Hi Ann, If a stock house worries about anything other than what will sell, they're shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, you don't want to misrepresent things: buildings in the wrong place, animals of the wrong color, etc. But fixing something that looks bad can only be good. Getty is number one in the business, and they don't worry a bit about retouching for the purposes of enhancement. Paul On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:18 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What Godders is suggesting definitely falls within the constraints >> of "minimal cleanup." The stock house just doesn't want you to >> swap the GM building for the Essex House :-). >> Paul >> >> > Good to know... although for Animals Animals the rules are a bit more > strict. > > But actually, there is no need - because what Godders was seeing as > being a problem is only on the > file I saved for the web... I went to work on what Godders > suggested and > found that the problem > didnt exist in the original tiff, which had been very minorly > cleaned up > from the raw. > > I can't remember which version of Elements I used to save to web. ... > > I know I lowered the quality to lower the size of the file for > photo.net > - but it may have been more than that. > > when I can, I'll fix it... Because I'll be showing the jpg to the > stock > agency before I upload the tiff if they want it. > (this is for Animals Animals, Paul , not "our" agency - still working > on getting AA the right kinda files) > > I gotta go fix dinner now > > a > > >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- >> From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:22 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Last month, that is - when it was Spring >>>>> >>>>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5603827 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Nice one, Ann. I like the starkness and clean, crisp detailing >>>> of the >>>> buildings. >>>> >>>> A suggestion: some selective rendering on the rock area in the >>>> middle >>>> background (lighten, stretch the contrast a little, reduce the >>>> blue) >>>> would enhance the scene nicely. Tonalities and detailing seems a >>>> little bit muddy in that area. >>>> >>>> Godfrey >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I see whatya mean - though this was slated for stock where they >>> ask for "minimal >>> clean-up" so this one is >>> >>> really straight out of the camera, except saved for web... I'll >>> have to >>> see if I'm "ept" enough >>> to correct it.... or if I fixed it would it still be minimal >>> clean up ? >>> I dunno. >>> >>> ann >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
