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Auto White Balance
Peter Noyce replied to Inchiquin's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
It's going to depend to an extent on the colour content of the scene. I believe cameras use some form of 'integration to grey' then neutralise that. So if your scene has a bias towards one colour the system is going to try to compensate - the temperature of the light falling on it becomes secondary. So grey card and set your balance either then or at the processing stage. -
Replacing images
Peter Noyce replied to Sultanpepa's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
AFAIK the swap takes place after QC. Reasonable as you could introduce artefacts during the reprocessing -
Digital Cyanotypes
Peter Noyce replied to John Mitchell's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
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Digital Cyanotypes
Peter Noyce replied to John Mitchell's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
LR and PS presets are a very time efficient way of creating cyanotypes, instagram, variations etc for images that you think would be more commercial for such treatments. Make your standard user preset to get you close then tweak the individual image. This is a tweaked from a preset I have created in LR http://goo.gl/XMk8PR -
Pleased you resolved your problem but such issues come under the heading of 'fair warning'. You have to have a regular (daily, every few days, whatever suits your activity level) back up routine. Anything you haven't backed up you must consider to be work you're happy to lose. The old adage is if it doesn't exist in three places it doesn't exist. So that's your working drive, your backup drive of your working drive and your backup of your backup drive which really should be in a different building. So thank the gods of the dreaded seagate tick that all this caused is a few more worry
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Am I on the right track?
Peter Noyce replied to modernway's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I'd also be careful on onward supposition keywording as in EJT01X ... and then baking for a Christmas or roast dinner. KY- baking, british, christmas, christmas dinner, cookery, cooking, cuisine, english, food, glass bowl, herbs, mix, mixing, ready, roast, roast dinner, stirring, stuffing, uk, water,wooden spoon It's stuffing in a bowl, there is no sign of christmas, roast dinner, water. It may have herbs in it but I can't see them just as it's probably got breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, etc. I would even question stirring as I can see no action either by mechanical or human means. Those -
I'm guessing a few people on this forum have the likes of a photoshelter / photodeck account to also supply images worldwide including EU states by direct download. I'm also guessing that most of those will not be registered for VAT as being under the theashold. How many have seen the poorly publicised requirement that as of 1 Jan 2015 they will need to obtain a VAT number and charge VAT at the prevailing recipient rate for EU countries regardless of their turnover and as they have to keep records to also register under the Data Protection Act Details Here https://www.gov.uk/gover
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Canon 5d shooting blanks.
Peter Noyce replied to mickfly's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Phone Fixation or ACS for a quote...then compare. +1 New shutter on my 5d2 at Fixation was just under £300 Shutter problem showed Error 30 which you're not reporting so possibly not that -
More changes in the zooms..
Peter Noyce replied to NYCat's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I think the point is that if you zoom an image the other images shown are by that photographer with the same keywords that you searched. Positive addition as if you like the style of the photographer it will show other alternatives. All the photos that match your search criteria by all photographers are shown on the first search page. -
QC failures
Peter Noyce replied to Rex's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
That's not what QC do. They are spot checking that you've checked everything submitted. The failure is when they find you haven't. -
How many to upload at a time
Peter Noyce replied to Gary Clarke's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Yes. My keywords are in the IPTC but I still have to do the ess and main. -
How many to upload at a time
Peter Noyce replied to Gary Clarke's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Disagree. Submit as many batches as you need to as and when you're ready. Just make sure you check every image - which you should be doing anyway -
How many to upload at a time
Peter Noyce replied to Gary Clarke's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I try to do a project at a time so that's normally between 30-100 but I have been known to upload 1. Not normally more than 150. For me it's about keeping the numbers manageable to get them processed after QC. Should also add that each upload will just be stacked so that a number of uploads will pass at the same time. -
I find the Loxley site a little strange but their service to me has always been good as has the quality. They have an online ordering system (ROES) hence the registration need I guess. Just checked a 10x8 is 1.60 + VAT so certainly not expensive.
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still flat Lining
Peter Noyce replied to jlcst's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
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Quick look at a few pages of your images shows that most of them couldn't be RF, all those at thruxton, anything that includes unreleased people, products or owned animals. You might also want to look at your captioning there seems to be a lack of detail. For example none of the bikes state the rider or even the make of bike.
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Confused on how I should keyword this photo
Peter Noyce replied to Jill Morgan's topic in Let's talk about pics
It's not really a photograph about edgewalking so if I was looking to illustrate this would this image fill the bill. I suspect not so for me I wouldn't include in the keywords