Computer woes and delight....
I ended up purchasing a new computer. Turns out mine had over 30 viruses on it and they are still working on removing them from the old hard drive, it's been about a week now. The prevailing belief is they will not be able to get rid of them all and will just try to preserve my email information and my website info. I have backed up the website info. but the structure is just gone, gone. I can rebuild it but it will be time consuming.
So I have a new computer and monitor (my monitor was dying too). The new monitor was quite the pain. I had to figure out how to calibrate it a bit and still it is not 100% there. I am noticing a tendency for it to wash out a bit of detail in the whites and there is some oddness with the sharpness. To make a long story short, I will need some time to calibrate the monitor to get the look I want to images I scan. (So for Palegothgoddess I will begin to look at the work we did next week as I hope to have the monitor up to par by then). These wide-screen flat LCD's just take a bit of getting used to. There is a learning curve to the new computer and monitor.
Some good news about this computer is, it is damned fast and good at multi-tasking. I can burn discs while surfing the net etc. In the long run, I believe it will speed up the way I do things. My big hope is that now I will be able to burn discs for the models that will contain every shot at print size rather than burning the best of they want at print size for them. Really hated having to give out web-size pictures then going back re-editing the shot to look like the web-size image for 5 or so print images.
In the past week I have been contacted by 3 different models who want to shoot with me and I have a few on hold until things warm up again. I really have no interest in shooting studio work at my place with people I do not know. It is not that I think I will get murdered or something but I want them to feel relaxed and get to know me before we do studio work. I have found models who I have worked with previously really do good in studio with me while direct newbies for the most part are good but not as good as they could have been.
-KevintheVerbose
So I have a new computer and monitor (my monitor was dying too). The new monitor was quite the pain. I had to figure out how to calibrate it a bit and still it is not 100% there. I am noticing a tendency for it to wash out a bit of detail in the whites and there is some oddness with the sharpness. To make a long story short, I will need some time to calibrate the monitor to get the look I want to images I scan. (So for Palegothgoddess I will begin to look at the work we did next week as I hope to have the monitor up to par by then). These wide-screen flat LCD's just take a bit of getting used to. There is a learning curve to the new computer and monitor.
Some good news about this computer is, it is damned fast and good at multi-tasking. I can burn discs while surfing the net etc. In the long run, I believe it will speed up the way I do things. My big hope is that now I will be able to burn discs for the models that will contain every shot at print size rather than burning the best of they want at print size for them. Really hated having to give out web-size pictures then going back re-editing the shot to look like the web-size image for 5 or so print images.
In the past week I have been contacted by 3 different models who want to shoot with me and I have a few on hold until things warm up again. I really have no interest in shooting studio work at my place with people I do not know. It is not that I think I will get murdered or something but I want them to feel relaxed and get to know me before we do studio work. I have found models who I have worked with previously really do good in studio with me while direct newbies for the most part are good but not as good as they could have been.
-KevintheVerbose