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Tennis Pro Loses Publicity Claims
Against Photographer
by Joel Hecker, Esq.

Questions often arise as to the validity and extent of protection offered a photographer who obtains a model release as part of an assignment. A recent New York Federal Court had the opportunity to consider a number of issues raised in these circumstances, ruling in favor of the photographer on all claims.
The case was brought by Anastasia Myskina, a Russian citizen who won the 2004 French Open Tennis Championship, against photographer Mark Seliger, his studio, and Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
In July 2002, a Conde Nast editor contacted Myskina's agent to inquire whether she would be interested in being photographed in the nude by Seliger for the cover and interior of GQ's 2002 "Sports" issue profiling female tennis players. She expressed interest and her agent instructed his twenty-three year old administrative assistant to set up the appointment and go to the shoot with her.
On July 16, 2002 Myskina arrived at the photo shoot with the assistant and her coach. There was some confusion as to what was to occur. Myskina testified that she was unaware before the shoot that the cover photo would depict her as "Lady Godiva"- lying nude on a horse. In any case, she expressed concern about being photographed in the nude. She stated that according to her agent, she was to wear nude-colored clothes and have long hair taped on "appropriate" places.
Before shooting began, the agent's assistant was given a Conde Nast standard model release form for Myskina, to sign which she did. The release provided her consent to the use of her name and pictures taken of her on that date by Conde Nast and others it may authorize, for editorial purposes.
Conde Nast eventually published her profile and a "Lady Godiva" photo on the cover and inside two-page spread. She was not paid in connection with these publications.
The master agreement between Seliger and Conde Nast provided that Seliger was authorized to exploit all photographs taken on assignment after an exclusive period, for "editorial syndication." In addition, he could authorize publication "for any commercial, merchandising or advertising purpose" only with Conde Nast's express written consent.
After the embargo period, Seliger gave images from the shoot to his editorial stock photo agency. The stock agency licensed five of the images to the Russian magazine Medved for use in connection with an article entitled Nastya Myskina: The Champion's Private Life. The photos used included frontal nudity and two versions of the Lady Godiva photographs. The article included text from an interview Myskina gave to Medved.
Myskina sued, alleging violations of the NY Civil Rights Act and breach of contract.

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Can I Sell Public Domain Images?

Most government documents (including images) are in the public domain, that is, they are free to be used by the public. For example, here at PhotoSource International, we often get offers for "how-to" pamphlets or reports costing $5 to $25, on subjects ranging from gardening to aerospace; or posters announcing new tax or minimum wage announcements. It turns out these are government documents that have been re-packed by entrepreneurs and put out for sale to the public.
Stock photo agencies and independent photographers can do something similar.
In my book, "sellphotos.com," on pages 208 & 209 I write about the photographer/entrepreneur, Tom Carroll, who 'sold' a "Public Domain" image to DRS Technologies for their annual report, for $875.
A distinction to note is that Tom Carroll did not "sell" the image; he found the image for the market and charged a "research fee'.
Why are documents and government-owned images free? When you work for the U.S. government, whether you are building a bridge, landscaping a new park, or taking a photograph, you are working for the people. So, the reasoning is -- the people own the results. I'm surprised that more people have not come up with ways of selectively distributing the photos that are gathering dust in U.S. government archives. Tom Carroll's approach is certainly valid. And we'll no doubt see many mini-stock agencies begin to use the advantages of the Internet to distribute public domain images that are available to the people for the asking.

