CRAZY MIND BLOWING SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY PORTRAIT SPECIAL

BOOK A SITTING ON SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY OR SUNDAY & PAY 27.89  CASH OR CHECK(TAX INCLUDED)
{CREDIT CARDS THRU PAYPAL ONLY BY EMAIL INVOICE MUST BE PAID BY SUNDAY NIGHT OR SITTING WILL BE CANCELLED}
MUST BE PAID AT TIME OF BOOKING SITTING.

PORTRAITS CAN BE TAKEN ANYTIME IN DEC....

YOU RECEIVE 2-8X10 AND 4- 5X7.

Extended hours for sittings thru Dec 15th.....will  take appointments until 11pm.

!!!! CALL 316-250-8761 TODAY FOR APPOINTMENT AND BE SURE TO SAY YOU WANT THE MIND BLOWING SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SPECIAL !!!!

NOV / DEC SPECIAL

  ... CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW  TO ENLARGE THEN RIGHT CLICK and SAVE TO DESKTOP AND PRINT OFF AS A COUPON ...SPREAD THE WORD .... IF PHOTOS ARE TAKEN BY DEC 15 THEN THEY WILL BE BACK IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS....              Currently only accepting cash and good checks 

 

 

No Interest Payment Plans

I have PAYMENT PLANS WITH NO FINANCE CHARGES ... ... ... I am not talking credit card payments...this is especially good for anyone looking for a wedding photographer...... small weekly or monthly payments, as long as the balance is paid off 2 weeks prior to session / wedding date.

I know there are a lot of people that want professional photography and settle for the wedding Mill or mall portrait photographer cause it is cheap....and they are cheap for a reason.

Yes even I took my family to a cheap mall photographer once.....the images did not last...by not lasting I mean they turned colors, nasty magenta's, yellow's...just nasty and I have snap shots taken by my late father back in the 1940's and 50's that are still crisp and bright.....I use 2 of the VERY BEST LABS IN THE NATION to print my work. Unlike some photographers that run a special and then use the cheapest lab they can find, I still use the same world class labs for my work no matter what the special price is....

Why do I have 2 labs for my work... simply because during different holidays and peak seasons one lab may be running a bit behind or as we all know equipment fails so I always have back ups....for everything....I have back ups for all harddrives, cameras, and also my labs.....That way if one is behind schedule I do not have to contact you my client and say "well instead of the promised 2 week delivery it will be 4 weeks cause the lab is behind....and I am trying out new labs during the year so if need I have another contingency to keep myself from becoming behind.

Fall Special - $100 off for Outdoor Portraits.

Wichita Ks area.....Senior, Family, Business or Modeling Session ...
FALL PORTRAIT SPECIAL UNTIL OCT 31, 2011 - - $100 OFF PORTRAIT SESSIONS ($75 + TAX) - OUTDOORS ONLY - NO STUDIO SESSIONS FOR THIS PRICE .... CALL 316 - 250 - 8761 TO SET APPOINTMENT .... The outdoors is so wonderful right now we should be spending as much time in it as possible.
Fee Due at booking time ... cash ,check or credit card (credit card through PayPal only)

Exif,Dgin, and using a pic as a link to larger image

I had posted a thread on the photo forum Dgrin and I made the images direct links to larger sized images....then I found my exif information was not there...so i unlinked the images made a click here statement and the exif showed up...so if you participate on Dgrin and want to link to a larger image do not use the original as your link or the exif will not show up....
Have a wonderful day.

Online Buying....Ebay, Photography forums......

Wichita Kansas is a city of nearly 500K people and we are now down to 2 camera stores (at one time there were 5 spread across town and the largest was almost in the center of town.)... when I switched back to Nikon for digital I went to what used to be the largest but is still the nicest store to see what could be had....the owner told me he gave up the Nikon dealership and was now canon....but the other guy about 2 or 3 miles away has been a canon dealer for ever......So I had to start shopping online for what I needed and wanted, to this I am no stranger.....it seems as If I had almost always been a mail order buyer before the internet, due to the fact that no one carried what I was looking for and seriously all the cam stores carried off brand no name accessories at that time...any way......I do spend a lot of time on eBay looking and checking prices of all sorts of photo items and other stuff I have that I want to sell......I have been told that I was crazy to sell and buy on Ebay, instead of the friendly Photo forums....well I sell on Ebay and only accept Paypal as a form of payment...so your safety as well as mine...........but.....the reason i started this bloated dialogue is this......I cannot believe how many people have stuff for sale for too high a price when the whole item is not there.....for instance....I was looking at a lens the title was quite catchy....Like new such and such lens in mint condition ......included in the auction is the lens and front and rear caps.......email seller asking do you have the lens hood......and get a rude response...WAS IT LISTED IN THE AUCTION....i SAID LENS AND CAPS.....2ND EMAIL.......do you have the lens bag?......response: NO ...WAS IT LISTED...GUESS YOU CANNOT READ...LENS AND CAPS THAT IS ALL.......3rd email....Can I pay extra for insurance......RESPONSE....NO!!......
I see all sort of items stating MINT Condition but missing parts.....how is that MINT.......I mean If I offer a car for sale in near Mint or in Mint condition wouldn't require all the parts to be there....seriously folks......I do not care about boxes or warranty cards on used equipment but I want the lens, front and rear caps, lens hood and the protective bag if it is advertised as mint.....now I can even allow for a set screw mark in the rubber bottom of a battery grip and still have it advertised as "like new but used".......

so folks read the whole advertisement and ask lots of questions when buying online and for your own safety use PayPal and make sure the person has at least a 3 day return if not satisfied if the item costs over $20.00 ...selling something used and not having a return is bad also make sure it is insured so if UPS, Fed Ex or USPS damages it a refund can be had.........


