^Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called l…
Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called life and may not apply in any way to your current situation. At worst, it’s my opinion, at best it’s some ideas for you to think about. If you need real proper advice, go see your solicitor. I’m of the opinion that photography should make me money, not cost me money. So far, I have been successful is making more from a photograph than it took me to create. Here is my list of not so secret tips and advice on covering your arse and saving your cash. When To Pay There are times where spending your hard earned money is the right choice. For example to obtain goods or services you can not find for less (or free) elsewhere. Or when you have done all the maths yourself and you feel you are buying into a good deal. But there are also some pit falls to watch out for. Art Direction, Ideas and Intellectual Property My rule of thumb, if I am paying to shoot, I should have full rights to everything I take. No ifs buts or maybes about it. If you shoot a commercial, the art direction team put together a shoot and then hire a photographer to take photos of what they and the crew have created. They pay for lighting design, they pay the models, they pay the hair stylist, they pay the guy who makes the coffees- and they pay the photographer. Some businesses operate under a similar model but suck money out of photographers in the process. As part of a ‘workshop’ or ‘event’, several photographers rock up with their cameras and take photos of a scene. Often they have little or no control of the setup, can’t communicate properly with the models and will walk out of it with similar images to everyone else who attended! In the worst cases they have restricted rights regarding how they use their images. So is essence, they have paid for something that out in the real world, would be making them money. Sorry if it sounds confusing, the concept completely baffles me. When you are shooting someone else’s ideas and have restricted publishing rights or have little influence over the set up, posing, lighting or set design, (in my opinion) you should be getting paid by them. After all, you are doing them a favor by taking images of their creative work. Classes or Tuition Wanting to improve you skills and knowledge is a great thing. And there are numerous classes, mentors and workshops available for you to choose from. If you are going to pay to attend these, make sure you are getting what you pay for. Before you hand over any cash there are a few details that you should have to help make your decision. Class Size: The more people attending, the cheaper the class should be. If there is a practical component, I usually wont accept a class bigger than 10-12 / Location & Time: no point signing up for an ‘on location’ workshop only to find it is out of your way. Also as a safety issue, you should always be able to tell a trusted person exactly where and when you will be shooting. / The Teacher: You should be able to find and contact the person facilitating the class to verify their experience and ask questions. It not always convenient for a facilitator to take calls from a whole class, but you should be able to send them an email and get a reply without going through a middle man. / Contracts: Ask if you will need to sign any contracts and insist upon receiving them before paying. / What do you get: do you get class notes to take home? Exactly what does the course entail? What can you hope to know and have learned at the end of the course? Contracts These are a great way to waste your money. They also happen to be very important. First and foremost contracts exists to make people money or stop people from making money. So before signing anything, read it a few times and make sure you are aware of what your actions are costing you. If you need to get images approved before sale or publication, you could be agreeing to never publishing or selling any images taken if none are ‘approved.’ It is completely reasonable to request changes to a contract or write your own and offer it instead. Don’t sign away potential income! You should always be able to take a contract away and show it to other people for advice before signing it, and especially before paying for anything. If you are not given this opportunity, my advice is to avoid it with a ten foot pole. And then there are the bazillion poorly written contracts that mean very little or nothing at all. It’s actually quite funny to me sometimes, what people will put on paper. Useful Links Australian Competition & Consumer Commission / Scam Watch Photographers – What are you paying for (part 2).
