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Chuck Nacke

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    Boston, MA, USA
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    Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad....

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  1. Alex, I would agree with those who wrote "Let Alamy deal with it." Chuck
  2. Betty, Yes, the Bridge, not an Adobe product, collapse is a sad story, BUT it was not even close to Boston, that bridge is in Baltimore, Maryland. 400 miles (644km in the rest of the world) to the South. Chuck
  3. All of the "Professionals" I know well use Photo Mechanic, I don't. Selecting images is a skill that can only come or be developed from experience. Keeping in mind that I am a something of a "dinosaur" and still working on a PC. My current workflow is to view RAW images in Bridge and move my selections to another folder before going into LR for color, spotting and final corrections. From LR my selects become 16bit aRGB TIFFs for final touches and then back to Bridge to make final selections. Lastly back to PS to drop down to 8bit JPEGs in aRGB and to do the captions and keywords. That is just the way I do it and not the only way to do "Editing." I do miss the days of film when I had a bar next door to my film processing lab in San Francisco, CA. I had a light table at the bar and the lab would bring my processed chromes to the bar. With my light table on the bar and a dry vodka martini in my right hand I could edit, sleeve and caption, handwritten on agency envelopes, my shoot. Next door to the bar was FEDex (Federal Express back then) and off my film would go. The lab, the bar and film are gone. I do not drink alcohol anymore and I've gotten a few decades older. Lastly since another thread has been closed, Monday I had a wonderful day of skiing in the sun and discovered that I'm too old to ski the steep bumps all day....... Chuck
  4. Well, ski season in the US NE is almost over, guess I will need to find another place next season to post about my weekends skiing...... Yea I did find the thread amusing and sorry to see it go. Chuck
  5. Don't know if this is connected, but I've been having difficulties with the Alamy.com site loading for some time, this is using a PC (desktop) Laptop and my iPhone. Also seen a change in the updating of several of the pages on the site? Chuck
  6. My God, With all of the events going on in the world right now, THIS? Looks like The Palace should hire Alamy QC to check images before they send them out..... Chuck
  7. Rubens and all, While I appreciate all the work Rubens put into coming up with these numbers, I do have a problem, just me and the way I've been for decades. I've been contributing to Alamy for nearly twenty years and I had a number of licenses (most call them sales, but I do not sell images) with less than 300 images online with Alamy. From my experience, IT IS NOT THE NUMBER OF IMAGES A CONTRIBUTOR HAS ONLINE, BUT THE IMAGES, THE KEYWORDING AND CAPTION INFORMATION." I've also been in the photo agency business for more than 40 years with a number of U.S. and international photo agencies and libraries. Keep in mind that for most of that time I was dealing with news images and have taken and seen news images that have generated over $100,000.00 per image in licensing for one-time use. In my opinion it is a disservice to propagate the idea that income on Alamy or in stock photography in general is "simply a numbers game" It is about images and information. While I have written many times that I believe Alamy could be doing a better job of getting higher licensing fees for images. When I started contributing to Alamy in the 00's my average license fee was over $400.00 per image, after Alamy's commission. In the 20's I've seen that drop to around $30.00 but the number of images that I have online with Alamy has increased as well as the number of licenses that Alamy is generating. I would prefer fewer licenses for much higher fees. Another fact to keep in mind is that the number of general circulation print magazines has gone down dramatically during the last couple of decades. Just my thoughts, now I am going to go back to thinking about my sore muscles, I just spent the day skiing in the sunshine. Chuck
  8. Feb. was just OK, more than ten and a nice xxx fee for an infringement. I would like to see Alamy putting a premium for fees on very rare or hard to get images? but I've written and talked about that enough. Chuck
  9. John, Very nice images and they mostly look fine on my screen, but I do like darker images. My main suggestion is to add more LOCATION information. I often take a cell phone photo at the same time, just to get the GPS data. I often research the date of construction and important details of buildings and highways to my longer caption information. As per reloading images. I mostly upload a single image at a time, there can be a real change going from my original 16bit aRGB TIFF to a 8bit JPEG and then the way it displays on the Alamy site, I do check and try to compensate for those shifts. Welcome and happy New Year, Chuck
  10. Years ago, decades, we duplicated 35mm slides for reproduction using Bowens Illumitrans. I'm sure that I could have made modifications to the central post to use my NIKON D800s to duplicate slides, but as I have written, I prefer to scan them. I do not use any auto retouching when I scan. Clean chromes with PEC-12. Currently using my old Canon FS 4000 connected a new PC running Win 11 and ViewScan to communicate with scanner. I also downsize most scan to 5000 X. Chuck
  11. I don't know how many times I've responded to "Slide and Negative Scanning" and I'm still scanning 35mm chromes and a few color negatives using my old Canon FS 4000 and all six of my licenses so far in Dec. 23 are images scanned from 35mm either E-6 or C-41 film. I've gotten much faster scanning are retouching. I bought a perfect Illumitron with three excellent lenses and I was never happy with the results, using a D800e. The only time I've been happy with photographing chromes with a DSLR has been old 120s. Kodachrome is a pain to work with, but the old Kodak EPP (100ASA daylight) 35mm E-6 scans really well for me. Chuck
  12. This is sort of going sideways. Some of the things that I wrote are being misinterpreted. By not getting images "Out Fast" I did not in any way mean not uploading via Live News. I was one of the first contributors invited to upload to live news on Alamy year ago. What I meant is that I make sure to edit (select) images and get all the information I can about the event that I photographed before I caption and upload images. Wire or newspaper photographers upload from the scene often using prewritten captions. Tripods at Demos are a VERY BAD IDEA, Period. Monopods come in handy, but I've rarely put a camera on one. I also do not "introduce myself" I only respond when someone asks me a question. I also DO NOT ASK before I photograph someone at a public demonstration. It might be a good idea for someone from Live News to contribute to this thread. Chuck
  13. Well Kristin, As someone who has covered many demonstrations in the Bay Area in the 80's & 90's and around the world. The best advice I would give, if I was asked? Is get the facts, Who, What and Why are people in the street or at a location? I also have rarely try to get the photo out fast, unless there is a very valid reason to do so. AP and the wires will always get images out quicker. I've always try to make images that illustrate the story for the long term. I always try to communicate with people and NEVER misrepresent myself or who I am or what I am doing. I also now do not ask people for their full names as I would have in the past. I now just use first name, age and location (general town or area) person resides. As a rule smiling happy protesters do not make good images, the back of people's heads tend not to work well. I also avoid images that show many different issues I.E. Anti-War and Pro Choice, etc. Lastly, I try to edit very tightly. Keep in mind that I do have a degree in journalism and years ago worked mostly on assignment for the weekly news magazines or for the major news photo agencies. With all this in mind, many of my demonstration, protest images from the 80's, 90's etc. still are licensed now via Alamy. Chuck aka still the original one
  14. No Mltz, I never said that photos were licensed based on the literary quality of the text accompanying them. It is obvious that you have never read 'Elements of Style' it is not about prose. I do have a degree in journalism, don't hold that against me, but I try to keep it short, accurate and informative. The IPTC information is only to help image editors, the people that license images from stock agencies, find the image that illustrates their story. Chuck
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