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Re: Release *MY* Customer Info! Vote NOW!
Jonathan - Clearly you're pretty passionate about this; I'm sorry that you feel like SM is preventing you from taking your business to another level but I'm pretty sure a lot of folks around here would disagree. I read the DPreview thread... I'm not sure why you think it looks so dire for SM - looks to me that they're… -
Re: From hobby to professional?
My first memories of my father were the Kodachrome slides he sent home from Vietnam when I was 3. I used to sit on the floor and look through hundreds of 1/2 frame slides taken with an Olympus Pen he kept in his fatigues-leg pocket. I think one of the earliest coherent thoughts I had as a kid was that pictures were linked… -
Re: Please help me Mac gurus!!!
Reset your master password There is a better way to do it. I have discovered a way to reset the master password without knowing the original. 1. Change your user password with the Install disk 2. Locate this file: <Hardrive>/Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain (<Hardrive> represents your hardrive whatever you call… -
Re: Chimping Exposed
On chimping From what I can discern, there are two sources of scorn for chimping, one legitimate, and one illegitimate. Legit: If you are shooting any type of ongoing action, stopping to look at the LCD will take your eyes off the action. You may miss something that is going on now looking at what has just happened. So… -
Re: I'm Not Real Thrilled...
Jerry, Food photography is a very specialized, and particularly difficult, type of product photography. Until you understand and get control over lighting direction, lighting softness and hardness (and when to use each) and lighting ratios, as well as light color and tint, it's just not going to happen. Once you gain… -
Re: Yet ANOTHER Pricing Question
Along with what has already been said....you can always set up private galleries for them to order prints from..... Write contract stating that for $XX.XX client will get my services for.......{most portrait session run min 2 hours....low end here is around $75 for a 2 hour session}........and there will be a private… -
Re: Dark skin
The problem with black skin is the variety and range of tones. There is equal variety in caucasian skin but the range is much narrower and the difference tends to be straightforward: magenta and yellow will be proportional throughout the range; the difference will be how far ahead of cyan they run. Pale skin will have cyan… -
Re: A Seasonal Journey: the Little Things
more of my seasonal images Thanks for your welcome and kind feedback. I'll post a few more. This time I included the camera in the post. 9. Winter: Icicles hanging from the roof rack of my car 10. Late Winter: Droplets on the lid of my little greenhouse, a sign that spring life is just around the corner (canon powershot)… -
Re: problem with Gormans BW conversion
Tried playing with this earlier ... classic case of "can do, can't teach" ;P It's not your fault, mercphoto ... his PDF is completely unreadable ... Basic process is: create grayscale from Lightness channel of LAB, copy shadows and fill with color then multiply blend, merge visible, apply local contrast enhancement. Hmm,… -
Re: Upload errors
Andy, I ran the tests, results are pasted below hope they help. Speed test results: Download: 861kbps Upload: 127 kbps MS Pint: 145 ms Trace route results: Tracing route to hera.smugmug.com [63.81.134.23] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms 192.168.1.1 2 53 ms 53 ms 52 ms 65.14.236.46 3 55 ms 52 ms 51 ms…
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