Camera Exposure Compensation 101 – Guidelines and Helpful Suggestions For those new to the world of DSRL and camera that allow you …
Camera Exposure Compensation 101 – Guidelines and Helpful Suggestions For those new to the world of DSRL and camera that allow you to adjust the exposure here are a few guidelines to help you adjust the exposure for different subject colors: Color | Effect | Exposure No. of Stops to Change / Light colors / White (snow/sand) | 2 stops lighter than the meter | Overexpose by +2 Pink or white people, Yellow, Lime, Sky Blue, Lavender, Tan | One stop lighter than the meter | Overexpose by +1 Medium Colors / Red (Barn Red/Fire Engine Red), Royal Blue, Gold, Kelly Green, Orange Purple, Milk Chocolate | Same as the Meter setting don’t compensate. Dark colors / Maroon, Forest Green, Deep Purple, Burnt Orange, Dark Chocolate (Black People) | One stop darker than the meter | Underexpose by -1 Black | 2 stops darker than the meter | Underexpose by -2 Contrast (Dark to Light) – Spot meter between the lightest and the darkest shadow if it’s 4 stops between the lightest and darkest shadow elements in the scene then the suggestion is to wait for better light if you can but if you can’t then spot meter on the lightest portion and then Overexpose by +2 (*original source of guidelines came from: Outdoor Photography an Article by David Middleton (www.davidmiddletonphoto.com) Other Notes: / Meters on different camera can vary. if you use the guidelines above you might want to / Spot meter for Wildlife, flowers, people and animals (ignoring the background) Matrix meter (evaluative) if most of the scene is in the medium color tones like most landscapes, woods Only use center weight metering if you have an older or cheaper camera that doesn’t have all the modern metering modes. Use the settings above but best to bracket the shots by +/- .5 When bracketing a shot by +/- .5 remember that light and contrast can change the scene . If you want a good picture don’t loose your highlights. So compensate for them 1st. In digital camera, you can use the histogram feature on the camera to check contrast and highlights and the darkest areas. Then compensate according to the predominate readings on the histogram Snow: / Snow scenes try spot metering on the brightest part of the snow. At sunrise / sunset when the snow is reflecting pink light overexpose by only +1 to 1.5 stops. Just 10 to 15 minutes after sunrise when the contrast is the greatest the light turns white then compensate by overexposing by +2 stops. Backlit scenes – Sun in the picture: Try to take an overall meter reading, excluding the frame and then compensate according to the guidelines above, but bracket by +/- .5 to make sure you get a perfect exposure. This is some guidelines I found helpful when learning. I made a little chart and kept it in my camera bag incase I needed a reminder. Hope that helps all you newbies!
/ Tessalated Coast by Peter Martin Ok, so here’s my suggestion (feel free to ignore it) Last year I went to a wedding in Lorne on the Great Ocean Road and saw how well they accommodated a larger group. Seeing as how there are a few RedBubblers who live over that way who missed out on our Melbourne Meet Ups, I thought it might be nice to go visit. Great Ocean Road Cottages in Lorne is not only wonderfully cheap, (works out to about $50 per head or they have a backpackers on site if your want cheaper) but the people who run it are lovely and very helpful. You can make use of the electric kitchens to self cater or go to the cafes and pubs down the road. The cottages are a 2 minute walk from an IGA or 10 minute walk to the nearest pub. (Yes, they have Red Wine) / Erskine Falls Reborn by Michael Eyssens The accommodation is a series of small cottages with a queen bed downstairs and 2-3 single beds upstairs. I’d suggest that we organise ourselves into small groups of 3-5 and book a cottage for each group as they are put together. The cottages are all close enough together that it does not matter which one you are in however they are holding a few close together for us until I get back to them in a couple of days. Staying in Lorne will put us within a short drive of the otways and several lovely looking great ocean road sites if we want artistic inspiration. The cottages, while designed to sleep 4-5, are suitable to entertain a group of people and say, sprawl out a game of twister or something. I’ve called them to ensure that they have enough room for us on the night of Sat October 27th and all is good. My thinking is that we could head over early Saturday, spend a day doing bush things and a day doing beach things. What do you think? P.S – Sorry Jess for ambushing this idea!! / Lorne Pier,Victoria by Joe Mortelliti
What makes you think your art is good enough to upload to RedBubble? 1 Gut instinct? / This is the best way to know if your art, ...
