Written by Bianca Gubalke
Communication Design, IT Consulting, Photo, Web Design Services, Ycademy, Yorgoopress
Aug 29, 2010
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Photographic Essay with Filters
As part of the Ycademy Seminar on Photo Media Stock, here is a Photographic Essay with Trees and Vines I captured on a rather overcast afternoon – it were the horizontals that interested me here, but I was not satisfied with the low light conditions. Let’s see, what we can create in a quick first shot using filters!
Photographic Essay with Filters
A fairylike version in soft blues of the same Photographic Essay with Filters – including the vignette:
I lost track of remembering the original . . .
But I do remember the cradle of a young, fresh Chardonnay tasting of rich pine needle soil and bursting with green Noordhoek Valley light!
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Photo Media Stock Seminar
The Photo Stock Media Seminar by Ycademy started yesterday with an introduction to “What is Stock Photography” and , within the context, what do we understand by “Royalty-free Stock Photography” versus “Rights-managed Photos”.
Many people assume that ‘royalty-free’ equates to ‘free’ – meaning one can grab any royalty-free photo – or other media for that matter – without payment… but this is not the case. You always pay a license fee on Photo Stock sites, but the price varies according to the rights of usage. For instance, if an exclusive right for a particluar photo is being bought for say a month – because that’s when the magazine comes out and is being sold… so the publisher wants THAT picture to feature there and nowhere else – then the price would be a very different one, understandably. After the paid time frame for the exclusive usage has expired, that photo may be put back into the ‘royalty-free’ pool – open to anyone again.
Photo Media Stock Seminar
It was made very clear during the Photo Media Stock Seminar that there is a huge market for Stock Photography and other Media Stock out there in the market – and increasingly so as everything is media-oriented. While there are massive and highly successful Stock Photo sites on the Internet, there is always room for new, fresh material – likened to’ leads’ that are being bought for instance by the business industry, especially also in MLM. The fresh leads are the hottest and – accordingly – the most expensive. Why? Leads are people who just showed their interest in what is being offered, possibly with their credit card between their teeth – so they don’t need convincing or persuasion, they know what they want… and if they see what they want where they are looking, they go for it.
The Semiomantics Advantage
While we may not be professional photographers – and I do believe there is no reason why anyone with a passion for digital photography and giving himself the means to improve and evolve cannot become a professional – we are extremely strong and professional in Online Publishing, firmly grounded in what I call “The Semiomantics Advantage”.
Being found on Google where people with a specific need or target are looking is what counts… and while the competition is huge, the brand-new kid on the bloc: PhotoMediaStock.com – has a long-term vision and will go for the Moon!
Here comes day 2 of the Ycademy Seminar August 2010…
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Photo Media Stock Preparation
Preparation is key to results and success; in this sense I have prepared for tonight’s important Ycademy Seminar Precall as laid out HERE.
If you click on the picture here – or on GALLERY HERE – you will see a slideshow consisting of a few pictures I selected under different testing aspects.
Photo Media Stock Preparation
As requested for calibration purposes of our Lightroom Pro we have to determine the weaknesses of our individual cameras… be it in the color, tone, contrast, sharpness for example …
I added a couple of pictures as follows:
~ Daylight inside, no flash
~ Daylight outside
~ Daylight outside in the shadow
~ Low light – before sunrise, at sunset, after sunset
~ Stills where I used a Flash inside.
I am looking forward to finding those little common denominators that would improve the quality of each picture automatically as we pull them into Lightroom.
Stock Photography
For Photo Media Stock we need sharp, well focused and attractive photos that buyers then turn into works of art or integrate parts of them according to their priorities, for instance in Advertising. That’s what they pay for.
It’s really important to differentiate clearly between these two caps: am I the seller or the buyer?
I am aware that as creative people and web designers we have to switch between both. This, however, is only possible if we understand and master the basic techniques – and that’s why tonight’s Training Call and the upcoming Ycademy Seminar are so critically important for all those with a passion for Digital Photography and a willingness to enter the competitive field of Stock Photography – even without being professional photographers.
