ali_baba2

<blockquote> <p><br /> That quote is 2 1/2 years old and things have changed a lot.</p> </blockquote> <p>You mean he changed his mind now that things are different?</p> <blockquote> <p>And the word for marketing now, since you don't seem to know, is festivals, not your label</p> </blockquote> <p>Probably i dont explain myself well in english: promotion can be done however you want and prefer, the point is that a label (big, small, whatever) has more possibilities than a single artist on its own. In Italy the business is still about who you know and labels help a great deal, festivals or elsewhere.<br /> One rather new label that is doing well here defined itself as "<em>360 degrees record label</em>" taking up "<em>management, concerts, promotion, pr, musical and video production and much more</em>" and the first thing they do is to create a fan base for their bands.... Last time i checked thats promotion. <br /> The label you are partner in doesnt do any promotion and and gives no support? i dont think so, you must do something or musicians would have no reason to be with you in first place if they are the ones doing all the work...</p> <p>But, just to end that discussion and bring back the thread subject, since you are also in the music industry, let me ask you (and im just asking for a simple opinion not an argument):<br /> Someone is using the music you have copyrights for in their videos, and they have a big following and making good money using those also. You sent them letters where you ask to stop using the music, got ignored and the person keeps using the songs, do you sue them or let it go?</p> <p>BTW no you wont find ali baba on my IDs either. If its such a problem for you have the rules to join the forum changed to suit you better. I would complain to a moderator but... ehy you are one... so there.<br /> Its not the first time you come out with this, its getting old. Discuss it in private if you care so much, not in other people's threads</p>

<blockquote> <p>you would understand how most of the promotion happens now, and it isn't the labels</p> </blockquote> <p>Support financially: who advances living money to a musician while they do the "creative stuff" and say "here is a chunk of money for your contract well get it back in royalties? They organize basically everything and everybody needed to bring the songs out there all the way to the end. They do have lawyers and accountants that can take care of the artist if required and they have marketing and promotion dept that will take on the exposure online and other media, they have the possibility to get gigs that an independent artist might find difficult to get including radio and TV if worthwhile. And thats only a fraction of what they do.<br /> Some artists can do all that on their own, til a certain point, many went from independent to being signed with a label because when the thing is too big or you follow the music or you follow the business. Others are great artists but not good at business, period.<br /> Plain and simple you dont write a song and play the guitar on Youtube and money falls down from the ceiling, you need a ton of other people involved in putting you, as musician, out there. Labels do that, some better than others obviously, they arent all bad... i guess its like any other business partner "one hand to shake theirs and the other on your wallet to make sure is there"<br /> Sure, if some have enough means then they hire people and basically open their own record company, but its beyond what most want to do.<br /> If they were all slave traders musicians would run from them instead of looking for a label and celebrating when they get signed up.</p> <blockquote> <p>Do you have any experience in the music industry?</p> </blockquote> <p>Some, but since it seems you need proof for everything dont believe me and believe Neil Young:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>What I like about record companies is that they <strong>present and nurture</strong> artists. That doesn’t exist on iTunes, it doesn’t exist on Amazon. That’s what a record company does, and that’s why I like my record company. People look at record companies like they’re obsolete, but there’s a lot of soul in there — a lot of people who care about music, and that’s very important.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>About the ones that complain about the industry situation</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Those artists should go by themselves. They have a choice of what they can do. Artists who want to go it alone should just do that.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>and about piracy</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.</em></p> </blockquote>

<blockquote> <p>something WSJ must be aware of and tolerates, likely because they value the Google referral and know that searchers will simply click on a competitive link if WSJ doesn't share its content.</p> </blockquote> <p>It used to be google's FirstClickFree program... Last i heard WSJ decided to have some content partecipating and some content not... There are other newspapers and magazines that allow all the content and others that dont... There is all a circle of advantages for both, even more for the advertising that appears going through google... Unless one is exploiting some weakness or holes in the system (they do exist) things like that arent set up without a great deal of thinking and a promise of monetary returns</p>

<p>When it comes to Electronic Dance (what that particular artist does) the money comes from performances not much from song sale. Exposure makes sense for him. He usually puts a ton of stuff for free on the net... <em><br /></em>It wouldnt be that great advertising for the other artists to speak up if they were supporting the label because they dont follow Kaskade's point of view that</p> <blockquote> <p><em>We can’t love music we haven’t heard</em></p> </blockquote> <p><em><br /></em>They havent said they support it but they havent said they are against it either (for now at least).<br /> And he knows well about the situation with the labels, its his choice to go for it anyways:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>When I signed with Ultra, I kissed goodbye forever the rights to own my music. They own it. And now Sony owns them. So now Sony owns my music. I knew that going in…</em></p> </blockquote> <p>He isnt that naive...<em><br /></em></p> <blockquote> <p>an artist being wealthy doesn't mean he or she got paid well by a label</p> </blockquote> <p><em><br /></em>An artist being wealthy, <strong>most of the times, </strong>is because they had a label backing them up and promoting them...<br> <br /> At the end its all publicity...<br /> </p>