What makes you think your art is good enough to upload to RedBubble? 1 Gut instinct? / This is the best way to know if your art, writing, or photography is good. For photographers, we simply know when the shot matches what we were trying to achieve. For writers, it’s when we write from the heart. For artists, and I mean people who manipulate binary-pixels as much as I mean painters etc, I imagine you know when your art has reached its point where it cannot be modified any further without ruining it. That’s right, ruining the final result. / Gut instinct tells you when you have just reached that pinnacle and achieved the art you imagined in the first place or saw through the view-finder. 2 Did someone in your family like the shot? / Trust me, I know from bad experience that relying on the opinion of family (to tell me what makes a GREAT shot) is never a good idea. As much as they believe in your artwork, they cannot see through your eyes. / I only upload a few distinctly better shots to RedBubble out of every few hundred. I might shoot between twenty and a hundred photographs from the one location, but I know almost immediately if it was a good shot or not. On occasion I only have to take one shot to get THAT shot, the one that gets shown to you, my friends and my family. What makes you think your art is good enough to have printed? 1. You received 1,000 ‘Oh, Nice!’ Comments ? / Nope, this is not a good enough reason. Your art needs to be an extension of who you are. Despite what you see here on RedBubble, your art should not be a popularity contest, nor a multitude of ‘nice’ comments. Much as I enjoy getting a few nice words about my work, I’ve recently learned that unless the person actually says something constructive, unique and interesting about the actual photograph … the comment may just be a stock answer to everything they see here. NOTE: OK, so sometimes it can be difficult to put into words what you like about some one else’s art, but at least say something unique. Yes, my photography of flowers have DOF, POV, macro-detail, lots of colour and are ‘hot’, ‘cool’, ‘wow’, and ‘whippitycrack’. Now tell me WHY you like it, WHAT it is that makes it good and HOW many you are going to purchase! :D 2. Only you can know if your art is worth selling on RedBubble. / Do you think someone would purchase it as a card? Or are you just showing off an image that you want others to consider before you commit to it? Ok, so we all do that occasionally. I’m not saying it’s wrong to upload the incomplete and unfinished, but this is RedBubble. It’s not just a community, forum and friend-making location: It’s an online print-shop. 3. Don’t be concerned with anyone’s opinion before presentation. / Upload those few shots you really believe capture what you were attempting. If you really believe the art is good, show it to the RedBubble world the whole internet. Because everyone online and offline is now going to see you and your art. RedBubble is a name, not a fortified location. Our comments, words, suggestions, responses, queries and ‘drool’ will be carbon copied across the planet and archived on the “WWW” Today I shot 5GIG of photographs in 5 hours. / I had a day in the Adelaide CBD, revisiting previous locations, visiting a few new places and discovering new things at each location that I did not see the first time! This added up to around 1,000 photographs. / ... I’ll be the first to admit that less than 200 are any good. / ... Less than 60 are very good. / ... I’ve uploaded only TWO of them to RedBubble. I might add a few more. / ... SEVEN have been loaded to my flickr gallery . All are getting lots of traffic, with very few comments. Just the way I like it. Each of those photographs got some pixel-manipulation. Yes, I do, when necessary. Each of those photographs were one of a several exactly the same … but I decided that one would serve the purpose I was looking for. / I didn’t ask anyone on RedBubble or Flickr if they would like to see it : I made that decision while perusing them on my 500GIG HD. A lot were shot purely because I like architecture, but many were shot because I figured they’d look good as a card or framed image. One of them is a test-image, to see the response/traffic rate. See if you can pick it. 4. Would you delete or replace a photograph if enough people said they didn’t like it? / Seeing as how so many of us rely on the comments of others to fulfill our online life, IF someone was to suggest a fault, change, modification or complete make-over of your art work, would you? I believe I might change an image. I have certainly changed my opinion on pixel-manipulation! I know I’d delete an image, but only from the RedBubble-database. I’ve done that several times. Where’s your thoughts on this? You’ll notice I rarely make comments on other people’s art. There is a LOT of great work on RedBubble. I just don’t have the time to tell you. Anyhow, you know your work is good. Or you would never have taken the time to put it on RedBubble …. right?
Hello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Mel…
