Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Don! I'm doing this edit for my own enjoyment and have no prospects of selling anything these days. I still have stock with Alamy and a couple of other agencies but the current going prices are around 25 cents for use in perpetuity for all uses. And I get 40% of that! I used to get about $700 for a book cover which was repeated every time there was a new edition. No more! It's not even worth uploading new photos to the agencies. Since this edit is just for me and since I love film grain, I will leave it for now. I do admire the new denoise and sharpen programs, especially Topaz, and use them occasionally, but they can also introduce terrible artifacts, too, that I don't notice until it's too late and the photo is already posted. HPI has all of the photos that I took for them. I did not sign over my copyright but they have the right to use them forever. Doctors Without Borders is not interested unless the doctors are wearing their uniforms. Those photos are still being used to raise money for the Presbyterian Church, USA, hunger programs, though. I have done 9 1/2 countries so far and have about 70 more to go. I'm just having fun since we are not traveling these days! Thanks! Tina On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 2:07 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Tina, I'm sorry that this is late to the game: I have been traveling and > your images deserve a large screen and not my phone. The phone over > saturates your images which is inappropriate for the saturated colors > favored in Jordan. > > Your timing and interactions with the people of Jordan are sublime, I very > much felt like I was there. Your approach this time with eye contact is > very effective. With that said, I prefer the B&W; maybe something Ted said > about color distracting from the focus on the people. > > Last, and I don't mean to add to your workload; on your favorite images or > the ones most likely to be used in the (not for profit) photo market many > of your images would appear better after a pass through some of the newer > denoise and sharpen programs. Our younger viewers have forgotten what > grain is and that may limit the no money in it photo market. > > This is really the last, but your archives do deserve to be in the archives > of a university library: ethnography, social outreach, sociology of the > Central American highlands, many parts of the world late 20th century in > reality instead of whatever the trend is in the future etc. Your home > state might be a good place to start. Some part needs to be in the Heifer > Project archives, and the work you did with the doctors might be > appropriate for that charity or the French based Doctors without Borders. > > All the best. > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:31 AM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > LUG: > > > > I finished Jordan. Only 59 photos this time! > > > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/173381212 > > > > and hit next 58 more times. > > > > So far, I've done Kenya, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Israel, and > > Jordan. Many, many more to go! > > > > TIA for looking. > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index https://pbase.com/tinamanley