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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo  thinking about starting up a photoblog or fb page.. dunno if it's worth it. Any thoughts? | It's great, you'll/might get more exposed. But make sure to make your watermarking obvious along with some Meta data or whateever. Ask Tomasz for advice lol Posted via RS Mobile | 
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10-15-2012, 08:33 PM
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I'd love to know what you guys use to build some of your photo blogs. I'm not used to much other than Wordpress and I'd love to overhaul my photo site.
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10-15-2012, 09:13 PM
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I've heard good things about Wix.
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10-15-2012, 09:54 PM
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#2104 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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I use wordpress for artofstance and my personal photoblog
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10-17-2012, 06:44 PM
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#2105 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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10-18-2012, 08:55 PM
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#2106 | | Throw yo paws in da air!
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been wanting to a buy a filter for my tokina 11-16 and ive been trying to look online whats best out there...do you guys personally have any recommendations? been looking more into cpl filters, altho i keep hearing that it can really mess up the picture with the "too blue" effect on one side
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10-18-2012, 09:05 PM
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#2107 | | resident Oil Guru
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for wide angle lens like the 11-16mm a CPL can work against you since the field of view is so wide... ya exactly the blue will be uneven..
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10-25-2012, 12:05 AM
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Had to chuck these today. Some old Nikon bodies, shitty lenses, a 17-55mm f2.8 & four 70-200mm f2.8 VRI. All deemed unrepairable by Nikon Canada. 
***Oh, and don't bother dumpster diving behind my store, they have been taken to be recycled.
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10-25-2012, 12:44 AM
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#2109 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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grk..wkker....*eye twitch* oh well =(
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10-26-2012, 12:07 PM
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Thinking of moving my sites to Squarespace. $8 per month if you pay for a year. Rather intuitive WSYIWYG page editor.
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10-28-2012, 12:13 PM
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11-04-2012, 01:56 PM
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#2112 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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So I've been reading up on the differences between T3i and T4i and the two that stand out to me that the T4i has that the 3 does not are the stereo microphone as opposed to mono, as well as continuous auto focus in video while the 3 is all manual focus?
Seems like these two features alone are kind of worth the extra dough if I'm going to be taking much video with the camera no?
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11-04-2012, 10:38 PM
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#2113 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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T2i has the same sensor than the t3i if you wana save cash.
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11-05-2012, 01:20 PM
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#2114 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer So I've been reading up on the differences between T3i and T4i and the two that stand out to me that the T4i has that the 3 does not are the stereo microphone as opposed to mono, as well as continuous auto focus in video while the 3 is all manual focus?
Seems like these two features alone are kind of worth the extra dough if I'm going to be taking much video with the camera no?
Posted via RS Mobile | With the T4i, you will also need a "STM" Lens for autofocus during video to work smoothly
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11-07-2012, 12:07 PM
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#2115 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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So I got a message through Flickr regarding one of my photos. How would you guys proceed?
"Hi Bill,
My name is Christopher Grose, I'm an Art Director in Vancouver. I'm writing to you in regards to one your photos of the Lions Gate Bridge, specifically: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djmatsuda/3821934201/
I'm working on a project right now where we will be printing large 12ft x 8ft wall vinyls of iconic Vancouver landmarks and I think your photo would work perfectly. Is your photo under any kind of usage restriction or has royalties? Could you please let me know if you would be willing to let me use it for the project, and if you have a min 300dpi lossless file of it? If you could email me directly at ****@ea.com I'd really appreciate it!
Hope to hear from you."
I'm a bit uneasy to send a high res file and not sure if/how to ask for compensation
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11-07-2012, 01:47 PM
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#2116 | | Kick' In' Duh' Bass
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^ I had a teacher contact me from the Institute of Quebec on Flickr. She was also interested in my picture to use for an instructional document. We chatted on the phone, agreed to a payment and boom. I now have one my pics on 300 000 copies of some educational document in Quebec 
Ask him to call you and talk it over, make an agreement that works for u both. Its kinda like selling your art haha
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11-07-2012, 01:58 PM
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#2117 | | VLS Moderator
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Never, EVER send hi-res files before receiving payment. EVER. They're trying to dupe you into giving them a free image. Every time that happens, it contributes to the cheapening of the professional photography industry...and it's not fair to you.