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Best Books for Photoshop CS2
by David Arnold & Gail Rutman
Hot on the heels of Adobe's recent release of Photoshop CS2, publishers released a flood of CS2-specific books. Here's our selection of the best of the lot for stock photographers.
If you're already comfortable with Photoshop and just need to get up to speed on CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS2: Up to Speed (Ben Wilmore, Peachpit Press, 2005, 171 pages, $24.99) does a masterful job of introducing CS2's new features. The "Where's my Stuff" sections especially will save you time and frustration in areas where Adobe has moved, removed, or changed features.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide (Tim Grey, Sybex, 288 pages, $39.99) provides clear explanations of CS2's features, all in the context of digital workflow-not just what to do and how to do it, but in what sequence and why. A must-have.
If you're really serious about Photoshop, you need Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers (Martin Evening, Focal Press, 2005, 675 pages, $44.95). This book covers the why as well as the how, and includes a CD with several helpful videos.
If you'd prefer bite-sized snacks rather than an overwhelming feast, The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers (Scott Kelby, New Riders, 2005, 457 pages, $39.99) serves up CS2 in a series of concise, highly illustrated, how-to tutorials.
For an inexpensive reference book you can turn to for specific tools, tasks, and techniques, Photoshop CS2 for Windows & Macintosh (Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekanas, Peachpit Press, 2005, 600 pages, $24.99) fits the bill. As a nice plus, the table of contents indicates which features are new or changed in CS2.
For a reference book you can turn to when you run into a problem, you can do no better than The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk Book, by Dave Cross (Peachpit Press, 2005, 259 pages, $34.99). It gives clear, concise answers to all your "How do I," "Why can't I," and "Is it possible to" questions. The 20-page Table of Contents and 13-page Index make it easy to find what you're looking for.
If you're shooting stock you should be shooting raw, and to take full advantage of raw you should read Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Bruce Fraser, Peachpit Press, 2005, 314 pages, $39.99). It also contains superb chapters on workflow and Adobe Bridge.
In late August Peachpit Press will release another volume in its "Real World" series, Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2, by David Blatner and Bruce Fraser (944 pages, $54.99). We called a previous edition "the definitive power user's bible." We haven't seen this edition yet, but if you're a heavy Photoshop user be sure to check it out.
If you'd rather watch training videos than read books, we're currently working our way through a stack of CDs and DVDs, and will give you our recommendations next month.
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David Arnold and Gail Rutman are Oregon-based photographers who have been writing about photography and computers since 1980. You can contact them at www.dgfotos.com.

TRAVELERS ABROAD
Photographers: We broadcast your foreign destinations along with contact information, departure date, length of stay, etc. Contact PhotoStockNotes (1 715 248-3800) at least two months in advance.
Photobuyers: Watch this column. For the e-mail address, phone or fax number of the traveling photographer, call the PhotoSource International office and ask for Lela LeBree (1 800 223-3860). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers.

Don Tibbits August 1 - August 31, 2005 Austria, Bulgaria, Crotia, Germany, Hungary,

Netherlands, and Serbia (Europe) B J Clayden September 7 - September 17, 2005

Zihuatanejo, Mexico October 1 - October 8, 2005 Okanagan Valley, Canada John

Mitchell September 20 - October 4, 2005 Ecuador Vincent Kocher December 1 - 23, 2005 Costa Rica

Tax Tactics
Can I Deduct My Home Office Expenses?
by Julian Block, Esq.

The IRS allows you deductions for the portion of your house that you use to operate your stock photo business. However, if you are a salaried person working at your "main job," and your stock business is a part-time venture, you cannot use your office-in-the-home expenses to create a net operating loss. If the total of your other business expenses (not including home-office expenses) is greater than your income, giving you a loss, that is allowable. If your office-in-the-home expenses, when added to the total of your other business expenses, take you over the top to give you a loss, that's not allowable. Only that portion of your home-office expense that takes your total of expenses up to the amount of your gross business income, can be deducted, each year (there is a carry-forward provision). If the total of your home-office expenses added to the total of your other business expenses comes to less than your gross income, the full amount of your home-office expenses is deductible.

SEPARATE EXPENSES
Here's how that works. Let's say your stock photography business, operated out of your home, has a gross income (receipts before expenses) of $12,000. Your business incurs home-office expenses of $1,500 (percent of utilities, mortgage interest, roof repairs, and so on). Your normal business expenses, such as office supplies, postage, travel, film, memory cards, etc. total $11,500. Since your gross income was $12,000, you can use only $500 of your $1,500 office-in-the-home expenses as a deduction. However, you may carry forward the disallowed $1,000 to subsequent tax years; these carried-forward home-office expenses, though, are subject to the same restriction each subsequent year- i.e., they are not allowable if the addition of their total creates a net loss from the business activity.
The room(s) in your home where you conduct your photomarketing business must be used exclusively and regularly for your photomarketing operations. The IRS won't approve the room as a deduction if it's also used as a sewing room or a part-time recreation room or if it's part of your living room. If you've made a room or large closet into a studio consider that room also as tax-deductible. Measure the square footage of your home (don't include the garage unless it's heated or air-conditioned), and then measure the square footage of your working space. Divide the latter by the former, and you'll determine what portion of your home is used for "profit-making activity." For example, if your working area is a fourteen-by-eleven-foot room (used exclusively and regularly for your photomarketing business), and the total square footage of your home is 1,232 square feet, you are using one-eighth of your home for business.
"Business Use of Your Home" is the title of IRS Publication 587. It's a clear explanation of what you can and cannot deduct. Also check out Booklet 529, "Miscellaneous Deductions." Write; log on; or phone the IRS for a free copy at (800) TAX-FORM.
Rohn Engh is director of PhotoSource International and publisher of PhotoStockNotes. Pine Lake Farm, 1910 35th Road, Osceola, WI 54020 USA. E-mail: info@photosource.com . Fax: 1 715 248 7394. Web site: www.photosource.com.

