Breakdown of a Composite Image

by Eric Doggett on 27. May, 2011 in Gear, lighting

Over at my photography blog I’ve posted a breakdown of a composite image I did for the band Meagan Tubb & Shady People. I talk about what led me to create the composite in the first place and how we did it. If that’s up your alley, head on over and check it out.

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Stop Using TwitPic

by Eric Doggett on 24. May, 2011 in business

PDN has a post discussing a recent deal that happened between TwitPic and a London-based photo agency. To sum up the story, this agency has obtained the rights to use images posted to TwitPic without your consent in any way they choose. The TwitPic T.O.S. apparently states that you give them this right when you use the service:

Twitpic members retain the copyrights to the images they post to the service, but the Twitpic terms of service give Twitpic “a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute” images posted by Twitpic users.

Now, I don’t plan on shooting some commercial job with my iPhone and posting it to TwitPic to begin with. But that’s not the point. The point, to me, is the rights grab. If every photo-sharing site implemented terms like this, you wouldn’t be able to post an image online and maintain control over how that image is used.

I’ve switched my Twitter client to use yFrog for now. It looks like it doesn’t have the same ridiculous terms of service.

 

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Tips from Some of the Best

by Eric Doggett on 07. May, 2011 in Uncategorized

Here’s a video featuring 5 great photographers talking about their work and how to improve your photography.

Via Fstoppers.

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Quick PDF Tip

by Eric Doggett on 05. Apr, 2011 in business, Gear

I am currently in the middle of creating a new book of my work. This involves going through a lot of images, figuring out what works, designing a layout, and a host of other things.

Today I wanted to email a current version of the book in PDF format to a friend. While I created the book in Aperture, the file was too large to email (over 100 MB). I found no function in Aperture to control the image quality. I also tried resaving it using the Preview app, but found no options there either.

After digging around online, I found this great (and completely hidden) tip: use the ColorSync Utility app. Open this app (located in /Applications/Utilities). Then, use the File menu to open your ginormous PDF file. Once open, at the bottom of the window you’ll see a Filter menu. In there is an option to Reduce File Size.

Why on earth this is in the ColorSync Utility and not in Preview, I’ll never know. And doubly-so as to why reducing file size would be called a ‘filter’. In any case, it worked like a charm, shrinking my 100MB+ file down to a much-more-manageable 700k!

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