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I get around 30-40 visitors per day to my markvarleyphoto site, most of those are looking at the nudes section so I expect the traffic to match that on the new site soon. From that traffic I average 1 or 2 sales per month, 1 commission and 3 or 4 private commissions per month. Most of my artistic stuff sells through 'real' galleries of which there are many in my area. most of the wildlife and landscapes go through stock libraries.

I'm soon adding a fancy database thingy to my markvarleyphoto site which will be my main library, (family friendly, no nekkid folk) and I may use the same software on the fine-art site also, though I intend rotating the nudes on the website every few weeks/months.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

Fair point. Then your are lumbered with some form of visual deterant, either a visible watermark or reducing the resolution and upping the compression. Thus making any or decent sized prints not very nice. Which is waht you are doing... B-)

I think what miffed me of was that I wanted to scroll the background to see lower down the image. B-)

Overall using PHP or ASP will reduce the work load. Write a page that displays the image supplied in a query string. Then when you add an image to the main pages all you need to do extra is add the filname to the URLs query string.

So becomes something like .

If you want to change something on the big image page you simply edit that single view.php file and all your big images pages take on that change.

On or around Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:10:55 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

all fair, but you want one decent-sized good resolution image as a sample of what's available, IMHO. Needn't be anything especially saleable, but a good, decent-sized (1200-ish pixel, say) image. There's a world of difference between a large, clear, sharp sample image and a comment about what resolution the images are available in if you buy 'em, IYSWIM.

Isn't that a bit risky, given that most are nude back shots an all...

Any recommendations on stock libraries? I'm thinking of getting involved in a venture based in part on stock photography (not wildlife or landscape though) - what pitfalls should I be aware of?

if you are technically good enough then

is among the best, also gettyimages.com read the contract carefully, if they want to charge you for storage then walk away. get a copy of 'the freelance photographers market handbook' it lists alot of the stock libraries and other outlets for many different types of material.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

you can't see her arse on that one, sorry. ;o)

ooo techy techy talk, I'm a photographer remember 8o(

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

Ah but if you can handle F stops, exposure times, circles of confusion, film speeds, filters, colour balance, lighting etc etc a little bit of simple scripting shouldn't be a problem. B-) All you need is a text editor, like notepad.

is hosted on Linux based server with PHP 4.3.9 probably located in the US. So your scripting pages need to be written in PHP. The online PHP manual is pretty good and the search side fairly accurate in giving the best link at the top of the results page.

ok, I'll look into it, won't be this weekend as I'm busy tying people up.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

I had this discussion with a client who insisted on using Flash in order to prevent stuff being nicked. Seems a reasonable option.

Yeah, add me to the list. I've sold around half a dozen sad boring pics over the last couple of years, well, not actively 'sold', more being asked if certain pics could be purchased - rangingh from 30 quid to 250. I reckon this could be a fair way of topping up my fundraising pot for the Alzheimer's Society and Macmillan Cancer Relief. Any tips remunerated with cold wet fallingoverwater :-)

For those who remember my quest for a new digital camera, I've opted for another fuji, an E550 - with optical zoom, reasonable megapixel (6.1 or 12 raw), AA batteries and uses the same memory as my F402.

I know it's not the pro type, but for my use will be fine as it offers a fair degree of manual control. I expect the results of my playing will fill further drive space on

:-)

Don't worry about the advertising men and their distinction between 'consumer' and 'pro' cameras, they are all just tools and it's the hands holding said tool that makes a difference.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)