ingoj_PhotoBlog

New Kid on the Block

2007-07-17T15:57:00.000+08:00

.
Do you have nice pictures of Asia and want to make some money ? Check out this website. This Singapore based company 'Fotegrafik' intends to leave a mark on the international stock photo industry by specializing on Asian content. Good luck, Ori and friends, you have my support.

Oh, Man - What a Gurl!

2007-05-12T16:57:00.000+08:00

Image above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

One of the great attractions of Thailand are those lovely girls that came into this world as boys. The Third Gender. Wanna see more of them, go to my other blog.

So, you wanna to become a photographer ...

2007-05-09T01:32:00.000+08:00

Image above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

You love taking photos, wanna travel and get paid? It's not easy, but here some advice from the folks that should know. Read article "Point & Click" at National Geographic Traveler.

Gold Award for my Asian Beauty shot

2007-05-02T09:44:00.000+08:00

Image above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

My image of Thai model Cartoon received the "Gold Award"of the Flickr Group "Asian Beauty". Thanks Brad HK.

My photographic idol - Pete Turner

2007-05-01T00:52:00.000+08:00

I noticed the images of Pete Turner already in the 1970's and became immediately an admirer of his clear graphic style and bold colors. There was incredible excitement when I joined in 1986 the The Image Bank, which Pete Turner had helped to form in 1974. His work was always an inspiration for my own photography and we shared also one love: the Kodakchrome. If you want to see more of the work of this Master of Modern Color Photography, please visit PeteTurner.com and LegendsOnline by pdn & Kodak Professional.

Notice: Copyright to the photograph displayed above is owned by the photographer, Pete Turner. You may not sell, publish, license or otherwise distribute this photograph without the written permission of the photographer.

... wanna go paradise?

2007-04-28T11:45:00.000+08:00

Image above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

Visit Bali, the Island of Gods
The cultural centre of Bali is the beautiful town of Ubud. For more information please visit UbudNews and Ubud.com.

... are you smart enough?

2007-04-28T02:13:00.000+08:00

Image above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

So, are you smart enough to be a successful stock photographer?

Dan Heller wrote:

So in the end, it's not about how good you are as a photographer. It's about how well you know the business of the topic you happen to be selling those photos. And because of this fact, photography is like many other professions: the smart ones are more successful than talented ones.

... read more here.

Flickr Goes Micro

2007-04-26T16:27:00.000+08:00

Latest news according to StockPhotoTalk: Flickr joins micro stock agency 123RF.
Now everybody can earn peanuts ...

StockPhotoTalk

2007-04-25T02:04:00.000+08:00

Stock Photo Talk - Special Interest Blog - is THE site for people that are interested in what's going on in the stock photo business. They cover events, trends and changes in the industry.
There is talk about Getty and Corbis and the micro stock phenomenon.
If you want to be up-to-date, subscribe to their feed.

Show off your photos

2007-04-22T01:58:00.000+08:00

Wanna show how you frame the world, check out PBase.com, an excellent hosting and photo sharing site.
There is a lively community to show, see and comment.

For the membership they charge U$23/year.

Here my two galleries, Bali and Asian Girls at the moment.

A powerful RAW Monster

2007-04-19T18:20:00.000+08:00

Images shown above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

Here is another software that might upset your current work flow, the recently launched Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. This new RAW converter is huge, powerful and versatile, a new tool that could become the 'industrial standard' for serious photographers.
An excellent in-depth review by Uwe Steinmueller you can find here.
It's not my intention to elaborate much further, just to draw your attention to this new powerful tool, it's definitely worth exploring. There is just one point I would like to mention where I disagree with Uwe Steinmueller and that is regarding the "QuickDevelop" panel. I find the 'quick (dirty :-) ?) corrections' using 'AutoTone' very valuable. It is a good starting point that gives such excellent and quick results, further tweaking can be done in the Develope module.
At a later point I would like report about some tests I did with Lightroom, Photoshop, RawShooter and Nikon NX.

Favicon - A Touch of Professionalism to your Site

2007-04-12T23:12:00.000+08:00

When you go to my website you will notice on the address and the tab bar this little icon "ij" [which are my initials ingo jezierski]. It's kind of a logo which 'brands' your site. It's a must for all big sites. This little thing is called a 'favicon' = 'favorite icon'. There is even a dedicated website to this. Check out: http://www.favicon.com

Here the simple steps how I designed my favicon.

1. I designed this icon in Photoshop CS2 [any other photo editing software will also do the job], starting with a 100x100 px window with a black background.

2. Then reduced the size to 16x16 px and saved it as favicon.jpg

3. Now you need a special software like IrfanView that allows the conversion to the .ico file format.

4. This favicon.ico image must be placed in the root directory of your website, where all the html files are sitting.

5. Now you need to add the following lines to the head part of the HTML code of all the pages that are supposed to show the icon:

... and here we go 'professional'.

Launch of My New Website

2007-04-12T17:49:00.000+08:00

Photos shown above Copyright Ingo Jezierski

With this new web site I tried to implement a more business-like approach, sacrificing some aesthetic standards. Many links were added, in particular to my stock photo agencies, so that images can be purchased from the site.
The design was done with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. I deliberately did not use Flash, because I am not a friend of animations, they only create kind of hectic, not allowing to view images 'in peace".
It will be important to update the site frequently in order to make people come back to find something new.
Please, click on the screen shot above to go to my website: TRAVEL STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY & ASSIGNMENTS IN ASIA.