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I've turned into an asshole. Pure and simple.

I wasn't always this way. It took many screwings over several years by multiple entities to nurture my inner asshole-ishness to it's current state. I never wanted to be an asshole, I've always tried being fair and accommodating toward people, but people in general have slowly turned me into one.

Where am I going with this?

I got the "magazine tear" in the mail today. More specifically, I got a copy from a color laser printer as it appears here:

[link]

What's the problem? Well, it's nice and all, but it's not a genuine tear. I could have done the same thing off of my R1800 and have achieved a better looking print too since I've got the original high resolution PSD files, not to mention I use better paper (Ilford) and not something that feels like ancient fax machine thermal paper. So, what's the big deal you ask?

Anybody want to take me up on a bet that IT WAS NEVER A PRINT MAGAZINE TO BEGIN WITH? God knows I've never seen the mag at my local mag shop (and they carry some really obscure magazines from Europe that I've never seen before). What makes me think even more that these assholes were never legitimate to begin with is that that nice "niftmag.com" domain... it's registered under a private registration. NIIIICE! As we all know, legitimate businesses make it so you have to sue them to find out their contact information (which is exactly what you have to do with private registrations; a court needs to subpoena the domain registrar). Doesn't that just instill confidence in these guys? I know I get the warm and fuzzies thinking about it.

The additional insult? THEY CHARGED THE MODEL $30 FOR THE 8.5x11 PRINT! She told me this after the fact on the phone today. They wouldn't even give her a copy of the magazine either... and here's the kick in the shins folks, supposedly they all of a sudden decided to "go green" and became a web-only publication. The magazine is now a PDF file you can download off of the net for, get this, $19.95.

Now, anybody reading this, please answer this truthfully. How many of you are going to pony up $19.95 for a PDF file? My guess... not a single one of you. That's not a dig at any of you, but rather it's to illustrate my next point.

The only people who would buy a copy of that PDF file is either the models appearing in it, or a photographer who submitted their work to them and wants the tear. The whole thing reeks of being a take on the old "your work has been selected" art scam ([link]).

I'm willing to bet $10 that their business model is to convince models and photographers that submitting their work to them for free is beneficial to them for the exposure, but then charge the models and photographers to buy back a "tear" or the PDF magazine itself. They then run a contest where they charge people $1 to vote for their favorite model (and get the models to network and get people to vote for them) to get them to the #1 spot. Pretty "nifty", huh? I guess that's how they came up with the name.

I wouldn't doubt it if the whole thing is being run out of some guy's parents basement...

Oh yeah... almost forgot to mention; at the last minute they apparently pulled my photo of Michelle in the PDF magazine and replaced it with another photo of her that she submitted. So, even if you did buy the digital copy of the magazine, you wouldn't see a copy of my photo in it.

That pinup book that I was solicited to submit work to? It's pretty much the same BS. The author of the book is doing almost the same thing, except that he never brought up the issue of getting a tear/book. I talked to another pinup artist in my area that he solicited and he told her that she could buy copies of the book at a reduced rate.

Can you say "blow it out your ass?" I know I can! I had found that little bit of info out when I was debating going through with it. Maybe it's a bit more clear now why I didn't even bother asking him for copies of the book; I knew he wasn't going to do so. In short, it's a one-way street. I suspect he never told me that little tidbit of info over the phone too because he could tell I wasn't thrilled with his "recognition only" compensation.

For those interested, the name of the book is supposed to be called "Great American Pin-up Art", published by Schiffer Books out of PA, and should be released sometime in 2010. I won't be buying a copy; I hope none of you do either. None of th... ]]> ~StuckpixelPhoto http://StuckpixelPhoto.deviantart.com/journal/25882588/ http://StuckpixelPhoto.deviantart.com/journal/25882588/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:30:41 PDT
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"Hello ******,

I received the paperwork that you sent in the mail the other day and I have had time to review it. After much consideration and debating, I have decided not to partake of this endeavor.

My work costs a not-so-insignificant amount of my time and capital to produce. The vendors who produce the products that I use to create the works of art that I make, be it Canon, Hensel Studiotechnik, Wacom, Temptu cosmetics, etc, all require that I compensate them financially for all the products of theirs that I use and do not accept recognition as a valid form of payment. Unfortunately that means I cannot accept recognition as a valid form of compensation for using my work in a commercial endeavor.

