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« on: February 15, 2014, 17:18 »
I understand the benefit of stacked focus for extreme macros where the DoF can be so thin that you can't get an entire insect eye in focus, but in general is there any evidence that having everything in focus from front to back increases sales potential? In many cases I think it would risk creating an image without an obvious subject or where the subject is overwhelmed by unimportant information.
As a buyer, it is infuriating to find a great piece of food to drop into a grouping, only to find out the depth of field is so shallow in won't match the group you are trying to drop it into. If you provide the buyer with a full focus image, then the buyer is free to blur whatever part of that image they want, to match another photo. You can fake depth of field on a sharp image, buy selective blur, but you can't fake sharp focus that never was there.
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« on: February 15, 2014, 09:23 »
I use Photoshop and the stacking technique. Canon eos-1Ds, 100mm lens. f.22. Usually 4-6 shots. If it is a simple shot of a screwdriver, at an angle, it is easily accomplished with Photoshop's automated process. The problem with stacking, comes when the foreground of the image falls directly in front of the back part of the image. There will be a blurring of that line, and no program can automatically correct it. Has to be done manually in post processing. Here's an example of that problem that was corrected in post processing. 
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« on: February 14, 2014, 12:31 »
Valentine Captchas today. Cute. 
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« on: January 15, 2014, 09:44 »
Hi guys,
with glad I found this post and would like to add some information about it.
I am one of the authors who worked on the construction of http://www.pngstock.com, as mentioned on the site, pngstock has been designed and developed by sellers of images like you. And it is for this reason that we decided to pay all the authors with the highest royalty possible.
The site is obviously based on Wordpress, it has been online for a few weeks and there are only very few PNG images as an example.
Currently we are looking for skilled authors who want to create new PNG images and put them up for sale.
Greetings.
Where are you?
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« on: January 12, 2014, 12:37 »
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« on: January 12, 2014, 11:03 »
This is what I use, and I love it. 
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« on: January 09, 2014, 10:07 »
Yesterday morning and the morning before were way colder then anything today!
Your a day late and a dollar short.
My phone's screenshot is displaying Monday morning's temperature.
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« on: January 09, 2014, 09:47 »
Coldest day I've ever lived through. Plainfield is 40 minutes east of downtown Chicago. From my iPhone: 
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« on: December 10, 2013, 10:27 »
I rely on offsite backup as well. (security box at my bank) I would never feel safe using a cloud backup, from some company, as my only backup. Companies go under, or are bought and sold, so their future is too uncertain.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 10:58 »
Can you show us a hi-res section of the raster version so we can check it ourselves? Something might have happened when you converted.
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« on: November 26, 2013, 08:38 »
I made about $500 in 2012. So far this year I'm at about $250. So sales are at about half of what they were a year ago. Plus the fact that they have the longest review times of all the stock sites.
Looks like a company trending in the wrong direction.
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« on: November 14, 2013, 16:59 »
Soon to be an American icon. Better buy one now. (How creepy are those hands?) 
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« on: October 28, 2013, 08:45 »
From Huff Post: The woman who has become the face of Obamacare has completely disappeared. When Healthcare.gov, launched on Oct. 1, anyone visiting the website was greeted by the face of an unknown woman. As the Obama administration works to fix the glitches that have plagued the health insurance marketplace's website, that woman's picture seems to have been removed. Multiple media outlets have spent time trying to identify the now-missing woman to no avail. 
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« on: October 22, 2013, 15:40 »
Or maybe something like this:
Yeah, I suppose I agree with the crowd - it does look a bit like microgroup stock. I've adjusted it a bit now.. similar to what you suggested eltonjones and think it works better like this now on several levels... the group is talking about stock and both group elements are orange and the single word microstock is all together in one color.
Now, it reads as intended. Much better.
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« on: October 22, 2013, 11:21 »
A variation. 
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« on: October 22, 2013, 09:22 »
Anybody have any info on this photo? Is it a stock image? It sure has been seen on the news a lot. 
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« on: September 17, 2013, 18:50 »
Actually, CS6 was not a physical disk. It was/is a download. Disks are going the way of the dinosaur. I don't think you can upgrade from PS7 to CS6. (only from a former CS version)
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« on: September 17, 2013, 18:12 »
Adobe slashed the price for Photoshop & Lightroom to $10 per month on September 5th. That could account for the jump in the cloud subscriptions. I see it as a desperate move to entice a loss of customer enthusiasm. I'm sticking with CS6. I hope this greedy overreach is a financial disaster.
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« on: August 30, 2013, 11:44 »
I was confused about whether all their images are isolated, and whether that's all that most designers want (I don't see that in use all that often).
I hit 'stop' when she searched on 'monkey' and pulled out an ape. 
If you search for "monkey" on iStock, half are isolations, and a lot of the results are apes.
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« on: August 30, 2013, 11:10 »
Can I submit my own cutouts?
Yes, you can. Simply submit a cut out file in PNG format. As you cant embed metadata in PNG files youll have to enter it at submission. Well review the image for the quality of the cutout as well as all the other aspects we usually review.
Perhaps you can explain the advantage of submitting isolated files in the PNG format. I'll have to go back into each file and add the metadata. Will these files be given any preferential treatment? If not, then it would be easier for me to submit JPEGs (with a white background) and the data already embeded.
I believe that JPEG does not support transparency, whereas PNG files do.
Yes, we all know that. If Canva is going to farm out the JPEGs to turn them into PNGs, then why give them PNGs? We'll have to go back and edit each one, for metadata. We might save them a step, but it will cost us time to edit each file. Actually, I've already submitted about 400 PNG isolations. I'm just wondering if it would have been better to give them JPEGs, and have them transform them into PNGs?
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« on: August 30, 2013, 10:35 »
Can I submit my own cutouts?
Yes, you can. Simply submit a cut out file in PNG format. As you cant embed metadata in PNG files youll have to enter it at submission. Well review the image for the quality of the cutout as well as all the other aspects we usually review.
Perhaps you can explain the advantage of submitting isolated files in the PNG format. I'll have to go back into each file and add the metadata. Will these files be given any preferential treatment? If not, then it would be easier for me to submit JPEGs (with a white background) and the data already embeded.
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« on: August 22, 2013, 07:29 »
I get 3 or 4 orders a year. One order last april was for 15 downloads from the same person for $165. The way Smugmug notifies you, by email, is funny. It always starts off with "Cha-ching! Who loves ya, baby?" I've never put in much effort to promote the site. Photography is more fun than promotion. http://www.dannysmythe.com
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« on: August 20, 2013, 17:35 »
My advice is to do a Buddah search, and study what your competition is uploading. Take your subject and try to duplicate the lighting, and composition. Learn from the photographers you admire.
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