PHOTOS PLEASE

[Doombrain]

Yes, Photoshop lets to do that.

Photoshop will do it everything but the process is manual.
Photoshop is a raster editor, a very powerful one. For photography you'd use around 9% of the tools for pictures.
Whereas Lightroom or aperture are geared towards making the photographers life easier, everything is automated.

[+JuggerNaut+]

open coat, please.

[Captain]

He's not sharing the rest

[seremtan]

'hint of fur', by tnf

[tnf]

Here's one with some processing done.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

get in there Eric! ;]

[Unisaw]

Very helpful for me to have had this opportunity and we're already discussing some additional night time shots in the city using flash on her.

Does she "flash" = pray tell us more!

[Yeahso]

Yes, Photoshop lets to do that.

Photoshop will do it everything but the process is manual.
Photoshop is a raster editor, a very powerful one. For photography you'd use around 9% of the tools for pictures.
Whereas Lightroom or aperture are geared towards making the photographers life easier, everything is automated.

I find lightroom horrible to work in. It's clunky and slow, and everything you process with it comes out with a "lightroom look" to it. But you're right about photoshop, most of what is there isn't useful to photographers at all.

Great shots, TNF

[andyman]

OMFG TNF AHAHHRHRHHR SO MANY NAMES I COULD CALL YOU OUT OF JEALOUSY OMFG OMFG OMFG

[Yeahso]

Hey, tnf, just a friendly piece of advice. The watermarks have gotta go!

Big no no if you're looking to take your work in a profitable direction.

I found this guy in the street last week, he was playing in a band and he had a really great look.

[tnf]

Hey, tnf, just a friendly piece of advice. The watermarks have gotta go!

Big no no if you're looking to take your work in a profitable direction.

I found this guy in the street last week, he was playing in a band and he had a really great look.

Thanks for the info. I don't put them on my business site's pics - so the shots that potential clients see don't have them. But along those lines, what do you do to prevent shots of yours from being misused or used without your permission? This isn't a big problem for me - my shots aren't something worth taking - but this model has already had images of herself used without her permission and I wanted to cover my bases for her own sake.

I see a lot of pro's that watermark their public stuff - that is generally looked down upon then? Like I've said, I am still really new to the whole world of photography so I appreciate any feedback/advice.

[xer0s]

tnf, I bet you got all up in them guts, huh?

[Yeahso]

Hey, tnf, just a friendly piece of advice. The watermarks have gotta go!

Big no no if you're looking to take your work in a profitable direction.

I found this guy in the street last week, he was playing in a band and he had a really great look.

Thanks for the info. I don't put them on my business site's pics - so the shots that potential clients see don't have them. But along those lines, what do you do to prevent shots of yours from being misused or used without your permission? This isn't a big problem for me - my shots aren't something worth taking - but this model has already had images of herself used without her permission and I wanted to cover my bases for her own sake.

I see a lot of pro's that watermark their public stuff - that is generally looked down upon then? Like I've said, I am still really new to the whole world of photography so I appreciate any feedback/advice.

The problem is that a lot of people view it as pretentious. Look at it like this: That is your first model shoot, your 10th model shoot is going to be leaps and bounds better. Not that there's anything wrong with your first effort, but you understand there's a learning curve with this sort of thing. If, in ten shoots time, someone comes across these pictures you've posted during a google search, the watermark may suggest to them that this work is of what you consider a professional standard, thus you have watermarked it to protect it. It could be interpreted that the picture is the limit of your skill. Does that make sense?

The guy who sees your shot may move straight on because the watermark is an advertisement, and he may not appreciate the quality of this shot.

I don't make an effort to protect my images really. Some I throw a name on if I'm posting them somewhere I am sure is going to attract a lot of views. But only as a benefit to me, never to suggest that my work is good enough to steal. If someone does use it, then you simply send them a cease and desist letter along with an invoice for any money you feel you may be owed.

I get around 120,000 hits a month on my website, and a large amount of them come through Google Image searches.. I have to assume that a lot of my pictures are being saved to harddrives, posted elsewhere, etc..

Also, one thing you will learn as your business picks up is that it's not the people stealing your content you have to worry about, it's the people who hired you refusing to fucking pay. Every single job I have, without fail, will involve some kind of delay in payment from some asshole blaming some other asshole in some other department he doesn't have contact details for. It's maddening at times.

[seremtan]

then you need to actually steal the souls of the people you photograph and threaten not to return them until they pay. this should work on simple brown folk and about 1/2 of americans

[Yeahso]

haha, yes, with the pious, a simple insinuation of voodoo and/or paganism is enough to ensure speedy settlement of any outstanding fee.

[tnf]

The problem is that a lot of people view it as pretentious. Look at it like this: That is your first model shoot, your 10th model shoot is going to be leaps and bounds better. Not that there's anything wrong with your first effort, but you understand there's a learning curve with this sort of thing. If, in ten shoots time, someone comes across these pictures you've posted during a google search, the watermark may suggest to them that this work is of what you consider a professional standard, thus you have watermarked it to protect it. It could be interpreted that the picture is the limit of your skill. Does that make sense?

The guy who sees your shot may move straight on because the watermark is an advertisement, and he may not appreciate the quality of this shot.

I don't make an effort to protect my images really. Some I throw a name on if I'm posting them somewhere I am sure is going to attract a lot of views. But only as a benefit to me, never to suggest that my work is good enough to steal. If someone does use it, then you simply send them a cease and desist letter along with an invoice for any money you feel you may be owed.

I get around 120,000 hits a month on my website, and a large amount of them come through Google Image searches.. I have to assume that a lot of my pictures are being saved to harddrives, posted elsewhere, etc..

Also, one thing you will learn as your business picks up is that it's not the people stealing your content you have to worry about, it's the people who hired you refusing to fucking pay. Every single job I have, without fail, will involve some kind of delay in payment from some asshole blaming some other asshole in some other department he doesn't have contact details for. It's maddening at times.

Funny that you mention the pretentious bit, because that is the exact reason I don't watermark the stuff on my website that I've done thus far. I just put up smaller versions of the shots that can't be used to make prints.

Makes sense though.

[Doombrain]

could do with a few more bug shots

[tnf]

Wonder if Form is still doing the macro stuff.

[Doombrain]

lets hope so. also looking forward to being told how to use photoshop by him.

[plained]

i thought he liked bugs but i'm starting to think he just exploiting them!

[andyman]

yeahso, tnf, fanatic x, doombrain, probably someone i missed but I can't get enough of your pictures. they're so awesome, long live this thread!!



i'll stick with my car shots though. big race coming up on the 17th so i'll get some good ones then. since i'll be racing maybe someone wil get some decent shots of me for a change!!

[Dark Metal]

i thought he liked bugs but i'm starting to think he just exploiting them!

Buahahaha. Hardest I've laughed at anything on the forum in recent memory.

[Yeahso]

KITTEH!

lol, this is a really, really great picture.

[chopov]

indeed

reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzjgBAaWZw

[Yeahso]

Image I finished working on today: