Aug 3
Some helpful resources and rules of thumb for putting watermarks up on a smugmug pro account:
The concept and basic how to -
http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-watermark-protection
A bit more detail -
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1690196Tips: Make sure you keep the gif or the png SMALL! I set one up at 3000px wide and that was too large. The suggested (example) size for a watermark across a portrait orientation is "800x1200 or so". Make sure you upload the size you'd like to use as your watermark. I have small graphics on the corners of my images and uploaded ones that were 200 pixels wide max.
If you want the images to be transparent, stick with a gif or a png (24) file. And make sure you're saving a small one, and that image > mode > RGB color is set in Photoshop.
Hope that helps someone!
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Jul 11
Well, this is a post about being mobile. We've been traveling and photographing almost at the same time. Check out the hot topics of: our backyard, our dog and the fog at the ranch. (Don't yawn!)
Grant's photo of Hut and his indestructabone has to be one of my favorites! That dog always pops his hiney in the air to play. How can one resist the indestructabone with that kind of presentation?!
We've got some scenics documenting the summertime at the ranch. And also a great diptych of the dogs playing with the sprinkler and Dad giving some sort of instructions that involve pointing (always!). I love summer (and my dad)!
I visited a great friend in Dallas -
Mary Kathryn - and, though she narrowly escaped being photographed herself, we did go out for gelato. And her dog sits in chairs. Makes "the flying Hut" look almost normal, right?
And I was showing off the posterous e-mail to blog function on July 6th for Mary Kathryn. Thus the extra long post that day.
We're both photographers, she and I, and we're loving how much our different styles and genre focuses actually have in common. It's crazy! So, we've always had a lot to talk about, now even moreso! We made
the Dallas SMUG meeting and I am so excited about seeing more
SmugMug in my life, you should be too.
And, as the closer, we have documented "squirrel as chillin villain". I mean really, hang out in our backyard = eat our ladder?! Heartwrenching drama.
Jul 15
I was thinking about what it means to "be a photographer".
It's not having a nice camera or even having a portrait studio. It's
not having an advertising contract to take commercial photographs for
a corporate client. It's more than a person with a camera.
I think a lot of the secret lies in confidence. Confidence in
yourself to produce an acceptable (to your own standards) photograph.
And the confidence of another party that an acceptable (to their own
standards) photograph was produced.
Once confidence is considered, I think the next hurdle is
"follow-through" or "service".
Everyone can vote on this contest I entered ... I normally don't do contests, but this one has a trip (and cool gear) as a prize!
