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Since almost everyone I have spoken to it reckons that http://photogr.aphi.st is a rubbish domain name for selling photos through (and on reflection, I am inclined to agree, on the basis that the better-punctuated http://photo.graphi.st/ is someone else’s site) I need a URL to start selling photos through at some point in the not-too-distant future. I lack inspiration, and would welcome suggestions. Anyone got any clever ideas?
And a secondary concern – do any of these prices seem wildly unreasonable:
15 quid for an unframed A4 print on good quality matte stock, 25 quid for framed.
20 quid for an unframed A4 print on good quality glossy stock, 30 quid for framed.
Frames are good quality A4 size clipframes.
P&P not included.
(In case anyone’s curious, I would recommend framed matte. Gloss looks a bit weird under glass.)
Can you guess what's on my mind today, boys and girls?
This an account of how a the US system accidentally tortured an innocent man to death through bureaucracy, jobsworth-ism and plain lack of decent human feeling. There is no "security" that can possibly be worth this price.
The Very Good Taste Omivore’s 100: Things Everyone Should Eat. I’ve eaten it, I really must get around to eating it.
I decided to spend some time going back through old photos, looking for things I didn’t post at the time. So here’s a bit of abstract stuff from about 18 months ago that I had completely forgotten about, and rather like. I’m quite happy with the structure to it, that you can clearly track the various movements of the camera as it was shot.
In other news, I bought a photo printer at the weekend, that produces good quality A4 prints. So when I have the spare time, I’m going to be setting up a on-line store to flog framed prints through.
So if there’s a particular shot of mine that you like enough that you’d pay 15-20 quid to have hanging on your wall (I need to do maths yet on the price of paper, inks, frames and shipping to work out how to show a small profit on the things, but I think 15 quid is probably in the right ballpark), do please let me know. I don’t have everything at printable res, but I’ve got got quite a lot.
It’s grey and miserable out there, and I’m in the office. Welcome to the weekend. I don’t strictly *need* to be, but I figure it’s better to start doing a few small chunks of overtime now, in the hope that I don’t have to watch my entire life getting swallowed by this project this time next month. Last time we did this sort of thing, I did 14 straight days in the office, finishing up with working from 10am Sunday morning to 3am Monday morning, and I was definitely getting a bit peculiar toward the end there.
Still, it is the weekend: distract me. Tell me interesting things – what good books have you read recently? What websites have made you think? Why is this summer’s predominant weather so basically bloody miserable? Can I have that thing when you’re done using it?
Here’s an unusual approach for me – while I do apply toning and effects to most of my photos, I don’t generally set out to quite so extreme with them. While this is still composed as it was shot, I have completely savaged the colours on it to destroy detail, and leave something stark and high contrast – aiming to give the suggestion, the feel, of chains rather than an accurate picture of the mooring chains as they are in life. I initially hated this shot, but having now mutilated it, I’m actually quite pleased with it.
Longshot: Any expert-level Adobe Lightroom users reading this? Anyone *know* any hardcore Lightroom users they could put me in touch with? I’m trying to hack something into a process, and I’ve googled and got nothing, but it’s such an obvious thing, I’m convinced there has to be a way to do it, and I need someone’s brains to pick, even if it’s just to be told they’ve left it out….
And while I’m here, this might as well one of those once in a reminders I put up now and again for new people, or old people who weren’t paying attention the first few times: if you’ve got any interest in photography, or in getting the odd pretty picture on your friendspage now and again (and really, I’m doing well if I manage one a week), then you could do worse than friend my photojournal, electricana.
I’ve hours and hours working on this short – altering the crop to compose it differently, fucking with the lights and darks, experimenting with B&W and various tints, and I just cannot get it into anything I like. Nonetheless – it was really *remarkably* foggy while I was in Edinburgh the other week, and I wanted to put something online to reflect that. So here it is. It’s not a shot I’m terribly happy with, but it’s one I don’t entirely mind sharing with the world.
