nows a time that something akin to a crashpad would be useful. Searching for apartments is taking much longer than I had anticipated. Any 3 bedroom places seem to be either:
1) out of my price range
2) disgusting/filthy/falling apart
3) income controlled.
This is very discouraging when I see that for $800 I can get an apt for just myself plus liberal use of air conditioning plus hi-speed internet and cable tv.
April, 2008 Archives
The Denver Cultural Center, originally uploaded by John Kotrla.
Clouds were just beautiful that day.
I was reading through the 1200 items in my RSS feeds that have piled up over the last couple days and came across this site.
Now glancing through the top part where it lists “Value added service to offer your clients”, “New revenue opportunities” and such you can get a good idea that this site is targeting professional photographers. And not just any pro’s, it’s targeting wedding photographers.
Then they say 30GB is room enough for 15,000* images.
Based upon standard jpeg file size of 2MB
Say WHAT? 2MB jpegs? My camera doesn’t even make 2mb jpegs. The files I use when printing are going to be jpg’s sized to print at highest quality. I would have started out with RAW, converted to TIFF with ACDSee or Bibble Pro and then done all the editing as a PSD file in Photoshop. JPG wouldn’t even enter into anything until the final print that I send to the lab. The smallest 8×10″ prints I sent off had filesizes at almost 3MB. If I’m taking wedding photos I want to be able to print larger than 8×10″.
Furthermore, if I take 3000 pictures at a wedding covered by two photographers, I’m not going to retouch all 3k of them and come up with finished jpgs. I’ll batch process them for proofs and then retouch only the ones that are selected to be purchased. This place needs to figure on storage for 15-20MB raw files.
I’m starting to get fairly annoyed at these people who whine constantly about the “ever rising airfares”.
The average airfare (per mile) during January and February of this year was $0.1311. Comparing this to years past we can see that we are only now just beginning to reach the pre-9/11 ticket prices. Note, these numbers are NOT adjusted for inflation!
In 1978, it would cost you (after adjustment for inflation in current dollars) $0.2754 per mile to fly domestically. In 1990, that fell to $0.2175 and down to $0.1365 in 2006. Look up at the previous paragraph, currently ticket prices are at $0.1311/mile. Adjusting for inflation ticket prices are lower now then they have ever been in the history of air travel. What other good can you say that for?
People then start complaining about the lack of service. How they don’t get the meals and as many drinks as they want. That air travel is over-crowded and uncomfortable. Well, you don’t pay for it, you don’t get it.
Seems I’ve developed a reputation at work as the “computer guy”. Funny. My manager has requested my help with some video file conversion for her son’s year long project (thats due in 9 days) and the operations managers are asking me to develop some scripts for them to automate some of the daily processes.
All I have to do is figure out how VBScript works in 8 days or less. Shouldn’t be that hard.
