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Comment on Wedding Photography and Money by Baltimore Wedding Photographer

Baltimore Wedding Photographer — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:45:53 +0000

Photography should be the #1 priority for a wedding involving money. Its the only thing you will have to keep to remember forever

Comment on Wedding Photography and Money by pete

pete — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:16 +0000

I wrote in a similar fashion in my blog “Professional Photographers Take Heart” (http://www.petercharles-studios.blogspot.com/) and could not agree more. There are (2 types of photographers wishing to make a living “The quick and the dead.” I love the age old question “How many photographers does it take to screw in a light bulb?” A: 50. One who does it and 49 who said “I could have done that”

If the fish are not biting look at your options. Move the boat, try a different bait, try a new lake, re-evaluate the lake, concentrate on one type of fish.

Comment on Why doesn’t Hollywood get it? by anarchyjim

anarchyjim — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:53:27 +0000

Why yes Nina, you are a rawkstah!

Comment on Why doesn’t Hollywood get it? by Nina

Nina — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:01:51 +0000

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Comment on Carpal Tunnel Injuries by anarchyjim

anarchyjim — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:39:43 +0000

We have both Logitech and Kensington ones and there’s not a whole lot of difference between them. Both work well.

Comment on Carpal Tunnel Injuries by anarchyjim

anarchyjim — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:38:34 +0000

Yeah, Wacom is pretty awesome. And they’re super sturdy. The ones we drag around to tradeshows really take a beating and hold up great.

Comment on Carpal Tunnel Injuries by Brian Tario

Brian Tario — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:47:41 +0000

Do you recommend any specific trackballs? I’ve been thinking about replacing my mouse for a while now. Thanks.

Comment on Carpal Tunnel Injuries by Michael SIms

Michael SIms — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:15:49 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Years ago, my right forearm was killing me from using a mouse all day every day. I bought a small Wacom tablet and three days later all the pain was gone, never to return. Thank you Wacom!

Comment on Privacy in a Social World by Noni by Herbalorganics

Noni by Herbalorganics — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:46:41 +0000

I am one of the extremely few people in my age group (16-25) to NOT have facebook, yet be a social guy. I absolutely love the privacy advantage i have over friends. I hear stories all the time of friends getting into trouble with girls, or boyfriends, or whatever for talking to people on facebook they shouldnt be or looking at pics they shouldnt be. I hear stories of people getting in trouble with school or work with facebook. But ME…i live in my own little private world where no one knows if i have a girlfriend or not or what parties i go to. Its awesome. I can turn off my phone, and since i dont have facebook, i essentially disappear from the social world. Anyone else share in my love of extreme privacy in comparison of facebook slaves?

Comment on Wedding Photography and Money by Mark Diamond

Mark Diamond — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:55:35 +0000

That was a great insight. However one thing is certain the comodification of the medium by the proliferation of great point and shoot SLRs has forced the prices down. Actually, almost everyone in creative production services has felt the hit of working for something below what we used to call market price 5 years ago. I recently sat in a meeting where a professional architectual model maker quoted $35,000 for a job he admitted would have been $80,000 5 years ago, stupifying really. I have shot weddings but am not a wedding photographer. My specialty has been 3D images for 35 years . Now after decads of evangelizing 3D in all its forms , it seems to be the buzz. 3D was done from the inception of photography. It’s nice to see whats old is new again. Really do enjoy sharing your insight .Cheers. Mark

Comment on Fake or Not Fake? by Michel

Michel — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:46:19 +0000

Hi,

I’m running a small boat tours business in French Polynesia and I can tell you it’s quite common to have humpback whales very close to the boat, sometimes even closer than shown on this photo.

Best regards,

Michel

Comment on Why 3D TV Is A Gimmick by Dean

Dean — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:20:12 +0000

Batman Arkham Asylum gives you 3d glasses that work on ANY tv, so why do we need to waste money on “special” tvs for 3D anyway? I’m inclined to believe there’s nothing different about the TV other than they say 3D on them.

