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I just hope the prints I originally went for come out as spectacularly as I imagine they can.

The last set of prints I had done at Tempe Camera turned out spectacularly well.

That said, I’ve since been getting my prints through Blue Cube Imaging. Much lower cost, and easy to deal with.

He’s got some pricing lists on his Model Mayhem page.

[caradoc]

Truthfully, I don’t buy much at Tempe Camera.

I pick up the occasional folding reflector, lightstand, and peruse their boxes of secondhand/consignment parts for stuff I can repurpose (like the Flip-Frame flash holder I now use to hold my lightning trigger), but mostly I buy big-ticket items like lenses and bodies…elsewhere.

I picked up my D7000 at PhotoMark for a couple of reasons, the primary being they had one in stock and Tempe Camera did not, while Adorama, B&H, and Amazon were all listing it at exactly the same price I paid (minus taxes, plus shipping) and zero in stock.

I’ve had my D80 serviced once at PhotoMark, once at Tempe Camera – didn’t notice any difference in what they did.

(And just for giggles, here’s one of the first images I ever shot with my Nikon 50mm f/1.8 – which is Nikon’s version of that lens. Paid $99 for it… but it didn’t fall apart. 😉 )

[caradoc]

Thanks!

But I probably won’t – I don’t even enter every Farktography contest that comes along…

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my sister has a D80 which she doesn’t use that much. i sent her a link to your shots as inspiration 🙂

The overwhelming majority of my shooting is done with a D80.

I’m looking hard at a D7000 just because I need better low-light response for the theatre work… and higher resolution means I have more leeway for cropping.

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I’m thinking 2) Finish my smugmug page, link to it with “buy print here” from flickr.

Flickr doesn’t like that.

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

Don?t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
Flickr is for personal use only. If we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr technologies (including APIs, FlickrMail, etc), or Flickr accounts must be approved by Flickr.

I know a couple of people who’ve had their Flickr accounts simply deleted for that sort of thing.

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“I’m reet here, yer stupid wumman, battering the fook out of Tybalt”

That’s funny.

#1 *is* Tybalt, then Juliet, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio…

[caradoc]

It’s a rip on one of the original “Trainspotting” posters.

[caradoc]

she looks older than 16.

being actors is it easier to get the poses/shots you want?

Sometimes it is easier for me to get actors/actresses where I want them – but I was a theatre major, and I sling the lingo.

I have no idea how old the actress really is – but in person she does come across as 16ish.

See also:

(She’s #2 in the second, larger images available from Flickr.)

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Most of my traffic seems to come from unknown sources.

Coincidentally, I had two images get about a thousand hits each this morning, all from “Unknown source.”

…which is really annoying, because they’re two shots of a local theatre troupe, and I want to know what the referring article is about and by whom.

[caradoc]

Awesomeness.

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“THIS” is in production:

“Romeo and Juliet” is in rehearsals.

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Nikon D7000
SB900 Speedlight
Nikkor 18-105 f3.5 – 5.6
Sigma 17-50 f2.8

I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on a D7000, body only. I’ve already got a set of SB-800s and lenses I’ve been using with my D80 – and my D80’s about ready to give up the ghost after several years of stormchasing.

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It may be worth your while to talk to an attorney who specializes in intellectual property, but I doubt it.

In your shoes, I think my camera would be “broken” until I found a new job.

[caradoc]

1) Your monitor needs to be calibrated.

2) Your printers all need to be calibrated to match the monitor – or vice versa. Doesn’t really matter.

The issue is that when you’re looking at an image on the screen, you’re looking at a transmissive reproduction and when you’re looking at the print, you’re looking at a reflective reproduction.

Getting the two to match can be painful.

You’ll most likely want to match your printer profiles in Photoshop first, then calibrate your monitor to match.

There are many hardware/software tools to do this. I generally use a Huey Pro, but I’m looking at replacing it with a Spyder3Pro.

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