320 miles and one drug bust later... - Page 3

 

On Aug 9, 7:55 am, ernest.p.worr...@vernal.equinox.edu (T.J. Higgins)
wrote:

I thunk of that, but couldn't figure out how he'd get in touch with
the riders to sell the pics.

Just hoping that they'll somehow hear about you and access your
website doesn't sound like a very professional/successful business
model.

 

Twibil wrote:

Usually they have big signs showing their web address, enough people
like the pics and buy the high res versions to keep them in business.
It's not necessary for the photog to find out who rode past the photo
van.

If it really was an unmarked van he's not going to sell many photos,
that is true.

 


Dunno if it was unmarked or not.

It was parked behind the same bush that he was.

 

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:55:04 -0500, ernest.p.worrell@vernal.equinox.edu (T.J.
Higgins) wrote:


killboy.com,

There sure are.  Killboy wasn't out last Thursday but zeefoto and us129photos
were busy.

http://www.photoreflect.com/store/Orderpage.aspx?pi=0HH601FQ040094&po ”&pc8
95 through 118

and

http://www.photoreflect.com/store/Orderpage.aspx?pi=0QAK00QY080698&poi8&pcs4
699 through 734.

Interesting that two different photographers were selling pictures, but they're
both selling them through Photoreflect.

--
Futility Man

 


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they're

To be quite frank, and I browsed a dozen or so pix, on both sites, they
were pretty crap pix.

Both snappers have just selected a nice fast shutter speed to 'freeze'
the subject properly - look at the wheels: the spokes are usually
pin-sharp - with no attempt at panning using a slowish shutter speed to
blur the background and give the sense of movement.

Depth of field is quite extensive too, so you seem to get sharp images
of trees, rocks, other riders etc in the background jumbling up the
image.

If I was taking those pix, I'd have scrambled up the rocks, and tried
shooting downwards, from a height, to get a more arresting image.

There again, if I was trying to snap as many riders in a day to maximise
my 'take', guessing that my clientele isn't going to be that
discriminate, I daresay I wouldn't have been so selective and would have
done what the snappers here did.

Among the hundreds of images, there might have been some decent pix, but
life's too short etc.


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