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Oh yes he made them. With a dremel. That smelled up my office.

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I have an articulated screen on my d5000 and it is so ridiculously useful when I’m lying on my stomach, kneeling, taking pictures up things and with a tripod.

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Congratulations!

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Teehee thanks. And we’re all photographers with day jobs 😛

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Hahaha…yikes I’m scared to have you review my photography now.

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Already got a bunch, thanks so much!

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Craigslist…

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I think I told everyone at work today the story about that photographer. “So get this guys, professional wedding photographer has the lowest of low end Canon dslrs and an 18-55 lens on it. And that was all she had. And then the bride asked orionid to take some vintage photos with his landcam and the photographer insisted he email her and not the bride…”

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Yes I already corrected the error in spelling on your name. When people have pointed out mistakes I correct them right away so I don’t forget. Plus there will be at least two people looking at the proofs with the master file of everyone’s fark handle/ name / photo titles to make sure they are correct before it goes anywhere out of my control.

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That guy was cool. The others…uh…well…

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I do have a concern with ‘By the Numbers’ lumped in with ‘Humorous’. Three of them are, three aren’t and one (first place) is kind of on the fence between the two. I can’t offer any suggestions for better placement. I wish I could. But it’s an observation. I like my ‘PO Box’ shot, but how does it fit into humorous? I like (really, I love) U-Man’s Chevy sign, but it’s not funny either. OTOH, ‘Wiz Judge’ and QueenBee’s nod to THGTTU are quite funny.

I dunno. I’m just saying.

Part of the reason it went in that chapter was to keep the average number of pictures and thus pages in each chapter balanced. The only other chapters it can move to and keep that balance are “Serious” or “Colorful”, neither of which fit either.

If you look at every picture in the book, some will fit multiple chapters others don’t seem to fit so well into the chapter they are in but it’s about the overall cohesiveness of the book as a finished product.

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1.) One of my photos appears to have been cropped to fit in with the layout (Backlit). I know that’s something you’re going to have to work around delicately, and I was wondering if I could re-crop the photo to the aspect ratio you are using.

Sure I’ll take a look at that particular photo. Some of the earlier pages didn’t get re-centered or adjusted properly because I was still learning the basics of InDesign, that might solve the problem right there.

My local zoo has a “no profit” policy; meaning that photos of their animals can be published under certain circumstances, but never for profit. How is that going to fit in with the book? We (the photographers) aren’t profiting from the photos, but the book is going to generate some proceeds.

To be honest I don’t have a complete answer for you on that. That’s really a problem for the publisher to deal with, but this is what I can tell you.

Technically none of the book proceeds are “for profit” as all the proceeds are going to either the public wing of fark or charity. As far as all the zoos I have shot at (Seattle, Tacoma, Chicago) none of those zoos had any restrictions on publishing their photos so I’m not sure how widespread it is.

For any place that is privately owned but allows public access, the general clause for “art’s sake” should cover most legal concerns unless you were taking pictures in an area designated with camera restrictions. The release form that was distributed does absolve me, Drew and fark.com from any legal issues associated with the photographs, meaning if a particular zoo did have a problem with a photo they would be directed to the photographer. Thus if you as a photographer have a concern about needing a property or model release for any of your photographs, it’s your responsibility to check that out and get what you need. I’m happy to pull any photos that would be questionable as I don’t want you getting in trouble.

The bottom line is, the publisher will probably take care of legal haranguing and have their own set of rules that may alter the contents of the book, but I don’t yet have any details on that.

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What browser are you using? I have Chrome and it displays fine. I’ve also viewed in Firefox and it looks the same.

Are you using a mac?

Did you download the file and view it in your own Adobe Reader or are you viewing it through a browser plug-in?

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http://www.kestrana.com/Farkbookv2.pdf

has been updated.

What’s new:

– Made corrections to names as requested
– Caption info up to date as of this morning
– Minor layout rearrangement
– Found three photos that had been inadvertently left out and incorporated them
– Completed index info layout and added space for biographies
– Expanded horizontal 1st place photos to the bleed edges and customized the frames based on the individual picture sizes*

*I’m not sure I like the expansion to the bleed edges on these photos but it keeps horizontal 1st place photos consistent with vertical and square crops. Feedback?

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Try your local Mr. P’s package store…oh wait California is a state whose alcohol laws make sense!

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