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« on: October 02, 2013, 12:34 »
shooting while in holiday only makes sense if you sell Travel images in my opinion.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 12:28 »
Historically, you're right, but in the past decade or so our continuous state of war hasn't done diddly for our economy. In fact, it has weakened it because tax money that should be going into infrastructure, education, innovation, etc. is going to keep funding these pointless wars.
they don't necessarily need to start a new war, they can find a good and peaceful deal like they did in the '70s with Saudi Arabia. in the end it's always a matter of political will and diplomacy, for instance Russia de facto "won" the war in Syria now without shooting a single bullet while also increasing its international prestige. however, nothing of all this will impact the lifestyle and the buying power of the average americans. the internal problems of the US economy are related to the ongoing "class war" against the former middle class which is squeezing at an alarming rate and same scenario in Europe with peaks of 30-40% youth unemployment. in germany they're masking the reality with millions of so called "mini jobs" paid around 500 euro month which is a pittance considering the costs of living there. in france they've millions of people on "chaummage", in the States they have food stamps and all ... the Shutdown of the US government is just more smoke and mirrors to impose more evil taxations with the excuse of being under emergency. in the 90's i was one of those telling everybody that the jobs outsourced to in india and china would NEVER come back in the west but guess what nobody ever listen and they all told me i was fool because we were under the "dot boom" era. and the (american) company i was working for miserable went down the drain soon after, it's been acquired and merged by a competitor and indeed none of the jobs ever went back to the US or europe and they're all still in china and india. we can all read very interesting and well researched economic analysis published in several places but again nobody will listen and no one in power will move a finger, the US would rather invade Canada and Mexico than radically change their social politics about health and welfare, they will instead build new prisons and throw you in jail if you go around begging for a job or for money, wait a couple years and you will see.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 12:12 »
@Alamy : why not launching a "latest images sold" page ? it would be very useful to know what's actually selling.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 12:08 »
well, i've nothing to add to this discussion.
BHR, enjoy your fantasy world and good luck to you.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 01:47 »
i think the fall in sales is mostly in some market niches, the so called "low hanging fruits".
in any case before or later sales will go down for everybody due to oversupply.
only people doing it as a hobby and the image factories will still supply micros.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 01:45 »
Google will never be sued over their search. I have a hard time believing that. Because they have done so much damage in the past, and never got sued. At least not over changes to the search as far as I know.
Viacom had a legal dispute that went on for almost a decade and in the end they got what ? there's no justice nowadays, if even Viacom can't win how a single photographer can have any chance ?
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« on: October 01, 2013, 12:56 »
New Carousel in Google Search - Youtube videos in Bigger View http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4613400.htmit's not just about videos ! try searching "Brian Eno" for instance, his whole discography on a box on the right of the screen under "Albums", it will come out including all the covers, click on the covers and you will get a full size image ! on the bottom right of the screen there's a miserable text in gray color over black background saying "Images may be subject to copyright". now, what if i did some CD cover for a band and google display them in high-res ? what do they mean "images MAY BE subect to copyright" ? of course they ARE ALL copyrighted since they belong to commercial products and commercial photo/visual artists ! there's no limit to the greedyness of google nowadays, i expect the music majors to sue google in droves.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 12:42 »
@BHR : please ... the whole cr-ap about modern art started in paris by a cartel of greedy art dealers, it was a mafia at the beginning and it's a mafia nowadays, i've seen better conceptual photos on DeviantArt done by students than the sh-it sold by Gursky & friends, and i won't even start ranting about Cattelan, Hirst, Duchamp ...  
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« on: October 01, 2013, 12:34 »
historically when the economy goes bad they fix it with a new war.
now being Syria out of question they will push on a new target, maybe Kenya or Yemen ?
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« on: October 01, 2013, 07:39 »
I really don't get why people pay for those?
The most of their contemporaries were saying the same thing about Picasso, Braque, Van Gogh and Czanne, and many others
Maybe i'm an old fart but if it was for me Fontana's artworks should be burnt in a public square, as for Van Gogh and Picasso i still can't see what's the fuss is all about ... have you ever considered that they were seen as cr-ap in the past because they were indeed cr-ap ? Have you also considered you've maybe fallen victim of the whole art-business mumbo jumbo ? Talk to a few art galleries, they're the first ones having no clue about how to price an artwork, it all depends on the buyer, basically the more he's fool/rich and the more he will pay and that's exactly why they HATE the actual trend of selling online, as they must price the artwork or at least talk about money via email/phone and they're getting scared that soon galleries will become no more than a middleman and that many artists will start selling on their own skipping galleries altogether. It's happening now, and i'll be the one to laugh when these crooks go bankrupt.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 07:30 »
It's a thing which I do not necessarily understand. But I do not expect to understand everything immediately. My life has been full of art, books and music which have sometimes taken me a long time to fathom. Sometimes it is like how you come to appreciate a complicated or subtle flavor. And because Gursky's previous work has been so interesting I am interested enough not to dismiss a thing which I do not necessarily understand.
You seem to think that art should always some how be obvious or self explanatory. But art is always about ideas. Not all ideas are simple and not all ideas are best expressed simply. Ideas which are complicated or nuanced or subtle are things which often reveal themselves only over time. Art which gives itself up too easily is often rather stupid and obvious.
You always have to remember that 20 years later a work often seems obvious when once it seemed impossible. This has happenned so many times previously.
