All prints can be found, viewed and purchased from www.printroom.com/pro/specialphotosbynoni for a more professional service. If you do not see an older Event you need, contact me by e-mail to add it to the site.The Popup menu Photography for Hire -> Prints also takes you there. As does the Print link at the bottom of pages.Be sure to scroll downward once you get to the print lab site.
The Stock list has been added to with a user friendly and controllable ability to view any of the photos in a JPEG web version of the photos with their EXIF data and descriptions. You may still contact me by e-mail for a low resolution version of the picture(s) you are interested in. I can e-mail, FTP or send by CD at your convenience. All stock photos are currently being uploaded for this feature and I should be finished by the end of August 2006. Although, I will be redoing most adding embedded descriptions, categories, titles, etc.
An ongoing collection called "The Study of Hands" is continually being added to and can be view under DOCUMENTARY listed under the STOCK button in the menu. I am continually collecting more photos for this series and processing them for upload.
Photos can easily be embedded with captions and keywording searchable with PhotoShop. My research shows that this is the future of Stock Photography. I am also currently moving toward Google Image Search being able to search and find any of the photos on my site without having to be in my site.
Sorry the old one was just getting too busy so the Red thing on the top right that follows you around caught my eye as a good means to save space and it appears to be very handy. Let me know if you have any trouble with it. More details below if you want to attempt it on your web site.
Just what is it that is so great about Photoshop and the editing that you are doing with it?
Photoshop allows me to bring your image back to what we actually see and maybe a little better. Check out my Bio Picture to see what I had to do to take out a harsh flash and make myself presentable. We all have a Mind's Eye when it comes to ourselves and the ones we love. Our mind will even take out a color cast. I think we all do this because maybe we're seeing the loved ones personality instead of their outer appearance. A camera does not and reveals all.
It is hard to view pictures on this web site.
The best screen resolution for this site and most web sites these days is at least 1024 x 768. To set it, Right Click on you desktop and change the settings by selecting Properties from the menu and then select the Settings Tab. Change the Screen area to show more pixels. Check the menu item TECH for more assistance.
What to do if the colors of the pictures do not show up very well or seem a little washed out?
All monitors could use some calibration and so a gray scale picture has been provided so that you may complete a minor adjustment to your brightness and contrast. Serious photographers will calibrate their monitors with a special tool and software. The Lacie monitor that I use has been calibrated with ColorEyes Display from Intigrated Color. If you still see off colors then it could be your video card. This is a dilemma for any photographer that wants to show their work over the Internet because they have to depend on different states and conditions of the viewer's monitors. Check out the menu item TECH for more assistance.
If the pictures that you have viewed in the gallery are not very sharp and you're not sure what you would be getting if you had prints made.
That is another dilemma for photographers. File size is a big consideration to view pictures over the Internet . To have a picture viewable over the Internet the resolution has to be taken down from 300 pixels to 72 pixels. When the print is made it will be using the 300 pixel file kept on file so you are not seeing what the end result will be. Also a good quality photography paper will be used which handles the color inks much differently than a monitor handles colors. A monitor is based on background light and a printer is based on light going into the print and reflecting back from the white paper. So rest assured that technology is in place to take care of this difference.
If you have a digital camera and the prints look just as good as what is seen here.
Seeing is the key word here. You are viewing pictures at 72 resolution because that is required for the Internet for viewing speed and to keep the size of the file down. 96 resolution will be the standard soon. But a high tech camera like the Canon 1ds Mk III camera with their professional lenses will record more pixels without adding through interpolation. Then using Photoshop Software to bring the best out of a photo will far exceed what a low resolution digital camera can record and what a 1 hour lab can print. Enlargements are out of the question with low resolution digital cameras because they have to have pixels added through interpolation. It is done but only with good software and someone that knows the best way to do it. Still, you would not have the quality that a Professional camera can get in the hands of an experienced photographer that also uses the Photoshop software.
The difference between Event Photography and Portrait Photography.
A Portrait Photographer works with lights and posing a person or several people. An Event Photographer is getting more than snapshots because they have developed an eye for interesting pictures that tell a story of the event. They also know how to quickly move around, compose, change depth of fields, light changes, etc. A Portrait Photographer may work an event but they are more inclined to stop and pose people which can get the best side of them but sometimes misses the spontaneity. An Event Photographer will most likely get the shot with minor interruption of the person or group. I would think a Wedding should have both an Event Photographer and a Portrait Photographer. There is something said for both a beautiful setting with the bride done for a Portrait and also the behind-the-scenes candid shots.
On the new print site 8x10's are not offered and why.
It has come to my attention that a full framed shot could have the heads and feet cropped badly in an 8x10. Since I am not in direct contact with the actual printing, I do not want to take the chance that this could happen. Let me explain further: A professional photographer is taught to always fill the frame with a subject. Since most cameras take a picture in a 2:3 ratio the 8x10 does not fit that ratio. A simple calculation is 8/2 = 4, 4*3=12. Or 8 *1.5 = 12. So an 8x12 would have all of the subject in the frame but an 8x10 would not. I have researched and found that mats and frames are quite common in 8x12's. My only other option was to keep the subject smaller in the frame so that any non 2:3 ratio prints would have all the subject. I'm not willing to compromise the quality of a photo in that manner.
Why you should have photographs done at a commercial print lab instead of on ink jet printer that anyone can purchase cheaply at CompUSA.