<blockquote> <p>but the pictures look smoother(easier on the eye) on my monitor</p> </blockquote> <p>how so? <br> Sometimes, if the monitor has a lower resolution and the picture is made to fit the window of what you are using to see it, it might not look smooth. do you find a difference if the pic is kept its natural size so only a portion of it is visible in the monitor (is that portion "smooth")?</p>

<p>Seems to me they are attacking the fact she used the music to create media (the videos) which was used for "business" since the videos made her who she is and indirectly got revenue out of it... When that happens the label or "artist" wants a piece of the pie since they own the copyrights. Its different from having permission to use the songs in videos that wont bring any financial return, ever...<br /> A label like that wouldnt care less about that kind of exposure but many bands and musicians with noone representing them, very likely, wouldnt have minded letting her use their songs. Maybe things like that will end making people turn to small independent artists in their videos, that wouldnt be a bad thing.<br> Microsoft strategy is basically "the first one is free", there are some artists that have done and do that with music also, i dont think that labels think in that way though...</p>

<p>Jeff my photos are nicely kept in my negs binders and you can see them coming for a visit at my place...and what does that comment mean anyways... does it makes my post less valuable than yours if i dont spend the time to put my hobbies on the net?<br> Talking seriously, OP is asking about an external of around 250GB for a P4 machine, i really doubt that is for moving continuously images back and forth or delivering to any client, its just a backup drive and as such it will probably be used simply to dump a copy of the pictures and thats it, he can have that done overnight while he is sleeping if he wanted to. If its a speed demon what he is looking for (and he doesnt or he would have said) which external drive to use is the last of his problems.</p> <p>Now, independently from OP's rig, the internal drive is accessed continuously by the OS, that yes will benefit from being an SSD. If you work on big stuff you can also benefit from another internal dedicated as scratch to split the load and keep the speed, which is still better than an external one because USB is handled by the CPU while an internal is left to the chipset. In any case you would do better to maximize the RAM to reduce the use of a scratch disk. Scratch and apps need drive speed but for something that gets a chunk of files dumped in as backup and nothing else the situation is different... (and its bad practice to use your backup for anything else than backup).<br> Thats why the two internal and external drives are not used in the same way... and they shouldnt be used in the same way.<br> Simply put: in a future purchase he might want to spend that money for a motherboard that he can load with RAM til hes blue in the face, which is way cheaper than buying an external SSD now, that would be a waste, and he will still happily use his external HDD because for the work he needs done the fraction of speed gain wont matter enough to make a noticeable difference.<br> If it was a professional that needed it for work, including videos etc then the requirements would be different and the whole configuration and budget will be different. You need to take in account usage and needs, you talk about clients so your needs are likely very different than the OP's.<br> Its like saying that you will buy groceries faster with a Ferrari than a Fiat500 but in practice, unless a racetrack is in between you and the store, the only difference you will find is in the money you will be left with after you bought the thing...<br> If then the intention is to be anal about just the words "you wont really notice a difference with an HDD" taken out of context, then yes: in principle an SSD is faster than an HDD, you are perfectly right and that means nothing when it comes to what OP's asked</p> <p> </p>

<p>An external will have a case with usb (now usb3/usb2) and that will be backward compatible, it will just transfer slower on an old pc than a new one.<br> Anything below usb3 is a bottleneck for an SSD and even on a computer with USB3 there is no practical to use an SSD as external, you wont access it continuously like you would access an internal drive that has OS etc on it so you wont really notice a difference with an HDD<br> So even keeping an eye towards the future a basic external HDD with usb3 will do its service for long time and by the end of it the SSD prices will have come down and new technology will be around with even better speeds.<br> Just dont think about it as money for the old pc, its an external device, its on its own, as long as its backwards compatible its fine...<br> If you will not carry it around a NAS its a good idea (basically its an external HDD that sits on your network) price isnt much different and if in the future you have more than one pc, or you want to stream to other devices etc you can do so. (and most NAS will be also accessible from the net btw)</p> <p> </p>

<blockquote> <p>Robin Smith wrote:<br> I found that the depth of field of a fisheye is not a panacea that allows you to not worry at all about focusing</p> </blockquote> <p>I dont see the big DoF of a fisheye as the cure for bad focus, its the kind of things the lens is mostly used for... its so wide that, save for particular cases, its not exactly like focusing for a portrait. Rather than "not worry at all" id put it as "worry less" and how much less depends on what you're using it for... i guess thats why some think of it as set&forget and others dont</p>

<p>Its not an issue, you wont be able to focus in the viewfinder but at f11 DoF is quite a bit to not have to worry and you wont fiddle much with it in most shots. Dont close it too much or sharpness will suffer, f5.6 to f11 seems to work best.<br> If a store near you carries it go try one and you will see what i mean<br> On a lens of that kind the markings dont need to be that accurate... might not be calibrated perfectly, you will find out with your first shots if you need to account for a bit of correction</p>