Go off? Come Back On…..?
Atkins Diet

Would you go off the Atkins Diet if it weren't working for you? Of course you would.
How does this figure in stock photography? I recently read a newspaper article that said a Mr. Jodi Gorran in Florida was bringing a court case against the Atkins people because the diet allegedly has caused his cholesterol to rise. Now here's the twist, what if he spread bad words about the diet but continued to stay on the diet regime? T'would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
A similar situation happened to me a couple years ago. A fellow posted a message on STOCKPHOTO (Joel Day's forum) to the effect that I was surreptitiously coaching photobuyers to insist on lower fees for photographers. Two things are important: 1.) The fellow put this spin on advice he read in the Photo Researcher's NEWSLETTER (which I write), and thought he was discovering privileged information. Actually, the newsletter is available on-line as a free newsletter and available to anyone who wants to read it. It always has been available to anyone who signs up. 2.) Just a month before the article appeared in PRN, I wrote the same advice in PhotoAimLITE, our free stock photographers' newsletter.
And what was the advice? Many of the photobuyers who call in to list on our PhotoDaily marketletter, do not have a budget to meet the minimum requirement of $100 paid per photo, to be listed on the Daily. I suggest to them to try our PhotoLetter market- letter, a weekly that is geared to emerging stock photographers and smaller markets the fees from the markets listed there range from $50 to $75 per photo. Secondly, I suggest they can consider "bartering" with a photographer, or they can extend the press run of their book or magazine to send tear sheets to photographers, who can in turn use them as promotional flyers.
The fellow who made the post on STOCKPHOTO thought this was not good advice. But many of you reading this, know when you first start out as a photographer, or work with a regional/local publisher of books or magazines who themselves are just entering the marketplace, that these arrangements work well to help get entry level enterprises off the ground.
When someone from our office (Mike Karlsson) apprised me of the STOCKPHOTO post, he suggested I explain my side of the story. Subsequently, he posted an explanation for me at STOCKPHOTO.

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Do I need model releases?
Photo Exhibitions

You have created a photo essay of dancers….children and teen dancers at a local dance studio. Now you want to put them on display in a gallery. What can you do without model releases? Can you exhibit the images and sell them? Can you even exhibit them?

There are several answers to this question, depending on whether you live in the USA, China or Iraq. I choose to be facetious because many American photographers, in these times, seem to forget that they still have First Amendment Rights. There are enough discussions exhibiting confusion about model releases in the Kracker Barrel Archives to fill several volumes. All of it, like all legal matters, is open to interpretation.
My comments on the subject of model releases are always directed to the use of your photos in editorial situations.

The real test of this question about whether you should be trying to get a release for photos of children in public is the book, newspaper, or magazine publisher (the basic customers of editorial photographers) who would be the target of a legal case. A community art show or photo exhibit is not unlike your local newspaper publishing a feature photo in its Home Life section, or on its website. And in my forty years of observing editorial stock photography it's very rare that a parent (or the child) doesn't enjoy seeing their child's picture in an exhibit or published in a magazine or book. No attorney on a contingency basis would ever accept a case where real invasion of privacy is of concern.
Our USA First Amendment covers this issue.
Frivolous lawsuits of this nature used to happen, it seems, more often back in the 70's or 80's. You'd think it would happen more now-- what with all the sensitivity and fear that's prevalent in our society these days. It may be that there are fewer instances -- that many stock photographers have become gun-shy. They believe that they will get some "grief" from parents if they photograph in public and then exhibit the photos at a show, but failed to get a model release.
What's the result if you, as a stock photographer, photographing in the area of child development, domestic violence, social issues, child abuse, child safety, child welfare, etc. - if you don't capture poignant scenes of what's happening in your community?
What happens is, the other side wins. The pictures are not published and the corporate or governmental interests who would wish you didn't expose their blemishes are happy.
Eugene Smith, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, never walked around with a model release pad in their pocket.