Commercial printers can use a non-water solvent base ink that utilizes oil or alcohol as the primary solvent of the ink formula. This type of base permits the use of soluble dyes with water proof properties and very powerful UV resistance. The primary reason this type of ink is not used in small desktop printers is twofold: They are much more expensive than most water solvent inks, and they can be hazardous to a person's health while in the printing stage. Therefore, the use of such materials is restricted to printers used in a more industrial setting that is equipped to handle them. The ink jets that we use at home or office use a water solvent base and cannot obtain the archival qualities of commercial printers. Ink Jets print from 150 to 300 dpi while commercial printers can print 300 to 360 dpi but also use a special continous-tone process to achieve a perceived resolution equivalent to about 3,500 dpi. This is dots per inch which makes an outstanding print. Do we want prints that will last longer than our lifetime or prints that will fade before a child is grown?
Printroom.com uses a Fuji Frontier printer for smaller prints and a Poli Laserlab for 11x14 and larger. Both use Chromogenic Colour Process on Fuji's Crystal Archive Paper, and the Rating Is 65.2 Years in the worst of conditions. The best affordable ink jet printer right now is the pigment based Epson 2200 and they are trying to say that it is rated for 75 years, but it isn't. It has been tested to 13.25 years unprotected. To protect it and achieve the 75 years, it has to be either laminated in a very careful process or have sprays or protectants brushed on it. This gets very expensive and messy. I have opted for the commercial printers that Printroom.com uses. So when you see beautiful prints being cranked out at different sites on an Epson, HP, Lexmark, or Canon printer, just know that the colors are not going to last and you are better off waiting on a commercial print lab to complete your order. There is lots of research on the Internet concerning this topic, which is where I have done my research. I am taking my data primarily from www.livick.com and www.wilhelm-research.com.
Trouble with Windows XP SP2 causing Photoshop Web Gallery to lose data?
Having trouble with Windows XP SP2 security settings losing all your data in your Web Galleries? I thought I was shut down when I upgraded to Windows XP with its service pack 2. After researching the Internet for days I found that it is a problem with the Java Script that Photoshop creates. Something with Microsoft having to stop using the Java Script code that belongs to someone else. Even when I set all the security codes in Windows to allow everything it still would strip out all the Info data that I had on each photo in my Web Galleries after I said "Yes" to allow Active Script. What I had on my Web site was OK but I couldn't build any new galleries. So at the site www.winxptutor.com/lmzunlock.htm I found a code and how to use it that adds a "Mark of The Web" code so that Windows XP SP2 doesn't handle your web gallery as if it is evil. In any of myhtml files where it mentions Javascript at the head I added the following code: <!-- saved from url=(0030) http://www.specialphotosbynoni.com/ --> The (0030) is supposed to be the value of your string but I miscounted where it should be 33. It still works. To make it better, instead of going into every html file that Photoshop's web gallery creates I just made me a new web gallery template. They are located at Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop CS2/Presets/WebPhotoGallery. Make yourself a whole new one and leave the originals alone. I changed the following files: Frameset, Indexpage, SubPage, & Thumbnail. And because something is quirky about Photoshop, the check boxes for Images don't show up but checking off all the Thumbnail info boxes makes it show up in the Image area instead of the Thumbnail section which is what I needed for a successful Gallery for my web site. I hope this helps someone. I know it took me a solid week of research to figure it out.
The slide shows in Gallery or Portfolios will not go?
If you look right under your menu there is a yellow area asking if you want to allow Active X. You have to enable that to get the slide shows going. Right click it and say "yes" to allow Active X. It has something to do with Microsoft Windows XP and their security. It is a pain but you are going to get it in other sites too.
Where did you get that menu that slides up and down?
The menu is from the software called AllMenusWebs PRO sold by www.likno.com. The software comes with a free set of Themes but I used the slider that they have on their site that can be downloaded for free. But it is not a theme and will not load into its fields like themes do. The trick was to find where the vertical arrow bar goes. Customer service by email was very helpful. This image of the vertical arrow bar has to be set up in the 1st menu group which is called Main. Then the actual main menu group has to start in the first subgroup. You'll understand this once you get into the software. Also I didn't care for the colors so I borrowed some from the other themes. I did have to go into the HTML code on one of the pages to fix the menu because their linking software put it in the wrong heading. The coding is put under the <body> tag and something in the heading made it think it was in the right location. Otherwise, all the rest loaded correctly. It was fast to work with but new software usually doesn't hold me up too long. I would only recommend it to someone that understands HTML coding. HTML coding is not too hard if you're using Dreamweaver to build the pages. I use an HTML book to figure out the tags and can then follow along with what is happening. Good luck and have fun!.
Where did you get the java search script?
This free script provided byJavaScript Kit. But bear in mind, that I was not able to get it to work through my slider menu. It gave too many debug errors. But if I linked to it from each page then it would work. I had to put it in a <div> tag to get it off the left side and do some styling with CSS. Good luck!
Where did you get the green pop up menus used in the Stock Photo page?
This free menu came from www.dynamicdrive.com. But I put most of it in my CSS file. I had to adjust the stay put time so it would give me time to get to the pop up box before it was gone.
Where did you get the slide show on the Home page?
This free script was also provided by Dynamic Drive. One of the stipulations for using their scripts is that you have to acknowledge them. Their site is full of all kinds of free javascripts. The first one I tried didn't work and it does take the abliity to read JavaScript to figure them out, but it is well worth using prewritten coding to save time and brain energy.
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