Sunday, February 14, 2010
Posted by Bart
Every photographer worth their salt will have a screen calibrator of some sort. Even the cheapest type is better than none at all because our eyes and brains are designed to deceive us, something that can be easily demonstrated. So we need to get our screens representing colour as accurately as possible if w are to have any hope of having the image not only look good but look the same as it did on the screen when it's printed.
Most people though don't have a colour calibrator and simply use their monitors with whatever setting it came with out of the box. This is perfectly fine for most tasks but it means that when you look at a photo either on Flickr or some photographer website you are not really seeing the same thing as the photographer has created. The only real way to do this (apart from breaking into the photographers house and stealing their computer) is to the the photo printed and displayed as it should.
Moral of the story...if the photos look good on the web, they will look even better printed and hung on the wall.
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Posted by Bart
A recent post on Photo Business News & Forum (blog by John Harrington) on the costs of photography explained with one helpful commenter following the breadcrumbs back to the original article, linked here http://www.caughtonfilmphoto.com/costofphotography.html
While those blogs are written from a US point of view, the same holds true here in Australia. The point being that there is so much more than the press of a button when delivering a final image to the client.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Posted by Bart
Specifically, photos.
I've moved to a site that offers Australian dollars and payment with credit card or paypal. I have a couple of client galleries there at the moment as well as some panoramic landscapes here
at my PhotoMerchant site.
At the moment it's a self fulfilment process which means all that happens is I get a list of images to be printed. That's vastly better than the lo-fi method of clients going though a list of images, writing down the name and emailing the list to me....not to mention getting payment. As far as shoppers are concerned it works like any other e-commerce site and that's a good thing. The site is fairly new and automatic fulfilment is in the pipeline.
Feel free do drop a line and let me know what you think.