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May 30, 2013 11:36:57 #
I decided to try to make a little gas money from my photography. A local car club let me shoot their races and sell photos. It's been a bit frustrating so far, lots of "just email me the images, I don't want to buy them". I used a line I learned from someone on here, about how much I have invested in camera equipment, spending 8 hours shooting photos, then hours editing them...how much is that worth to them? So I decided to sell them digital images for what my profit would have been had they purchased a print, I bill them through Paypal. I signed up on Smugmug Portfolio to sell prints, $150 a year. So far, selling some prints, and a few downloads. Here's some of my hack photography...http://gregrourke.smugmug.com/
May 30, 2013 11:55:59 #
Just a tip. You may want to lock down your photos so that people can't right-click and save them directly from your Smugmug page.
May 30, 2013 12:06:11 #
Big Grouch wrote:
I decided to try to make a little gas money from m... (show quote)
The same thing happened to me, I was making prints available to "Lacrosse Parents" and most were happy to pay for prints, but a few tried to strong arm me into free downloads...I told them I would...at $5.00 per download.
They never asked again.
May 30, 2013 12:08:13 #
There are some nice photos in there, but after looking at 6 or 7 of them, they all start to look alike. I might suggest slowing down the shutter just a bit to show a little action in some of them. You might even be able to catch a little smoke from the tires. This is just my MHO so take it or leave it. Smugmug's layout seems to be pretty good.
May 30, 2013 12:08:15 #
darkmanCANADA wrote:
Just a tip. You may want to lock down your photos so that people can't right-click and save them directly from your Smugmug page.
They are. Thanks for the tip.
May 30, 2013 13:40:06 #
CajonPhotog wrote:
There are some nice photos in there, but after looking at 6 or 7 of them, they all start to look alike.
I agree, this is not my usual style. I'm not so much covering the event as I'm trying to sell photos to the car owners. The shots I have sold end up being a bunch of photos of the same car at nearly the same angle. I think it's like looking at a bunch of portraits of a family you don't know, they all start to look alike.
As far as shutter speed goes, I usually use between 1/100 and 1/160. I try to get the car nice and sharp, but motion in the wheels and background. There's seldom any real "action", as the course is so tight cars seldom get over 40 MPH, but that's how autocross usually is. Once in a while you'll get a spinout or tire smoke, but not often. In this series, Mazda Miatas and Honda Civics beat Camaros and Corvettes, because they don't overpower the course.
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it.
May 31, 2013 12:32:26 #
I think you have the right idea. Personally I like Smugmug to store my albums and to share them with friends.
In the early 70's I was in Athens, Greece. I watched the Greek photographers with their 4X5 cameras taking photos of tourists viewing the Acropolis and the Parthenon in black and white.
They would race to their photo labs on their motorcycles, develop and print the photos and then approach and show the photos to the tourists as they were walking down the steps leaving.
Photography is not my business but I learned alot from those Greeks with a camera. Everyone, well almost everyone likes to see photos of themselves.
In the early 70's I was in Athens, Greece. I watched the Greek photographers with their 4X5 cameras taking photos of tourists viewing the Acropolis and the Parthenon in black and white.
They would race to their photo labs on their motorcycles, develop and print the photos and then approach and show the photos to the tourists as they were walking down the steps leaving.
Photography is not my business but I learned alot from those Greeks with a camera. Everyone, well almost everyone likes to see photos of themselves.
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May 31, 2013 12:34:19 #
I forgot to tell you...I bought a photo of myself at the parthenon from one of the Greek photographers and I still have it!
May 31, 2013 13:53:55 #
Big Grouch wrote:
In this series, Mazda Miatas and Honda Civics beat Camaros and Corvettes, because they don't overpower the course.
I'm now on my second Miata, a 2k Emerald Green LS.
My first was a 91 Polar White Basic.
Love 'em.
May 31, 2013 23:34:23 #
As far as stealing your prints, RC & Matt (Kelby TV Shows "The Grid") showed that stealing is easy, i.e. simply do a screen print of the photo. So, the good news is that you are not storing them at full res.
Jun 1, 2013 12:55:54 #
darkmanCANADA wrote:
Just a tip. You may want to lock down your photos so that people can't right-click and save them directly from your Smugmug page.
Agreed! Just for grins I right clicked and saved on one image and was able to print a fairly acceptable 4x6. It's a shame that interest in motor sports is in a decline from twenty to thirty years ago. I used to check the Friday edition of our local daily rag and find two or three TSD rallies or gymkhanas within 50 miles most weekends. When I was a SCCA Flag Marshall I would be able log twelve or more regional races, two to four Nationals and three to six Pro events each season. Now many of the regional clubs have gone defunct or are combining their efforts to organise one race that used to be six. TSD rallies are practically non-existent. It seems the current crop of "young lions" would rather play games on their I pads or fantasy sports. I wonder if the acceptance of GI Joe dolls has any bearing.
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