greg_peterson3

<p>Thanks for the link. I have lots of expensive panorama software and still find that I can often get the best results with ICE.</p>

<p>+1 for Microsoft ICE. It often produces excellent results when even PS6 has problems.<br> ICE will also post directly to photosynth.net, which lets you do <a href="http://photosynth.net/embed.aspx?cid=5e0fa858-15e7-45ec-abc2-e80cd46ff4ba&delayLoad=true&slideShowPlaying=false"><strong>this</strong></a> without any extra effort.</p>

<p>If you charge less than $3000 you're giving them away. <br> I'd start at $6000 and come down to $5500 if they agree (in writing) that it's not exclusive (you can sell them to other clients) and they give you a property release.</p>

<p>I had the pleasure of working with Joe Rosenthal ("Joey" to all his friends) on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. He loved to tell tales of all of the "reproductions" of the picture that he'd seen, including one made of hamburger in the window of a Brooklyn deli.<br> We (his friends and colleagues) were all incensed when the Marines Memorial statue was unveiled with the sculptor's name on it, but without any mention of Joe. That was later rectified, but Joey took it all in stride. Just another "meatball version" in his view.</p>

<p>Back in the 60's we called pure black/pure white images "Kodaliths" after the Kodalith film that was often used to produce them.</p><div></div>

<p>I undertook a massive image organization project a couple years ago and I quickly realized that it involved two different, though often overlapping, tasks: Archiving and Indexing. <br> I'm quite ruthless in my initial purge of less-than-wonderful images after a shoot, keeping only about five percent of the shots, and then copying only about two percent of those to my "print worthy" collection.<br> For my archives I do something similar to what Sarah does - move all of my images to thoughtfully named folders and (usually) sub-folders. But in spite of my efforts to keep only the best of the best (or at least the goodest of the good), my archive has grown pretty large, and protecting it physically is a challenge. My current strategy involves backing up the full archive to a pair of mirrored drives (RAID 1, for the computer geeks among you) and replacing the drives every three years. I also copy my "print worthy" folder to a server in another state, just in case "the big one" hits. (I live in California.)<br> But no matter how carefully I crafted my naming conventions, and how much I info squeezed into the folder names, finding a specific image or group of images in my archives was slow at best, and I sometimes overlooked an image that should have been included in a search just because the subject wasn't a part of the folder name. <br> So, for the indexing portion of my project, I took to using Lightroom to cross-map similar subjects from different shoots. (Because I'm lazy, I usually only index the "print worthy" images.) Lightroom works great for this, but I understand Sarah's concern about proprietary systems. I'm less concerned about that only because I'm 73, and I'm pretty sure that Adobe will outlive me!</p> <p> </p>