MaryHM Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 I need Fish pictures to use in the shopping area of SeaCrop. If you have some great shots of fish, you can win a $5 credit for every pic I use! Go to http://www.seacrop.com/photocontest.htm for details. Link to comment
Gilman Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 I would think taking photos of specimens that may be from other vendors would be unethical. Why couldn't you just hire someone to come shoot at your place, it would more than likely be about the same price in the end, and it would be your own specimens. Just wondering about your thoughts on this. Gil ps. I'm available Link to comment
MaryHM Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 I'm asking for people to submit photos that they have taken of their own fish. Fish are fish are fish. A coral beauty angel from me looks the same as one from any other vendor, so I don't really think that's an issue. With corals, you may possibly have a point. But I take my own pictures of corals anyways. I have your basic sterile looking fish system, and I would like pictures of fish in more of a "natural" setting. Plus, my fish room is kept quite dim for stress purposes, and this is extremely nonconducive to taking good pictures in my facility. Also, most of my tanks are all scratched up and it's hard to find a clear area to get a pic. Link to comment
msf Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Mary - In order to address Gil's concerns you might want to change a couple rules. Change the resolution requirement to a larger image width (i.e. 1024 x or larger). This will pretty much insure that the image is an original and not a leached image from another party's website. You still run the risk that someone has purchased or scanned a high quality macro image. Also change .GIF to .JPG; .jpg is the preferable format for pictures. BTW, msf = Matt F. Link to comment
MaryHM Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 Heya Matt F!! How come .jpg is better than .gif? Doesn't a .gif create a smaller file size for quicker downloading? Link to comment
msf Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Not for a photograph with thousands of colors. GIF will only do 256 colors and at color setting your image size will actually be near double the file size of a JPG. 82KB sixline.gif 35KB sixline.jpg You can use this image Link to comment
matt the fiddler Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 make sure they send them uncompressed. i do web desing, and can't tell you the grief i get from people that don't understand a simple item as that... they look so much better anyways... Link to comment
adinsxq Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 imo it would look more professional if you took all the pictures from tanks in your facility Link to comment
MaryHM Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 adinsxq, I can't take the pictures from my facility. As I already explained I don't have good enough lighting and most of my tanks are pretty scratched up so it's hard to get a picture. Link to comment
matt the fiddler Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 If i had fish instead of inverts and rock now- i would send some in..... need any freshwater pics? what about getting a small 20 gallon.. and transporting fish to there for pics.. decorate the "studio tank" really nice ... then you can do what ever you want... or have some one locally come in.. heck - if i were local, i would come and set up and take all the pics there.... some one who is smart would raid their lfs with a camera saying they are "running things by the sick bedridden wife before buying" and pick up some nice credit:D heck i should do that.... that or the local aquarium that or ask nano members who have pics posted on their tank profile that you like if you can get permission to use them.... matt Link to comment
MaryHM Posted December 9, 2003 Author Share Posted December 9, 2003 Thanks for the suggestions, Matt! Link to comment
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