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ONLINE
by Bill Hopkins

The Cable Company, the Phone Company, the Power Company, Oh My!
Those looking for high-speed Internet access (broadband) generally have a couple of options. You can sign up to receive broadband from your cable company or your local phone company (and, yes, there are satellite options and free wireless in some communities). Another player is emerging, and that's your local electric power company. Granted, just as with DSL and cable, there are technical issues (signal loss over distance, interference in the ham radio spectrum, necessary equipment), and there needs to be a financial incentive (i.e., it will make money for the utilities). An added incentive for the power companies is that such technology can be used to quickly identify power outages, read meters remotely, and conduct preventive maintenance (by watching how the signal is degraded, possibly pointing to imminent equipment failure). It's called BPL (Broadband over Power Lines), and it is growing from small, isolated trials to a more general population. 50,000 homes in Cincinnati (OH) have signed up, and Manassas (VA) (pop 37,000) runs its own BPL service.

LoJack for Laptops
Its real name is CompuTrace, and it's a product of Absolute Software (www.absolute.com). According to Safeware (an insurance agency), a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds. As with LoJack for vehicles, Absolute works with local law enforcement to assist in the recovery of your laptop. The CompuTrace product comes in several flavors. It is a subscription service (starts at $49.99/yr for the base version), can be purchased over the Internet or at CompuUSA stores (LoJack for Laptops version only), and is a software client that resides on the laptop's hard drive. The files and folders are hidden, and the company claims that their software will survive a reformat, repartitioning, and use of f-disk. The system periodically contacts their Monitoring Service whenever it is connected to the Internet (once a day if broadband, every 4 days if dialup). When stolen, you first file a police report, and then contact Absolute with the police report information via Internet or phone. Next time the computer checks in, it's placed on high alert status and then starts contacting the Monitoring Server every 15 minutes. It can even program the internal modem, when connected to a phone line, to automatically and silently call their Monitoring Server via a toll-free number. With the corporate version (suggested for those wishing to protect 10 or more laptops, or those wanting greater protection and features), you also get, in addition to other corporate-level stuff like asset management, a data delete function (additional fee when activated), and a $1,000 per laptop guarantee that your laptop will be recovered within 60 days. Be advised that LoJack for Laptops only works under Windows XP, and that the corporate versions, which can also protect desktop computers, works under more operating systems, including Macintosh. See their website for more details.

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL.

NOTE: As always in the field of Information Technology, new changes come along that mitigate present knowledge and information. Here's the latest headline: Sony Establishes a New Class of High-End 10-MegapixelDIGITAL CAMERA
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/23374.html?cprose=daily

Man Took Photos Of Girls At Football Game- charged with IMPROPER photography after he allegedly took photos of unsuspecting teenage girls at a high school football game.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ksat/20051010/lo_ksat/2987718

A federal court has upheld a $400,000 jury award for photographer Jerry Greenberg in his copyright infringement claims against the National Geographic Society.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1001260330

Getting Organized with Digital Photography - I can't help you take better pictures- a task that, often enough, seems beyond me as well -but I might be able to help you better ORGANIZE and manage your digital photo collection.
http://www.connectedhomemag.com/HomeOffice/Articles/
Index.cfm?ArticleID=48018

NikonNet and 'LEGENDS Behind the Lens' Honor the Work of Jill Enfield
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/23468.html?cprose=daily

The Art of Business: Insider Tips for Working with Large Companies - They're big, they're bad, and they want little old you to help them on a project. Here are a few tips for making sense of the crazy pressures,
Unwritten RULES, and unspoken insanity that drive the corporate world.
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23487.html

