There is in England and in a lot of the other English speaking areas of the world. There in no e in American-English.
I am sending text articles along with JPEG color photos to magazines via email for publication in B & W. I use the capture mode of RAW + JPEG-FINE. I have been using PSE 12 for 'standard' (first in RAW and then in JPEG) PP on the color photos which emphasize details described in the text. Most of the photos are 'macros' (more or less) showing minute to just small details. I am satisfied with the color photos I send; they probably fall into the category of average. There are 10 to 20 photos per article. The problem is - when I finally receive my copy of the printed magazine, ALL the photos just look like gray blobs with very little contrast (maybe 2 stops) to me. Some of them are so poor that even I can't tell what they are supposed to represent until I go back and look up the color original. This problem has been going on with my photos for several years. The magazine has had this publishing problem for decades. The question is - what to do in order to get better photos in the published magazine copies? Do you exaggerate certain features of the colors before sending the JPEGS (over sharpen, exaggerate certain colors, eliminate certain colors, or ?) or, do you convert to B & W before sending? If you convert to B & W before sending to the publisher, then what should the pix look like on the monitor (I assume they are not going to look like anything Ansel Adams would produce).
I realize this is a photo publishing problem and not just a 'taking pictures' problem. But, I am being misrepresented, paying customers of the magazine are not receiving all the original information sent and I would like to know if there is anything that can be done about it on my end?
Pluck up and admit that someone thought positively enough of your work to hang it on a wall.
Maybe the other person could have taken the shot, but they did not and they are not on the wall.
Being overly modest is not a plus. Realistic modesty is the place to be. Don't brag. But, say to yourself,
"I am pretty damn good, or at least good enough". If others want to be on the wall, let them take the damn shot and have the guts to hang it up.
Of course they will. The physics of optics is not going to change, regardless of what some marketing guy might say. Just buy a different mounting gadget.
Soon to be the horizontal Tower of Pisa.
The Nikon software is obsolete. I finally gave up on it a few months ago and trashed it. Serif Affinity (serifaffinity.com) has a program they were giving away for free. Now the program is beginning to compare to PS and they are charging for it. The current price is $50.00. I would buy it. I did buy it. It works great, has a zillion feature, lots of videos on Youtube and probably is THE program of the future. Free is not a bargain. Free is de-facto theft and delays (or kills) future advancement of everything that it is associated with. Developments are coming fast and furious with Affinity; I thought I would try to help them out. I also love the program even though there is no printed material out on it. I am getting used to watching a lot of Youtube Affinity videos.
There is not going to be a trade war. This is called negotiating. That is an area the Demsocoms know nothing about, but Trump does. I would not spend a lot of time agonizing over the future. Just remember, Bernie Sanders has been telling everyone that we should be copying Venezuela.
The 'bubble', as you call it, is simply the obvious result of 9 years of giving people free money (no taxes on profits, zero interest rate on invested money, almost zero interest rate on borrowed money, giving free money to anyone who will vote for you, accumulating a debt of 9 trillion dollars). What do you expect when sanity comes to rule? I know of not one single person that has managed to survive by running their personal finances that way. A good example is California. They have an unfunded debt obligation of about 1 and one-half trillion dollars. I am going to love to see how they pay that off. What is their next step as self-professed leaders of society, fire on Fort Sumter?
There is an up and coming company and program at Serif Affinity Photo.com. They have no printed literature out mainly because they are moving so fast that everything is out of date by the time it is printed. Instruction, right now, is via Youtube. They are offering their program for $50.00 right now. I am not a fan of free stuff. It is almost a law of the univese that you get what you pay for. Or, another way of putting it, "there ain't no free lunch". Currently, many of the features of Affinity are superior to PS. Up dates are coming fast and furious. A lot of the program works, on the surface, like PS, so what ever you learn to do in Affinity works the same as PS. I would get the new technology, put up with the frustrations of learning stuff that is totally new and support the future. PS has had there run. They are no longer innovating in any meaningful way and, reportedly, theIr CS is the worst. It is time for others to take the lead. Check out their website, check out the tutorials on Youtube and make a decision. I have chosen to abandon PSE at version 12 and embark on the unknown AFFINITY.
I would not get isopropyl alcohol anywhere near a lens. Isopropyl will dissolve water based paint. I use it for that purpose when I want to resurface and or clean my workbench surfaces. I did a little bit of that cleaning today; took some rubber marks off the gloss white waterbase paint surface. I would think that water would be the safest liquid, and then only if it was distilled. I would call B&H, KEH or Adorama and ask them what they use.