Mychillybin Forum - Recent Posts http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/recent.aspx - Recent Posts en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 15 May 2012 21:37:51 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 21:37:51 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=414 Message from mychillybin team
the Chillys]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 21:37:51 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=413 Message from kathleen it was a lovely surprise.]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 19:40:55 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=414 Message from OpticalEarth
Just a quick 'geeky' question.

"Most searched for photos", does this list exclude the IP addresses of logged in contributors to the site?

In other words are these searches from the public and not from members looking to see what other members have contributed?

Thx
Pierre]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 17:50:12 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=413 Message from Kiwiangel

Thank you MCB for running this promo which helped bring a little more notice to our images. It all helps! Big Grin]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 18:01:38 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=413 Message from mychillybin team here on the Designers Forum.

Congratulations to Kathleen Shepherd for having her image shown below chosen.
edited by mychillybin team on 14/05/2012]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:20:51 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=412 Message from mychillybin team
The winner has been drawn, and is Tanya Grimstone, from BGA Marketing Ltd.

Congratulations, we will be in touch shortly to arrange for the photo shoot, and production of your mounted images!

Image nominated was Mother and Son Laughing by Kathleen Shepherd.]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:01:36 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=405 Message from sizzlingbadger
I do hope to make time to make some more images but struggling to keep my main job is taking everything out of me at present. Hoping to sell one more photo soon so I can get my $91 sat waiting in my account lol !

Sign of the times I guess :-)

Good luck with the competitions !]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 12:42:15 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=413 Message from mychillybin team 88 images of NZ mothers sent to mychillybin customers this week. (If not you can tick the subscribe box on your Profile to receive these).

For your background interest, the purpose of this newsletter is not to try and sell mothers' day images. Rather it is one of an infrequent stream of enewsletters which are designed primarily to remind (without annoying) existing customers about mychillybin, in a way that involves some degree of emotional kiwi connection.

Reminders of this nature are sent because many designers are occasional (rather than frequent) users of images; only purchasing when they have a piece of design work needing New Zealand images. The newsletters regularly keep the company's name before them so they think of mychillybin top-of-mind when image needs arise.

On other matters -

Hope you found the list of in demand (and short supply) images helpful

7 interesting and varied entries already during the first few days for the Making ... photo competition in May. We have heard about a few additional interesting ones that are somewhere in the process between idea, concept, execution or shooting, and submission. If you submit one image, and then read the rules which state all (up to 3) images need to be submitted together, and want to submit more, this can be done by subsequent email, up to 3 entered images in total. Good luck.

warm regards
the chillys]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:17:11 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=412 Message from mychillybin team here to see all the 88 memories of NZ mothers.

Be in to win a portrait sitting and 2 mounted prints of your (or a friend's) mother!
Its easy to enter, here is how ...

Before 11.59pm on Mothers Day, Sun 13th May 2012 select your favourite image from the 88 memories of NZ mothers and email its number to admin@mychillybin.co.nz
Both you, and the nominated mother to be photographed, must be resident in NZ.
You must be a mychillybin member (and must not be a mychillybin photographer).
Photos to be made availlable to add to the mychillybin library of fresh NZ images.
The winner will be drawn and notified by email (and on this designers forum) on Monday 14th May 2012.
edited by mychillybin team on 10/05/2012]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 12:59:24 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=411 Message from OpticalEarth
Could there be any legal issues if an Editorial Image is posted of an individual person.]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:57:59 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=407 Message from Kiwiangel
I'm sure I must have some existing images that would fit the bill, at least for editorial use... now where might they be...

Hope everyone's keeping their fingers and toes warm as the autumn nights head rapidly toward winter ones. Big Grin]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:39:30 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=411 Message from OpticalEarth The Chillys unintentionally deleted the original message in making this reply. It is now reinstated below.

If the image is openly taken in a public place then 'Editorial Only Use' will be fine - whether the person is well know or not, or pleased about it or not. Much like seen regularly in newspapers - lots of images of people who have not given specific approval.