Hello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Melbourne and am very seriously committed to renting a stall at a couple of markets to sell RedBubble Artists’ work and promote the site. I currently manage an art gallery that sells prints and originals on commission and have a strong understanding of what is involved to make this idea work. Rather than just throwing it up as a suggestion, I have included a suggested plan so that you have something tangible to discuss. I think the market stall idea has a lot of merit and could potentially grow into quite a lucrative endevour as well as being a huge promotional tool. It is a way of tapping into Melbourne’s art culture which is heavily concentrated in street stalls, markets, garage sales and small independent galleries. The benefits include increased membership on the site through being visible to Melbourne artists at their predominant place of work and increased sales through order taking on site at the stalls and through increased online patronage. Anyway, on to the plan! BubbleMarket Plan Interested artists will complete a form through the RedBubble website to register their interest in participating and agree to the consignment and payment terms. I will agree to sell their work on consignment only. All care (in fact heaps of care) but no responsibility will be taken for artists work at the stall or in transit. In the interests of keeping it simple and reasonable for a 1-2 person stall, I’d suggest a standard mark up that all submitted work will be sold at. We would have to keep prices competitive with “market” prices. I would add a small surcharge to all sales to cover my time and labor to be negotiated. Artists’ biographies, catalogues or portfolios are more than welcome if artists will post them to me. I would like to promote the individuals along with their art. If you can give me a catalogue with order codes/numbers and a cordless EFTPOS machine (even an old Click Clack one) I will take orders on behalf of RedBubble.com. If taking orders to be posted I will need all relevant info regarding postage costs to add to the order price. If I am using a Click Clack machine I will not use it for ‘on the day’ sales where the artwork is taken. Stolen cards will be declined long after the customer has gone and you are trying to deposit into the RedBubble bank account. Artists would order their own work at the base price. It would be really awesome if we could arrange to have it all end up at RedBubble Fitzroy and I’d pick it up in one go. On the day I’ll keep a meticulous list of sales and stock so I can track who is owed what money and generally account for the whereabouts of all stock. I do a fair bit of bookkeeping for our three galleries and am competent in tracking dollars and cents! At the end of the day or on the next business day I would return all unsold stock to RedBubble along with the cash. It would be great if you could pay people via the usual method. Unsold stock could be posted back to artists or kept for future markets. Expenses Summary : / -Renting the stall and perhaps a display table / -Posting unsold artworks back to artists ( I will make neat piles for you) / -Appropriate display equipment such as clear, hard backed, display files/slips to prevent damage / -Carbon Invoice book for recording sales and providing receipts / -Promotional material –lots please / -Labor to organise artwork prior to market day / -Labor to organise payments and postage after market day / -Labor associated with creating and printing a catalogue I’d be asking RedBubble Admin to help out with: / -Letting me collect artwork from Fitzroy in one go instead of 50 people posting stuff to me / -Pay artists and deposit cash (I will provide sales lists) / -Supply a click-clack or other portable Credit Card/EFT machine for catalogue orders / -Provide postage price information for catalogue orders. Contingency Planning: / -Select a market with under cover areas because artwork and rain do not mix and bad or windy weather would equal cancelling / -Have 1-2 other people available on the day in case I get hit by a bus, my car is stolen etc. / -Ensuring all artwork available for sale complies with copyright laws I have tried to cover all the main bases here but have probably missed a few things that will be blaringly obvious to others. Perhaps lets discuss it properly because I am really prepared to back this idea and make it happen with a bit of your support. BubbleMarket could become a regular event and a HUGE promotional tool for RedBubble and all the great artists we are so lucky to have on here. Do not hesitate to give me a call in or outside of business hours to discuss this idea further. Jo O’Brien / jo.obrien@hotmail.com
You’ve probably gone through a few of my articles, but did you know I’ve been writing since the first day of membership upon Redbubble?...
You’ve probably gone through a few of my articles, but did you know I’ve been writing since the first day of membership upon Redbubble? Feel free to read through my more-interesting and knowledge-filled articles, many that will help you travel the Redbubble path with ease and understanding. If you have any comments, questions, or further information, please comment on the respective article. MY JOURNAL Running Sheet for Exhibitions [26.April.2008] / Linking to Group Rules [ 12.Apr.2008 ] / My Own Private Bubble [ 10.Mar.2008 ] / Which Group Has My Art? [ 16.Feb.2008 ] / Making a Profit Because of Redbubble [ 31.Dec.2007 ] / Redbubble vs That Other Gallery [ 31.Dec.2007 ] / Linking Photographs [ 14.Dec.2007 ] / What Makes You Think Your Art is Good Enough? [ 15.Sep.2007 ] / RedBubble Breeds Winners [ 31.Aug.2007 ] / Idea for RB Administration [ 11.Aug.2007 ] / Advantage of Tagging your Uploads [ 01.Aug.2007 ] / Artist-Linkage and Size-Disclaimer [ 19.Jul.2007 ] / [!] Idea: Change Default to Least Expensive [ 17.Jul.2007 ] / Add This To Your Cart [ 16.Jun.2007 ] / Suggestion to RB Marketing and Code Teams [ 28.May.2007 ] MY WRITING Advantage of Choosing RedBubble / ASCII Characters in your RedBubble Journal / But Wait, There Is SO Much More / Consent for Photography Not Required in Australia / Coding your RedBubble Journal / DPI Determines Resolution, Not Quality / Tip for Answering Comments / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? v.2 / Naming Your Art / Online Purchasing : Safe or Scary? ON FORUMS Tips and Tricks I’m always writing new articles about photography, entrepreneurialism, small-business, web-development, and about other stuff I find on the “WWW” . Expect something new, exciting and enlightening added here soon…