If you would like to discuss licensing my work for your book I am open to negotiating a fair rate that would be mutually beneficial to all parties involved. In lieu of that, I cannot accept recognition as compensation for my work appearing in a for-profit commercial publication.


Respectfully,

Manuel Rego"



I received a reply shortly afterwards. The response wasn't quite unexpected:


"Hi Manny,

I understand completely. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration.

Best regards,

******"


Am I a little disappointed? Yes. I'm not heart-broken though. Given everything I've seen, he was only interested in filling the book with whatever pinup work he could get his hands on, be it quality or crap work. While I'm sure that there'll be some people who let him use their work in this book for recognition only, while he and the book publisher profit from it, I'm fairly certain that it'll be work from individuals who just don't care about their work in the first place.

In the end I don't feel that it's fair that not only I, but THE MODELS in the photographs get nothing out of a commercial book and be asked to work for free. "Free Labor" in the United States was abolished on December 18, 1865. I find it upsetting that after an entire war, and not to mention nearly 144 years later, people still try to make slaves out of others in this country and profit from the hard work of others.

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Now on the onset this is pretty cool. It means that I can say that I've been published, and that my work will be seen by a much wider audience. There's only one thing that's bugging me...

...they don't want to pay me to use the work.... :/


Yeah, you read that correctly. We're talking about a rather large book publishing firm here. They're going to be paying the editors of the book to put it together. They're going to be charging the public to buy the book. But, when it comes to the people who's work is actually going to be IN the book, they're supposed to work for free. :/

Part of me is saying NO for obvious reasons, but a part of me is saying YES since it does mean I get published, and my work will get viewed by a wider audience.

What say all? Yes or No? Should I say yes and ask that they send me some copies of the book too? Should I say no and tell them to go pound sand up their rectum? I'm seriously torn here...

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UPS paid me a visit this morning and dropped off some new goodies from my all-time favorite store in the world: BHPhoto. Jeeze, I haven't felt like this since Christmas!

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It's a two day class running on June 13 & 14 with a limited number of seats available and the cost is $299 if you sign up before June 6th. Afterwards it is $349 the week prior to the workshop. Some of the subjects that will be covered are:

- Airbrush makeup.
- Configuring Photoshop, as well as setting up and using a Wacom tablet.
- Setting up a workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop, along with learning how to do beauty retouching (including how to do that cartoonish look).
- Lighting.
- Posing.

In a nutshell, here's your opportunity to learn everything I know.

Laptop/desktop and Wacom Intuos tablet *HIGHLY RECOMMENDED* for the class. Lunch will be provided on both days.



Models attending:

Zadie: [link]

Thea-W: [link]

Sweet Melissa: [link]

For more information or to attend, contact me here. If you have a Model Mayhem account, contact Jennifer DeCesari [link]

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Here's a pic that took of me last year during a wedding we shot. Finally, a pic of me that I actually like!

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Member:

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Clubs I'm a member of:

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We have moved 2 of your deviations to Photography > Conceptual.

The administrator also said the following:
Your image(s) has been moved as it does not meet the gallery description:

PIN UP
Retro styled pin-up photography in the 1940's/50's stylized fashions, with emphasis on the hair, makeup and period clothing.

I've moved it to Conceptual for the time as this gallery seems to fit it more

The reason this may have happened can be read in FAQ: Why was my deviation moved?
Moved Deviation: Mail Order Bride
Moved Deviation: First and Last Dance

This is an automatically generated note and replies will be lost. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the help desk

Thank you.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is not the word PIN UP more than just "Retro styled pin-up photography in the 1940's/50's stylized fashions, with emphasis on the hair, makeup and period clothing." If it's only supposed to be for RETRO PIN UP, then the thing should say RETRO PIN-UP, not just PIN UP.

Last time I checked, there's such a thing as modern day pin up...

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Ok, I'm being sarcastic.

My long-time watchers will probably have noticed that my work now looks almost NOTHING like my previous work. I've been working on improving not only my photography, but my editing abilities, and my business. Unfortunately that means I've had less time to spend on here and on other sites too. :/ I haven't exactly become a recluse but for a while there I became withdrawn to the point where even some of my own muses were questioning if I was still alive.

The short answer: I've been busy.

The long answer is really complicated.

