Shall we work out some structure to this little thing we have going on?
I'm thinking that if we're going to alternate between an edit round and a shooting round, we should move on to the shooting round now. Since I put the idea forward, I'll step up and choose the theme.
How long should a round last? Bearing in mind that the shooting round will actually take some time to get the shot and for us to hopefully discuss the good/not so good aspects, what we would've done etc. I don't think editing needs to be more than a week. Question is, can we do a shoot/edit/critique in one week or would we need two?
I want this to take off (if you hadn't noticed) and a good structure will help it to do so I think.
One week is enough for me. Shooting can be done in one day (two, three max. if you get bad weather or something gets in the way), then editing in 1/2 days too, and then friday & weekend for discussing and posting next week ideas?
Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.
The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.
Under the new policy, Facebook claims the perpetual right to license all public Instagram photos to companies or any other organization, including for advertising purposes, which would effectively transform the Web site into the world's largest stock photo agency. One irked Twitter user quipped that "Instagram is now the new iStockPhoto, except they won't have to pay you anything to use your images."
"It's asking people to agree to unspecified future commercial use of their photos," says Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "That makes it challenging for someone to give informed consent to that deal."
That means that a hotel in Hawaii, for instance, could write a check to Facebook to license photos taken at its resort and use them on its Web site, in TV ads, in glossy brochures, and so on -- without paying any money to the Instagram user who took the photo. The language would include not only photos of picturesque sunsets on Waikiki, but also images of young children frolicking on the beach, a result that parents might not expect, and which could trigger state privacy laws.
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A lot of Twitter users claiming to have left or be leaving Instagram before January 16th. It'd be interesting to see how much Facebook make from this over the course of the first year if they sell the images. You only just started using it didn't you, Sergio?
I just started using it, Tim, but only because it's a FAST way to simultaneously upload a pic to FB and Tiwtter at the same time. Image quality is awful and I'm only using it for the sake of simplicity (press button, write description, voila - pic uploaded to FB and Twitter accounts).I won't miss all these pics that my friends post, showing their food, or their shoes, or a low-fi, fake-color sunset or something.
I used an tripod and the settings were: 10 sec. exposure / F20 / ISO100
The Paulista Av. is the most important and the brightest avenue of Sao Paulo, so it's really hard to find a descent camera adjustment there since there are a lot of lights moving through it, but I relly loved the final results
Fantastic stuff Aidan. 10 seconds exposure and ISO 100, wow, that was bold. Luckily your lens allowed you to go as higher as F.20... Great great photos, congrats again
Some pics from last Saturday's sunset at the lake close to where I live... Not particullarly astonishing (they were taken with my phone, quality is crap) but I like how they turned out. They are here as they got out from the phone, no processing of any kind. Beautiful place it is. Gorgeous sunsets