Happy and SAFE shopping..............

Copying Files from Small Hard Drive to Larger Hard Drive

My 2.5" laptop external drive was full, this was meant to be a portable hard drive for traveling......but somehow it became just another one of my external drives.....Then all of a sudden I was going to need it and needed to have it empty.....Well I got lucky and found a great deal on Seagate 2TB internal drives (which is what I started using instead of external drives for storage)and I picked up one...........now to copy all the stuff off the 2.5 inch external to the 3.5" Seagate.......I moved all the files that had been imported thru Lightroom 3 and then started the mass exodus of the remaining 29,000+ files.....highlighted all the folders and dragged them to their new home and waited for the Win 7 pop up that would tell me how long this move would take......approx 10 hours.......Time for bed.....so I went to sleep to get this morning and still have over an hour to wait for the move to be finished....So I took hold of the new Seagate 2TB drive to see how hot it is....to my surprise it was not hot at all.....wow the drive is cool the dock is cool.....and everything is super quiet.
So what I use is this: ThermalTake Black Widow Blac X Gaming Hard Drive Dock...this is a single bay dock that I have been using for a couple of years but this is the 1st time I have used it to move files like this...normally I insert a hard drive and download my memory cards from my camera and do my Lightroom and photoshop work then I am done...so it is turned on and running for a few hours (1-4) at a time.....so a 10 hour continual run and nothing heated up is great, as I forgot to turn on my little 10" fan that I have to keep things cooled down since the dock nor the hard drives have a cooling fan (of course).......
My reason for using a hard drive dock and internal hard drives for storage is pretty simple....I use a 3 drive back up system: 1st drive is main working drive and then I have 2 drives that are exact copies of the 1st drive for back up. Now when you do this with external harddrives in enclosures, it takes up tons of room to store external harddrives but internal drives take up a lot less room and can be easily stack on top of each other in a good quality gun safe for safe keeping (make sure the gun safe has a fire rating of at least 1 hour or more)........As the laptop drives get larger in capacity I will be changing from 3.5" desktop drives to the 2.5" laptop drives to save even more space.

Why I quit offering International shipping when selling on EBAY.....

Over the last 11 years of using Ebay for buying and selling, I always offered world wide shipping any that PayPal was available and to any confirmed PayPal address.....but no longer and here is why.....and I know it seems like an insult to possible International Buyers and for that I am sorry.
In the past I would sell and item to someone in Germany or the Ukraine and off it would go......then I had to fill out a little green form, single page....4 or 5 questions...no problem there was a space I could even put it was of no commercial value...so that customs new it was a used item and I was not a retail business selling for profit.......now I have to fill out a form that is nearly impossible to understand the terminology and when I call the USPS number for help it seems they do not know what is supposed to go on certain lines...and because of this if I make a mistake on the form the item could get held up in customs or worse sent back to me or even worse cost the buyer to have to pay some sort of import tax.......I do not understand why our govt keeps wanting to make stuff more and more complicated for the little person....it really is a pain in the rear end......any way that is why I no longer offer worldwide International shipping on my eBay auctions.....

Forgot how much fun FILM can be......

Dug out my Nikon F70.....yes I said F70...that was the European model of the USA's N70....it had a nice quartz date / time on the back and a switch to shoot panorama shots......was not my bag back in the day...but I got one great deal on the camera when I purchased it.......
Well today i inserted 2 new CR123A batteries and locked my Sigma 50-500 on it...turned it on and half pressed the shutter button and ............. well the speed with which it grabbed focus was unreal...my D300 is no where as fast to grab focus with that lens.....the film has been in the camera for many years so who knows what it will turn out like but...it was just amazing at how blazing fast it focused......I will be getting a roll or 2 of Fuji 100 or even 50 iso print film as soon as I get to a real camera store and have a go at shooting film again......unfortunately my only real option is to use my AIS manual focus lenses for now if I want any real control over shutter speed or aperture...so that blazing fast focus won't be happening with the AIS lenses as they are manual focus but sharp as freshly slivered glass......so let the fun begin...again.

Quantum Cable MKZ9 - review....rant

I have been using Quantum batteries and cables for most of my 30+ yrs of doing photography.....i have used the batteries and cables for Sunpak 522's, 622's, 622 super Pro's, Minolta flashes and Nikon flashes....but the cable the cable for the new Nikon SB900 is junk....or at least the one I have is junk.....flimsy made....without 2 rubber bands and a small stack of washers to press the thing down it looses contact...it has no real locking mechanism like the MKZ3 cable that has twist locking mechanism inside the dummy battery...you pressed down and turn the lock and it stayed......with the MKZ9 you have exposed wires that will in a short while wear thru and possible short out......This is the worst made piece of PRO photo equipment I have ever had my hands on....I emailed Quantum and pretty all they had to say was so sorry your are displeased maybe you should consider moving over to the turbo line which the cable connects to the front of the SB900 instead of thru the battery compartment......my answer was...I will sell off my Quantum Equipment and buy from China...for less than the cost of 2 MKZ9 cables I can get......complete battery, charger and cable to connect to the front port of the SB900.......normally I do not like spending money overseas with our bad economy, but a so sorry email from you and I will not do business with you any longer and I will sell all of your products that I am using currently...and Chinese products have been climbing in quality for a while now.......so it looks lie it will be good bye to usa made Quantum...........

