Playing the Waiting game.....
Since I last was here, several thingshave happened…..I got all of my submissions for Wichita Visions completed and turned in to the publishing company and now the waiting games is on…….that is the game where I sit and wait to hear which ones they are going to publish at what size, so I can invoice for the correct amount of $$$$$$$$.
Also I built myself a new computer….ok, …
Opportunity arise
Amongst all the sorting and recataloging and trying to learn LightRoom2 I get an email from an Art Director from Pagoda Publishing inviting me to submit up to 75 photos for a book project thaey are working on about Wichita Kansas….where I live. This is a town I never found any real photo ops or inspiration in to shoot…….but I now I am starting to realize there are some decent …
OMG and NOW the WORK BEGINS
Seems I have recovered all the files…..THOUSANDS……but now I must begin sorting (by date shot)and re-cataloging…..a new external hdd should arrive tomorrow (Wednesday) and then I can get everything back to where it should be……the recovery software seems to ahve kept the EXIF data intact, at least on the jpgs……I haven’t had the courage to look i…
THOUGHT I LOST ALL MY WORK....
I bought a new internal hdd, wanted to prepare to set things up as Scott Kelby recommends, in his Adobe Photoshop LightRoom 2 for Digital Photographers. So I got it installed, formatted and working……made my LightRoom file and started the transition from an external to my internal of all my files to clean the external drive. It was to become my backup photo drive…….I figu…
About to do a nearly complete change over...
I posted my first 5 photos just to get a feel for the way RB works and how easy / tough it is too upload…..I just made my BubbleSite and even though I cannot set individual prices ( I have figured out how to over come this but it will strain RB servers as I have well over 500gb of raw files to get worked out and figure at least 1/2 to be sellable if not more of them)…however I will be…
Not usually political in my nature
I usually do not talk politics…..but when things get out of hand…way out of hand I start to get lippy……..yeah LIPPY……when the Iraq war was started by the coward and terrorist Bush….I posted to several forms my thoughts and funny things started to happen ….all of a sudden my phone mad funny noises and I was getting calls from all sorts of Govt. agenc…
EXTREMELY MIFFED : Art is not small, medium and LARGE
A client emails me and says I say your Iced Tree Photo on USA101 and wanted to know how much for a print…..wow that is an open ended question…so I reply that I am a pro and need to know for what use this person wants for the print….it is a gift and I want it huuuuge…….. my mind goes what the hell is huge……20 feet x 60 feet….does this person want a …
New to the Bubble
I haven’t started up loading yet, but will very soon……I have ran into a friend from anotehr part of the world. Another part of the world, meaning a different continent and also we roamed another forum…..Ma9rk is his title here and he is one hell of a Photog….one day I hope to be somewhere near his calibre of person and ARTIST.
I need to get busy and get raw files pro…