Different matter however of course for Commercial use of such images (Standard and Enhanced licence) i.e. in advertisements, brochures etc. If the person is identifiable then a model release is required.

Trust this clarification helps.

the Chillys
edited by mychillybin team on 9/05/2012]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:00 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=410 Message from OpticalEarth ]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:24:54 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=409 Message from OpticalEarth
Cheers
Pierre]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:21:44 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from OpticalEarth Tue, 08 May 2012 16:16:13 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from fatsprat Karen]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 12:31:39 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from mychillybin team
Yes we agree, if images were ever to be shown randomly on the homepage slideshow it would be from a short list, rather than randomly from the whole library.

On your other point, hopefully when we soon start to retire some images from the library we will remove mostly lesser quality images.

Warm regards
the Chillys]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 17:34:27 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from absolut_thomas
regarding the idea
OpticalEarth wrote:

Hi Chillies, it would be good if the front page slideshow was random rather than sequential. Just an idea
- I don't think that you should do that, as there are too many images in the library which are 2nd league only when it comes to quality (even some of mine... ;.) )

Maybe if you'd do a quality ranking - as other agencies do - like "Editors Choice", 'Recommendation' or whatever and then let the slide show pick randomly from the category which contains the best images only that would work, but I think the slide show should only include top-notch imagery and not average stock photos.

Just some thoughts...

Cheers,
Thomas]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 17:13:33 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=407 Message from fatsprat Fri, 04 May 2012 18:05:52 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=408 Message from meredithnz Thu, 03 May 2012 17:02:56 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=408 Message from meredithnz
I am going to upload some others.

mark]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 16:51:24 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=408 Message from mychillybin team
* suit use as a landscape (orientation) triptych (formed from just 1 image)

* involve either New Zealand summer mountains, beach, native bird, or pohutukawa.

This is a hard to search for, given that each of the 3 equal sized (portrait orientation) panels needs to stand alone visually as an image, as well as being a part of the actual overall landscape (orientation) image.

The client would split the image into the 3 sections when laying it up for print; the images just needs to be suitable for that treatment.

A print width of 210mm, at 300 dpi needs around 2500 pixels of width, so an extra large image is not needed, just one that works visually when cropped to this proportion (1:2.1), and split into 3.

Let us know promptly if you have any suggestions in your portfolio, or to upload (in which case mark them Urgent for processing.

Seems that triptych and diptych could also be valid keywords to apply in future to images that have these 'separate' as well as 'overall' composition characteristics.

Warm regards
the chillys]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 15:13:47 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=407 Message from mychillybin team
mychillybin undertook to provide this week some initial detail on this, along with more extensive detail thereafter.

The initial brief analysis has produced the following list of 10 frequently searched terms for which there is (in relative terms) a low stock library holding. These are superb subjects for additional images for the library.

rugby
Maori
caravan
tui
bach
bbq
camping
school
family
community

Some judgement about these terms is clearly needed, as to what type of images are sought. One way to get some feel for this is to search the term on the home page, after setting the options to Most Downloads sequence, which will show the image that have sold previously which include this term as a keyword.

More extensive detail on this will be available within a few weeks, once some special reports have been run, terms matched, and analysis carried out.

cheers for now
the chillys]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 15:05:36 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from Mark Roberts Wed, 02 May 2012 10:41:27 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=405 Message from mychillybin team "Making ...", information is in the latest Photographers' News about the May competition.

The Competition menu tab on the website also has competition details and is the place to upload entries.

cheers for now
the chillys
edited by mychillybin team on 2/05/2012]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 09:21:59 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from mychillybin team
We are now changing the images more frequently, and showing a larger number, as the tools to manage the slideshow have recently been upgraded to make them more flexible.

Much appreciated

the chillys]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 13:22:53 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from OpticalEarth ]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 12:53:16 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from OpticalEarth Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:01:33 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from mychillybin team coastal scene too. Will probably add this to the home page slideshow next update.]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:15:47 GMT http://www.mychillybin.co.nz/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=406 Message from simikiel Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:10:10 GMT