Re: PESOs (3) - Aging Decorations

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Well seen and captured.

Dan Matyola
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:28 PM Rick Womer  wrote:

> It was a beautiful spring-like day in Philly, and my camera and I took a
> walk in the neighborhood.
>
> Several houses still had Christmas decorations up. These three were the
> most striking. The last one is in front of a student-occupied house, and is
> an… ummm… interesting re-purposing of their Halloween decorations.
>
> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/Aging-Decorations/ <
> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/Aging-Decorations/>
>
> Comments always appreciated.
>
> Rick
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PESOs (3) - Aging Decorations

[Rick Womer]

It was a beautiful spring-like day in Philly, and my camera and I took a walk 
in the neighborhood.

Several houses still had Christmas decorations up. These three were the most 
striking. The last one is in front of a student-occupied house, and is an… 
ummm… interesting re-purposing of their Halloween decorations.

https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/Aging-Decorations/ 


Comments always appreciated.

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Re: Re: Stock agency question

[collinb]

Ann,

Your input is appreciated.

Fortunately I won’t need it to survive. Just hoping that my fun hobby produces 
a few $$ to compensate. I find the time minimal (for Shutterstock) when I have 
shot a lot of similar-class but different images. That meant time/count, and 
worked out well. Time spent per individual picture can be overwhelming.

Again, next step is also to see what is popular at any given time and shoot 
accordingly. Give the customer what they want.
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Re: Stock agency question

[ann sanfedele]

One problem is that the amount of work you need to do just to submit is 
very time consuming.  For another, most of the money that
is more than a pittance  if it sells is for commercial use  and you have 
to have releases for people and  pets and even homes or other
edifices.   The quality of the image in any aesthetic sense is almost 
worthless on its own.  Razor sharp perfectly exposed boring images
of people doing stuff get purchased more often than anything else.. and 
if you can recognize the people  you better have a release.


You may have an award winning photo of a famous place or striking scene 
but they won't take it because they are apt to have thousands
more on file already That are good enough, not even counting that the 
people buying stuff for commercial use especially often don't know what

a good photo is and care less.

It's very tough, Collin.. I feel lucky to have sold as much stock as I 
did (which wasn't that much)  through Animals Animals - I 've better 
from my current web site and individual pieces or batches of outtakes 
that were slides on ebay...


I started out thinking it would support me in my dotage too..  and there 
was much more chance of that happening back in the 80's than now because
now almost everyone has a phone that shoots razor- sharp images and 
there is so much royalty free stuff on line that it's very unlikely you 
could

support yourself on old stock.

ann



On 1/18/2023 9:58 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:

Steve Cottrell wrote:


I don’t know if I would recommend themm but there’s a UK agency called Alamy 
that I used to have images lodged with. In my experience, one has to have 
literally thousands of images up to make any decent money.

Cotty

That’s my goal. To go through all my decades old chromes and negs to find the 
good ones plus future shooting. I’m looking at retirement this next year. Might 
as well let the equipment generate some income.

In 2013 I met a retired couple in PA. He shot a lot for stock. A DSLR for 
action and a Sony mirrorless for stills. Seemed to work well for him once he 
learned what was selling at any given time, which seems to be as much or more 
important than sheer volume.
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Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

[John Sessoms]

OTOH, if you already had a perpetual license version of either one of 
them, those still work. I've got CS6 Extended on my computer & that's 
what I use.


On 1/18/2023 9:39 AM, Bill wrote:

On 1/18/2023 7:36 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:

Larry Colen wrote:

For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it were 1.0) do the lightroom lens 
profile corrections work well enough for you?
I find I’ll grab mine rather than my FA50/1.4 unless I need that 
extra bit of speed.

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Larry Colen
l...@red4est.com  sent from ret4est
I do bare minimum PS Elements work. Being just a bit old-fashioned, I 
depend on the optical design first.