ETA: sometimes the appreciation of a thing comes from not quite understanding it. You half get it, maybe. And that feels weird. It is slightly unsettling or puts you in an unfamiliar place.
well, we will see ... in the meantime i rest my case. i started drawing when i was maybe 4, illustrations, cartoons, and oil paintings. then i went into playing piano and music, worked in the music industry, now i'm into photography. i don't claim to be an artist but i'm definitely "artsy", all i can say is i'm hardly impressed by Gursky & friends. good luck for them having found the goose laying golden eggs. if fools dont spend millions for his stuff they would do it for some equally cryptic artwork so who am i to judge ? people is free to throw money out of the window, and as they say, we only live once !
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« on: October 01, 2013, 07:24 »
On the other side the stock value of SS (2.2 billion) is way overstated... for a company that produce around 25 million/year NET INCOME.
I hope the agency continue to grow... ( September was only $30 short to become my new BME).
same for facebook, their market cap is around 100 times their net income.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 03:35 »
Presumably you are not dismissing all contemporary art on the basis of only 3 random pieces from the past 2 decades. That would be like dismissing all contemporary literature based on 3 books which made headlines or someone told you about.
It has nothing to do with being modern or not. You are not supposed to like everything. There is lots of contemporary music which I have no interest in. But I am interested in music, in general.
if you think Gursky is bad, in music it's going a lot worse, there are DJs now making 10-15 millions of $ per year playing absolute sh-it on their sequencers, see people like Skrillex, i wouldn't listen that junk even under drugs. is that art ? hell NO !
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« on: October 01, 2013, 03:29 »
I really like Gursky's work and also find it interesting. Rhine II, however, still has me baffled. I don't get it. But I like the challenge of that. Perhaps it is a distillation of an idea - a thing taken right down. I don't know. I go back to it. I have only ever seen it reproduced.
yeah so it's a "challenge", a crypto, a puzzled to be solved. that's exactly what i was trying to say before.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 03:24 »
A traditional, but less polite term for this is "Pump and Dump".
exactly. but often there's a gray area that never goes public, we will never really know in detail what's going on behind the scenes and i don't think SS is going to implode anytime soon, as a company it's delivering, it's not a bubble like Facebook or Groupon.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 03:20 »
D7100 is great, but D5100 is just an entry level camera, forget it !
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:48 »
one more suggestion @Alamy :
why not offering a paid service for in-house keywording ?
like, i send you a hard disk with 5000 images and you do the whole keywording for an affordable price ?
i'm sure many of us would be interested in something like that and willing to pay for it.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:45 »
While we have your attention, are there any plans in changing the image editor? The keywording system could do with an upgrade.
changes in the keywording system would impact all the actual rankings, it could easily backfire for many people ! what about giving us FTP uploads instead ?
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:41 »
Personally I like art and am glad that every generation takes it in a different direction. Also - those transitional places where nobody else wanted to live are always the most interesting and exciting for a while. Who would want to be anywhere else when in a city?
Cocktails, bistros and color supplements ?? 
maybe i'm a misfit but i'm still of the idea that if nobody can understand a piece of art than maybe there's something wrong, art is supposed to be a mean to give a straight clear message, not to be a puzzle to be decyphered unless you're doing it on purpose. when i was young i did paintings and illustrations, and yet i see CR-AP sold for big money that i could draw blindfolded when i was 14. yes, some can say i'm just envious or arrogant but what the h-ell ... take a look at some art web sites and see by yourself.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:29 »
Somehow I just can't picture Xanox fitting in with the arty crowd There are some that can sell art photos just on their merit but I think it's much easier if you can talk the BS. I like listening to some talentless artists because they have convinced themselves that they are good and can convince others. I think some of them would make even more money in business. Sometimes I struggle to believe they aren't acting because how can anyone believe what they are saying is real?
If your logic is right try being hired by "closed doors" agencies like AP/AFP/Reuters or getting a proper contract to sell stock on Corbis, good luck, they only hire by word of mouth, photo editors are the ones creating or destroying the careers of young photographers. all the news guys i know have been recommended by other news guys to photo editors and directors of photography, there's no other way at the moment, and yes they were obviously good enough but in news the image quality is not THE factor, it's about having the photos in demand before any other, if you come too late or if you upload too late you will just not sell .. all they do is shooting in JPG, aperture priority, fix the exposure in LR/PS/Photo-Mechanic, keyword, caption, and upload, they've no time for anything else.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:11 »
I've won awards at photo contests and local art shows. I just say "award winning" in bios without detail. Nobody has ever questioned me further than that. I suspect that nobody much cares what you say in this regard.
i think it all depends on which award we're talking about. if you're the photographer of the year or you're a finalist at the world press awards it's quite different from winning your local mom & pop photo contest.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:09 »
i don't think this will impact SS in the long term, on the other side i don't think there's any reason for their market value to increase a lot and maybe Oringer is very aware that SS has peaked and it can't keep growing forever, that's why he's selling now.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 11:04 »
@baldricks : yes, that's precisely the impression i had so far, a total mafia, a closed circle, just like photojournalism in many ways.
we will see.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 08:29 »
most of the top agencies and top photographers are in big cities like NYC, L.A., Paris, London, Berlin ...
it's obvious and unavoidable in many fields like fashion for instance.
but for lifestyle, street photography, landscape, travel, you can go anywhere you like, i don't think there's a clear rule for all.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 08:24 »
when the founder starts selling his own stock it's usually not a good sign but it could just be an agreement with a shareholder behind the scenes or the usual smoke & mirrors.
we will see.
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