CharlesBrooks

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[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I asked a simple question about light and heat on this forum. It was immediately met with snarky and sarcastic comments... The helpful stuff came later. Eventually it moved from 'why don't you learn physics' to some properly useful and technically advanced advise on increasing luminance without increasing heat.

People also assumed I was a beginner (I'm one of the world's most published photographers).

There are some great minds here, but you have to take the good with the bad!

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I believe the IKEA red bicycle photo by Fernando Bengoechea far out-grosses this.
By 2018 it had already sold 427'000 copies... and it's still selling them at around $50 each.

No idea the price history over time, but even of you half the price and just include the copies sold up to 2018 that's already on par with Girls In Windows.

The Story Behind That IKEA Photo of Amsterdam | PetaPixel

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

My small dark space is the inside of a 300 year old Violin. The apunture lights can heat the varnish to unsafe levels in around 30 seconds.

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good idea. I'm going to look at this. There might be issues with parallax if I'm moving the lens position, but if I attach it to an astro head and program it to move in the sub-pixel range that might work. Also just the variation in the strobe output may be enough . If nothing else I'll at least get noise reduction from the stacking.

I'm also doing heavy focus stacking in this series, so adding out-of-camera pixel-shifting will increase the image count to a few thousand per shoot... But I'm getting used to dealing with that quantity of data!

 

Does more light always mean more heat?

I'm trying to illuminate an extremely small dark space, but bringing my lights closer to the subject risks damaging what I'm photographing. (Using Apunture 600d LEDs with Fresnel heads).

I'd like to stick with continuous light if possible, since I'm also pixel-shifting for resolution in this series.

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I would include 1 photo. It would be a selfie, taken at home.

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's possible the photos are still syncing with the cloud.

Also lightroom shares will not include PSB photos which is annoying....

Others have mentioned good cloud based solutions. I use both google drive and dropbox.
Clients seem to prefer dropbox.

[–] CharlesBrooks@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I had a politician in Chile use my photo for a major campaign. Thousands of billboard prints, who knows how many online ads...

Turns out Chilean copyright law was written before the internet existed and hasn't been updated since, they really don't have a way to address online image theft. After a bunch of talks with lawyers I had to just walk away.