Flash Brackets.........a new dilemma ......A Rant

I have used flash brackets for over 30 yrs...I have tried dang near every type on the market and settled on the Camera rotation type as they kept the flash centered above the camera and it was much easier to get camra flipped and not worry about the flash, rather than turning camera side ways and then reorienting the flash...too time consuming.....
Now I have a dilemma....on my old brackets I had a place for a cable release to be held and of course that made firing a camera a lot easier than trying to hold the set up , focus camera and then find the shutter button and press it......NOW THE DILEMMA....Digital cameras do not have a cable release socket on the shutter button and digital releases of any sort are cumbersome when it comes to being used like this....why did the camera companies not put a simple socket on the release button for a simple straight forward cable release to connect to.....It would have made life for us photographers that love to use flash brackets a whole lot easier and simpler.....

Have a great weekend.

Mozilla Firefox Weirdness

The weirdest darn things have been happening.....I had about 10 browsing windows open ...some with as many as 65 tabs going......and all of a sudden my computer slowed down so slow and firefox kept crashing...I mean crashing 20-30 times a day....not good when trying to fil out job apps or doing an online interview for a job or just trying to answer questions sent off your website......Dell could not find it....then I decided to see how many tabs were on my main browser window...it had almost 400...then I noticed I had 2-3 times the browser windows than I should have........the dang things were multiplying like bunnies....no viruses found but that was truly weird......

I know the [people at Firefox are wondering what the crap was happening......and I have no idea....one window that should have only had 62 or 63 tabs...had 194........now i have tons of junk to sort thru and delete.......Crazy Weirdness......

Letting Go.......of Items NOT used in a long while and just Gathering Dust

I am putting lots of goodies on EBAY for Auction...some photographically: Minolta, Quantum and Nikon for starters...my ebay alais is ST Vitas.....
Here is a link to the Nikon MB-D10 Multi-Power Battery Pack just click other items on the right side near the top to see other things and check back as I do not have time to have a garage sale and this is to clear out storage space and allow for a new tool or 2.......

Multiple Email Accounts...can be a Pain but.......

If you have several email accounts you may really want to look at Mozilla's Thunderbird, unless you are tied to MS Outlook....I went from Outlook express to Windows live email / hotmail ..it only allowed 4 accounts but when I answered an email from my say Lycos account..it sent the reply from Hotmail, and that confused tons of people.....so....I was out looking for an email client and looked back into Outlook express (never was a fan, but it was all I could find at one time and it was also included with teh Winders OS's......so.....I used it)......Since I do not use Internet Explorer and other MS stuff and I do use and really like Mozilla's FireFox, I went a searching thru Mozilla........and took a look see....and I tried out Thunderbird...now I am not a geek so having to do any coding is out....I mean it is O.....U.......T.....that is why I am still running winders OS and not LINUX....god I would love to be running all my photo software on Linux.....anyway........I gave Mozilla's Thunderbird a try a few weeks back and sang its praises (on FaceBook).......Today...I will say I love Thunderbird and when you reply to an email, it signs into your actual email account and leaves the sent message in your sent box there.....and the recipient sees it comes from the email addy they sent the message to originally........and I do not see the Mozilla Thunderbird team just dropping the support for it...........

It is so nice to click on one icon and being able to once again read all of my email.....by simply clicking on the corresponding email inbox........

Have a great Weekend.

Website Changes.......

Got major stuff done to the website { http://www.artscottfotografie.com } that make it much cleaner and organized.....but I made the mistake of not taking a screenshot of it first so I could actually show the difference....now I just need a nice elegant Header and I would be very very very very pleased.....as it is I am just pleased.

take a looksee and send me a message using the contact me link just under the Header.....

Have a great week!!!

6-3-2011 Making some Changes

Well today would have been my mothers 91st birthday, but cancer got her a very long time ago.....but the changes have nothing to do with cancer, dying or my mother....this is a photography blog......

Well I am not a coder so coding for a website is extremely tough, especially when you have to sit and wait for someone to tell what code to put where.....but.....
I have started redoing my website and it is truly looking better.....I need to get a nice pretty splash page and then some tidying up on the inside and it will be much better looking.......my eyes are killing me, I have thru 2 bottles of eye drops in the last couple of days....but a small expense for much better results down the road.

PayPal ......

I have been using PayPal for some 10 years now.
Do I trust them........most definitely and why......because I do not have to keep giving out my personal info to sell and buy off different sites.
PayPal also makes it very easy to do business with clients in Canada, the U.K. or even Czech Republic. All I have to do is send an invoice by email and the client pays in his currency or US Dollars, which ever is prefered.

PayPal has it now so you do not have to have a PayPal Account to be able to purchase using PayPal.