I don't want to go into it really, but suffice to say that lately I've made quite a few adjustments in my life, along with how I run things. I'm a much happier individual now and I refuse to make apologies for doing what I want to do, not bending over backwards to coddle some people when they don't agree with me, and for being a hard ass about it now too. It was a hard lesson, but I had to learn that when someone hands you lemons and expects you to suck on it, sometimes you've got to shove the lemon up their ass and make their butthole pucker up.

I pretty much neglected my page here for the past year, mainly because of time constraints. I'm going to try and make an effort to put some of my new work up on here when I can. I can't make any promises that it's going to be consistent, but I can promise that I'll try.


Enjoy the new work, and let me know what you think of it.


Carry on!


(oh, and +2 points if you got the "Serpent and the Rainbow" reference earlier.

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My muse list 2.0:



Clubs I'm a member of



...ok, that didn't work. How about supporting your favorite model(s) instead?

It's no big secret that I have very little respect for the prints system here on DA. With the way it's set up, it's almost like working for the RIAA, just less glamorous. I've had a handful of people ask me in the past about buying prints and whatnot, but because of the way DA handles it, unless you sell a print so that you make $0.10 cents off of it, it's so cost prohibitive that nobody wants to buy anything (which is totally understandable).

So, I just want to make it known that if there's a photo that you'd like a print of, if you contact me directly I can sell you a print for a lot less than what I could ever offer it on here for through DA's print system.

For example, a 16x20 inch print, WITH SHIPPING would only be $32.

The side effect is that not only do you pay less for the print, I get more of the profit, which means I CAN GIVE MORE TO THE MODELS.

Obviously I don't expect to make a living off of selling prints. Believe it or not, I'm not really doing this because I'm trying to get money for myself here. I'm doing it because I'm getting tired of models getting the shaft...

So if you won't do it for me, do it for the models.

Now, if you want to do something for ME....

This is going to sound totally off the wall and out of character. No, I didn't inhale too many sulphuric acid fumes from my boiling car battery. Hear me out.

There's a few guidelines to go along with what I'm about to say, but I'll get to that in a minute, but...

If anybody wants to redisplay my work (i.e. display it on their own page, use it as wallpaper on their system, etc), they're free to do so UNDER THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES:

1) THE PHOTOS ARE NOT STOCK. In other words, you cannot take the images and photoshop them into your own work, create a derivative work, call it your own work, or try to sell them.

2) WATERMARKS MUST BE KEPT IN PLACE AND NOT... ]]> ~StuckpixelPhoto http://StuckpixelPhoto.deviantart.com/journal/17993110/ http://StuckpixelPhoto.deviantart.com/journal/17993110/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:51:30 PDT

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Somebody shoot me.... please. I don't care what caliber weapon you use either, JUST PUT ME OUT OF MY FUCKING MISERY.

If you read my last journaly, you already know my alternator went the way of the dodo bird. I got that fixed today. It's working great.

Now here's the bad news....


So I'm in stop-n-go traffid along on I-93 into Boston and I notice my temp gauge is PEGGED. Not just a little elevated.... FUCKING PEGGED like it was trying to shoot for the moon.

I immediately turned the engine off and coasted off of the highway. I pull into a gas station with a service bay (thankfully).

I'll spare everyone the details. Here's the short and skinny of it:

1) The ONLY reason my engine isn't seized right now is because I use Mobil1 oil.

2) BOTH of the electrically operated radiator fans died at the same time. It was caused because of the bad alternator.

Thank God I managed to save $1000 on the alternator, because I've now got to spend it on the radiator fans... and it's going to take a few days to get the parts in.



Why is it, whenever something starts to go right for me, that huge foot from Monty Python comes flying out of the clouds and lands square on my back?

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ok, so I'm sitting at the Acura dealer right now as I type this, and the service advisor just told me what is wrong with my car.

Well, it's actually good news.... Kinda....

It's what I initially thought, it's the alternator on my car making all that racket. Apparently the thing died and took out my battery too!

So what's the humor portion here? The service advisor is trying to convince me to put in a NEW alternator.... at a cost of almost $1000

BWHABAHAHAHAHA!!!

I literally laughed at him. . I looked at him and said; so... you're putting in a rebuilt one, right? . Putting in a new $1000 alternator in a six year old car with 205,000 miles on it makes no sense since it'll be worth more than the car.

