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These paper birds are wind-powered. When someone opens the restaurant door, a bit of a breeze and the birds all flutter.
4/04/2006
Origami Ceiling
These paper birds are wind-powered. When someone opens the restaurant door, a bit of a breeze and the birds all flutter.
4/03/2006
Blizzard on Fifth
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I was going to make up a story for April 1st about how I went to this garage sale and found this old print that was signed by Steichen and it was in an large envelope with a glass plate negative. But then I plumb forgot to pull the stunt or thought it was too dumb - if that's possible. But this was the photograph to go with. I was going to Photoshop the sign out - but as I worked on it, I began to like it and decided to let it just live or die on its own.
31 + 28 + 31 + 3 days ...
... Cigarette Free. But today I am missing them.
Other than that - orders for prints - especially the smaller ones are coming in from overseas. Last night I added Belgium. Yes, Belgium - tomorrow -- who knows, maybe New Jersey.
It's just that I don't want to tinker with the cart code to internationalize it, so I end up doing it country by country. Brilliant.
What else: I'm printing everything on the Silver Rag (small prints included). I've been doing two at a time on the roll paper without a problem. The roll paper is by far the cheapest way to go, because you can usually fit the image to the paper so you aren't using extra paper. The only thing that annoys me is that before I do any final printing - and if I haven't used the 4800 for a day or two - then I want to print a test pattern. But that means pulling out the roll paper, using the paper tray - and eventually going back to threading the roll paper through.
I guess there's just no way around that - you've got one paper path at that point and if the roll paper is threaded - then you can't use sheet feed. So what you want is automated feeding. I think that will be a long wait. Automated roll threading for you Epson 1MG.
And I decided that as far as having too many pictures - you may be right, but I'm going to keep going with it until I hit 150 online images for sale (that was my first goal).
I have them tagged by keyword, so at some point I'll categorize them. I always hate that:
PEOPLE : PLACES : THINGS
STILL LIFE : STREET SHOTS : NATURE
I don't know how to categorize my shots. I don't even see the point. No, I think most people would prefer to just browse through 'em all.
Other than that - orders for prints - especially the smaller ones are coming in from overseas. Last night I added Belgium. Yes, Belgium - tomorrow -- who knows, maybe New Jersey.
It's just that I don't want to tinker with the cart code to internationalize it, so I end up doing it country by country. Brilliant.
What else: I'm printing everything on the Silver Rag (small prints included). I've been doing two at a time on the roll paper without a problem. The roll paper is by far the cheapest way to go, because you can usually fit the image to the paper so you aren't using extra paper. The only thing that annoys me is that before I do any final printing - and if I haven't used the 4800 for a day or two - then I want to print a test pattern. But that means pulling out the roll paper, using the paper tray - and eventually going back to threading the roll paper through.
I guess there's just no way around that - you've got one paper path at that point and if the roll paper is threaded - then you can't use sheet feed. So what you want is automated feeding. I think that will be a long wait. Automated roll threading for you Epson 1MG.
And I decided that as far as having too many pictures - you may be right, but I'm going to keep going with it until I hit 150 online images for sale (that was my first goal).
I have them tagged by keyword, so at some point I'll categorize them. I always hate that:
PEOPLE : PLACES : THINGS
STILL LIFE : STREET SHOTS : NATURE
I don't know how to categorize my shots. I don't even see the point. No, I think most people would prefer to just browse through 'em all.
4/02/2006
Crossing Street
'Crossing Street'
That early delta 400 film would do some odd things. This is an unretouched (except for sharpening) shot from the early Delta 400 film. I think it looks like a bad, or at least odd burn-in around the guy, his shadow, and the light. But as I say - it's a Delta 400 film effect that was built in at the time.
"CROSSING THE STREET IS ONE OF THE GREAT ADVENTURES IN OUR CROWDED LIVES." - The marquis de Fordham Road, 1890
3/31/2006
SEVEN PILLARS
SEVEN PILLARS (CONTAX SLR)
Balustrade, Church - Park Avenue and 83rd street. I should find out the name of the church - it was where Jackie Kennedy was buried.
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
PRICE INCREASE ON THE WAY
The $25 5 x 7's are going up. I'm doing them all on the Silver Rag which is expensive enough. But the price increase is just based on what the market seems to want to bear, so they'll either be $30 or $35. Either today or tomorrow.
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UPDATE: THEY'RE RAISED
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UPDATE: THEY'RE RAISED
3/30/2006
Smile!
It's never really night in the subway. It's not day either. There is time, but you don't get days. There are hours of waiting, but no morning or afternoons. I think of this because you can't tell what time of day this is - can you? Do you think it's a weekday or a weekend?
Although it is hard to discern the time - you can deduce the time, even in this picture.
Catching Bus, Fifth Avenue
Dedicated to M. Weber and his undying devotion to the blurry image.
[ whole lot of shakin' goin on in this shot; Leica M6 ]
BENCHES ON EBAY
It doesn't look like much of anything is happening on eBay with Boy On Bench (I think it is one of my best shots, and a #1 at that - but I also don't see it as sellable according to Dave's Rules of what sells - which I'll have to enumerate at some point) so I am adding Benches, which - according to my rules should sell. Well, I'd buy it.
ON EBAY: BENCHES, ATLANTIC CITY 6/100
ON EBAY: BENCHES, ATLANTIC CITY 6/100
Ooh, la la - casseurs
"In France, we always imagine violence to be political because of our revolutions, but this isn't the case," said Sebastian Roche, a political scientist who specializes in delinquency in the suburbs. "The casseurs are people who are apart from the political protests. Their movement is apolitical. It is about banal violence, — thefts, muggings, aggression." - New York Times
Ah - le casseurs! (The smashers!) Speaking of imagination - le cassuers has a romantic je ne sais quoi.
