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433 Forum reputation = neutralAbout Martin Carlsson
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http://www.carlssoninc.se
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Male
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Floda, Sweden
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Interests
Above and beyond everything else, my family.
My work and passion - photography. Always had an interest in both stills and motion, but since late 90's early 2000 photography became a passion and eventually also my work.
Alamy
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Alamy URL
https://www.alamy.com/contrib-browse.asp?cid={2EE96F55-032F-4DDB-B021-8B9724C1D2D1}&name=Martin+Carlsson
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Joined Alamy
27 Jun 2004
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Did the same thing (live chat). Free of charge they cancelled my two current subscriptions, CC Photography Plan and a single-app subscription for Premiere Pro. Instead I got the CC All Apps (really wanted to get After Effects) for almost half of previous total cost, as well as three months (90 days) totally free. Adobe are very understanding and accommodating. Did the same thing with the bank, whom cancelled some service fees until after the summer. Sitting on the board of a quite well-off (a bit too much in the coffers currently) home-owner-association (a peculiar typ
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Got Arrested
Martin Carlsson replied to Pekka Liukkonen's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Ouch! Doesn't Finnish law require the Police to inform you at the time of a arrest what you're arrested for? Never had any issues with Police nowhere whilst working, which is mainly London, England, Scotland and now Sweden. -
Updates Explained! - Photoshop 2020
Martin Carlsson replied to Rico's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
You can change playback speed. Click the "cog" symbol (settings), then change "Playback Speed" to your liking. -
DSLR Camera Recommendation
Martin Carlsson replied to jcampo's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Canon 5D Mark IV which is perfect, but big and "suspicious", wanting to "scale back a bit", so consider going mirrorless - frontrunner being the Fujifilm X-T2 or X-T3, but also considering Sony RX-10 or even RX-100. We'll see. -
Are Alamy stock photographers all ages?
Martin Carlsson replied to geogphotos's question in Community support: ask the forum
Started with stock at the age of 29, back in 2003 - blink and now I am 45! It has always been tumultuous, as well as imminent doom and gloom from the start! Oddly enough, this summer there wasn't the usual summer slow down, so actually my "indicators" are positive, been a while! Don't know what the future holds, take it year by year, trying to not stress hahah. -
Monitor calibration
Martin Carlsson replied to Stephen Dwyer's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
another vote for the X-Rite i1Display Pro, way better then the Spyder Express that I had before. The i1 does a great job of calibrating a dual screen setup, a bit of a challenging dual screen set up with one wide-gamut full HD Dell monitor and the other one being a 4K Benq rec709/sRGB monitor. Re-calibrate about every 2 months. The i1 can basically calibrate anything with a screen, so even calibrated computer connected TVs, which was a revelation in terms of betterment of colours and contrast etc. -
Have for as long as I can remember had Lightroom set to automatically convert RAWs to DNGs at import, together with some basic metadata. DNGs with everything embedded into them, both images edits/setting, as well as metadata, has caused zero issues compared to back in the days when lost sidecar files threw spanners in the works from time to time. This works great, especially if working on multiple computers. I don't embed the RAW in the DNG.
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Views to Zooms to Sales Ratio
Martin Carlsson replied to John J Bloomfield's question in Community support: ask the forum
About 65% of zooms convert into sales, a number that has been increasing over the last 2-3 years. -
Views to Zooms to Sales Ratio
Martin Carlsson replied to John J Bloomfield's question in Community support: ask the forum
- Definitely a correlation between views/zooms and sales. - More uploads = more views, zooms and sales. -
Live news
Martin Carlsson replied to Alex Ramsay's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Pretty sure that Alamy is reasonable with granting access for those that potentially could submit newsworthy images. Think it is good if they increase the "standards" a bit and becoming more competitive. Perhaps moving away from the frequent "could be any day really" weather images? Personally, I hope that they are making headway in their reach outside of the UK i.e. with other national or regional news images. -
If wanting full-frame I would just go backwards within the Canon 5D original to Mark IV lineup until within budget... The original 5D is missed, a truly great camera to this day - I still edit or re-edit raw images from it and it has big beautiful pictures with an organic look/feel to it. However, I'm biased, been a Canon 1D and 5D line-up loyal for a long long time, with a few sprinkles of APS-C ones as side-kick "convenience camera" or backup, currently on the 5D Mark IV which is an absolutely fantastic workhorse camera, capable of everything and muscle memory from having been wi
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I agree with the others here that you're slightly confusing as you state "First Batch Submission" in the title for the thread + there are 0 images in your portfolio + joined late last year = that would very strongly indicate that this would be your first assessment submission - but you're saying this is all wrong and you've been contributing, with success for a while and know how it works - I'll take your word for it. So if this is a regular submission - if in Alamy Image Manager you click in on the the submission it probably stated "One or or more..." on most images, but isn't the
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f4 zoom vs 1.8 prime
Martin Carlsson replied to DJ72's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Re. "f/4 and beyond". Don't know exactly why, but on a full frame I tend to find the too shallow depth of field just too gimmicky in many cases. Sure it can look great sometimes and has it's place, but personally I think I care less about effect and more about the image as a whole. Also, depending on the situation you might want to have a bit of critical sharpness "cushion" around whatever you intend to lay the focus on, the less controlled environment the more you may need. f/1.2-f/2.8 can be very very shallow and if not places exactly right, especially on high resolution cameras, the image i -
f4 zoom vs 1.8 prime
Martin Carlsson replied to DJ72's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
After many years of swapping around both brands, primes vs zooms, max aperture speeds etc. I settled on an all stabilised Canon L lens line-up of 16-35L f/4 IS, 24-70L f/4 IS (with useful macro function) and the 70-200L f/4 IS. Currently used with a Canon 5D Mark IV. All these lenses are fantastically real life sharp, especially the 16-35 is an amazing lens, super-sharp corner to corner - replaced my much loved, but soft-cornered 16-35L f/2.8 II. Today, with modern lenses there is negligible trade-off going with a zoom instead of a prime, so why not choose convenience? I also used