This really simplifies selling to foreign clients.

I do have to send a 2nd invoice for shipping and packaging but that is a minor inconvenience to be able to have clients all around the world.

My Heart Nearly Stopped!!!!!!!!

Needed to off load some pix so I could head off to a retirement / birthday party shoot.....so I plug in my current working drive......damn thing starts sputtering the lights on flickering and it will not show up in Disk management...so I switch to my back up ....same thing.... and then the 3 rd copy....same thing...my heart is racing and pounding like Vesuvius when it buried Pompey....time was running out so I dumped the files onto my c drive and left to go shoot......

Came home...fired up the 'puter and plugged in main working drive....again it flickered and sputtered...and so did the other 2........damn how can 3 drives go bad in less than 2 days and at the same time.....it they had been Western Digital or Maxtor's I would have expected it...but not Seagate......I have lost a Seagate drive but never 2 or 3 out of the same batch......so I unplugged my tablet and plugged in my working drive again, directly to computer no USB dock......it fired up, quiet and smooth no hitch......now I feel I can sleep.........check the 2 copy drives...all good.....heart rate down, pulse - normal and blood sugars dropping..........cold sweat gone.........I do have all of the jpgs stored on SmugMug but I was worried about my DNGs..........

Moral ....I need an AC power cable for my laptop cooler and the 2 other usb docks.....they all accept power supplies I just did not purchase them when i purchased the docks or cooler....dummy me......
If you are using any sort of USB dock and it accepts an AC power supply....make sure to use it.


Yup that scared the bejeezers out of me.................and some other stuff also


I let the 3 drives spin all night long connected directly to the computer....they are still nice and quiet 12 hrs later and still spinning.....until tomorrow night when I split them up to their respective off site storage places

Are You in NEED of a POST PROCESSOR???

Are you in need of a post processor because you are just way to busy to keep up with all the processing?? Or maybe you really do not like processing but love creating magical images and wish you had a darkroom tech just like in the film days........Well I will recommend one for you.....He is very particular about his processing and wants clients to be very happy....He is a photographer also.

His name is Chad Dahlquist and is 1/2 of the Happy Fish Design and Post Production Services team.....H.F.D.P.PS. can also help you with the tedious task of designing really great albums also.....the design side is run by his wife Karen.....
For a Price list on Processing follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/4fhzaok .

On the contact form fill out all but the album info and in the comments section ask for a processing price list or ask for a processing and album design price list.

Karen and Chad are great to work with.

You can send your files to them on disk (snail mail) or FTP them to them....FTP is of course the fastest way to deliver and receive the files.....I recommend 2 free FTP clients: FileZilla and FireFTP ...both are from Mozilla and work great with FireFox Browser......and I also recommend SMART FTP but it is not free.

Have a great Friday.

ALIEN BEE STUDIO FLASHES

I have been watching the prices of Alien Bee Professional studio flash units on a few forums and auction sites and i cannot believe what I see......People are more than willing to pay full retail for used flashes....I am talking seeing flashes that are 3-5yrs old selling for full retail + shipping and handling.......I watched one auction with a buy it now of $400 go for more.....just reading the auction it sounded decent, until you took the time to price the flash ($280), the umbrella ($30) the stand ($30) and a softbox ($45)......the prices in ( ) are full retail...this seller paid maybe $400 if you figure in S/H....but everything was 4.5yrs old.....This is just craziness .....

Have a great weekend...............

Want Portrait But Do Not Want to Get Out in Bad Weather or ....

Want Portrait But Do Not Want to Get Out in Bad Weather or ....have small children that you do not want to take out for any pone of several reason, we as parents do not want to take the children out from home.....

Call a Photographer that makes house calls...yes concierge photogs...I have made house calls for ever.....not just the well to do's but also to the average worker, their time is valuable also and sometimes it just makes for a better portrait session for ME the photog to come to you....that way you are in your own element, you feel way more relaxed and can pretty much do what ever you want to..it is YOUR home and space...so if being barefoot is part of being comfy..do it and tell mister photog ...no pix show feet......also no need to PACK CLOTHING changes to go to the studio, clothes stay in closet.....A lot of 'togs charge a premium to come to you...I do not....I have minimum of 3 hours set for every in home portrait and I am normally early..then I carry the lights in and get set up.....this includes office portraits and such also....

So remember that some of us truly enjoy being at YOUR service.......so the next time you need a REAL FAMILY portrait give me a call....even if your family is just you and the python .....or Lassie or Silver...you get the picture.....we can include pets in the pix also.....they actually own us notthe other way around.

Venting some more...yepoo still DGRIN STUFF....

It is funny that 99% of the mods are not actual Photographers...but rather wannbes...they hide in their offices all day as engineers and other such people with a 9-5 paycheck job and take a few pics here and there...they are not out in the trenches shooting for a living......Where did they study photography...they did not...but yet they think they have the proper knowledge to run a photography forum...not hardly...they like the control they can have over others.....the most Fascist are a west coast engineer and an east coast Physicist and he really got bad after earning his PHD......but if the actual head of the forums would simply slap his buddies once in a while rather than allowing them to run off some the most creative people from across the globe then the forum would grow leaps and bounds...instead of people posting that AI am leaving because of how I have been treated by tyrannical mods/admins....it is never the powers that be fault...it is always the forum users fault....if these powers run their homes like they do Dgrin then they are abusing their wives and children......it has been proven over and over again on Law and Order and other law enforcement tv shows.......really what has happened on Dgrin to nite is not much different than Egypt cutting all cell phone and internet and train availability for its people....simply just another form of Fascism but from american tyrrants......

