posted on 15th of january, 2010
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Recently the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 opened it doors. Come to the Ruhr area and have a look what has been made from one of the biggest industrial regions in Germany.
There are many things to discover for us photo-afficionados, have a look at these websites:
http://www.route-industriekultur.de
and
http://www.essen-fuer-das-ruhrgebiet.ruhr2010.de/en/home.html
Allways "good light" from cristalloid
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Great pic.
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Posted by Keki on January 16, 2010
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I hope I will come in summer...until than: I will study your websites
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posted on 17th of january, 2010
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Recently I gave some of my old dias (24x36mm and 6x9cm) to a professional scanning service that has good references. The scans were made with an up-to-date Nikon scanner at 4000 dpi and saved in maximum quality JPG (12).
DT refused most of these scans and told me, that there were distorted pixels. As I looked more closely at the images I found that DT was right and the question emerged what to do against this loss of quality. Do you have some tips for me?
Best regards
cristalloid
PS: I do not own Photoshop, but Photoshop Elements, and I am not an expert in digital image manipulation.
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I have approved photos, but also I had rejected photos with the same reason. So I agree: keep working and uploading, I don't think the scanner is your problem
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Distorted pixels is a code word. It means they hate your picture. It means your picture is not crisp and sharp enough, many possible reasons for this: bad lens, bad lighting, jpeg artifact, maybe camera moved who knows. This is a refusal you can not argue with because nobody knows what it really means. I googled the term and it shows up only at DT. Don't worry about it. Load up better ones.
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Hi, you can fix distorted pixels with healing brush instrument. Before this open your image at 100%.
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posted on 18th of january, 2010
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Some days ago I used German keywords to find some interesting images. As I read the image descriptions I found that they made absolutely no sense (my native language is German), on the other hand the English descriptions of the same pictures were fine. Now I wonder if this is likewise in the other languages provided by DT and if the automated translation service is such a good way to get really good translations? What do you think of my idea, that everybody was allowed to keyword in his or her native language (instead of the automated translation service) additional to the obligatory English keywords?
Have a good time!
Cristalloid
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I agree with Mani
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Posted by Mani33 on January 18, 2010
If someone uses an expression in Chinese & your keywords in English & German didn't match of course, your photos will hardly sell. Hope I made my self clear! Cheers :)
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I confirm that I tried searching my pictures in French and was not successful, although the words I used were quite simple - really easy for a program to translate. Definitely something to chew on, as having a good translation system would mean a lot more additional sales for DT and the contributors.
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posted on 18th of january, 2010
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Today we have January 19th in 2010.... what do you expect from this day?
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Congratulations! Good luck to you too!
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Nice image, congrats
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Posted by Mani33 on January 21, 2010
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posted on 24th of january, 2010
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Today I will enjoy maybe the biggest blockbuster of the year, "Avatar" in my favorite cinema. With my GIRLFRIEND! Yeah! I think we will have much fun. Finally, my hope is, that my images sell as well as the tickets for "Avatar" *smile*
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Posted by Joe1971 on January 27, 2010
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i love climbing - hope you had a great time :)
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I envy you!!! What a cool photo. That's one of the places I want to go most.
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posted on 27th of january, 2010
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In the next few days winter is coming back to Europe; the weather forecast says that it will be snowing especially in Germany and Switzerland. I hope that it will make up for many good shots :-)
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Wow i love that minus Celsius. Well we are not so luck in Dubai, here its winter now and the temp is around 18 to 20
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Posted by Marpit on January 28, 2010
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In Romania, Iasi: -28 degrees C, today is better...
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posted on 29th of january, 2010
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My girlfriend just asked me if I would like to take some photos of her hands... now I am brainstorming about the gestures and the light set-up... if I come to make some good shots maybe I will load them up to DT :-)
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posted on 31st of january, 2010
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As you all know, keywording takes much time. Is there anybody who knows if there is an software that does this time consuming item automatically? Or a software that can generate and save complete sets of keywords for re-use?
Best regards
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Thank you very much for all this interesting tips, I think I will check out these web-sites in the next time and apply the suggestion of only taking 10 or 15 keywords :)
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To minimize the unnecessary time spent on keywords, I just apply 10-15 keywords per image. If the image is refused, then great!- I didn't waste time applying a bunch of keywords to the image, which was refused anyway. If the image is accepted, then I re-apply a more detailed collection of keywords. If this is still too time consuming, you might consider the keymasters program.
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I use these sites to generate the keywords:
http://arcurs.com/keywording/
http://stocktagger.losmuchachos.at/
http://www.findphotokeywords.com/
And I use Cushy Stock to edit my IPTC data. It also allows you to copy and paste the meta data from one file to another, and more ...
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