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« on: October 03, 2012, 19:12 »
From a creative director's point of view i love the idea. To have files selected on a higher artistic quality standard appeals to me. The problem with current sites is the 80% of crap you have to wade through.
The problem is awareness. Do you have the money to promote it? It will take a while to build the portfolio of cherry images.
I say go ahead and build it. You will learn as you go and perhaps it will fly.
Good luck
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« on: October 02, 2012, 16:07 »
lynda.com
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« on: September 30, 2012, 15:34 »
four minutes of my life i will never get back. 
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« on: September 27, 2012, 23:15 »
What many do not understand is HOW you shoot a subject allowing for copy space and HOW you crop it to create tension and intrigue. You have to think like an art director or web designer. Also creative execution in critical.
Those who grasp that knowledge should do well regardless.
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« on: September 26, 2012, 10:16 »
Classic!! thanks for posting 
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« on: September 21, 2012, 10:42 »
Here is my outdoor location set up. Total control, except for the freaking WIND!  OX ...Softbox sailer.
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« on: September 20, 2012, 16:25 »
You'll for sure need something to control the light. Sometimes you'll get lucky and find a nice spot but generally you need more help with lighting. I use a reflector a lot (worth every penny). They are cheap, indestructible, light, don't use batteries and look great. I also have a battery powered hensel strobe I take to most shoots but if the sun is out you can often play around and get similar results with a reflector.
Yep reflectors have their advantages but for racing a fading light I find you can squeeze out more shots with a controllable big azz strobe and battery pack. Reflectors require someone to hold it the same way but then they don't blow over and smack your freaking PB Einstein into the dirt from 7 feet high -- like i did yesterday 
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« on: September 20, 2012, 10:04 »
For outdoor models I shoot in late day light or with light filtered through trees. The ambient light is back-lighting the model. Then use strobes to fill the subject. The larger the soft box the better. Balance the strobe-to-the-ambient to taste. Rinse and repeat. Good stuff here http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-strobist.htmlGood shooting OX ...spreading good karma
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« on: September 20, 2012, 09:54 »
I doubt very much this has got anything to do with recession or the global financial troubles. Its not as if we are selling cars or houses but just pictures that anybody can afford.
Now is the time when corporate designers, advertising agencies, companies in general start planning for profiles, annuals and all sorts of promos.
Right now business should be booming, its not so something is wrong in our gebit.
From my experience, companies are planning budgets for marketing in early September and projects soon follow. I am hoping that is what is going on. Also, it appears IS is tweaking search these days. If we are all seeing low sales, they have to see it too. Hopefully things will get better soon.
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« on: September 18, 2012, 12:52 »
I was kinda expecting September sales to be impressive with summer over but I am way down from my forecast here at mid-September.
It looks like IS is jerking around the search algorithms like a monkey on crack.
How is your September going so far?
OX
...not sure if monkeys really do crack
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« on: September 17, 2012, 17:24 »
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« on: September 13, 2012, 18:56 »
$2800 for a fixed lens camera? what is SONY smoking.
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« on: September 12, 2012, 10:54 »
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« on: September 11, 2012, 12:24 »
As kinda expected, I am getting and inspection beat down on my iphone shots for compression artifacts, noise, color distortion, and over filtering. My initial images were approved but that looks like a fluke.
Oh well, back to the 5D.
Anyone else getting alot of mobile shots accepted or rejected?
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« on: September 09, 2012, 14:13 »
What is that background image behind the Microstock Group header banner or perhaps logo. Mebbe we should have a contest to redesign that. At least show a camera ?  OX ...going OCD again
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« on: September 08, 2012, 22:08 »
Ya know...Their is something really cool about strolling around HomeDepot taking tons of photos with your iPhone on high-res mode, right in front of sales staff and they never say a word. Try that with a 5D and 24/70 glass OX ...undercover apple shooter
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« on: September 07, 2012, 18:16 »
Here's the thing, a picture is a picture and you either have standards or you don't and differing standards are the same as no standards.
Yes and no. Buyers have differing standards regarding technical requirements vs image content and style etc. Buyers also have money to spend on what they like. I only pick up a camera to make money. I am a whore but love the lifestyle.
