dave_nitsche

<p>Thanks Devon and all... My guess is that I'm going to stick with my trusty ole shoe strobes. LOL.<br>

I think I will drop Rick an email.<br>

I'm sorta on a hiatus from PPSOP at the moment. Too much to do and not enough time to do it. :D. I'm starting to miss it though.<br>

Thanks again Devon, and thank your husband for me too!<br>

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<p>Hey Devon, thanks a ton!!!<br>

This is where I'm spoiled with hot shoe flashes I guess. 1/10,000th is simple stuff for Canon 550's and even the 480's. I'm going to be doing some large glass breaking and paint splattering images. I know 1/32nd / 1/64th power on my speedlights will stop almost anything. The size I'm shooting in though (a small room) would probably take 20 or 30 of them to achieve at that lowered power output. Battery maintenance would be an utmost pain in the butt. :D<br>

I've heard that if you want to do stop motion the small strobes have it over the larger studio heads. I've honestly never done much research on the subject though so I thought I'd just throw it up here.</p>

<p>I've used on cam strobes my whole photographic career and have to admit I'm a real novice when it comes to monolights. I have a project coming up that I need some good, high wattage units.<br>

Important factors... Recycle time and duration time. I'm going to be doing some stop action shots in a large area. I'm going to need duration times faster than 1/10,000 and recycle times under 1 second.<br>

Can you point me in the right direction? If I can't hit the specs I listed above what would be close?<br>

Thanks so much<br>

Dave</p>

Bob, I understand but I've been dealing with this for about 5 years now and there's no real way of fighting it accept having nothing on the net. As long as screen grab programs exist anything is open for theft, even flash sites aren't safe.

 

So, you have a few options.

 

1) Post nothing on the net.

2) Post so small you can't even really view it

3) Spend 20 hours a day finding the stuff and fighting with the ISP's

4) Figure it as the cost of doing business and hope the advertising improves sales.

 

For me, number 4 has worked and worked well. A few of the galleries I've hung in found out about me through internet sites. I know for a fact at least 10 magazines have printed work of mine because of my portfolio here on p.net. The biggest was a cover/full spread interview in an Asian magazine that payed me thousands to do it.

 

Is theft right? Hell no, and when someone comes up with a way to fight it I'll be right there with you, but as soon as one goes down, 3 more pop up. Either find a way to use it to your advantage or just remove your images from the internet. Right now, that's the only real option I can see.

Lot's of interesting comments in that other thread. I've never cared about my 600 pixel images being ripped. I've always considered it advertising. Everyone always asks "why do you put that stupid vanity line in every image" well, if they're gonna rip it, might as well put your name on it. Very, very few take my name off and if they do, I do go after them.

 

Want something to be real afraid of? Sell a 20x24 in a gallery and have the owner shoot it with a 23mp camera and start selling large quality prints of it half way around the world. So instead of someone lifting a $5 print, I've got them lifting a $1500 print. Took 6 months and a ton of cash, but I got a ton of cash back so it's all cool. Turns out his sales were better than mine. Go figure.

 

That's the real threat for me so I just can't get too bunged up over a 72dpi image being lifted. I've had more sales based on my images posted in other people's blogs than anything else. Cost of doing business.

 

I know many will argue that point, but it's just the way I see it. I can understand others being upset it just doesn't bother me that much.

 

Dave

Hi all. I need to print images 24" minimum (longest side) and probably up to 30"

longest side.

 

I like some of the features ont he MkIII but the pixels on the 1ds are very

tempting. I'd like to save the money on the 10mpx cam vs. the 16mp but I have no

first hand experience printing with either cam...

 

They have to be gallery quality.

 

Thanks for your input... Dave

Patricks probably right. Even though I think manipulation in the darkroom sense wasn't done to "polish a turd" like it is now, it has still been around for ever.

Thought it was me. Glad to see it's not but you're right, navigating p.net is a dog. Started after the hardware crash a bit ago and hasn't gotten better. Worst I've seen it in years.

Yeah, that does happen David but it's no big deal. If I get pushed back so be it. That's really not the issue...

 

I have one image that I put up over the weekend. 4 rates, 2 from the anonymous queue. According to the old algorithm (I believe) I would still be high up in the queue for rates.

