downside to large images is they tend to lose resolution as fewer pixels are compressed into a given space.  That's why the vast majority of commercial print agencies specify 300 DPI as their standard.  That results in an image that is crisp and clean (assuming it is to begin with).   :>)

Hopefully you were able to follow this and I didn't confuse you even more.

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Here's a site I've used to see where I should purchase my equipment.  Go to www.nextag.com.  Then just put in what you are looking for.  They will come up with several different companies that sell the item and show what they are asking for it.  They also have ratings of the individual companies so you can see if they have a good track record or not.  I've probably saved several thousands of dollars over the past few years by using this site.  And it's free!

There are a couple of other sites that do the same as Nextag, but this is the one I've been using.

p.s.  I've no financial or pecuniary interest in Nextag.  Just good experiences.

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