[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 3:35 pm

I love it! I think the vertical orientation works really well because that’s where your subject is looking (or not if you could hear snores..)
He’s pin-sharp, DOF is so shallow everything else is blurred and it’s such an unusual thing to find as your eyes run down the image it made me look twice to see exactly what it was.

Well done!

[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 3:24 pm

If only they were real people.. I do like the mixture of dark and bright though!

Donncha.

[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Love that first one, the background sets the scene and the smile on the bartender is a winner!

Unfortunately the subject of your second image is lost – the image is too busy. Crop it?

I really do like the first one though!

Donncha.

[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Use Flickr – believe it or not you can find people willing to buy images after finding them on flickr.com! I was contacted by an ad agency in the US a few months ago and they bought an image for a few hundred dollars.. Pity about the exchange rate though. :(

[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 3:05 pm

I use Backuppc to backup everything, my photos, home directory and websites onto an external 500GB disk but if you’re not familiar with Linu then don’t bother checking out http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Works a treat however!

[donncha]

June 5, 2007 at 2:58 pm

It’s 404’d already – they changed the layout of their site but the article can be found at http://ppmag.com/profit-center/article.php?article_id=2 instead.

I’m interested because I’m trying to put a price on limited edition prints for a gallery in Bandon – http://inphotos.org/the-gallery-ica-launched-on-friday/
Charge too much and nobody will buy but too little and your work is devalued and you aren’t doing justice to yourself.

This sentence from that article above is very important:

But having defined a niche and committed to refining their photographic style, the Waldens laid the foundation for a new and profitable business model, based not on pricing or customer need or a season of the year, but on the perceived value of their work.

The rest is a great read and shows it’s as much about marketing as photography. I got to get my thinking cap on!

Donncha.

[donncha]

January 19, 2007 at 10:14 am

Thanks Stasber! Unfortunately I’ll be in Waterford on Saturday talking at BarCamp SouthEast and after that I’ll be taking it easy for the weekend. My brother Donal might be interested. I’ll point him at this thread!

Donncha

[donncha]

January 18, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Thanks for the feedback! The first photo above is one of my favourite shots of 2006. The little girl in the dress is so unusual it appeals to me!

I must admit photo 2 is a bit of an experiment and followed my work on this shot. It looks unatural and fake but then it’s supposed to and I quite liked it. Not to everyone’s tastes of course.

[donncha]

October 15, 2006 at 8:32 pm

If you’d like to see what the GIMP is capable of, take a look at http://inphotos.org/ – all my photos are prepared and processed in the GIMP!