that's one of my favourite sport photo. It was iotw some time ago. It is simply fantastic!

keep em coming Todd!

You might want to consider keeping a list open when you keyword for listing missing keywords...When you find a few that are important and missing send it in. If it is an important keyword they will add it. (I have done that a few times) It helps us all :)


I am keeping my keywords simple and straight forward. genre, mood, instruments used...In terms of keywording music I have been uploading audio since the beginning and I think the available keywords have improved significantly. Good enough at least for a buyer to find a certain theme or genre of music, in a certain key, at a certain bpm.


I am sure the audio keywording choices will improve...I am hoping that they will sort well enough when audio is live by genre, key, and tempo...I don't plan on going back and re-keywording tons of audio music files.

(Edited on 2008-08-19 20:30:59 by MillerImages)

If the angels are old enough, copyright will have expired. But long enough is pretty long - generally 70 years after the death of the author, though it varies a little from country to country and from type of work to type of work. If copyright has expired, I'd provide plenty of evidence for the inspector.

...and only available to people living in the US. I guess Canadians don't drink their whiskey.


"ELIGIBILITY: All entrants must be legal U.S. residents residing in the 50 United States (includes DC), other than California and Tennessee, ages 21 or older as of July 15, 2008."

Well, then, at least it's not permanent.


Wish I could say I was as busy as 5*!

I am pretty comfortable cloning and compositing in Photoshop, but I think I'd skip this one as I can't see the sales potential would merit the massive work involved. If you want a learning exercise and have a very high tolerance for frustration, this would be a great image to work on :)

Why have less people read this than the cunnilingus article with istock photos? It must be that Danish is easier to read. Please note, I've 'read' them both and congrats.

Oh, crap, Brent by saying you'll meet me around 5pm, you meant that in ET, didn't you. I was thinking CT. Doh! Good call, Jim! I would have been late by an hour. We'll be in town around 6, I would assume.

So you're the other photographer I saw when I was out photographing the memorial flags :-) I was finally getting around to editing those last night.


Nicolesy, believe Rob about the aching feet. Kat and I live here, so our eyes have adjusted to the optical illusion of the bizarre desert light and air. Things that look "just a bit over yonder" are actually miles away. I had a friend visit from PR 6 years ago, and she got such bad (and huge!) blisters on the bottoms of her feet she still can't wear heels.


I'd love to crash your Friday night get together and meet some of you guys. That would be loads of fun.

great colors. i like the cosmic sparklies off in the distance.

btw..I Started my first image already..so hopefully Christine will remember to let me go first :o . She mentioned she'll be out at a shoot all day..and
I have to leave on Sunday..so the only way i can finish is to work with 24 hour or less turnaround.

Once she accepts ill post my image pretty quickly

Congratulations to all the winners! Great achievement!





Why is it that this year our Punctum Day Winners get so little attention?????

Something like this?

Hmmm, I can quite easily use up a 4GB card in a day around London. but I guess it depends on whetehr you're a prolific shooter or not. When are you coming? I'm around in central london most days, and could quite easily meet you with my laptop, if you wanted to burn a couple of memory cards to dvd.

Man, those are amazing. I'm curious about something. The Getty Images shot I assume are stock. Anyone care to speculate on how they were handled as it pertains to rights? I'm guessing there wouldn't be a MR for all those people, but perhaps the Olympics have a waiver or something?

Mike

Mostly everything you're doing is correct: don't upload interlaced unless you're starting with interlaced footage (ie from interlaced live video).

Your resolutions and pixel aspect ratios should be as follows:


HD: .........1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 ........... 1:1 (square pixels)
HDV: .......1440 x 1080 ................................. 1.333333:1
NTSC: ......720 x 480 or 720 x 486 ................. 1:0.9117:1 or 1:1.212 for anamorphic widescreen
PAL: ........720 x 586 .................................... 1:1.0664:1 or 1:1.422 for anamorphic widescreen

Acceptable frame rates can be found on this chart.

One last important note: 75% quality is not acceptable for professional buyers. If you're using the MJPEG codec you should never consider anything lower than 95%. Expect filsizes of anywhere from 500mb to 1000mb for a 30 second clip.

ETA: Thought for admin: pixel aspect ratios should be listed alongside dimensions and frame rates on the chart linked above.

(Edited on 2008-08-19 22:27:43 by EricFerguson)

Thanks! I didn't even think of the Gel angle. Do you think the gels would work with


http://www.knowledgebackgrounds.com/Backgrounds/abstract/a2.html AM 1152


or


http://www.knowledgebackgrounds.com/Backgrounds/Portrait/PSM%205.html PM 330

I was wondering what the best way was to kill histogram spikes. I have one that has a red spike a third of the way from the left, and the other colors are spiked two thirds of the way from the left. There's a slight rise across the whole range, but the spikes are prominent. Adjustment of raw lighting settings moved the spikes to the right a little, but it didn't diminish them or spread them out much further. The photo (which may or may not be submitted, undecided right now) is of a green-brown frog floating it tan-brown water. The photo looks nice, clear, in focus, no noise or other issues, but the histogram says it needs something. It's not exciting or very colorful so should I trust my eyes or default to what the histogram says.

So two questions:

1) What is the best way to kill histogram spikes (to fix this)?
2) How important is it as an indicator of photo quality and lighting?

I asked the second question because I have photos that I have purposely under/over exposed to create a certain feel or emotion (histogram bunched in the left for example). Some of these have been accepted and the photos well rated by peers and buyers. I have a super long exposure in my queue of a night scene lit by campfire glow. It looks great, but not if I judge it by the histogram.

Thank you.
Mike

Thanks so much , Diane.. I have posted the request with the link to a jpg of the design... what you say does make perfect sense.. I look forward to your comments.. about anything.. please look at my other stuff as well if you have a chance...


martha ann

Hello,


Any methods that require secure connection would need to go to https://secure.istockphoto.com/webservices/xmlrpc

I was under the impression that DM saved the file location, not a copy of the file itself. There have been times where I've noticed a change I want to make to a file (blurring copyright info in the background, etc), and have opened the file in Photoshop through DM...then I made the changes and uploaded the file. Everytime, the file has been rejected for the reasons I thought I had corrected.


Is the only way to make corrections to an image after importing it to DM to delete from DM, make the revision, then re-import? This is difficult for a series that needs a correction on a few of the images.

I uploaded some images on August 9. Now, 10 days later still no reply. One has to be really very patient with istock.....

Besides those issues I would really forget even thinking about uploading images to iStock shot with ISO 1000 or more, no matter from which place.

You said it better than i could, tracy :)