dvorjakusan’s photo blog

Something different

2009-03-11T12:16:49Z

I recently bought a 70cmx50cm softbox with a speedlight mount. I had never used a softbox before, having exclusively used umbrellas previously. I can say, I love the softbox look and the control of the light. Tonight I tried something different. ...

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Shooting Will

2008-10-24T14:51:07Z

A number of months ago I had an idea to do a shoot in TCBC (my church) with a lot of worship type poses and especially to have the cross that is up on the wall of the churchlit in the background of the shots. I knew at the time I had a lot of thi...

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Bronze and exclusive

2008-09-25T00:08:46Z

Today I had my 250th DL at iStockPhoto and am now Bronze and will soon be Exclusive. This is a significant achievement for me and I am well pleased. You can DL my photos here:

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Progressing ...

2008-08-22T04:12:12Z

I've now reached 200 Downloads in iStockPhoto. My portfolio is now 166 images and growing slowly. I'm hoping to reach 250 Downloads by the end of September at which time I'll hit Bronze and go exclsuive to iStockPhoto. This means additional royalt...

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Lazy blogger

2008-06-20T10:54:21Z

I haven't blogged here for ages. The current state of play is 120 images up on iStockPhoto and 145 downloads. I've just had permission granted to shoot in my local church so now I have to speak to prospective models and generally get my act together!

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New toys

2008-01-31T21:47:50Z

It has been a been a while since I blogged and a lot has been happening. I now have 50+ images uploaded to . I have 19 download so far which isn't many but it's only been a month. I've also bought some new toys on eBay. I have a Sunpak 444D F...

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First and second sale

2008-01-07T00:13:02Z

I have finally sold a couple of images on iStockPhoto. Whoo hoo! They are here and here.

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Merry Christmas one and all

2007-12-25T10:50:21Z

Nothing else to say, just Merry Christmas to all as we celebrate Christ's birthday.

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The portfolio grows

2007-12-21T23:49:07Z

I now have 20 photographs in my portfolio of at iStockPhoto with another 15 in the queue, but still no sales! Oh well, the journey has started,so they say. The images are a mixture of things, a couple of flowers, a couple of trains, a few portrai...

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The power of one

2007-12-10T22:35:29Z

I had my first photo accepted on to iStockPhoto today. It is the one of the isolated leucadendron. I'm a little surprised it was accepted because it was shot at ISO800. I don't think it is going to sell much because flowers never do, but it is go...

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