Smugmug came on line with out any really good way to upload photos...ask for a better way..of anything and you get standard run around the bush of answers...but we refuse to give a definitive answer because one of our competitors might be watching....case in point i started hosting my pix there a little over 5yrs ago...but could not upload very fast...sometimes it took days to upload a few pix...a few is under 100 jpegs.....they want to cater to the PRO but refuse to allow us to store raw or dng files, but they partnered with Amazon and offered disk space that for me 5yrs ago would have cost me over $2k/yr to store my Original files whether raw or DNG......
nope not me..so I have a collection of hard drives storing my images by year taken...has cost me less than 1k so far....for 3 copies of each drive......

The real kicker, FTP has been around since April 16, 1971...since its inception FTP has been the FREAKING STANDARD for transferring files.....and the owners of SmugMUg / Dgrin did not allow for its use that is pure and simple idiocy....it is fast as hell it is safe and if your computer or the one being transferred to shuts down...the transfer will start up again when the problem is solved and the path is open again......but no they keep coming up with crap uploaders even when asked to implement the use of FTP........or they tell you to by one from a software developer that hangs on the forum........why the hell buy one FIREFTP is free from Mozilla....get real SMUGMUG

DGRIN is at it again....Forum Fascism coming to the top again

Dgrin and it tyrannical mods (not all are tyrants), but a few are and they are real close to being exactly like the rulers a that oppressed them as children...Oh that is what we learn by our oppressors....to oppress others......

First of all mods and admins do not a forum make...it takes the people who sign up for that forum or group of forums......

To night a very good and informative Photog got banned from DGRIN simply for not agreeing with the Mods and Admins...no profanity was used...no name slinging, no racial slurs..we simply do not agree with the changes they are forcing on us.....they , Dgrin did not ask the us the clients, for our opinion...this is not the 1st time....they closed a forum on a whim...there were tons of photo newbies (for lack of a better term at this time) seeking help and I was in the middle of posting ideas to one such new photographer and I hit post and I found the forum closed....and closed in such away you could not start a discussion on why....when I asked why, I was told that is how it is..there will be no discussion...the title of the Thread to close the forum was the ASININE title of DGRIN is GOING GREEN and people were "URGED" to post their questions in the correctly corresponding forum..so if it was a macro question go to Holy Macro, if it is a wildlife question go to the wildlife forum and so on...we lost a lot of people that day..and no one...I mean no one came to RE-POST their question....Dgrin has been losing in the popularity battle for a while now....they always said they were nicer than Fred Miranda's forum and also DP Review ...but I am seeing a great amount of Fascism in the way they do things.........

I will be banned next more than likely for this posting on my own blog.....or for not agreeing with them on the subject of FTPing for uploading our photos...I come on people FTP has been a standard for almost 40 yrs,,,it will be 40 years on APRIL 16......

Hope I found all my typos...good night

SNOW...this is terrible SNOW!!

taking a short lunch break.........this is not good snow..it is dry, it is blowing...it is terrible......going out of house for lunch with camera.....maybe the photo ops will be better towards evening........

EVERYONE BE SAFE

sTRESSFUL eVENING.......DAY.....ALL OF IT

oK THIS IS A RANT TO GET STRESS DOWN SO i CAN SLEEP....
I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF DGRIN FOR OVER 5YRS...AT TIMES THE MODS DECIDE TO MOVE A POST AND IT IS GONE....FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON THIS IS PROBABLY NO PROBLEM...THEY SEARCH THEIR LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS AND GO CLICK ON THE THREAD........BUT A LOT OF THE MODS.....HAVE THE IDEA THEY CAN DO THIS WITHOUT QUESTION.....CASE IN POINT......i POSTED A QUESTION ABOUT MY WEBSITE AND ABOUT COMMENTING ON THE PHOTOS.....COULD I CONTROL IF IT WAS A PHOTO COMMENT OF COMPLETE GALLERY COMMENT......ALL i NEEDED WAS A SIMPLE ANSWER OF NO IT MUST BE DONE THRU CUSTOMIZING THE CODE TO THE GALLERY / SITE AND YOU COULD PUT THIS IN AS A FEATURE REQUEST....BUT NO THE MOD, GENERALLY A DECENT GUY, MOVED THE THREAD TO A DIFFERENT FORUM.........NOW DO i NEED TO TELL EVERYONE MY BUSINESS OF HOW i RUN MY DAILY LIFE, AS IN HOW MANY FORUMS I PARTAKE IN, HOW MANY BLOGS i HAVEETC ETC ETC....NO I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY I DO THINGS THE WAY I DO....OK SO MY QUESTION IS NO LONGER WHERE i POSTED IT...i HAVE TO SEARCH FOR IT.....PRETTY SIMPLE....GO TO TOP OF FORUM CLICK ON YOU...NOW GO DOWN THE LIST TO LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS CLICK ON THAT....NOW YOU HAVE TO SEARCH THE LIST ( I AM SUBSCRIBED TO OVER 1700 THREADS)TO FIND THE QUESTION i HAD POSTED....YOU MUST REALIZE THAT IF THREAD #1700 GETS A POST BY ANYONE NOT JUST ME IT MOVES UP TO #1 ON MY LIST SO WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE COMMENTING ON DIFFERENT THREAD MY ORIGINAL POST IS DROPPING FAST.........OK i FOUND IT...NOW CLICK ON IT.....

