There is no silly thing in feeling stuff before or while shooting. Those feelings will come through the image and make them so great just like this one. Love the feel of it!!! Very versatile image!





My first ever model, my lovely niece who travelled half the world to see me.

Still nothing! It's really very annoying!

Yep, the microsoft is arranged national scale corporation.


Oh, I think the contributor get more from it, hehehe, Just much photos used there, some I recognised from IS, don't know belong to whom, just I ever saw it here.

I dont think it is a problem on your computer, but on istock. I have a thumbnail, who has been missing for weeks. Last week it came back, but now it is gone again.

Find a good developer and build in time before presentations to review with them. That way, you can make revisions to your layout if necessary.



I find that this is a really good way to get repeat business and build your base. All my clients appreciate the extra attention.

No, the paper ruins the usefulness. Also, prep your model for the idea that 90% of the uses for this are things she wouldn't want her head on the image for. So good thing you shot it that way.

Congrats Dave! Great image.

Why does my name get grouped in here. Don't project your jealousy upon me, Brent! ugh! :lol:


::fuzz runs away crying::

I don't recognize that place. :D

Mari, it's only 30% of chance, may not be rain at all. Just heard it on the radio that it will rain on Mother's day, partly cloudy today and tomorrow.

And thanks JC, and MadParrot, the I had the women and the children completed before I started trying to figur out the back ground.

Cheers from Buenos Aires, would be nice if beside the private photo sessions you could do some event for istockphoto users living in BA, I don't know... some press conference by the artists, expositions...


Next time maybe?

vector? Easy to isolate :p

I did get a good result with Vuescan but I am going to now have another go with NikonScan. I know that when I used the scanner on my iMac which runs OSX10.3 that it was fine. Perhaps it is because my Powerbook is on 10.4. Vuescan does not use the ICE technology apparently which is why I am reluctant to use and have to buy it.

I'm using photoshop elements 4 due to my budget restrictions. I always shoot RAW, and when opening it from the adobe raw convertor, into elements, I have the option of opening it at 16 bit or 8 bit. Now Elements 4 does not allow any levels adjustments or filters/adjustment layers at 16 bit, so I've been forced to convert to 8 bit in the process either at RAW stage or once opened in photoshop. Predictably, I've had a retarded time with artifact rejections without any significant modifications to the image. My questions are, at what stage should I convert to 8 bit? Or am I just plain screwed without a 16 bit editor?

The lights have a good 6ft range where you can fully light a person up, yes they are great for adding to the light already in the room as you can control the color temp to match the other light, plus they are wireless which makes it even easier. I hunt for small and good because I like to travel and I want to go as light as possible. Now for the 3k storage. I have 1.5 tera bites of storage on a Macpro 8 core, I do not plan on storing all the files at 3k. I will hopefully be able to backup to BlueRay in the near future. I will probably shoot at 3k tweak color ect.. and down size to HD for iStock. The file quality should be awesome! I am hoping that going from Raw 3k to HD will help with noise for low light shooting, would love to have pure black with no noise.

cchhim, have a look at the links mentioned in the sticky for this forum, as well as a search in the studio lighting forum - lots of great advice there, and I'm sure this has cropped up many times before. I don't do this particular type of photography, so I can't help you with any specific advice.

Anything by Katrin Eismann. She has a book on masking and compositing, and a book on retouching that are both excellent.

Hey Gaz, I'm sure 'love burgers' are something totally different!


FB you really think I could come second? My wife would disagree!


Leo, maybe I should add a spitting tube. Workers in the food industry always need a way to show their feelings!

Lovely ... thanks!

Two more small things.

1. I selected Active images and then amended the title on one of my images. On closing the dialogue box the focus went to the top of the list, instead of remaining on the edited image. This made uploading my changes complicated.

2. When sorting by keyword (specifically, phone) I am getting both of the sub-categories under 'Calling'. So, as well as the mobile phones I expected, I got honking geese and bellowing red deer as well. (I suspect this might be a general issue - perhaps sorting by sub-category is not possible yet?)

Thanks... I think I won't submit it. The signature would be too hard to clone out and is a good part of what makes the page interesting.

Just needed to post.

I think the suggestion is okay but probably won't have a high priority as I assume this is a very exceptional situation. iStock prefers if contributors are doing things right the first time, of course.


If you uploaded the corrected image from scratch, you should add a note +++ Note to Inspector: This file is a resubmission for file #xxxxx +++ in the description field of the image. Probably you would get a rejection for the file if the inspector finds out it's not done via the resubmission option. So you're better off explaining what you did and why you did it rather risking the inspector finds out on his own.