Hi everyone, Have you visited the GD forums recently? If not there are some fu…
Hi everyone, Have you visited the GD forums recently? If not there are some fun and interesting threads running over there at the moment! Please visit Go away thread…. and also please visit the new Book Club thread for reviews, recommendations and discussions on books you’ve read pertaining to the arts,writing, technique, mental health, etc. Please let us know What you are doing right now and keep updating, it’s great fun! Don’t forget, i wanna hear all about your Big Red Bus experiences ....and these are only the threads i started….there are many wonderful threads to contribute to over there, and i’d love to see you joining in too ;) Ideas and Suggestions / General Discussion forums – invite guest speakers* I would like to suggest RB or members invite Guest Speakers/writers/health professionals on relevant art/photography/writing/mental health topics into our forums and publicise to all members, time and date….. so people can come along and join in a discussion, learn and grow….the forums have a great untapped potential in this regard Puleeeeeze, f you like this idea please go vote for it here
Apologies firstly for the delay in getting this list up. I promised it last weekend, no excuses…..........I’m just damn lazy lately lol…
Apologies firstly for the delay in getting this list up. I promised it last weekend, no excuses…..........I’m just damn lazy lately lol. Me thinks some handy things in that list I hadn’t thought of. Thanks to everyone that put in their 2cents. Bandaids / Needle and thread…….a role of black and one white. / Dress makers tape. / Bobby-pins. / Scissors. / Vaseline. / 30+ sun-cream. / Body fresheners. / Soap. / Tissues. / Safety pins. / Hair pins, razor. / Shoe brush. / Hair brush. / Hair spray. / Bottled water. / Handi-wipes. / A dozen pairs of sunglasses from the dollar shop (matching frames of course). / Duct tape. / Clothes pins (wooden onespainted white or black – make good weights for fly-away’s). / Face powder in 3 tints (light, med, dark – helps avoid those shiny face spots). / Thermos of perculated coffee. / My happy face. / Soda water – remove stains on dress. / Spray bottle of water – keep flowers fresh, and also doubles as fake sweat. / Pair of nylons (pantyhose) and a makeup mirror. / A can of Windex for the wedding car. / Blutac and white and ivory fabric/tulle, a couple of foam blocks, champagne flutes, small bottle of champagne. / Talcum powder – apparently it absorbs any oil marks on gown, suits or clothing. / Two fake gold rings (?). Thanks again Pete
50 to 100 views and 10 to 18 comments, in 11 months is not inspiring. I’m a beginner, but I’m sure my paintings are not that bad. D…
50 to 100 views and 10 to 18 comments, in 11 months is not inspiring. I’m a beginner, but I’m sure my paintings are not that bad. Does anyone have any suggestions, on how to get a more inspiring response?
If you’re after tough but fair feedback on your art, photos, writing or other creative output, then pay a visit to the For Critique...
If you’re after tough but fair feedback on your art, photos, writing or other creative output, then pay a visit to the For Critique forum. Most of RedBubble operates on the basic principle of “if you like something, say so. if you don’t, keep quiet”. But the For Critique forum is different. It’s a great spot to ask for criticism, feedback, and specific advice on how to improve your skills. Post a small image or link through to your writing, design or artwork …and write a few words about any specific things you’d like people to consider when critiquing your work. Or, if you know a thing or two about a particular area, then why not give others the benefit of your considered opinion? No doubt others have done the same for you in the past.
If Favorites could be used to communicate a little more about why we like what we like and group similar things together? What if we coul…
If Favorites could be used to communicate a little more about why we like what we like and group similar things together? What if we could tag our favorites with any words we wish and then others who look at our favorites could search through them using the tags? And what if you could write a general introduction for all of your favorites? I would love to support the artists I favorite more and I think these things would help with that. Plus I can be a neat freak and organization is always a ‘thing’ with us. Red Bubble now allows voting on suggestions. If you like this idea, please vote for it at Organize Favorites Make sure you vote by clicking on the blue VOTE link on that page. It is not enough just to post a comment there Thanks! Just a few of my favorites:
You might not know it but actually there is a Feedback and Suggestions for RedBubble forum. You can find it here...