So he supposedly goes and checks local vendors to see if he can get a remanufactured part. Ya know, I may be crazy, but I'm far from dumb here.... he tries to convince me that no one makes a remanufactured alternator for my car.


LOL! That's why I already located one from a local parts shop. LOL!

These service advisors, they're so funny!

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Welp, I think my car's officially got one foot in the grave.

I was driving home Friday night, and I stopped at a store to pick up a few things that I needed. As I pulled into the parking lot I could hear a really annoying whining noise. At first I thought it was another car that had passed me. As I pulled into the spot though, that's when I realize it was MY CAR making that annoying whining noise. Uh-oh....

Long story short, I've narrowed it down to either the clutch throwout bearing, the alternator, the air conditioner, or (heaven forbid) the main bearing in the engine.

If that wasn't bad enough, as I was driving home from the store I lost all electrical power in the car. I was on the highway when all of a sudden the car just died. The engine kept running, but everything electrical in the car just turned off. Mind you, this was at 2AM...

So here I am coasting along thinking I'm royally screwed. I see that the rear defogger is still on so I hit the button to turn in off to see if I can at least make it to the next exit. Wouldn't you know, the car all of a sudden came back to life?

I made it home, but man.... talk about a bit of a scare.

So anyways, I had the car looked at. Nobody can figure out what's causing the noise. It's only a whisper now compared to what it was on Friday night, but there's something definitely still wrong with it. Guess I'm gonna have to plunk down the cash to have the dealer look at it.

I really shouldn't complain too loudly though. I managed to get at least 205,200 miles out of the car before it started giving me any trouble.

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I was trolling around the 'net, and I happened to find this article that I was mentioned in.

[link]


Hey, it's a start.

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Well it looks like Mr. Siggy is still going to be sold, but Bernie decided to be an idiot and tried to play me. NO SHOOT FOR YOU!

For those interested, here is the auction for the lens on eBay. Make sure you take note of the text in red and the questions asked to me. It'll have some of you laughing.


[link]

Oh yeah... I forgot to mention earlier, I'm selling off my Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens too.

[link]

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Ok, I was on my way out the door from DA. Had my keys in hand, ready to start the car and drive on down that old highway, never to turn back.

Heck, I dunno if anyone's noticed but I had the windows boarded up, curtains draped over the furniture, the gas and the electricity turned off... I was ready to leave for good.

Then I kinda came to my senses.

The past couple of months have been a trip, that's for sure! Those of you who followed the drama can attest to that. At the end of it all, I actually did learn two very important things:

1) Don't sweat the small stuff.
2) Don't alienate your fan base.

It took me longer than it should have to realize that I really needed to pull my head out from my ass. I didn't enjoy the view, and the ensuing muscle cramps were a real bitch. It's sorta like eating a few bars of sugar-free candy w/Malitol, and wondering why you have explosive diarrhea afterwards.

OK, bad example.

*ANYWAYS*, what I'm getting at is it took me a while, but I realized I was taking my frustrations out on the wrong people: YOU.

I had the wrong expectations of this place. Instead of using DA like I should have, I kept trying to use it in a way that, in reality, wasn't going work.

I know that's kinda vague. It's kinda hard to quantify into words. All I can say is that when you start coming to your senses, and a person like KEN MARCUS puts a posting somewhere that almost word for word describes what you've been thinking about doing, you know that:

a) What you were doing in the past was wrong.
b) What you were thinking about doing was RIGHT.
and c) You know what you've gotta do to not only make things right, but what you need to do altogether.

One thing that was driving me insane with DA was thieves. Thing is, they're everywhere. It doesn't matter where you go, there'll always be someone out there trying to make a buck off of other people's work. You can't stop it from happening, but you can go after them.

This place also has it's fair share of assholes too, but to use a quote from Lord DarkHelmut "I'm surrounded by assholes!". The majority of you are good people though; and in reality there's only five people whom I have had to add to my banlist here for being chronic assholes. There's one other snapper head (you know who you are son http://StuckpixelPhoto.deviantart.com/journal/17561549/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:40:06 PDT

Looks like my Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 EX DG Macro is off to the sunny skies and clear blue waters of Florida.

...and Bernie you bastard, you better take care of him! Siggy demands that before he goes on his way to you that you promise to only use him to photograph lots and lots of scantily clad women on the beach (with their consent of course!).