Sharpen Photos Smartly - What's the best time to SHARPEN your photos? And what's the best tool -- Camera Raw, Photoshop's Smart Sharpen, or something else? http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23471.html

Eye-Opening Images Highlight Nikon's MICROSCOPY Photo Awards - The idea is to submit images that showcases microscopy technologies and that are artistic. All told, scientists submitted over 1,700 photomicrographs for this year's contest.
http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2005/oct2005/10-10-05-news-nikon

One Photojournalist Gets An Inside Look At The SUPREME COURT - The U.S. Supreme Court is notoriously camera shy, banning news cameras from virtually all of its business. The rare exception is the investiture of a new justice.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1001263664

Photo in the News: Python Bursts After Eating Gator
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006
_051006_pythoneatsgator.html

Through the lens of a SOUTHERN gentleman - The world of images is where he lives, and he has made some of the most important photographs in the American canon, pictures that are at once bleak (focusing on the fraying hem of the American Dream) and yet buoyant with vivid colour.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM
.20051010.wxeggle1010/BNStory/Entertainment/

Photographer captures the magic of SEDONA - Season after season, I went out into the red-rock landscape. I found a multitude of decorated potsherds, a bone awl, digging sticks and a palette smeared with ancient pictograph paint.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/travel/articles/
1009azfallcolor1002sedona.html

Christie's Photography AUCTIONS -The picture shown here is Poppy, a dye-transfer print from 1988 and estimated to sell for $40,000-$60,000
http://www.luxist.com/entry/1234000740062415/

China Exclusive: Aerial photography confirms Marco Polo's description of KUBLAI KHAN'S capital. "Through aerial photography, we can observe the remains which are difficult to be identified from ground," Yang said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200510/09/eng20051009_213386.html

Index Open Reaches 80,000 Images - So far, Index has kept the price of Index Open stable, despite a huge increase in the number of images offered. It has been able to do this, because the strong customer response for this subscription product has created an ever-growing pool of ROYALTIES to split with its artists. http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/23481.html

Catholic CLOISTERED order that dwells in an Uptown convent.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/lind100705.html

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WORKSHOP
INDIA: GOLDEN TRIANGLE & PUSHKAR CAMEL FAIR, with Joe Englander. November 16 - 18, 2005. More dates are available. The location for the Fair is Pushkar, an ancient religious town, in the Thar desert of Rajasthan, the Indian state with many of the holiest Hindu sites. While the Fair at Pushkar is enough to justify an expedition, included are explorations of Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Agra, with visits also to the Bangled city, the Blue City, and the Taj Mahal, revealing the golden heart of India. Cost: $1,500. Includes domestic air and land transportation, luxury single accommodations, local guide, and translator. Contact: Joe Englander Photography, Workshops and Tours, PO Box 1261, Manchaca, TX 78652. Phone: 1 512 922-8686. E-mail: trip-info@englander-workshops.com . Web: http://www.englander-workshops.com .

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GOODSTUFF

PUBLISHING A BLOG WITH BLOGGER: Visual QuickProject Guide, by Elizabeth Castro. As the latest phenomenon to grow out of the Web, the blog (or Web log) is a diary with a difference: Rather than speaking to yourself, you're speaking to the world -- and, best of all, the world can talk back! Using large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage, this compact, tightly focused guide takes you through each step of the blogging process -- from acquainting you with the interface to setting up your blog, creating your profile, posting e-mail, adding pictures and audio, and using BlogThis to post your blog from anywhere on the Web. (ISBN: 0-321-32123-5; $12.99) Contact: Peachpit Press, 1249 Eighth St, Berkeley CA 94710. Phone: 1 800 283-9444. Fax: 1 510 524-2221. E-mail: ask@peachpit.com .

PRO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK, by Michael Freeman. Photographers will learn the different file formats and how to save images for print or publishing on the web. They'll explore valuable software tools and basic image processing programs that fix common problems, and see how to improve pictures using an assortment of cropping and filtering techniques. (ISBN: 1-57990-632-X; $24.95) Contact: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 387 Park Ave S, New York NY 10016-8810. Phone: 1 800 805-5489. E-mail: publicity@sterlingpub.com .

