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James Skemp Photography

by James Skemp, July 26, 2008 21:45

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I'm sure I'll need to tweak it, but I've technically launched my galleries for my photography 'business' (I use the word lightly at this point).

View the galleries online at http://jamesrskemp.com/gallery/

It only took three days, but I'm pretty happy with how things turned out. I'd really like to have the individual photos display a bit better, but ...

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Over 10,000 digital photos taken

by James Skemp, March 30, 2008 14:15

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Yesterday afternoon I took digital photo number 10,000.

Between the three digital cameras that I've owned (and excluding the one that I borrowed from my sister, which was a gift from her friend Char), I've taken the following.

From April 6 2005 to May 9 2007, I took 2924 photos with a Canon 300D (Digital Rebel).

From May 18 2007 to March 29 2008, I took 6447 photos with a Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D).

From February 2 2008 to March 29 2008, I took 776 photos with a Casio EX-Z1200.

They say that your first 10,000 photos are your worst, and since I was only able to pick out a little more than 600 that I thought would be good enough to sell, I do hope that that's true.

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Are the Adobe Photoshop Express terms too tough to work with?

by James Skemp, March 27, 2008 19:50

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Recently the much anticipated Photoshop Express was released. However, crawling through the general terms of use there's a rather troublesome paragraph.

Using the terms that are effective 3/1/2008, at http://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html, we have the following at 8.a.:

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

(Emphasis is my own.)

I'm lucky enough to have a copy of Photoshop CS2, but this paragraph has effectively removed it as an alternative while on someone else's machine, or as something I can recommend to others, professionally.

Now if the individual has their photo on some of the various 2.0 photo social networks, then I can recommend this, since their photos are effectively for anyone to do with as they will ('dump your friends').

But, as someone who wants to protect his work product ...

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