Visit Paree and see le cassuers at work. Ooh, la la.
Oh, I guess it's really serious. But what is this big strike about? You should not be able to get fired if you are young? I must be missing something. In my country you can get fired exactly because you are the low man on zee totem pole - so to speak. We have a little thing we like to call it: seniority.
As I walked along the busy Parisian streets and saw the amount of fresh buttered croissants and freshly made coffee being consumed around 10 a.m. - I always had the guilty thought - ah - these people know how to live! And then the nice long lunch break where you go back and read some Sartre and make love to your mistress or is it make love to Sartre and read to your mistress - ah - this was the life. But now the pressures moderne - they are galloping forward - is zat how you zay it? My English is not so good. Galloping?
Ah well. We will give them another century to catch up and learn how to speed through our fast food cafe express. Oh - I know there are McDonalds here and there - with le grande mac. But these are mostly for the tourist dogs. N'est pas?
Ah - le casseurs! (The smashers!) Speaking of imagination - le cassuers has a romantic je ne sais quoi.
Visit Paree and see le cassuers at work. Ooh, la la.
Oh, I guess it's really serious. But what is this big strike about? You should not be able to get fired if you are young? I must be missing something. In my country you can get fired exactly because you are the low man on zee totem pole - so to speak. We have a little thing we like to call it: seniority.
As I walked along the busy Parisian streets and saw the amount of fresh buttered croissants and freshly made coffee being consumed around 10 a.m. - I always had the guilty thought - ah - these people know how to live! And then the nice long lunch break where you go back and read some Sartre and make love to your mistress or is it make love to Sartre and read to your mistress - ah - this was the life. But now the pressures moderne - they are galloping forward - is zat how you zay it? My English is not so good. Galloping?
Ah well. We will give them another century to catch up and learn how to speed through our fast food cafe express. Oh - I know there are McDonalds here and there - with le grande mac. But these are mostly for the tourist dogs. N'est pas?
3/29/2006
Stat Me
Last Week's Stats: Hits and Page Views
"ah! if only one was getting paid a penny per hit. life would be grand, aspheric Leica lenses in all directions. but no, we are minimum wage art mongers, we do what we do for a season, then we die, cached for another season by google, then gone w/o a trace, never, in life, gaining entrance to MoMA, ICP or even Howard Greenbergs" - Bill Emory
"Perhaps we could take printouts of our stat pages to a non-tech-savvy venture capitalist and get funding? I'll leave out the stats on how many of my note card sales have been to my mother's friends...." - Jeff Kelley
"ah! if only one was getting paid a penny per hit. life would be grand, aspheric Leica lenses in all directions. but no, we are minimum wage art mongers, we do what we do for a season, then we die, cached for another season by google, then gone w/o a trace, never, in life, gaining entrance to MoMA, ICP or even Howard Greenbergs" - Bill Emory
"Perhaps we could take printouts of our stat pages to a non-tech-savvy venture capitalist and get funding? I'll leave out the stats on how many of my note card sales have been to my mother's friends...." - Jeff Kelley
Selling Photographs on the Web
Hello Mr. Beckerman,
First, I would like to say I love your work. It's phenomenal! My name is Stacie A. an I am a Junior in high school who is aspering to be a photographer and I just wondering with out getting to personal, what kind of income do you make off of your web site? And how did you get started? Any other information or advise that you could give me I would truly appreciate it, especially advice comming from a talent such as your self. I can use what ever information I can get.
Respectfully,
Stacie A.
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Hi Stacie,
Take a look at this:
http://www.davebeckerman.com/PhotoTechBlog/2006/03/selling-photographs-on-web.html
It pretty much goes into what it's like to sell on the web. (In one word: horrible).
Best,
Dave
[I believe that Dave is getting worse and worse as far as his answers to bright-eyed would-be photographers go. At this rate, give him a few more years, and he'll become truly acerbic with beginners.
I have attempted to help Dave remember what it was like for him when he first began selling photographs - how romantic and how exciting the whole thing was - but he's told me to bugger off. In fact - if you must know - I'm beginning to fear for my own personal safety. I think the best thing is to just let Dave march around the place mumbling to himself. I was hired to be his editor, not his keeper. Ed.]
First, I would like to say I love your work. It's phenomenal! My name is Stacie A. an I am a Junior in high school who is aspering to be a photographer and I just wondering with out getting to personal, what kind of income do you make off of your web site? And how did you get started? Any other information or advise that you could give me I would truly appreciate it, especially advice comming from a talent such as your self. I can use what ever information I can get.
Respectfully,
Stacie A.
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Hi Stacie,
Take a look at this:
http://www.davebeckerman.com/PhotoTechBlog/2006/03/selling-photographs-on-web.html
It pretty much goes into what it's like to sell on the web. (In one word: horrible).
Best,
Dave
[I believe that Dave is getting worse and worse as far as his answers to bright-eyed would-be photographers go. At this rate, give him a few more years, and he'll become truly acerbic with beginners.
I have attempted to help Dave remember what it was like for him when he first began selling photographs - how romantic and how exciting the whole thing was - but he's told me to bugger off. In fact - if you must know - I'm beginning to fear for my own personal safety. I think the best thing is to just let Dave march around the place mumbling to himself. I was hired to be his editor, not his keeper. Ed.]
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