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No need to write. The Gaussian noise filter is pre-installed. :D

Photography is also a philosophical discipline. If you cannot put something special into your photos, then the technique is irrelevant, unless the technique helps highlight your philosophy. No one...

Shops on the Nathan road are well known for extremely aggresive marketing. If you decide to buy whatever, make sure you keep the item in sight. It can happen that when you open the box at home, the...

Is it possible to search photos registered with the US Copyright Office? Just used the search function at copyright.gov, tried a few well known names and nothing came up (other than some books with...

Must say, the search function on this web site is not the best one. The thread above is the result #118 if you search for "blog".

Do you read or write any? Any interesting ones?

Looks more like 3,000 men to me rather than 18,000.

His most expensive photo on Sothebys sold for $169k, that is a collection of 12 different photos attached to a single board. There are some that sold for $60-70k. And quite a few that sold for...

Professional = a person not participating in the LF forum, due to the lack of time

Amateur = a person participating in the LF forum, usually on the daily, in some cases on the hourly basis
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I ordered from B&H several times and had it shipped to Germany. No problems whatsoever. Shipped by UPS, I think, the handling fee was small.

Does not work with Linux.:mad:

This is not an imaginary problem. That is why someone invested time&effort to come up with a tool such as Zoomify. I guess, one only needs a few hours to write a script that can download a whole...

Ole, is this is a challenge?

I dont like Zoomify because it shows the whole picture, not only because it can potentially get stolen, but also because it does not direct the viewer.

LF photography is largely unknown to the public. To show a LF photo in Internet would require to upload at least a 50-100 MB file, if some jpeg compression is applied. Many just upload a small jpeg,...

I do not see a problem with your web site. It offers enough information and functionality. What exactly is your business plan? Many people run websites only to get some commercial work for magazines...

What is the price of a photo that didnt sell yet? My guess would be that if a photo does not have a well established market value, the insurance company would only refund replacement costs.

Nice work. A tiny bit of perspective correction/rotation could be applied to the "Atrium" photos.

I really have a problem to find something under 100€. A Flextight scan can cost as much as 100€ in Germany. A drum scan at one of the top places can cost as much as 200€, i.e. almost 300USD at the...

I am looking for a lab in Germany that would scan my 4x5s on a drum scanner AND that would do it cheap, i.e. well below 100€ per scan including all the taxes. Scan specification: 2400dpi, 8bit, Adobe...

You should also consider wooden cameras. They do not look all that serious, people have doubts about their functionality and therefore you might avoid paying for photo permits. Once I attempted to...

Some Gursky photos have very little detail. Some of the photos are actually made of two pieces glued together, i.e. printed in stripes that got assembled together. Prints up to 180 x 306cm can be...

In 2003 I bought a "demo" Hasselblad XPan from Adorama. I had to pay extra 140€ to have it repaired. The lens cap was missing; had to buy a new one. I had to wait 2 month for the center filter. My...

Avoid competitions. Competitions require that someone will be able to recognize potential of your photos from small jpegs or very small prints. Such people are very rare. Even more rare are people...

Interesting that Parr says that there will always be a niche market for film because photographers such as e.g. Gursky will always be using film. I saw the current exhibition of Gursky in München and...

It never happened to me that converting to sRGB would be a better option than converting into the monitor profile. If you want to have your photos correctly diplayed on a monitor, you have to convert...

Convert into your monitor profile (as created by your calibration tool). That should make the photos look OK at least on your monitor.

I would only buy a lightmeter that can do all; i.e. both incident and spot metering with a possibility of flash metering. You only want to carry one lightmeter with you. I would only consider one of...

Why dont you ask Vitali directly? He is a member of this forum. And let us then know what he said.

My photos:

www.martindrozda.com

The ability to communicate feelings and emotions makes a photo for me. I am afraid, in this case the goal was to create an aesthetically and technically perfect photo of a pepper. I feel nothing...

If I just imagine how much time Weston spent looking for the right pepper... Imagination!? What imagination do you mean? The type that is being taught at universities right now or 100 years ago? How...

You are not missing anything at all. In my opinion, well executed photos of boring objects. He redid what was done before in painting; no originality or striking philosophy here. I guess books and...

I assume that you will print digitally. Your photoshop abilities are more important than small differences in films. Choose a low contrast film. To fix a blue cast in shadows takes about 2 seconds to...

...I just have to be carefull
You will first find out how careful you were when you pay for drum scanning and/or you have the photo enlarged. You can buy a decent head for 100€.

But if you are...

...novoflex ballhed (though I would prefere a pan-tilt head intead)
Well, you remember my Bogen pan&tilt head (with bubble levels) that I showed you the other day.

Finally some tangible artistic results. Congratulations! ;)
How much do you charge for a print? :)

Drum scanning in Bratislava, Slovakia - 500SK = 13,50 Euro per 4x5" sheet. Flat bed scanners are usually only good for preview work.

When do you stop asking questions and show us some photos? :=)

I think you get get a 4x5" E6 slide developped for 95 SK and C41 for 55 SK in Slovakia. That is 2.50 and 1.50 Euro, respectivelly. And the service quality is equal or better than in Germany ;)

Congratulations to your new camera ;)