oK NOW i AM HOT......THE MOD DOESN'T ACTUALLY ANSWER MY QUESTION BUT POINTS ME TO A LIST OF CUSTOMIZATIONS....SO NOW i HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN LOOKING AT EACH AND EVERY POST THAT IS NOT REMOTELY RELATED TO MY QUESTION....GRANTED ALL THIS STUFF HAS BEEN GENERATED BY THE MOD CAUSE HE LIKES CODING AND HE HAS DONE IT FOR FREE.....GREAT......SO AI AM STILL LOOKING AND GETTING MORE FRUSTRATED AND PISSED....SO FINALLY 2/3 WAY DOWN i SEE ANOTHER LINK POINTING TO WHAT i HOPE IS WHAT i WANT........i ARRIVE AT THIS JUNCTURE TO SEE CODE....i HAVE NO CLUE IF IT IS html, CSS, JAVA, PERL OR WHAT THE f***.........AND NO REAL INSTRUCTIONS ON WHERE IT GOES......I AM NO CODER, 10 YRS AGO OR BETTER I DESIGNED SEVERAL GREAT LOOKING HTML SITES...THEN THIS NEW CRAP CAME A LONG CALLED CSS, SUPPOSE TO MAKE STUFF EASIER AND FASTER AND PRETTIER...FOR ME IT CREATED PROBLEMS....AND ADDED TO THE LONG LIST OF CODE I HAD TO LEARN...I QUIT DOING ANY WEBSITE BUILDING....ENUFF ON THIS BACK TO MY RANT.....SO i GO BACK TO MY POST AND BLOW A GASKET...NOT OVER THE CODE BUT BECAUSE MY THREAD HAD BEEN MOVED AND WAS NOT GIVEN A STRAIGHT ANSWER LIKE: SORRY ART TO DO WHAT YOU WANT YOU MUST DO A BIT OF CUSTOM CODING AND ALSO YOU SHOULD PLACE THIS OVER ON THE FEATURE REQUEST FORUM........NOPE i GOT A LOOK HERE FOR WHAT YOU NEED ANSWER....SO YES I AM PISSED AND YES I UNDERSTAND THAT 99.99999% OF ALL FORUM MODS ARE VOLUNTEERS.......AS I SAID I BLOW AND THEN THE COO OF SM GETS INVOLVED AND I SEND HIM A PERSONAL EMAIL...NOT A FORUM PM BUT AN EMAIL FROM MY EMAIL ADDRESS...THEN ANOTHER MOD THAT HAS NO BUSINESS GETTING INVOLVED POSTS A SLAP TO ME JUST CAUSE HE CAN...THIS GUY THINKS HE IS GOD AND CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS BECAUSE HE IS BUDDIES WITH THE COO AND HE GETS AWAY WITH IT...HE IS ONE IF YOU DISAGREE WITH HIM YOU GET BANNED FROM THE FORUM........i HAD TO EXPLAIN WHY GOING THRU 4 DIFFERENT LINKS AND SEARCHING FOR MY POST WAS A HUGE WASTE OF TIME FOR ME...SHIT TIME IS MONEY....i HAD TO EXPLAIN THAT i KEEP TABS OPEN FOR EACH AND EVERY QUESTION i HAVE ON ALL FORUMS AND OTHER PLACES INCLUDING DIFFERENT BLOGS...ETC...ETC..ETC...YEP i HAVE OVER 300 TABS RUNNING ON ONE COMPUTER ALONE...I DO NOT CARE IF THE COO OR ANYONE BELIEVES IT...IT IS IMMATERIAL..IT IS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.........WHAT MATTERS IS THAT A PAYING CLIENT HAD TO SEARCH AND HUNT AND WASTE HIS TIME TO FIND A POST HE MADE A LITTLE EARLIER......WHAT MATTERS IS THESE MODS DO NOT ASK IF WE THE CLIENTS ARE OK WITH A POST BEING MOVED AND WHY....THEY JUST DO IT AND IF YOU BITCH YOU COULD GET BANNED ...........

GOOD NIGHT.

Really great Article on Why Software is not FREE

Here is a really great article on why software is not free...at lest 99.9% of the good to great software:

http://tinyurl.com/4dz3n9a

Now apply this too Photographs and photography in general.....

WACOM IS NOT THE ONLY CHOICE FOR A TABLET TO PROCESS PHOTOS WITH.....

Vistablet VT 12W, from my research this is their original tablet and there are other and more expensive models to choose from.....

I AM NOT A MAC USER AND SOMETIMES I FORGET TO INCLUDE INFO FOR MAC USERS...THIS IS COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE WITH MAC OSX OR LATER......