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Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at
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Vouliagmeni Full-Moon
Shooting at the moon with a Point and Shoot camera is not an easy task and the limits of the camera become quickly obvious. Yesterday I have taken some shots as a test for tonight’s full-moon night.
This above is about as close as I got and I have tried out different settings.
How to take a picture of the Moon
Equipment used:
- Tripod
- Point and Shoot Camera
The canm used is a Leica V-Lux-20 with 12 MP on a 1/2.33 Sensor.
1. Automatic Settings
With automatic settings, the moon just came back as a white disc on a black background. The cam did not distinguish between the different shades and reliefs on the surface of the moon.
2. Zoom
The camera has optical and digital zoom systems as well as an extended optical zoom system.
The camera comes with a 12 x optical zoom and and extended optical zoom up to x 23.4. The extended optical zoom uses only a reduced part of the sensor to produce the picture. The photo can then be enlarged accordingly. The camera also uses an intelligent zoom system. This is a super resolution technology by which the zoom ratio can be increased by 1.3 times with about no deterioration of the picture quality.
Check out your camera menu, you may find iZoom or something similar there.
Make sure, when you shoot at the moon, that the macro zoom is switched off.
3. Manual Settings
In view of the limited zoom range and the small size of the sensor, I put the emphasis on settings where a maximum of quality (detail) is preserved, rather than on speed or zoom (size of the moon in the frame).
To achieve this and to prevent noise, I am a friend of low ISO numbers. Considering the use of a tripod, time is no problem, so if low ISO numbers trigger longer exposure, the tripod will prevent the shake effect.
The camera will consider the moon as a whole at infinite distance; blurs due to the spherical shape are not an issue with my material. However, too low F-stop numbers will increase exposure speed and from what my tests show, it’s preferable to compromise between aperture and speed.
I have started out with f/11 at 1/100 and I just got a white disc on black background.
The above shot shows a possible compromise:
- Aperture: f/4.9
- Exposure time: 1/250 s
- ISO speed: ISO-80
- Spot metering mode
- Focal length of 49 mm which is the equivalent of 399 mm in 35 mm format
- The program selector was on Aperture Priority.
The best advise is: start with some settings and then play with aperture and shutter speed moving them gradually and then select the best picture.
Blue Moon Vouliagmeni
The blue-moon has been achieved by tinting one of yesterday’s photos blue and by cleaning the whites.
More tomorrow.
| Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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Photo Stock Greek Church
Yesterday’s preparatory Training Call for the Ycademy Seminar on “Photo Media Stock – How to present and sell your photos, media, audios and videos online” focused on improving the original photo of a Greek Church that you see right at the bottom of this article, by using the Adjustment Tools in Photoshop CS4.
Here is my quick result…
Photo Stock Greek Church
Here below is the original Photo Stock Greek Church that needed a bit of punch, more definition in the mosaique and bricks, less ‘haze’ in the sky… and this without the windows disappearing into black holes… which they don’t if you enlarge the picture… but just… as I liked to sculpt with a bit more shadow. i could reduce it a tick… Question of feeling, mood and taste…
The professional buyer – be it an art director, a graphic artist or a web designer would perhaps push it all back a bit again, depending on the target. And bear in mind – here we talk Internet – not print.
The advantage of the original photo is that it’s sharp and well focused. Any professional can push it the way he or she wants it… so this was mainly an exercise also to get more familiar with the Adjustment Menu in Photoshop CS4 – which everybody followed with great enthusiasm … especially enjoying the forbidden paths of pushing personal creativity to the limits… Which we of course don’t show here where it’s all for… Photo Stock. So I never demonstrated it… did I?
Ycademy Seminar August 2010
If Digital Photography is something you enjoy and you wish to expand your knowledge in terms of how to present and sell your digital material online – possibly via Photo Media Stock – join us for the next Ycademy Seminar on 28 and 29 August 2010. Hurry – it’s almost sold out.
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