You might not know it but actually there is a Feedback and Suggestions for RedBubble forum. You can find it here Redbubble users can enter ideas into the forum to suggest improvements to how Redbubble works. Other Redbubble users can vote for the idea is they agree that it is a useful suggestion. I put a suggestion for Redbubble to improve finding images/works because I think at the moment the search function on Redbubble is very limited. I suggested the following: Buyers and users should be able to find stuff on RedBubble not only based on their tags. Results shouldn’t only show up ranked by RB popularity. Title, artist, groups that images are in, location, month/year of creation,month/year of being published on RedBubble, type of work (photo, painting, sketch), category, number of sales etc. etc. should be search-able fields. That would require some extra fields when uploading but that way you can also limit the number of tags needed for an image so I would suggest putting a maximum on them to ensure better tagging. If you think this is a useful suggestion please add your vote to it. Here is how to do it. Click on this link / You will be taken to a new page. See example below. On the left next to the title of the suggestion you will see a button with the total number of votes. Press on the orange part beneath it to cast your vote. Choice of 0 to 3 (3 preferred….) It takes 2 minutes of your time. This suggestion when accepted will save you a lot more time in the future!!! Favoriting this journal would be greatly appreciated as this helps to spread the word. Thanks a lot for your help.
The biggest advantage of adding ‘tags’ or ‘tagging’ your uploads to RedBubble is that you can group together certain types of photogr…
The biggest advantage of adding ‘tags’ or ‘tagging’ your uploads to RedBubble is that you can group together certain types of photographs. / ie. Landscape, Water Colour, Cartoons, Etc. To show you how this helps me, for the past three hours (between watching some television) I have been adding specific tags to my images. Consequently, I now have these ‘Series’ of related images. 1. Flowering Bulbs / 2. Kangaroo Island, April 2007 / 3. Kangaroo Island, April 2007 / 4. FlickrSA / 5. Landscape / 6. Architecture, Abstract / 7. Farm Machinery / 8. Beach, Kangaroo Island As you can see, tagging is important to get noticed. So here are a few ways to tag your work: 1. Don’t put in commas ( , )—just leave a space between each word. RB put the comma’s in automatically. 2. If you feel comfortable with worldwide recognition, Add your name. Either as separate words or conjoined. To join them, use an underscore and no spaces. / ie. Stephen_Mitchell / Otherwise, add your avatar. 2. The style of the image: / ie. black_and_white pens pencil isograph penmanship / ... and whatever else best describes the style of your work. 3. Location. / There are a lot of people on RB (and around the Internet) who’d probably love to discover these places or know of them. So add words that tell us where you were—the country, the town, even the railway station, etc. 4. Use descriptors. / Words that describe your emotions, the weather, the colour, the texture of the objects in the photograph. All these tags help your work to get noticed. / There maybe someone looking for a rainy afternoon on a railway station drawn with isograph pens ;) or wanting a computer wallpaper that’s vibrant red with bubbles. So those words are what they will search on, either here or on Google. Happy tagging!
Suggestion of the day to RB Admin. If any other exhibitors disagree or agree with my idea, please comment here! *I’d prefer the defaul…
Suggestion of the day to RB Admin. If any other exhibitors disagree or agree with my idea, please comment here! I’d prefer the default when opening the ‘purchase cart’ to be on the cards (the least expensive item) rather than framed options. This might seem mad, but there are two reasons: 1. We prefer more sales, rather than none at all. Some people may baulk at the prices of these framed images – even though they are fair and reasonable!! So let them see the cards first. (Some people may prefer to purchase 50x$5 cards than purchase a $250 framed image.) / / 2. I had someone say, “Hang on, this says ‘From $3’ – but I don’t see anything under a $100.” They simply didn’t see the choices of frames, canvas, etc. They arrived at the first screen and figured that was all there was.
Tequila Sunset featured by the “Experimental Photography and E…
Tequila Sunset featured by the Experimental Photography and Editing group. Thanks to the hosts for considering this work worthy of a feature. I have decided that it might be nice to post a message below any comments I make in future such as this….. Instead of replying to this comment please visit the brilliant artwork of Linaji a valued member of my watchlist. Of course I will select a different member of my watchlist to be featured. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? OK there was no important news, just the message idea :P
I am rewarding myself for all my hard studying and working by having a few days at Uluru in early August. The thing is, I keep gettin…
I am rewarding myself for all my hard studying and working by having a few days at Uluru in early August. The thing is, I keep getting conflicting advice from people such as… / 1) The rock looks stunning all the time in all sorts of light / 2) The rock only lights up and looks fantastic for about 10 minutes at sunrise and sunset / 3) Don’t take you best camera because it is doomed due to all the dust and grit in the air / 4) Take your best camera because you will regret it if you don’t / 5) Do a tour to find the best spots (photographically speaking) / 6) Take yourself to the rock to find the best spots (photographically speaking) / 7) Find a local to show you the best spots (photographically speaking) So who can lend me some realistic advice on how to structure my time there to best suit my photographic endevours?