An inexpensive tablet: 12.1" widescreen / w 10x6.25 active area........I could not get my wacom tablet (graphire) to play nice with my Dell Studio 17 with Win 7 ultimate / 64bit...not even in XP mode..so it has been sitting and I have been really struggling with PHOTO processing....as my ability to do precise work with trackball is terrible and even worse with a mouse.....new wacoms are just a tad pricey and no one carries anything but the lowest end bamboo series...so that means ordering paying shipping and then if not liked returning on ones own dime (or $15 or so)...so looking thru Ebay for something like a wacom 3 used I ran across this Vistablet with a 2 yr warranty & offices in Cali........Ok I was wanting something larger than my previous 4x6 active area on the Graphire and this was larger and only $79+s/h (~$13) {THIS WAS THE EBAY PRICE..OF THE VISTABLET WEBSITE IT IS $131.99} .......so far it is interesting...I am finding the whole tablet active not just the outlines work area, it seems to be active corner to corner on the grey area, which is great so far...the pen runs off a AAA batt and the tablet activates with pen a little over an inch off of it......I need to load the software and then re-start computer.......they even offer a full trade in value when you are ready to upgrade...so with warranty of 2yrs and full value trade in for upgrade....it is already sounding better than Wacom, they have a ways to go to get the confidence of the world that Wacom has but they could possibly grab a good portion of the market......next few days are very busy but then I plan on getting to use this before the weekend is over...and I will come back with more on how it worked for me.....

I have not gotten into the programming of the Macro Keys as my Wacom Graphire does not have them.....so my use has been as a large "basic" tablet..and it seems to respond very well...it is odd having the pen activate while still approx 1/2' off the tablet but it does a very good job and when it comes to doing my signature with the pen...well it has not made my signature look any better and I was hoping a new tablet would be the cure.......Just Kidding....there is no cure for my handwriting.... :~}}

Any way Vistablet VT 12W tablet is way better than my Graphire was as I now know I truly needed more work-space and it feels much better and natural using this tablet.........for $79=$13 s/h{THIS WAS THE EBAY PRICE..OF THE VISTABLET WEBSITE IT IS $131.99)

I am satisfied..especially since I can upgrade and get a full purchase price trade in value in the future....and also there is a 2yr warranty...... Hope this help people looking for a tablet and just feel the wacoms are too expensive.

eyes have been burning like they are on fire

My eyes have been burning like crazy since Monday morning.....I have a headshot shoot to get processed and also another shoot....between the burning and the throbbing headaches it has been a terrible week to this point...............

Act Today or KISS YOUR ORGANICS GOODBYE

Act Today or KISS YOUR ORGANICS GOODBYE

If you care about your food supply and what the Govt wants to do , you need to go here and let them know........Link:

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/kiss_your_organics_goodbye

Feel Free to share this link.....

A plea for help........

Yup that is correct...... a plea for help....
I use a Sekonic L-558 DualMaster Light meter a lot......Tonight I noticed that it did not feel right in my hand and I found I was missing tghe front rubber grip....directly under the memory button......I did email Sekonic...but thought I woudl put out a plea for help on the net...if anyone has a Sekonic L-558 that is dead I would entertain the thought of buying it for basic parts.....

Thanx!!!

I won.....I won.....I won........

I just won Jason Groupp 's newest DVD, 25 Kick Ass Lighting Scenarios ....time to learn some new lighting tricks.....Thanks SMUGMUG / Andy!!!!!

Can't wait for it to arrive......and get new insights on lighting.....beeen doing it almost the same for the last 30 yrs......

Do not know what I was not doing.......

I do not know what it was I was not doing on my Art for Your Wall blog but every time I turned around it was messed up......I changed the html... I previewed and it looked good.....titles sitting neatly on top of the photos, the buy buttons neatly on the bottom of each photo ....just like it should be....then I would come back a few hours later and it was screwy........so I would go in again and it all realigned again.....well I hope it stays correct now...I am tired of re-doing every thing again and again and again...it has been 5 times now that I have had to redo the darned blog.....my eyes hurt, are burning and I have quit taking the loratab for the pain from this last Saturdays accident (got rear ended) on my way to shoot a friend......hopefully I can stay awake to get her photos processed and uploaded to her gallery.....

Good Night.

PUBLISHED IMAGES FROM THE BOOK "BLUE GRASS VISIONS"

Finally got all the published works from Blue Grass Visions on line...plus a few of my
favorites from the days in Lexington Ky.. but there is more to come from Lexington....just not tonight...here is the link to the post: http://artforyourwalls.blogspot.com/

Extremely Sore.................

Well after yesterdays accident i am extremely sore, have monumental headache and my damn blood sugars are all over the place and so is my blood pressure.
I can only stand to be on computer for a few minutes at a time and I have crap loads of images to process.....this sux......the 1930's themed shoot went well, and the client felt good about the way things went....it client's gut feeling is good then most of my work is done...now to process into blk / white and sepia tones with grain...I did shoot a lot at ISO 1600 so hopefully this will be good....ok just the little amount of time typing this and my head is throbbing again.....
taking a short dinner break and then back to the grindstone known as LightRoom. :~}} :~}}

Part 2

just got home from emergency room visit....cat scans shoed no trauma from being rear ended but did show a great amount of degenerative neck disease......that does not sound good....cat scan kept overheating and I was stuck in it and no one told me there was a prob the 1 time, I was just stuck in this room and the 2nd time I raised my voice a little....used what I call a school teahers voice to project a bit more and got someones attention and was then told the cat scan was over heating....of course I told them they needed to call WallDingers' and get someone out there to fix it and all I heard was Uh huh ......seemed like I was in that machine for hours and come to find out I was.........next several days I am gonna hurt was told to stay home and in bed for tomorrow, no taking pictures or running sound.......
Monday gotta find someone to do a really good inspection of the drive train to make reasonably sure my tranny and 4 wheel drive are all right.

