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Comment on Triboro Bridge – Winter by dave

dave — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:38:06 +0000

Thanks Chris. When I’m working with HDR, I’m taking the image and thinking about how the colors should go together in terms of saturation, smoothness, hue etc. I’m very happy with this method, and the tools, and there’s no reason – as you can see – that hdr needs to be surreal. I have a funny attitude towards all this in that many of my street shots are very surreal, whereas when I’m using infrared or hdr, I’m trying to be more naturalistic. There’s a smoothness /light control in tone mapping, that goes from 1 to 5. Maybe people are pressing the 1 button too much – which is what gives the surreal effect

Comment on Triboro Bridge – Winter by Chris Klug

Chris Klug — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:22:55 +0000

It’s amazing to me how, in skilled hands, HDR can just give the light in color images a painterly quality instead of surreal. I love all your HDR color work, but this image is just stunning. It feels like, for you, HDR may open up a whole ‘nother area of sales. I hope it does. Maybe you should change the name of the blog to the ‘Color though HDR Photography Blog’ heh-heh

Comment on Price Increase by Stephen Bray

Stephen Bray — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:38:32 +0000

“I think I’ll have a different clientele.”

Well, us poorer souls can still buy your
‘repros’ at Zazzle

Comment on Triboro Bridge – Winter by Lester

Lester — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:33:36 +0000

The Triborough Bridge is now called the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and the steel arch bridge behind it is the Hell Gate Bridge, which is a railroad crossing from Randalls/Wards Island over to Astoria in Queens. Just want to make sure you have the names right.

Just watched the 1971 film The French Connection on TV, which is still an incredibly exciting and authentic NYC classic. The final shoot out where Gene Hackman and Rob Schneider trap the heroin dealers is in on Wards Island in the shadow of Hell Gate Bridge.

Comment on Bought A Treat by Lester

Lester — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:47:14 +0000

Up until last week we didn’t own a cell phone. Then our land line stopped working. So I called the phone company and they said they don’t repair land lines anymore. I was fine with that, but my wife wasn’t. Apparently she has one friend left who still wants to talk to her. So I browsed the net and found this incredible cell phone made in Germany called the X-Phone. Check this out:

http://gizmodo.com/5422354/sorry-apple-im-buying-me-one-of-those-xphones

Comment on Bought A Treat by James Taylor

James Taylor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:50:16 +0000

Dave,

I’m sure you will love the iPhone! I love being able to carry my portfolio around with me – it’s come in handy several times. I recently gave my wife and iPhone and she has fallen in love with it as well.

Thanks for the info on WCI, i’m going to give them a try. I’ve been using MPix with their true black and white prints. I like them, but I’m wondering if I’m missing something with the inkjet prints.

Thanks again,

James

Comment on Bought A Treat by dave

dave — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:26:52 +0000

I like it a lot. I bought it before my verizon plan expired… was really tired of the tiny keys on the BB, and the lack of decent browsing experience. As everyone knows, the iPhone is a new wonder. I’ve only had it a few hours. Have ported my itunes to it; my contacts, and am even learning how to browse… but the best thing is the number pad for punching in phone numbers… i can finally do it with my thumbs… I even approved your comment on it without a problem.

What happened was that the trackball got messed up again and I went back to Verizon store thinking that I’d just get a Droid – but they wanted to sell it at list price because my contract wasn’t up. So I just went across the street and bought the iphone. They canceled my Verizon contract, switched my number to the iPhone and I was in business.

My first call was to WCI in California. No problems.

It’ll be nice to load some of my work on it so I have a bit of a portfolio to show people.

Comment on Bought A Treat by Phill

Phill — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:39:23 +0000

I think the i-phone will be on the cards for my next phone when my current plan expires. My daughter has one and they just seem so intuitive to use. And yes, the big buttons are quite nice…

Comment on Outsourcing Fine Art Photography II by dave

dave — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:32 +0000

Mike, absolutely. I would still be doing proofs on my own printers before sending them to WCI. I’m going to order a bunch of the more popular prints very soon just to have them in stock.

Comment on Outsourcing Fine Art Photography II by Mike Mundy

Mike Mundy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:15:58 +0000

Of course, WCI would be used only for prints that have been ordered, or for inventory purposes for the more popular prints.

I’d think that you’d still have to do a decent amount of printing yourself . . . test prints mainly. Printing new work just to see if it works as a print. Although you wouldn’t need a large printer for that function, after all.