A 12'x8' print? The amount you can charge fairly will depend on print quality and usage, but you should at least be able to easily charge $2,000+ if it is of fine art quality. Are they wanting to license your image for one time use, a limited edition, or an unlimited run? The amount you charge will be dependent on its use. As you are what is called an "unknown," you won't be able to charge as much as Jeff Wall, so maybe $500 for a (12'x8') print intended for one time use is fair. I dunno...I asked for and got $2000+ for an 8'x2' print, but this was a fine art quality print.
The art market is fickle in that the camera used to make the image also counts in the final price even if in the final print you can't see a difference. Let's say one makes a 4'x5' print from a Canon 5DmkII, and another guy makes the exact same print shot at the same time with a Phase One IQ180 80MP medium format camera, you can expect to get more money with the Phase One print. Even though the detail level on such a relatively small print is indistinguishable. Yes, there may be differences in tonality, but let's not go there just for this argument.
This is why I hate flikr, and I don't know of any big name highly successful professional photographers in my client pool who use flikr.
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11-07-2012, 02:55 PM
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#2118 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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I looked up the guy's name and he's apparently an art director for Electronic Arts. Thanks for your advice guys
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11-07-2012, 03:05 PM
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EA has lots of money - dont let them rip you off. As long as you get what you think is a fair price, everything will be fine in the end, but don't give it to them for free.
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11-07-2012, 03:32 PM
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#2120 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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| Canadian Photogs Now Officially Own the Copyright to All of Their Photos partial quote from the link above, which was posted this morning: Quote:
A big win for photographers in Canada: as of today, you now officially own the copyright to all your photographs regardless of whether they were commissioned. The development comes as a result of Canada major copyright reform bill (Bill C-11) taking effect this morning. One of the stated goals of the new copyright law is to, “give photographers the same rights as other creators.”
In an email just sent out to member photographers, Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators (CAPIC) copyright head André Cornellier writes,
The principle of protecting photographers’ ownership rights started 65 years ago by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who founded Magnum with Robert Capa and David Seymour. Magnum assured that a photographer’s image belonged to the photographer and not to the commissioner of the work.
In Canada, all other artists have already owned the copyrights to their work and thanks to this new law, Canadian photographers, albeit the last in the industrialized world, now have all legal rights to their images.
Previously, photographers were not automatically the first owners of their photographs when shooting commissioned work, but instead it was the individuals or businesses that commissioned the images who owned the copyrights. Section 13(2) of the Canadian Copyright Act specifically singled out photography as being different than other creative works.
Photographers who wanted to own the full copyrights of their work were required to have the transfer explicitly agreed upon in a written and signed contract.
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11-07-2012, 07:37 PM
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Sigma making an AF 35mm f1.4!
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11-11-2012, 08:33 AM
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#2122 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Has anyone here had any experience with Canon 50mm F1.0L?
My colleague's dad, a soon-to-retire pro-photog is selling his entire Canon equipments and moving to lighter Leica setup. I was gonna pick up a 5D MKII for some (relatively) cheap movie setup from him and this lens caught my eye and arm (it's humongous and weight at least 2lb).
He's asking 2.5k (he originally paid over 4k back in the early 90s according to the receipt  ) if I get it with the 5D. But reviews on the internet seems to be rather negative about this particular model. Admittedly, I'm a gearwhore, but I don't really want a 2.5k crappy lens as it's almost as much as other great/rare lenses like Nikon Noct.
Opinions?
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11-11-2012, 09:16 AM
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Save your money and buy a new 50mm f1.2L instead.
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11-11-2012, 02:40 PM
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#2124 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Senna4ever Save your money and buy a new 50mm f1.2L instead. | That's what most people on their review seems to recommend. 
I did some googling this afternoon and found out that this thing is fetching for ridiculous prices on fleebay!
I think I might as well get it and flip for some profit to buy a 35L... 
I will post some pics when I get it.
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11-11-2012, 09:19 PM
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#2125 | | VLS Moderator
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The 50mm f1.2L isn't very sharp wide open either, but it does have a magical quality to it though. I've tested the 50mm f1.2L & 50mm f1.4 side by side, and the 50L has noticeably smoother bokeh at equivalent apertures. Well, I should hope so, as it costs about 4 times more than the f1.4!
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