Good Night all....

why you should always carry a camera with you....

2:19pm headed east on douglas at Mclean stopped for red lite in Turn lane (was gonna turn south on McLean) got hit in rear end....my old 94 trooper is one tough vehicle....her Altima is totaled I do believe....her hood looked like a white triangle...Headed to... Hospital for xrays of back and neck.....


...when hot had a sharp pain in my spine...yes i was wearing my seat belt...she told police that she looked down then back up thought the lite was green and looked down again and then came to a sudden stop......DUUUUUHHHH....that is... wat happens when ya not payin' attention girlie......gotta find someone to give my car a thorough check over..no body damage but it may have really done internal damage to 4 wheel drive and tranny and all that stuff and loosened my exhaust...later folks..will put up pix later after hospital....this is why YOU should always have a camera with you and know how to use it......

ART FOR YOUR WALLS IS UP AND RUNNING BUT.........

ART for YOUR WALLS IS UP AND RUNNING AND READY TO SELL ART WORK BUT IT IS AND NEVER WILL BE COMPLETE........as i can I will add more to the Published in Wichita Visions book and also add more gallerys to the site........still trying to find info about havng images side by side on blogspot blogs??????


I now also have an ABOUT ME, AN ABOUT THE IMAGES FOR SALE PAGE & PagesON WEDDING PORTRAIT AND ENLARGEMENTS....

I think I am finally done with my pricing for 2011....all new prices and info about WEDDINGS, PORTRAITS, and HEADSHOTS at this link: http://tinyurl.com/29vjal3

Ofcourse I still need to make HTML?CSS Pages on my SmugMug site to be truly done but this will work for now.....gotta get contracts done next
and I have a shoot in about 8hrs....

Pass the word to all that I am ready to start booking the 2011 wedding seniors or any other portrait sessions...........

ART for YOUR WALLS - still under construction - - -But up

I just started a new blog : ART for YOUR WALLS.......It is not a text blog per se but a blog to showcase my images and sell them.
I will have permanent links on here so that all can find it with out a lot of work.

I will also have an ABOUT ME, a CONTACT ME Pages,as well as PORTRAIT, WEDDING price pages.

Coming soon.............ART for YOUR WALLS

coming soon to Art Scott Fotografie will hopefully an ART for YOUR WALLS page for selling my Photo Art Work.....

On the sidebar I know you have noticed some small banners....there are companies that I highly recommend the use of ...... I hope you will use them, as they are the best in their specific areas.

Have a very Prosperous year......

Cpoyright Statements.....talking in Camera here.....

My Cameras now have updated Copyright statements including phone number, luv Nikon for this, copyright gets attached to each image file in camera everytime the shutter is clicked........OH YEAH Love Nikon for this.....oh I already said that.....

For all that are wondering what the hell I am talking about....well it is a Nikon Thing.....it was one of the main reasons I went back Nikon when Konica Minolta sold out to Sony......in the SET Up menu of some of Nikons cameras there is a place to add the Artist name (you) and copy right Info Your name and year....well this year I added my cell phone number...

I hope I never get a call asking if I am the owner of an image file from one that has been stolen....but it is there if the need arises and hopefully I will always have the same cell number...well if it ever changes I can always update the info in the exif files........

One does have to remeber to remove this info when one sells the cameras.......or I could be copyrighting all sorts of images i have never taken :~}}


May your year be filled with wonderful light and images.....

Just a couple of thoughts that ran thru my mind.............................I am wondering....

Just a couple of thoughts that ran thru my mind............................ I am wondering if there was a big party in Parsons Ks when the last roll of KodaChrome ran thru the machines and was boxed and shipped to its owner??? and who was that owner.........what happens now when there is 1k rolls found in some unkonw street photogs digs in the next 5 yrs........just sayin' ...........



OH yeah do not for get to check out Borrow Lenses when you need glass and do not want to buy it......RENT it from Borrow lenses......

Dang Allergies............Trying to clean camera sensors....

Good Lord....supposed to be editing photos BUT ...eyes are burning and have steady stream of....well running nose and drainage into throat, making cough till I almost puke.ALLERGIES..yup...I might as well be standing neck deep in rag weed that is in full bloom or just a room full of swirling pollen...and it is winter time..today sucks.....it could be a lot worse..so I am thankful that it is not sucking any worse.

Takin loads of Dayquil, Musenex and theraflu severe cough med.....well it is slowing the drainage and runny nose a bit....hopefully this will not last a lot longer.....oh and I forgot the sneezing.......UUUUUUUgh...........the sneezing to causing havoc on sensor cleaning....just when I think I am done.......it hits again and then I have to re-clean....this cams sensor won't know what to think about being copperhilled so many times....gotta find the dust masks...