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« on: September 07, 2012, 14:59 »
Don't you need a permission release for them for editorial?
But not for commercial.
Lol, I know, I know.
Yeah, but how often would you find a shop or bar with no IP issues? By the time you'd drawn attention to yourself getting into weird positions or moving stuff around, you might as well pull out your dSLR. And if you're going to have to spend ages cloning out stuff, again you might as well have taken it on your dSLR and had more size options.
I just don't see (m)any photos coming through that couldn't have been taken on a p&S or dSLR.
sue -- i've done undercover produce section and got accepted without IP.
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« on: September 07, 2012, 14:16 »
Uhhhh...
OHMYGAWD... the walls are crumbling as I speak!!
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« on: September 07, 2012, 14:00 »
Nice stuff FV. Yeah a real advantage is the stealth and non-intimatadation factor you don't get with a DSLR. Suddenly, grocery stores, retail, bars etc... are fair game -- well, let's say in the game. What is kinda cool too is that you don't have to mess with all the camera settings in these point-and-shoots. Shooting with an LCD in sunlight sucks though. Damnn, I am starting to waffle on this. Sean will be ripping me a new one before dawn!
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« on: September 07, 2012, 10:25 »
Well, since IS opened the door to mobile phone photos and I just bought a new iPhone 4s, I thought I would give it a go. My first shoot was actually some test shots at a local music store where I was planning a full on 5D-with-strobes shoot. The iPhone shots came out pretty good for an iPhone using Camera+ app and some light post in LR and PS. All were accepted but one. Surprising.
Yesterday I was at Oceanside Pier and snagged a bunch of nice photos and just ULed them. I got some, IMO, nice shots with good compositions and subject matter. BUT while doing post, I kept thinking, why . didn't I just bring my 5D and not have to deal with all this noise, color distortion, jpeg format, and other issues inherent in a freaking iPhone sensor.
I guess my point is, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I am looking at beautiful captures that have a 50/50 chance of acceptance depending upon an inspector's tolerance of all this iphone stuff. With a FF sensor and speed light fill, that goes up to 85%+ chance of acceptance.
Anyway, that is my morning ramble and first experience with mobile phone shooting.
What you got?
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« on: September 05, 2012, 12:58 »
That is a good point. I am sure some will feel sticker shock over the reality pricing.
But I think back to before microstock when we were paying thousands for and image with limited usage. and how cheap the photos are now with unlimited usage. it is SOOOO much cheaper than 12 years ago.
but none of that will matter these days
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« on: September 03, 2012, 21:02 »
HOW IT WILL PLAY OUT- IMO 1. I think the inspectors are going to get hammered with a flood of noise ridden, poorly focused, over-filtered mobile phone photos submitted by contributors thinking that the inspection bar has been lowered for their mobilestock tagged images. 2. And I am guessing that the inspectors will reject most of them for the above issues... 3. Then the PUSH BACK by contributors stating what did you expect -- it from an iPhone and you asked for it. 4. That debate will heat up. 5. IS will kill the mobile phone photo initiative due to standards and expectation issues. REVISED: I now see there are many MobileStock images rolling into the database. So mebbe I am wrong about all this... would not be the first time. Carry on...
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« on: September 03, 2012, 18:02 »
I took some photos with my new iPhone 4s using Camera+ in pretty good lighting and ISO etc...
Took them into LR and PS for post and... well, the composition was nice but I felt like I was cleaning a beautiful sculpture in dirty water. You just cannot compare a 5dMII sensor and L Glass to a freaking iPhone!!. The pop is just not there. It's like trying to polish a turd.
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« on: September 03, 2012, 12:25 »
Wonder why this discussion reminds me of the one we had when digital photography was intruduced.
And then again when Microstock came along. Every new thing that broadens the audience/contributor base somehow seems to have legions of photographers screaming that "this will be the end of the industry! Woe is me!"
Is anyone crying an alarm, really? I don't see that. What I do see is concern that intermixing inferior technical content into the general collection will lower buyers' perceived value of IS content. If IS wants to segregate this into a separate collection or site, full steam ahead.
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