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    PAYPAL not working?

    in PhotoNet Site Help

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    I have tried multiple times now on different days to pay my subscription with PAYPAL but it has failed every time with the message:

    "PayPal Express Checkout Unavailable". Please advise if it still possible to pay subscriptions via PAYPAL.

    page width

    in PhotoNet Site Help

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    <p>Ok this appears to be the new arrangement of my gallery depending on the combination of landscape -v- portrait oriented images:<br>

    4 images in a row if: all landscape<br>

    5 images in a row if: at least two are landscape and one is portrait<br>

    6 images in a row: 5 or more are portrait<br>

    This is different than before and indicates that the Photo.net page may have increased in width.</p>

    <p>Admin,<br>

    is this the case?<br>

    is it permanent?</p>

    <p>The reason I ask is that I like to arrange the images in my gallery so that the overall disturbution of images is pleasing to the eye (my eye at least) and if the change is permanent then I will spend the time to re-arrange my images. If it is only temporary then I will leave it as it is.</p>

    <p>Thanks<br>

    Mike</p>

    page width

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    <p>Thanks for your reply.</p>

    <p>I just checked on this computer and it seems the same. I notice it when looking at my gallery. Previously, if I had 4 landscape oriented thumbnails followed by a portrait one the system would display the 4 landscape ones on one line followed by the portrait on a new line. Now it displays them on a single line. Its almost as if the photo.net page is wider by about the width of a portrait oriented thumbnail.</p>

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    Fuji X10 JPEGS as good as they say ?

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>I have been very happy with the in-camera jpeg processing of my new X10.</p>

    <p>I’ve been using the camera mostly in the reduced 6Mpixel 400% dynamic range mode in which effectively half the 12Mpixels are exposed differently than the other half and then they are combined to form a 6Mpixel image with more detail in the highlights and shadows without increasing noise. </p>

    <p>I’ve been very pleased with the in-camera b&w jpegs I’ve been getting. Other than a levels adjustment to tweak the mid-tones and final sharpening (I shoot with the minimum in-camera sharpening setting) I’ve felt no need to do anything else to the images.</p>

    <p>So as a b&w camera at least, I can fully recommend the in-camera jpeg processing of the X10.</p>

    <p>Oh, and by the way, I understand that the orb issue has been fixed with new hardware as of serial number 22m and upwards. </p>

    Is there a limit to number of ratings per day/hour?

    in PhotoNet Site Help

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    <p>Thanks Lex - yes I thought that might be the case but then I checked a few other images and some that I rated when they first appeared on the list still did not register my rating when they had received over 6 or 7 ratings.</p>

    <p>I've noticed two things: firstly, when you go back and try to rate an image that you rated a while ago the rating option is not visible - I assume because the system knows you have already rated the image. The second is that if you try to rate an image immediately after you have already rated it then the system says you have already rated the image with a 5 or whatever and won't allow you to re-rate the image.</p>

    <p>However, for the images that the system is not registering a rating I can try to assign a rating as many times as I like and the interface continues to allow me to do it. This seems to indicate that the system is failing to register the rating immediately it is given and so continues to allow me to keep trying. There is no error message though so I am confused.</p>

    <p>I'll try to find one of the images I can't rate and post a link here.</p>

    Is there a limit to number of ratings per day/hour?

    in PhotoNet Site Help

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    <p>Thanks guys for your answers - although I guess I was approaching the question for the other side. <br>

    My work keeps me very busy during the year and I really only get to play with my photos and with Photo.net during my extended holidays. Over the last week or so I have rated quite a few images and I was wondering if I had hit a limit because the system seemed to be ignoring my ratings on some images. I still haven’t figured out the problem. If it keeps happening I’ll refer the particular images to admin and ask them if they know what the issue is.</p>

    <p>Cheers,</p>

    <p>Mike</p>

    USSC 'rules' in right to privacy/publicity vs.1st Amendment case

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p >My layman’s reading of the judgement would seem to indicate that even images taken in public might have commercial value and the publication of those images solely for commercial gain might be subject to the right to publicity. The newsworthy exception (ie. non-commercial editorial use) would seem only to apply where the images are incidental to the text and not the other way around. </p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >Does this put into question the editorial publication of the likeness of any non-public official where the text of the article is incidental to the images?</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >That is, I would think that the accompanying text of many tabloid photo-exposés could be found to be incidental to the images and as such may impinge on a persons right to publicity (in Georgia anyway).</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >And what about calendars, post-cards, photographic prints, etc.? Surely they are not newsworthy.</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >Much of the judgement would seem to go contrary to the ‘common understanding’ on this and similar forums that images taken in public can be used for non-commercial purposes without a model release (eg. editorial, calendars, prints, etc.)</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >In particular the extract below would seem to be relevant and would seem to give a person the right to control all ‘for profit’ publications of their likeness.</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >“The Restatement (Second) of Torts, however, tempers the right of publicity, providing that:</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >No one has the right to object merely because his name or his appearance is brought before the public, since neither is in any way a private matter, and both are open to public observation. It is only when the publicity is given for the purpose of appropriating to the defendant’s benefit the commercial or other values associated with the name or the likeness that the right to privacy is invaded.</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS § 652C cmt. d (1977) (emphasis added).”</p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >(page 8, <a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200816148.pdf">http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200816148.pdf</a> ) </p>

    Do you consider yourself an Artist or a Photographer

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>My immediate response is that: with a few minor exceptions, all photographers are artists.</p>

    <p>But then I suppose the question for me has more to do with semantics than a simple classification - it all comes down to one's personal definition of art.</p>

    <p>For me ‘art’ is more in the process than in the result.</p>

    <p>If a person makes choices of an aesthetic nature when creating a work then for me they are an artist. Photography is all about such choices; so from my perspective, all of us are artists. (The only exceptions that immediately come to mind would be someone using a camera to copy something without exercising any aesthetic choices. For example, an archivist using a camera to digitise old tax records!)</p>

    <p>I believe that rather than speaking of ‘artist’ or ‘photographer’, a more substantive conversation can be had by applying qualifiers such as talented, gifted, original or maybe even struggling ( like me :) ).</p>

    <p>Certainly one can debate the artistic merit of every photograph but that’s my point really; to be able to debate the artistic merit of a baby snap that only their mum could like one first has to accept that it is art.</p>

    <p>So to answer the question: when I’m taking photographs I’m an artist, not necessarily a gifted or particularly original one but an artist none the less.</p>

    Your photo OCD idiosyncrasies?

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p >Hey, why do you guys mind people coming up and asking silly questions? At least they’re being friendly and chatty. </p>

    <p > </p>

    <p >It doesn’t happen much to me – perhaps the people in the crowd are too introverted down here in the Southern hemisphere or maybe I’m just too big and scary looking :-). </p>

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