 

I've noticed other shots getting TONS of anonymous ratings. It could be people are just skipping my work but I never had a problem getting 8-10 anonymous even though people rated my images directly.

 

Just wondering what was up...

 

Dave

For the last 3 weeks or so I haven't been able to get many anonymous ratings

through the RR forum. Has something been going on to hinder this? The last

couple images I've only received 2 anonymous. Getting 7-10 was always the norm a

while ago.

 

I was just wondering if this had something to do with the recent updates? There

was another thread about this but I don't think the question was ever answered...

 

Thanks

Put one in this AM and only received one rating from the RR queue. Is there a problem?

I have a Pentax 645 and have used it in the studio and compared to digital it's just a pain in the butt. Light experimentation and instant feedback is a necessity. Getting film back and finding the shot didn't work with the setups I do just doesn't work. Check my gallery to get an idea...

 

I knew going into this that a dMF would be the way to go but the budget just isn't there. The 5D and the MKII are my options and was just wondering if anyone had these and had made large blow ups...

 

Thanks

Dave

I meant inches. Sorry to say my budget can't afford the options you mentioned. Believe me I wish it did, but it doesn't...

Hey all... need to update my bodies. I need to make enlargements up to 30x40. I

know the easy answer is the MkII but I think it would be a bit of overkill and I

wouldn't use half of it's capabilities...

 

The camera will be locked in a tripod, in a warm studio for it's life.

 

Which do you think would be best. Can 12+MP in the 5D handle a blow up that large?

 

 

Thanks

Dave

With all the artists on this site I would think a better Logo for photo.net could be obtained. Heck, just create a contest for it and offer up something and I'm sure you would have a couple thousand logo's to go through in a week.

 

Just an idea...

 

Dave

Thanks for the suggestions gents...

 

About a scanner... We have 5 in plant. 4 drums and a flatbed. The screens are an issue in the printed pieces. To get them without moire needs a descreen/rescreen process that both adds to time and reduces quality.

 

With the camera we can blast through shots with pretty good results and not a moire yet. I'm just trying to find ways to increase productivity and if I can find a better lighting situation each shot should take about 15 seconds. Infinitely quicker than a scanner with better results.

 

Thanks again guys. Some great suggestions.

 

Dave

We are photographing pages out of books at my company (schoolbooks k-12). We

have a vacuum board mounted on a wall where the page are mounted.

 

We are currently using 2 750 watt quartz lights to light the pages (lights at 3

and 9 oclock) but we are having trouble getting even lighting and as you can

imagine the lighting is a bit harsh.

 

What would you suggest for lighting? I was thinking of a soft quartz solution

but figured I should get some opinions here...

 

Thanks

Dave

Find a way to ban consistant abusers of the system. Ban by IP address if possible. People who have continually abused the system get booted and just start up a new account and start all over again.

The greatest lesson I learned came from these forums 4 years ago when I started. I posted a like thread. Someone posted words of wisdom to me.

 

He said "the lens and camera you own are infinitely better than you are". It put it into perspective for me. Basically it showed me that if there is something wrong with the images it's my fault, not the cameras.

 

In time, and with help from those here, you will learn how shutter speed and aperture settings work together. Simple little rules like "never have a shutter setting lower than the focal length you are shooting until your technique is good". Shooting at 200mm's? Don't shoot under a 200th.

 

Practive stance and shutter release technique. Learn to roll your thumb over the release, don't stab it. Get your stance rock solid. Don't give the camera any reason to shake.

 

A lot of other great advice has been given above. One thing I would suggest is to stay away from IS until your technique gets really stable. Learn to do it the right way before you rely on 'stuffs' to help you along. The learning process will be much more rewarding that way.

 

Dave

John, are there cliff notes somewhere for your posts? :-)

Yongbo... I see what you mean now. Have to agree.

 

Steve... The "shopping" link has reviews written by Bob and Philip about cameras. None of the links are redirected to outside venues. It would probably be better if that section was called "Reviews".

 

What is about the almighty buck and not photography there?

I had the same thing earlier Raj. Seems to be ok now...

Emre, someone posted earlier (one of the higher ups I believe) that they are randomly chosen. From the looks of it there are some parameters set up for the randomness...

 

I also like it a lot and agree with Mary's observation. I've already found some photographers I didn't know about. It's pretty cool.

What Steve said.

When did this happen?