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER: FRANCE.
http://www.photosourcefolio.com/
bookstoreone.htm#0792274261. The France guide features insightful essays on history, culture, and contemporary life in France, as well as walking and driving tours. For serious explorers, there are detailed floor-plan sketches of important sites such as Notre Dame and Versailles. Other user-friendly touches range from color-coded regional sections to quick-reference visitor information (hours, fees, telephone, etc.) listed in side columns with keys to associated maps. ($27.95; ISBN: 0-7922-7426-1) Contact: National Geographic Books, 1145 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036.

MAGIC LANTERN GUIDES: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D/Dynax 7D, by Peter K. Burian. http://www.photosourcefolio.com/
bookstoreone.htm#1579906958. Magic Lantern helps users thoroughly understand all its advantages, and goes beyond the user's manual with complete instructions for operating such innovative elements as the exclusive Konica Minolta Anti-Shake System, exposure compensation settings, white balance controls, creative focus control, auto exposure, and honey-comb metering system. ($19.95; ISBN: 1-57990-695-8) Contact: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 387 Park Ave S, New York NY 10016-8810. Phone: 1 800 805-5489. E-mail: publicity@sterlingpub.com .

CREATING A PHOTO ALBUM IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS FOR WINDOWS: Visual Quickproject Guide, by Katherine Ulrich.
http://www.photosourcefolio.com/
bookstoreone.htm#0321270819. By
focusing on a single goal (organizing your photos into an album) rather than
exploring every option and feature of the software, the author demonstrates
the quickest, easiest, smartest route to photographic success. (ISBN: 0-321-27081-9; $12.99) Contact: Peachpit Press, 1249 Eighth St, Berkeley CA 94710. Phone: 1 800 283-9444. Fax: 1 510 524-2221. E-mail: ask@peachpit.com .

It Pays To Ask
If you follow our Kracker Barrel > www.photosource.com/board < you know the advantage it provides photographers just starting out or starting over in stock photography. A recent discussion ensued on which film scanner for slides to buy. Here's an answer offered when a photographer asked for opinions on buying a slide scanner:
Response:
" 'With 1000's of slides to scan' " a major issue is your time. What you don't
want to do is have to insert a slide in the scanner, wait until it's done,
remove the slide, insert another slide, wait, remove...ad infinitum.
"Get a scanner with an auto-feeder, such as the Nikon Super Coolscan V ED, 4000 ED, 5000 ED, or 9000 ED, plus Nikon SF-210 Auto Slide Feeder. Pop in up to 50 slides and turn your attention to something else until they're done.
"If you have produced only color negatives in the past, EPSON produces the EPSON Perfection 4990, flatbed scanner. The built-in transparency unit with moving light source can batch scan up to twenty-four 35mm negatives. It also can correct dust and scratches.
"For quality digital images for your photobuyers, you might want to depend on a local service bureau to digitize only those slides that you anticipate will have sale ability. Have them burn these to a CD. If no service bureau is available locally, try an Internet service such as
http://www.electricphotogallery.com/
gallery/index.html

Want To Invite Google to Index your Web Page?
The search engine, Google, adds and updates new sites to its index each time it "crawls" the Web. Google invites you to submit your Web page's URL. They don't add all submitted URLs to their index, and they cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when your website will be indexed. But it's worth giving it a try. To add your website: http://www.google.com/addurl/
?continue=/addurl .

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In addition to the remarkable advances for searching for information on the Web, search engines also offer vast "archives" of previously published material. For example, if you have written an article, or there has been one written about you (even one that you were not aware of), you have a good chance of locating it on the web. Understandably, the success of finding it is relative to the power and muscle strength of the search engine you are using. (Strongest search engines include Google, MSN, Yahoo.)
You can also locate the use of your images. Also the "misuse," if an "innocent infringer" happened to credit the photo to you.
Using a search engine such as Google, type in "Your Name" + Articles. Notice the use of the quotes on your name (use your first and last names), and the use of the plus signplus sign. You can also try spelling your name incorrectly in case it was typed wrongly on the web.
For a photo search it would be: "Your Name" + photos.
How far back can you find these items? Many of the articles that I've written in years past have been re-published on the web. I found one from Mother Earth NEWS originally published back in 1978.
If you don't immediately find mentions of your credit line today, have patience. There is no doubt, as web storage units increase in size and capacity, that more and more information will be surfacing in the vast archives. -RE

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