No subscription sales yet for me either, but overall I've seen a little lift in sales there.  (Although I've got a small portfolio, so its hard to judge really)

Also I see they are getting onto the approval backlog, I've just had some images approved that I uploaded on the 8th of October..

40D - minimum grain  thru out the whole ISO range and a real size sensor.
(and a real live price i might ad - for me anyway)

"Real size sensor" ?  It's the same physical size as the 400D, 1.6x crop...  Or did I get a cheap one? :-)

Hmmmm, more glass I can't afford. :-).

For what it's worth, most stores in New Zealand seem to have good stock of the 40D, even the department stores (appliances, furniture, electronics) have them on display, and in their junk mail.

Which one? :-).

http://www.trash.co.nz  <- I used to run a dial-up BBS called 'The Trashcan', and then when I started a web hosting business it seemed logical to use a similar name, and the same logo..

http://www.ohmark.co.nz <- Business name, for a business I sold in 2004 doing electronics design and development.

And finally: http://cpix.co.nz <- cpix is short and easy to remember, and fits on my jackets etc easily It sorta works as an acronym for a photography business as well.

There were quite a few others I had and subsequently dropped when I started to wind down my web  business about a year ago (Still supporting old customers, not taking on any new ones)

2 days, 6 hours and 47 minutes :-)

What would be really sad for some of us would be if the stock sites kept this statistic...

I've use photomatix a bit, and have some quite cool landscapes out of it, but I'll second the comments about artifacting and noise.  The results can be quite noisy, and sometimes have a very 'processed' look.

Looks fine for prints but I'm not sure you'd get many HDR images by reviewers that were created using tone mapping, rather than manually using layers in PS/Gimp.

The results out of photomatix really rely a lot on the input images.  Use Av mode, manual focus, a tripod, set white balance rather than auto, bracket three shots using the camera, mirror lockup if you have it, self timer..   Any trick that will ensure you get sharp input images, with no difference in focus or DOF between the frames.

I did an interior shot of a building for a commercial customer a while ago, used 12 exposures, and I did it using the 20D tethered with EOS Capture so I could adjust the settings between frames without touching the camera... 

It's an interesting aspect of photography, but I'm not sure it will get you much stock..

Subtle ones like Maco's landscape will get through, but many HDR's look quite over processed IMHO, although I do like the look of some of them..

The other really interesting thing about HDR is that some things you look at and think 'Yeah, I'll HDR that' look crap on screen, and other scenes look great, it's often hard to pick in your mind exactly what the HDR result will look like until you try it, and sometimes the results are very other-worldly.

Just my 2c, as always. :-).

:-).

Have to break out the eggs....  (sic)

SS = 37.11%  (BME)
IS = 28.88%
DT = 18.26%
FL = 7.22%
StockXpert = 8.54%

And I've just joined Lucky Oliver, although not uploaded my first pics yet, had a bit of a busy month..

Also attached is my 'progress' graph.  From back in May 05 when I first uploaded to IS, although I joined and was approved in '04, I didn't upload anything till May 05...

You can see the 'Disambiguation' glitch in June 06 with IS, but it's starting to look better.  I've also noticed more activity in terms of views on some images on IS since I hit silver there, Dunno if that is real or just a co-incidence..

SS continues to grow in pace with my slow portfolio growth, as does DT and StockXpert (Sorta, think of a linear interpolation of those lines)  Interesting that FL has basically flat lined with the same growth in portfolio, although a slightly different mix of images due to variation in rejection/acceptance.

The next few months will be interesting for me in terms of stats....

I've in the past said that microstock is definitely a 'hobby' for me, and I'm a bit slack at uploading/shooting stock.  That was mainly because I had a very regular freelancing job..  That has just become an irregular freelancing job, due to some changes at the paper.  I've decided to invest the same time in micro as I was in the paper, and I've set some target portfolio sizes on all the sites, and I will be trying to see if I can match my freelance income with microstock by the end of the year. 

Not sure if I'll do it as there isn't the same motivation to do microstock (Deadlines and screaming editors will get most people going), but I'm going to give it a shot.

Cheers, Me.

What is your opinion on this event to take some stock pictures? Editorial maybe.
This weekend is near me (in Portugal)
If was you, what did you do?

Editorial would be fine, remember to get a program so you can caption them properly...

For non-editorial I imagine you'd have no chance of getting a property release from Red Bull !

Nice work...

I'm picking you didn't have to use a harness for the ladybug on an egg shot that shows up as part of the series when you click on the 'whole series' link.. :-).

Ooo, blog page, quick thinking.. :-)

<Chris runs off to add his as well...>