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Photography and life in Belgium: 06/2010 - 07/2010

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Photo editing - how to reduce artifacts. Artifacting is a native issue of digital photography. It appears on nearly all digital photos - sometimes a little, sometimes strong. Microstock agencies don't like artifacts, istockphoto is particularly known for that. Shoot exclusively in RAW , not too high ISO. Good exposure, particularly no underexposure, and no pulling shadows up. Subscribe...

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Photography and life in Belgium: Microstock - hobby or business?

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Friday, February 4, 2011. Microstock - hobby or business? Recent changes in microstock, particularly commission cut at istock and fotolia caused a lot of negative reaction from the photographers. Of course it's extremely unpleasant when the agencies reduce the share paid to photographers. Although legal it is perceived by many as a very unfair step. Are there any other options? Boycott it or not? If your reve...

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Photography and life in Belgium: Microstock in February

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Wednesday, March 16, 2011. I should have posted it earlier. February, 2011 was my Best Month Ever (BME) on microstock. I started to put more efforts in that business a couple of months ago and it started to pay back. Very nice indeed. What is very surprising is that it was my BME on iStock despite lower commissions and my non-exclusive status. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog.

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Photography and life in Belgium: 09/2010 - 10/2010

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Monday, September 27, 2010. Belgian taxes for stock photographers. I thought it might be useful to share how taxation works in Belgium. Remark: This is not an official tax advise and I am not responsible for any misunderstanding. I simply share what I learned from my accountant and what works for me. The tax applied is 15%. Click here to see the full post and comments. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Buy fine art...

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Photography and life in Belgium: 02/2010 - 03/2010

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. One more photo from session with Thomas and Emmily. This is one more photo from the same session with Thomas and Emmily:. Click here to see the full post and comments. Thursday, February 4, 2010. One picture from that shoot:. Click here to see the full post and comments. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. My art photo prints on RedBubble. View my complete profile.

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Photography and life in Belgium: External battery for my flash

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. External battery for my flash. I have been thinking about an external battery for my flash for quite a while. My main flash (Sigma F-500 DG Super) doesn't have a high-voltage power connection, and anyway high-voltage batteries are rather pricey for my not so often use. So I haven't done anything with that until I found the post on shutterbug.net. Incidentally there was a post on Strobist.

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Photography and life in Belgium: Beginners skin retouching tutorial

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Monday, July 28, 2008. Beginners skin retouching tutorial. I plan to create several photoshop tutorials that will compliment my article about selling photos online. This is the first tutorial, and it is step by step beginners guide to skin retouching. Other tutorials will appear as time will allow; and they will be published both in this blog and on my website. 2 We will make all retouching in a separate laye...

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Photography and life in Belgium: Christmas present for myself - new lens

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Thursday, December 30, 2010. Christmas present for myself - new lens. I made a nice Christmas present for myself - new lens Canon EF 100mm F2.8 Macro. Very happy with the results of the first test. Good for portraits and for closeups. Portrait: f5.6, eye: f6.3. Labels: 100mm f2.8 macro. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. My art photo prints on RedBubble. View my complete profile.

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Photography and life in Belgium: 04/2010 - 05/2010

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Photography and life in Belgium. MikLav blog about photography, photo business, life in Belgium. Monday, April 12, 2010. 16bit vs 8bit editing in photoshop. The question discussed many times and still often asked - whether to process RAW files in 16 bit or in 8 bit mode? Even if you save the final result in 8-bit file (e.g. JPG only supports 8-bit mode), there is a difference depending how you edit your file. Whether it's a big deal or not is rather subjective. but the difference is pretty obvious. No pa...