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[link]

For those who don't want to (or can't) follow the link:


Judge: Suicide Girls’ Model Contracts Void, Invalid
Contracts too broad to hold models to exclusivity, judge ruled.

By Bianca Fox

Posted: 12:05 PM PST Feb 13, 2008

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has voided Suicide Girls' modeling contracts, ruling that their exclusivity terms are too broad to legally keep models from doing outside modeling work.

The ruling, made against SG Services in its suit against God's Girls, declares that "each and every version" of SG Services' model releases are void and invalid as a matter of law.

SG Services, the parent company of SuicideGirls.com, has filed numerous lawsuits against websites, including GodsGirls.com, claiming they are competing sites that illegally used its models.

SG Services reportedly threatened its models with lawsuits and removal from SuicideGirls.com for doing any outside work, even on non-competing projects.

Among the lawsuits pursued by Suicide Girls is a $100,000 suit against photographer Philip Warner, aka Lithium Picnic.

Several models claimed SG Services never properly defined what it considers competition.


It's funny when a judge backs up what you've been saying all along.

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- Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 EX DG Macro (Canon mount). It's in very good condition. All the photos that everyone has seen on here was taken using it. Glass is perfectly clear with no fungus. Focusing ring has some dirt on it (I'd clean it before sending it). Lens hood is a little loose, but can be made snug again. Lens was calibrated and rechipped to work flawlessly with my Canon 5D. It happens to be a really sharp copy of the lens too.

I've owned it since October 2005, which means there's about 1.5 years left on the US 4 year warranty. It was my main lens that I used all the time.

Lens also includes an 82mm B+W multicoated slim circular polarizer. The polarizer itself goes for $199 (this ain't your father's cheap Tiffen polarizer...).

Asking $400+shipping for the lens + polarizer.


- Canon Rebel 2000 w/a Quantaray (Sigma) 28-90 lens and battery grip. This one's old skool folks (it's film!). It takes standard 35mm film, and CR2 batteries. With the included battery grip, it can use four standard AA batteries though.

$50+shipping takes it away...


Obviously, I'm not selling off my other gear (dSLR'S, lenses, lighting equip., etc). I replaced the 24-70 with something "a little better". No, the something "a little better" isn't for sale.

For those wondering, no I haven't stopped shooting. I'll admit, I've turned into something of a prick lately though. I refuse to be the male photographer equivalent of a Diva, but I've become super picky about who I work with and where I display it.

My work's all but gone from here, but that doesn't exactly mean I haven't been shooting at all. I'm toying with the idea of putting up one that I took over the weekend that's REALLY REALLY cool, but I'm having a hard time justifying it really. If someone can make a compelling argument to me about posting it, I'll put it up.

If my work isn't here, then where is my work being displayed online now? Don't think to hard.... The intelligent among you probably just figured out one location. I've been updating my work on a few other locations as well too.

There's more going on as well. Thanks to an individual by the name of James, those of you in the Providence Rhode Island area will be able to see some select prints of mine hanging up in a shop downtown.

I've also been trying to get some of my work into this museum: [link] . I've also been keeping my ear to the ground for juried exhibitions. I have my eye on one at the moment that looks promising.

I've also been talking to my local Fredericks of Hollywood store. Unfortunately they being part of a big conglomerate, you're not going to be seeing my work gracing their pages any time soon. All the same, I've been using A LOT of their clothing for my past couple of shoots (pitty there are so many fucking thieves here on DA, or I'd share them with all of you. ), and if you went into the store and asked them if there are any photographers in the area that they know of who do boudoir photography, they'd show you my port. Not too shabby, huh?

As I said before, I've become super picky about who I work with these days. I still shoot with my muses, and we've got something totally off the wall planned too. On the other hand, I know I've pissed off a few models recently, one especially too. Truth be told, I'm not losing sleep.

Long story short, part of it stems from doing free work for a business that she's helping to promote. The other part was that I was working my ass off to get her photos, and getting nothing in return except for a major attitude (along the lines that she was doing ME a favor by working TFP with me...... . BZZZT! WRONG! Next contestant please! ). I had been blowing her off for well over a month, figuring she'd get the hint. I ended up having a very civil conversation with her yesterday... ]]> ~StuckpixelPhoto