emmajanefalconer

Good digital printers was what I was looking for. My inkjet is nowhere near up to scratch, I mainly use it for printing business receipts, worksheets for students (I teach English as a foreign language for the day job) and photocopying stuff. If I need quality stuff I prefer to outsource it.

 

The thing with litho as well is that they usually ask for plate set up fees too, and I want to do lots of different designs, so it would cost me an absolute fortune up front.

Heh, opposite way round, he was using mine for 2 years, until he was given a laptop!

 

My boyfriends from deepest darkest Wiltshire, and I think he's still secretly a luddite at heart! He gets this painful puzzled look with computers sometimes! I showed him how to download tv shows though, he likes that. He asked me to explain Photoshop to him sometime, not looking forwards to that one ....

Do you have problems with the male staff in camera shops treating you like a

silly little girl who shouldn't be playing with big boy's toys? There's 2

independent camera shops in my town, the first place have that attitude, and the

second one has friendly, helpful (male) staff who treat you respectfully. Guess

who gets my money!

 

In approximately 2/3 of camera shops in both the UK and abroad I have been in,

the staff have that bad attitude. My boyfriend noticed it without me saying

anything. If I go in with him to a shop, the staff usually look at him and ask

him questions and assume it's him buying something (he has no interest in

photography!). If I specify what I'm looking for, sometimes they try to dissuade

me that it's all too difficult for me, even though I know exactly what I want to

buy. Sometimes they ignore me in favour of a man behind me in the queue, or slap

my stuff down quickly in a surly manner so that they can continue to ignore me.

 

Do any of the other female members here have the same problem?

 

I worked in a (national chain) camera store as a student. When I was doing the

training, they showed us some customer profiles who apparently summed up all

their customers. There was Flash Harry, who was a man of around 25 with a good

job who liked gadgets with good designs, he wanted an DSLR or a super-slim p&s.

There was Roger the Hobbyist, who was 50 and was really interested in

photography, all the filters and films and lenses in store were only of interest

to him. And of course Maureen the Housewife, who knew nothing about photography

and just wanted some photos of her kiddies, who should be fobbed off quickly

with something pink, so you can turn your attention to the male customers who

are the only people who spend a lot of money. If the official training is full

of such sexist crap, what hope of getting good customer service, then?

 

(I'm 23, young looking, female btw)

I have Photoshop CS1, and a far more recent version of Elements. Elements has some good stuff, like the scribble select brush (you scribble with the paintbrush to create masks, good for things with subtle edges), but I use CS1 far more often, because my workflow tends to involve adjusting the individual curves on the colour channels, and the way Elements handles that drives me insane! I have the mac versions of both.

I sell art prints online, and one of my customers has contacted me because she

is interested in postcards of my work. I considered selling postcards before,

but had difficulty finding anywhere. My options were either bad quality things

not intended for professional use, or high quality ones that I had to order by

the crate full. Can anyone recommend an online service that is high quality, and

doesn't require large print runs? I want to trial selling the postcards (both

online, and to galleries/shops) before ordering 3,000 of the things, strangely

enough ...

Try latentlight.com I have heard good things about their quality

It's http://www.emmajanefalconer.co.uk

You need flash, but it loads quicker than a lot of flash sites

It's still a work in progress, I have a lot to do, but there's already quite a

lot on the site ...

 

Do you find the design attractive? Is it easy to navigate around? Would you

remember my site?

Perhaps it would be good to find an online shop service that integrates into your website for ordering the prints. A friend of mine who has a fashion business uses http://bigcartel.com/ and is very pleased with it, it's simple to set up, slots into the website well, and doesn't charge him fees.

 

I really like your banner at the top, it's eyecatching. Could you think of any way to extend it across the width of the webpage- perhaps you could paint in some extra with photoshop at the edges?

Also, something's gone wrong with the html for the designers banner at the bottom, some of it is coming out as text, rather than a graphic banner.

 

From a graphic design perspective, I think you should move the Carden's Photography text at the top down about 1 inch, and add a stripe of the lighter olive behind it, up from the division line to just above the top of the text. This will tie things in a little more, I think.

I know there are a lot of very talented photographers on Etsy, and a great

supportive atmosphere between sellers. Are any of you Etsy photographers here?

It's a music festival in the UK that attracts a crowd who are very into photography and design. http://www.atpfestival.com/

 

I saw a huge variety of camera equipment at the event, and was interested in seeing different people's photographic perspective on the same event ...

Found the filter at the back! It screws in in such a way that the writing on the edge is obscured, and I don't have the instruction book for the lens. Thanks for telling me, I might not have spotted it. Oddly enough, it isn't a ND, or even a polariser, it's just a bit of plain glass labelled "normal". How pointless! The size of the filter at the other end of mine is 82mm, even bigger. I might try combining it with a kaleidoscope filter, see if I can get something surreal ...

on the films I mean - a reason why people like the sx70 film

Also, the emulsion inside the SX70 is a lot softer than that inside the 600, and for the first few minutes after the picture has appeared, you can use something like a biro or a screwdriver to squidge the emulsion round a bit, creating different lines and textures on the picture. A lot of people use it to create a sort of textured halo around objects photographed in front of a plain background. The streaks created look a lot like light on a photo.

Did anyone else here go, and took photos without a press pass? I'm interested in

seeing some photos from other people who went. I saw such a variety of cameras

at the event.

is yours a screw fit one? Mine;s a tamron adaptal bayonet fit, so there's no way to put a filter on that end really.

I think I have a large square neutral density filter that will go on the end (just! the thing's monstrously wide at the end, it would bankrupt you to buy a full set of filters for it ..)

(I should add that I mainly take landscape/travel photos to sell as art prints, so they tend to be strong colours and going for atmosphere rather than pin-sharp accurateness)

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Pictures taken with your 70s pentax?

 

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(both cross-processed 1st with kodak edupe that was about 8 years out of date rated at 25 asa, and the second with fuji sensia and a cheap hanimex wide-angle)

I have a handheld meter as well, which might come in handy for this ...

I found the 8600 needed a bit of fiddling to get it how I wanted- I set the multipass option on, and always scan film as "monochrome negative, colour=colour" and set all the autosharpener, autotone etc off. It comes out a lot better like that, for some reason!

matthew - another gripe of mine with dslrs- no aperture ring on the lenses! Also autofocus lenses that let you turn then to manual focus, but make you feel like you might be breaking them when you actually do turn them by hand!

I have so many stories about being the EOS 350D saleperson in a camera shop!

Like the man who said he just wanted the body. I asked what lenses he already had, in case he needed an adaptor of some kind, and he replied "You don't need any lenses, they're just a marketing gimmick to get you to pay more money!"

 

Also the many middle aged men who wanted it for holiday snaps that could be done with a disposable really, who panicked when allowed to have a play with the camera and all its confounding buttons, and then acted like I had insulted their manhood/penis size when I suggested getting used to a cheaper point and shoot first!

I find it pretty cheap to use film- I have a nice film scanner (Canon 8600F), and I use cheap mail order developers for c41 (like truprint - ﾣ1 per roll!) because the negatives are the same wherever, and I don't care about the shit prints they give you, and b&w I develop at home.

 

I can recommend the 8600F for anyone who wants a film scanner - it handles 120 film as well, and deals well with cross-processing.

I like the fact I can get a good quality well made metal lens for �35!