Perhaps I should invest in decent PS/LR.
If your happy with Elements, stay with Elements. The full LR/PS suite is 
very powerful software and opens up some very nice features, but you 
will be on a rent to never own scenario to get it.
I've got no problem with it, though a lot of people don't like that 
business model.


bill
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Re: Something weird

[John Sessoms]

The full size images are still there on the file server. This computer 
just doesn't display them. If I go into the other room and pull them up 
on my Photoshop computer they display full size.


Plus, I can't quite figure out why it's only the scanned film images?

The DNGs from my Pentax cameras show up full size on this computer. It's 
just the DNGs of the scanned film that is affected.




On 1/17/2023 7:47 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

John,

Your description of the problem seems eerily similar to what happened on my old 
Mac Mini when the I/o controller chip began to draw its last breaths.

The repair was getting a new Mac Mini. I never could recover most of the 
full-size images (I had erased the cards).

Rick



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Re: Re: Stock agency question

[collinb]

Steve Cottrell wrote:

> I don’t know if I would recommend themm but there’s a UK agency called Alamy 
> that I used to have images lodged with. In my experience, one has to have 
> literally thousands of images up to make any decent money.
>
> Cotty

That’s my goal. To go through all my decades old chromes and negs to find the 
good ones plus future shooting. I’m looking at retirement this next year. Might 
as well let the equipment generate some income.

In 2013 I met a retired couple in PA. He shot a lot for stock. A DSLR for 
action and a Sony mirrorless for stills. Seemed to work well for him once he 
learned what was selling at any given time, which seems to be as much or more 
important than sheer volume.
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Re: Re: Photography in ...

[collinb]

Bill wrote:

> Actually, they've been computers with lenses since the mid 1980s.
>
> bill

Of course. Dedicated microcontrollers, more like the logic processors in your 
washing machine that operates transparent to the user.
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Re: Photography in ...

[Bill]

On 1/18/2023 7:52 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:

1880 You had to be a chemist and an optics expert

1900 The pro stuff now has options but Eastman made it easy for Average Joe

1950 Today we've got them in an instant

1970 Film cartridges are so convenient

1980 Electronics automated the complex stuff

2000 All this automation has made it too complicated

2010 Today I took a picture of myself with my phone. Aren't I special.

2020 It's not a camera. It's a computer with a lens.


Actually, they've been computers with lenses since the mid 1980s.

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Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

[Bill]

On 1/18/2023 7:36 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:

Larry Colen wrote:


For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it were 1.0) do the lightroom lens profile 
corrections work well enough for you?
I find I’ll grab mine rather than my FA50/1.4 unless I need that extra bit of 
speed.

\--
Larry Colen
l...@red4est.com  sent from ret4est

I do bare minimum PS Elements work. Being just a bit old-fashioned, I depend on 
the optical design first.

Perhaps I should invest in decent PS/LR.
If your happy with Elements, stay with Elements. The full LR/PS suite is 
very powerful software and opens up some very nice features, but you 
will be on a rent to never own scenario to get it.
I've got no problem with it, though a lot of people don't like that 
business model.


bill
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Re: Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

[collinb]

Larry Colen wrote:

> > For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it were 1.0) do the lightroom lens profile 
> > corrections work well enough for you?
> > I find I’ll grab mine rather than my FA50/1.4 unless I need that extra bit 
> > of speed.
>
> \--
> Larry Colen
> l...@red4est.com  sent from ret4est

I do bare minimum PS Elements work. Being just a bit old-fashioned, I depend on 
the optical design first.

Perhaps I should invest in decent PS/LR.

Collin
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Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

[Steve Cottrell]

Sadly, X2.

Pen F and OM-Dii

Cot


On 15 Jan 2023, at 19:41, Brian W  wrote:

Sadly, Pentax no longer makes the sort of gear that I'm interested in.
Olympus/OM System on the other hand...
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Re: Stock agency question

[Steve Cottrell]

I don’t know if I would recommend themm but there’s a UK agency called Alamy 
that I used to have images lodged with. In my experience, one has to have 
literally thousands of images up to make any decent money.

Cotty



On 15 Jan 2023, at 17:49, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:

What other agencies would you recommend?
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