Hi everyone… yes, I am in the market for a digital SLR. As a recent purist SLR convert all my digitals have been captured on a little …
Hi everyone… yes, I am in the market for a digital SLR. As a recent purist SLR convert all my digitals have been captured on a little Kodak imageshare camera that I bought “just to see what this digital busines was all about” Now that I am back into my photography I am ready to take the leap and am on the hunt for a digital SLR. I would love to hear about YOUR camera and what makes it so fantastic for you…
When I check back in I like to look at the new stuff put on by others. It’s good to see what else is going on and hey, I might even lear…
When I check back in I like to look at the new stuff put on by others. It’s good to see what else is going on and hey, I might even learn something. So I’m leaving comments and so forth and it’s great. I guess this is the key to RedBubble. It works best when people collaborate in this way. Only by getting feedback can we improve. I certainly don’t have loads of friends logging on and backing me up with pictures and I suspect that others are in that situation too. So when I visit someone’s page because I have noticed a new picture added that strikes my eye, I make sure I review all their other pictures. Usually I try to leave at least one comment although some people are so good that I literally dont have time to comment on all their work. I hope my comments are helpful to others and that we can all, as a community, boister each other as a co-operative rather than competition. Any other views on this?
Because the forums are filled to the brim (if it had sound, it would be like a beehive with the lid off!), this is my preferred medium …
Because the forums are filled to the brim (if it had sound, it would be like a beehive with the lid off!), this is my preferred medium to send my message. IDEA: I’d like to be able to put descriptions and tags on multiple photographs. / Rather than having to go through ALL 200 photographs (which take hours), an option to CTRL and hold several images at once, then send the same tags and description, would be most beneficial. Tagging would be easier with choices of word already used, similar to http://del.icio.us/ allows. What I’d really like to be able to do is add/adjust the description field of multiple photographs. I don’t know of any site that does that already. I’m sure you know exactly what I mean, so I won’t describe it any further. All thoughts from fellow artists welcomed on this. I look forward to any response on this idea.
Hi all who read and posted suggestions into my last journal / / Running Mojo...
Hi all who read and posted suggestions into my last journal / / Running Mojo / / and of course – to everyone who didnt – a big Hi to you all too. / / I have looked through the journal this morning, having been unable to participate much in the last few days, and I have to say – what an inspiring bunch of people you all are – thank you all for your suggestions. I am so thrilled with the reponse, I have decided to take on all the suggestions, as a little project over the next few months – and I will be slotting things in around my other usual work. / / So here is what will become – the Running Mojo Series. / / lumineux suggested / There’s always the next image make over for Darren.. / / Darrens response was / hey leave me out of it lololol i will give you a pick if you like but not of me / / so Darren – I will be contacting you to get that pick ok. I also would like to include Lumineux’s suggestion though, so I will contact you about that [wit hy whip in hand LOL] / / Richard Veal suggested / How about doing a project IN the steel works ?? I already have one pic in the wales group, but why not write to then, get a Hi Viz Vest, and hard hat, and go round the works for a day or 2. Or spend a day at the Mountain Biking Centre past where Brian lives. Cant think of the name at the mo. Get candids of the bikers/bikes etc. / / Great suggestion Richard – I cant get into the steel works, but I sure may be able to get close, so this one is in the series. / / Tomg suggested / How about my Lazing the day away? / I think it wood look cool if you replaced the sun worshipers with a sunning dragon. / Tom / / Yep – this one is a WIP Tom, so keep your eye on your email! / / Apeart suggested / Well Jul, I have another creature who requires a black backgroud / / These are also WIP, so keep your eye out for them in your email Jane – these wont be part of the mojo series, but you will be able to see them in Janes portfolio when they are done. / / Faizan suggested / I had written this title in my notebook for a future piece of work but it might start you on something :D “Highly Dangerous / / This one, is just too enticing to resist – There may be a few on this line appearing in the series. / / Christina Martin suggested / turn left and the first thing you see is your project! and Environmental Awareness is always a good project Well, I dont know how interesting the kitchen bin can be – but I sure will try. As for Environmental Awareness – this is always worthy, so this is in as well / / Hilary Dougill suggested / Sweetheart, anything you want to play with on my site,feel free and help yourself / / Thanks Hilary, I would be honoured to use one of your fine pieces – I will