Comment on Featured Artist: Peter Saunders by Ech0

Ech0 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:35:31 +0000

I’ve just ordered Beauty Box for my advertising agency as we’ve landed a big catalogue client. Our studio is flat out thrilled with it.

Comment on Portrait Illusions – Green Screen and Other Tricks by Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:40:31 +0000

I would also add that if anyone took the time to READ my entire opinion, they’d see that it’s not a simplistic “just say no” response to any and all manipulation. My revulsion to this kind of lie is specific and defined. I don’t condemn effects that are superfluous to the basic core truth of the story.

Comment on Portrait Illusions – Green Screen and Other Tricks by Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:37:06 +0000

A friend pointed me to this thread, and I see that I responded already, but I ‘d like to explain too that it was never m y intention to compare a “classic” background portrait with a green screen one.

I’m saying that if we put people in places they never were and the image is done well enough to trick the viewer into believing it, THAT is a deception that cheapens the industry. All our work simply becomes a cheap computer trick in our clients’ eyes.

What I AM saying is that if we want people in a place, we should do the real thing, not fake it.

It’s obvious that most photographers disagree with me. Not surprising as we humans often justify and rationalize away discomfort.

I do predict that in the future we’ll look backat this time and wish we hadn’t gone down that road.

Comment on Future of Photography Part I by Lloyd Barnes

Lloyd Barnes — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:44:29 +0000

I was looking for some insights about the future of photography as digital has become dominant and I found your informative article. I agree that professional photographers are still in demand, but the expectations from their potential clients is increasing.

Comment on Beauty Box is the ‘plastic surgeon’. by anarchyjim

anarchyjim — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:08:12 +0000

Yes, they’re different products, set up for different needs and applications, so you’d need to purchase both. If you have Photoshop Extended, you can use the Animation palette to apply filters to video. However, it really doesn’t work that well. You can’t set keyframes for filters and the process of setting up the filter is not as easy, since PS is not really set up to deal with video. The time and effort you’re going to spend trying to make it work is probably not worth the $140 difference (you can get Beauty Box Extreme for $239, which includes both BB Video and BB Photo, vs. $99 for BB Photo alone).

Comment on Toonit! Photo 2.6 – 64bit/CS5 Update Released! by anarchyjim

anarchyjim — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:01:59 +0000

Yes, ToonIt for Aperture is compatible with 64-bit. Please make sure you have the most up to date version. You can download it at:

http://digitalanarchy.com/toonAP/demo.html

Comment on Toonit! Photo 2.6 – 64bit/CS5 Update Released! by Robert Schaap

Robert Schaap — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:52:37 +0000

Do you have a 64 bit version for aperture ?
Toonit closes my aperture and reopens in 32 bit?
I have osx 10.6.4
Aperture 3.0.3

Comment on Piracy by Doug Roberts

Doug Roberts — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:45:54 +0000

Weezimp, Free TV programming? Really? Nothing is free. Advertisers pay for that programming. Someone has to pay or it goes away. I see many record companies and recording studios going out of business because of “free music”. I know many talented and respected audio engineers mowing lawns and working at the local grocery store because of “free” music. Real people with real families get hurt when people feel entitled to others hard work and creativity without paying for it. None of us could survive as photographers if all our work was passed around for free on the internet an no one was willing to pay for our creativity.

Having worked for several software companies, I can tell you that the “hoops” they make the legal owners jump through to make legal copies are absolutely necessary for them to stay in business. One great music software company I worked for made the decision to drop copy protection from their software. Sales immediately dropped by 80% and they ultimately went out of business. Their cost are not hyper-inflated as you stated. Even though the cost of materials may be cheap, there is great expense in developing a great piece of software. Likewise, there is cost associated with distribution and marketing that must be recovered before making a fair profit.

I will agree with you on one point… you ARE being the devil’s advocate, as he is the one who wants us to justify stealing. Just saying.