Безенчук писал(а):
Поясните, что понимается по термином "калибровка фото"?
У меня вот есть две версии 1 картинки - одна "подкручена" в raw ББ "как бы утреннее солнышко", вторая - "нормальный дневной свет".
Обе продаются с примерно равной популярностью. - Или это не то?
А вы читали ?
..............................................
Clearing out rumours and a lot of FAQ
Nov 5/06, 21:40
Q: Are you the most downloaded stock photographer in the world?A: No! I’m working on that. My good friend Andreas Rodriguez is currently the most downloaded, which places me as the world's second most downloaded stock photographer. Q: Are you yourself involved in a stocksite. A: No! Many upstarting microstock sites have offered me a wide range of involvement in their business. I was almost talked into cooperating with one, but declined due to the possible complications that would transpire as a contributing stock photographer at other microstock sites. I am currently and will always be ONLY a practicing photographer in this business. Q: Can I join your yahoo newsgroup “microstock news”?A: It depends, but probably yes. Q: Do you really take all these pictures yourself?A: Yes, but I have two full-time assistants (one American and another Danish) that edit, title, keyword, upload, categorize, and handle model releases for me. Q: Your models are so beautiful - are they your friends or are they professional models. A: I’m way past the time when I could use my friends as models. I hire professional models and sometimes scout … more Q: Are you the most downloaded stock photographer in the world?
A: No! I’m working on that. My good friend Andreas Rodriguez is currently the most downloaded, which places me as the world's second most downloaded stock photographer.
Q: Are you yourself involved in a stocksite.
A: No! Many upstarting microstock sites have offered me a wide range of involvement in their business. I was almost talked into cooperating with one, but declined due to the possible complications that would transpire as a contributing stock photographer at other microstock sites. I am currently and will always be ONLY a practicing photographer in this business.
Q: Can I join your yahoo newsgroup “microstock news”?
A: It depends, but probably yes.
Q: Do you really take all these pictures yourself?
A: Yes, but I have two full-time assistants (one American and another Danish) that edit, title, keyword, upload, categorize, and handle model releases for me.
Q: Your models are so beautiful - are they your friends or are they professional models.
A: I’m way past the time when I could use my friends as models. I hire professional models and sometimes scout them myself. Because my website offers an “apply as a model” instruction, I am blessed with about 2 – 3 of these applications per day.
What’s your specialty, how are you different?
I try to produce as many “mega” hits as I can. If you navigate to istocks top 50 most downloaded pictures you will find several of my pictures. I am currently the only photographer that have more than one picture on the top 50 at the same time. Each picture I produce will in average be sold more than 400 times worldwide in one year.
What’s your workflow?
Produce RAWs.
Selecting away “out of focus” and test pictures.
Selecting RAWs for development as 16bit tiffs.
First assistant cleans tiffs. (sensor dust, facial impurities and small dust particles)
Cleaning is checked by second assistant.
Second editing is done by second assistant
Second editing is checked by Yuri Arcurs.
Yuri Arcurs performs third editing if any is needed.
All files are gathered in a calibration folder.
All files are saturation, white balance, and exposure calibrated by Yuri Arcurs.
Files are put in “needs keywording” folder.
Files get narrated by freelancer. (title, keywords and description).
Narrating is checked by Yuri Arcurs.
Files are then saved as a Tiff with layers and as a Jpg (12) and put in batches for upload.
When we have 50 files in a batch, we upload it to all sites.
My two Freelance uploaders takes care of the rest. To get this machine running it takes 6 freelancers and 2 fulltime assistants + Me
Q: How can you
be the second most downloading stock photographer and only have so few
files/downloads at istock.
A: Because of
Istocks upload-limit policy I cannot upload more then about 30% of the pictures
I actually produce, which leaves me with a queue of over 2000 pictures that haven’t
been uploaded to Istock. My ranking is based on world-wide sales on over 16
other stocksites, and on the knowledge of who my competitors are.
Q: Can I get some private information about your models - telephone numbers, etc.
A: Depending on the nature of your interest – Yes. If your intentions are not professional, I will never let such information out.
Q: Since you are a “micro”stock photographer, you must be an amateur and can’t be that expensive to hire - right?
A: DO NOT contact me about sessions or special shots that you would like me to do if you are not willing to pay a normal high class photographer's price. I take around $6,000 for a full day shoot, and because I have so much demand, I allow myself to choose which offers I want to take. I end up doing only one third of the full day jobs that I am offered.
Q: Do you have any nude shots of you models.
A: No.
Q: How do you get your pictures so bright and light?
A: That’s my secret! But I can assure you that it takes patience and costs a lot of money in lighting equipment. I basically experiment with the light at a location until I’m satisfied. Sometimes my models have to wait for hours because I’m not quite satisfied.
Q: Are your pictures ever rejected?
A: Yes. A month's batch consists of about 400 pictures and approximately 5 – 10 of those will be rejected on average. My philosopy is that even the most crazy rejection is based on something about the picture that seemed "off" or wrong to someone. That is valid critisicm that one must take seriously. Rejections are very bad for business, therefore I double and often triple check everything I submit.
Q: Is it true that you are a psychologist?
A: Yes. I will be finished with my studies soon.
Q: Do you complain about rejections.
A: Nope. Never. That takes too much time. Whenever possible, I try to learn from them. Basically I consider any criticism as good criticism. I don’t resubmit them either, because this too takes too much of my assistants' time.
Q: How much money do you get from being a stock photographer.
A: I don’t think that I’m the right person to answer this question. Being number two in the world makes it a very well paid profession, but very few people will ever get even close to the top 50. Being a top 50 micro stocker would probably provide one around $2,000 a month. This is NOT what I get.
Q: Are you a perfectionist?
A: Extremely so. From my own psychological point of view – close to pathological.
Q: Do you want to chat with me over messenger or skype, just so that we can get to know each other.
A: I hate to say no, but I really don’t have time for this.
Q: Are you an educated photographer?
A: Yes, I graduated from the Danish School of Photography in Aarhus back in 2000, where I was educated on film cameras.
Q: Do you work from home or do you have a real studio?
A: I rent a studio in Aarhus downtown where my assistants and I work from 0900 to 1800 nearly every day.
Q: How many shoots do you do in a normal week?
A: That depends on what my location scouts find and which models I can get a hold of. I would say I normally do around 4-6 shoots. less …
Вход
Регистрация
FAQ
Поиск
что ещё нужно все свои фотографии калибровать по цвету, чтоб всё портфолио было примерно одинаково по цвету, как говорится лучше поздно, чем не когда. Наши Гуру стоков видно это тоже активно используют в своих портфолио.