be in touch ok ECGardner suggested / How about a book on Photoshop? :) / / Thanks Erin – this will be my longer term project, but I will include some tutorials in this series as I work. / / budrfli suggested / pick one of mine if you like :O) and teach me something! always ready to learn more / / Would be honoured Sandy, and whatever I use, I will create a tutorial as I work on it – just for you [which you can then share if you want] / / Karen Martin suggested / If you want to play around with any of my work let me know / / I sure would love that Karen, your work is brilliant – I will be in touch / / Cynthia Adams suggested / Mine too Julie…anything you want is fine with me…xxxxxx / / Thanks Cynthia – this would be an honour as you work is also brilliant – I will be in touch / / Andy Reeve suggested / photograph your mojo when you find it. That could be a first. LOL. / (That’s odd the word ‘mojo’ isn’t in my dictionary.) / / LOL Andy – ok – I will make it my personal priority to try and create an image of My Mojo / / Anthony Hedger suggested / Hey Julie, do you remember my shot Freaky Fruit Face, why not try a fun still life shot like that? / / Will do Tony – still life isnt usually my thing, but I will give it a go / / Elaine Van Dyk suggested / Julie, for something different, have you tried writing two columns of words, one column with nouns, the other with verbs, then closing your eyes and using a pencil to point or select a word from each column? Sort of like “pin the tail on the donkey” – but picking words instead, and using these two words to create an image. It’s a very interesting exercise, if nothing else. But whatever, or however you go about it, good luck with regaining your mojo! For a creative person a “mojo-less” state is an awful place to be stuck. / / I am definately going to use this idea Elaine – it will be very interesting to see what I come up with. / / Thanks again all for these great ideas – you are all such awesome people – Love you all / / Jul
a NEXT button (DONE) / when previewing other peoples creative collection, it would be nice to have a next and previous navigation butto…
a NEXT button (DONE) / when previewing other peoples creative collection, it would be nice to have a next and previous navigation button, so its easy to browse thru peoples stuff. a SLIDESHOW option / it’d be nice to be able to sit back and preview peoples things thru a slideshow type thang.. EDIT/DELETE buttons in Comments / To be able to edit comments from typo mistakes or even delete message (for example, i mistakenly double posted a comment whilst lookin thru someones works, but couldnt delete the 2nd mistaken comment. Also i think we should be able to delete comments by others in our gallery that we dont want – or at least be given the option. / / REPOST button (DONE) / Sometimes we have updated our works (or have a larger one to post) so instead of having to delete post and post the updated one (and having to tag and rewrite)—it would be nice to be able to reupload Private Messaging/Email to other RB members (DONE, but quite primitive) / at the moment, i dont think i can send a message to any members, other than directly to their comment box – so be nice to have the option to be able to comment or say something to members without the whole world seeing it.. New comments, View count (DONE) / Be good to be able to see in one glance if we have new comments to our creative works and also viewcount of each submission Subfolders Be good to be able to put our works into subfolders in our gallery – so that we can have better management in displaying our work (eg: Black & White, Manipulations, Nightshots, Landscapes, etc) I acknowledge RedBubble is still a baby—but i thought id start a wishlist anyways… * GriNS *
I’ve been looking around on redbubble and I’m starting to think I might have become obsessed with the site, I love to see what everyone e…
I’ve been looking around on redbubble and I’m starting to think I might have become obsessed with the site, I love to see what everyone else produces and I was blown away with a lot of the photos of different places in Australia… all of you are making me want to go there just so I can have wonderful images like yours. The amazing colors in all of your shots astound me! The reason I am writing a blog now is because I wanted to know what other people think as to what makes a good photograph? What are certain things that pull you in to the photo? What attracted you in the first place… What do you like most about black and whites? and what are somethings that you would like to see more of? I have this aching feeling of wanting to go out and shoot something… I guess I’ve just become inspired by all of you! (This site really is wonderful!) Any suggestions to help a fellow photographer to improve are more than welcomed and appreciated. Thank you!
260 total, 20,000 views, and 4 sales! Anyone have any suggests on what may be more appealing to the public eye so I can create imagery…
260 total, 20,000 views, and 4 sales! Anyone have any suggests on what may be more appealing to the public eye so I can create imagery that sales?? / Anything I have created in the Past that really stood out for them, and I should focus more on in creating? I’m open to suggestions! Thanks / Lisa
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