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Trying to make money from your photography is a very long shot. The market is so saturated with quality pictures with extremely high availability and extremely low prices that getting a foothold is close to impossible.  

It's almost a natural law of economy: when a commodity becomes very widely available the price will fall. As demand rises the availability of things will increase because the manufacturers and sellers are interested in serving the market and raise the production. As a result the number of goods available to that market will increase and in order to get a cut, some sellers will lower their prices. Customers generally prefer buy at low prices and if you want to sell, you have to follow the price reductions.

When such a commodity at the same time is becoming more and more easy to produce and is produced by an exploding number of people, you have a price-reduction spiral that goes almost all the way down to free.

So you want to shoot like McNally? Well, here's step one: gear up. Renowned Nikon shooter Joe McNally's assistant Brad Moore has compiled a list of the gear the the McNally crew uses.

Whoa!

I did a head count of my gear recently to have a list for the insurance in case something happened and was actually pretty satisfied with what I saw. But my list is about one tenth of this one in length and probably about one third in quality. OK they do list each gel color separately. If I did that I could add a few items to my list. But it's still not quite the same. I know when Brad writes D3 it should say D3's (three at least) and when he writes D700 and SB-900 it also most likely to be more than one of each. Products which aren't even in the shops yet.

What can I say? Galloping NAS once again. More like a NAS stampede...

Sigh!

For those readers into new social services on the web, Twitter won't be unknown, but to the rest of us, it's a new thing. I have heard of it many times, and even signed up a while back, but never used it. Now I will try to see what this messaging service can do for me and my activities.

I have changed my account name to OnLocation, and can now be Twittered on http://twitter.com/onlocation

The idea is that I tell Twitter what I'm doing right now - through the web or my cell phone - and other people can then "follow" me and get messages about my whereabouts. OK, not really photo related, and maybe just a fad, but I decided to give it a chance anyway.

If you are on Twitter you can follow me, and we will see where this leads "On Location" and this blog. And I'm on Technorati too.

To add at least a bit of photography you get a Copenhagen image shot a couple of days ago on a day with beautiful weather and a great sky.

Scott Kelby and his latest guest blogger Matt Kloskowski have been blogging on Photoshop Insider about stuff that people want in Photohop, and there's a host of great ideas to new function, extension of dialogs and great ways to get Photoshop to do its job even better.

But in all the serious suggestions you've gotta love this "Fix all" entry by Dave Cross. That's the kind of functions we want in the coming versions of Photoshop !

You can see many more - serious - suggestions here.

This is the first entry in my new blog. Well, it actually isn't because I wrote a few samples to test the format and demonstrate the possible content, and these first entries are perfectly valid and can still be found below and in the archive.

But this is the first official entry in connection with the launch of the blog, and its purpose is to introduce the blog - and perhaps myself a bit.