<p>if the battery is still new (meaning you havent used it a lot and just sat there), drain and recharge it a few times... they need to cycle a bit to start operating at full efficiency...</p>

<p>not sure i would use a stereo setup with two cameras because of parallax errors that might give problems in stitching since its rows of people and some of them will be in the foreground, small differences in perspective would be noticeable and you cant deform their faces to align the shots. A rail (or similar temporary setup) would be enough to bring the nodal point on the ballhead for a single row of pictures, you wont really need a panoramic head unless you plan to have multiple rows tilting the camera up and down</p>

<p>look at the work of Spencer Tunick, there are enormous groups in his work and it will give you an idea of scale. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/07/the-naked-world-of-spencer-tunick/100344/ (yes his shoots are of nude crowds, obviously you wont do that...)<br> I remember seeing a video on how he arranged one of the shoot etc and it might be somewhere around the net .<br> You will need to explain to the whole group what will be going on beforehand, make sure your assistants will know what you need from them. Bullhorn is ok for the crowd, but if you have a walkietalkie, or cellphone with some similar function, its a more efficient way to communicate with one of two (not all of them) of your assistants when you are high up and you need the final things done.<br> If you plan on stitching all the panorama rules apply</p>

<p>it might not be just the coating, lenses of the glasses are different in materials and curvatures but thats beside the point.<br> As others have said its all about positioning the lights, the subject and also their glasses.<br> For your flash offshoe: SB800 can work in SU-4 manual mode and use any other flash as trigger, so should work even with the Lumix where you can bounce the builtin so it wont affect the subject but still trigger the other flash.<br> You can also fix it in post</p>

<p>Faraday cage for next shoot? :)</p>

<p>i buy rechargeable cells in hobby stores and make my own so...</p>

<p>http://www.canon.ca/inetCA/serviceDetail?m=load&id=45&sid=7&mid=2200834&type=S<br> pick your OS and then download the "canon digital solutions disk", a popup will ask the serial number, last time i did it the camera was connected and didnt even have to type the serial in...</p>

<p>you moved out of the way the tab that holds the battery, right? (seen it happen)<br> the screw idea is excellent, glue is also good, you can see how the cells are positioned due to the shape of the battery so dont worry... If nothing works its still possible to open up the back of the battery tuna can style and that should give you enough space to grab the cells with a needle nosed pliers. once the cells are out its easy to free the plastic shell whole or in pieces.<br> if the backup battery is in the same compartment (its a button battery with a plastic holder that slides out) then you might be able to pull that out first (search google for pics) and that gives more room to grab the battery.<br> Id drill the battery out rather than pouring liquids of any sort around the battery... they would go everywhere in the camera</p>

<p>Is this a case of passion turning into obsession of having to take every possible shot and in every possible way?</p>

<p>For once in your life you can just enjoy your hobby the way you like it, why the need to switch at all? enjoy both. </p>

<p>If switching is just because of videos then i would look into a dedicated videocamera, taking in account the kind of videos you will be shooting.<br /> Your daughter might really like a "micro four thirds"... if she is a teenager, and with the leaps technology makes in a short time, must not be an easy thing to factor her needs for the future. (you might end liking them too)</p>

<p>well the Japanese website might have the Robots exclusion but their old website for the USA office doesnt so use that one for the wayback machine http://www.horsemanusa.com/ might lead to what you want... (a search on their distributors spit out also this also http://www.horseman-china.com/ but i didnt go to the site to check it)<br /> PS: sometimes in restructuring a company the domain changes, if on the USA website you find links with the domain slightly different that refers to old Japanese pages that have been taken down at the change, you might be able to get around the exclusions also...<br /> A deep search of the net scraping other sites (like this one http://www.bnphoto.org/bnphoto/LFN/CamProf_Horseman1.htm) often finds whats needed and for the same reasons also worth searching in other languages... but sometimes its easier to just send an email to Japan requesting the info you need</p> <p> </p>

<p>depends on which software you use, how is the logo and what effect you want at the end... For any software you will likely find step-by-step tutorials online to do it anyways<br /> Use a format that maintains the transparency information... as said<br> You mention to not have photoshop, you could try Gimp since is free ("color to alpha" command if you use that one)</p> <p> </p>

<p>i dont use those apps so not in condition to give suggestions, but you can hear great things about one and hate it when you try it, thats why i was mentioning the free ones first, Sometimes one device wont handle an app well while another device will even if both have the same OS, more often than not the simplest the app is the more probability it will work flawlessly, check your needs and pick accordingly. Dont limit the search to "google store". <br> Tons of stuff can create images on trasparencies, MSPaint can do it too if theres nothing else... or you can use online services, picmonkey or Watermark.algid.net for example...Png btw</p>

<p>cant edit my post anymore: there are free versions of paid watermark apps, those will often apply their Ad to the pic too but they are good to try the app out before you buy so remember to filter for "free apps" once you narrow down your results... other apps could have been released for free for a bit to test them before being offered again as paid apps so a little internet search could pull the free version out</p>