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Image of Roman Baths
Dear Diliff,
I work for Anchor Books, publisher of an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, annotated by David Shapard, first published in 2004). We are working on developing an enhanced eBook edition for the iPad that will incorporate color art and audio and video clips relevant to the novel and to Austen’s times, and are planning to release it in April 2014.
I found your photo of Roman Baths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Baths_in_Bath_Spa,_England_-_July_2006.jpg) and thought it was great. Would you be willing to grant us permission to use this photo for linking to a map of places mentioned in the novel? This ebook will be available in the itunes store and is sure to generate a lot of excitement from fans of Jane Austen.
We will give you credit and copyright acknowledgment for the image. Please let me know if you are willing and I can email you the permissions form, which you can sign and return to me. Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to email me directly at rkrupitsky@randomhouse.com.
Thank you very much,
Rachel Krupitsky Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Llc. rkrupitsky@randomhouse.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.171.1.5 (talk) 19:34, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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Looking for information on the field of view of some of your panoramas
Hello David,
I found some of your panoramas while looking for high resolution CC-licensed images for use in a project similar to this. The only problem is that I need a usable estimate for the field of view of the panoramas, which is not provided. If you have this information for some images, could you please contact me at 5p8fOhf9DwFR@meltmail.com (as a spam avoidance measure this forwarding address will cease functioning around 20:00 Jan 28 London time). I could explain better what this is about and how the images will be used in an email. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BarroColorado (talk • contribs) 18:56, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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Permission Request
Hey Diliff, may I have the permission to use File:Bixby Creek Bridge, California, USA - May 2013.jpg to enhance it for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bixby Creek Bridge? Thanks, ///EuroCarGT 02:40, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
- After reviewing the licensing, I've went ahead an uploaded it, however if you would request me to remove the image, please tell me at my talk page. The image is located at: File:Bixby Creek Bridge, California, USA - May 2013 edit.jpg, you may also re-vote at the nomination page. ///EuroCarGT 04:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Updated Feature Picture Nomination
Hello, changes has been made at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bixby Creek Bridge, an edited image has been added. Feel free to change your vote. Thank you. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of ///EuroCarGT 04:28, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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Are you far from Stratford-upon-Avon? Was doing some reading, and I realized that you would probably be the perfect person to get some good pictures of the monument and the church it's in. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- I'm a 2 hour drive, so not super close really. Is there any particular significance to the church, other than it's in need of better photography? :-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 18:02, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- The monument, basically. But it was more of a "nice if we could have it" thing than anything else. Alright, no worries. On a perhaps more interesting note, outside is perfect for more artsy photography right now. We've got an inch or so of ash from Kelud throughout the city, and the sky has an orangish tint. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:30, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Portraits
I may have a chance to photograph Ahmad Tohari sometime this month, and I was wondering if you had suggestions for lighting if it's an interior shot and I'm not allowed to bring lights. Do you think an ISO of 320 and F-number of 7.2, with a shutter speed of 1/110, would work well? (Assuming your standard fluorescent lighting). Of course, I'll try and see if I can get him outside so that lighting is a lot easier. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:23, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- It's hard to predict what settings you will need before you actually get there, because the brightness of the lighting will greatly affect what settings will be appropriate. It sounds like your settings are a little optimistic though, unless it's particularly bright. I would certainly try not to reduce the shutter speed though, because you will quickly find that it becomes too slow to hand hold the camera and keep the image sharp. That depends also what focal length you would be using. A rule of thumb is to not use a shutter speed slower than the focal length. So for example, if you're shooting at 50-80mm (fairly common for portraits), you don't want to go below 1/80th of a second. But this is only for blur caused by camera movement. Blur caused by movement of the subject is also an issue no matter what focal length you use, so you will want to keep them fairly still regardless. I know this is all fairly elementary, but it's important too. :) What I would suggest is that you try to take a few test photos (ideally with someone else standing there in the place where you hope to get his photo) and see how they look. If you have to do something to brighten the exposure, I would first increase the aperture (decrease the number). Stopping down the aperture is great if you can, but it's less important than a fast shutter speed and low ISO. And one other tip, try to position him so that there isn't a distracting background directly behind him. The further away from the background (wall, etc) he is, the better the background blur. Fluorescent lighting isn't ideal for pleasant portraits, but if you don't have a choice, you'll just have to make do. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'll be sure to keep that in mind. My portraits on Commons thus far have not been very good at full size, although at thumbnail they've been useable, so I wanted to get a some input for better pix. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:42, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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POTD notification
Hi David,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ambleside & Waterhead Panorama 2, Cumbria, England - Oct 2009.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 14, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:57, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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Wow.
Dilif, those are great pictures, you have here. Hafspajen (talk) 00:42, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Diliff, I'm hoping this shot of Canary Wharf is yours (hero image on page).
I'm a designer at branding agency me&dave who are based in london. We are working on a project near Canary Wharf for a real estate developer and would like to use this image in the brochure. Would you allow us to use it and if so could you please send me a high res file. We would only need a license for 12 months.
www.me-and-dave.com 0207 490 5020 richard@me-and-dave.com
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards Rich