User talk:Pain/ShaunMacPherson
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[edit] Discussion with ShaunMacPherson
[edit] Pictures
Hello!
I liked all the pictures you uploaded, very nice work. Don't let the copyright bull crap scare you from uploading more, just make sure that you document everything and if you're using it as fair use then put that there. If we don't make use of our fair use rights then they will be wither (or be taken) away. --ShaunMacPherson 23:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
- Hi, I apologise for I am not sure I I had to answer to you here or in my discussion page, I'm confident that I will be able to write in the appropriate space as time as a wikipedian passes.
- In any case I wanted to make sure that I was uploading the images correctly. I read the docs, and I always put the appropriate copyright template (as it seems), when I do not take the screenshot myself I put the source. Just wanted to make sure that it's all right, and also I wanted to ask you if there is something else that I need to know as an almost newbye (only 250 contribution).
- Suggestions, anything is welcome.
- Federico Pistono 10:24, 2005 August 22 (UTC)
- Don't worry, I find if I talk to someone I may forget I did so unless they reply in my user page, so what I do if it's important is I reply in theirs and copy their responses from mine. A lot of people just reply in one place but then they have to keep track.
- I'm probably going to be uploading some images again as well because I'm motivated by your example now :). There are a lot of public domain sources out there, especially of paintings that are now in the public domain itself. One good thing that many painter/artist articles need is a list article / list gallery / 'gallery' of their work like William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery. There are a lot of pictures on wikicommons too that could be used to make other galleries.
- Bye for now, --ShaunMacPherson 13:16, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
"I'm probably going to be uploading some images again as well because I'm motivated by your example now :)"
- Well, that is nice to read, I feel somehow useful now... :-D
- The two examples that you gave me are very nice indeed, for now I only concentrated mya ttention to anime images, but I would like to make my own once I buy a decent digital camera, then I will for sure distribute them under the GFDL, what do you think is the best one? GFDL, CC2, other? I don't like the PD though, it sounds so anomymous.
- Federico Pistono 13:33, 2005 August 22 (UTC)
- That is a very interesting question, hmmmmm. You could double license them under the GNU FDL and the CC2, plus if you go into photography as a job you'll still have the copyrights and other people will have to give you credit. You would also be able to sell the copyrights if someone likes one of your images and want to use them in a private publication. The GFDL / CC2 could be like Free advertising for you since they still must give credit to the author.
- I might also take pictures since that is a good idea, I'm not sure what kind of pictures that would be good to take though. Wikipedia needs pictures of anything I guess :-). --ShaunMacPherson 17:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Well, that is indeed correct, but I find that the naturalistic images are the most quoted, most of the "Picture of the day" are dragonflies... LOL
- In any case I think you should specilise in those topics where you have to most knowledge. For instance, if you happen ho travel in Africa a lot, then you would be taking good pictures there, whether if you are a electronic engineer you would know which part of a circuit to take and what they corrispond better than a philosophy techer, if you see what I mean.
- I don't really know myself which kind of images I will take though. Mhh..... let's see, why don't we keep in contact and show each others our creation, then the inspiration will come along I guess. :-D
- Federico Pistono 20:18, 2005 August 23 (UTC)
- That is true, taking pictures of what you know could work. Plus a lot of articles are missing pictures of everyday things like cups, TVs, shavers, windows etc.
- Another good idea is to make images with graphics editors, like graphs, drawings etc. One woman who just became an administrator did a series of excellent drawings and scanned them.
- We defantly should keep in contact and tell eachother about new pictures. I'm going to take some pictures of some local buildings here that have wikipedia articles about them. Also every day things like cups and pencils if they also don't have a picture.
- The only trouble for me is getting the energy get off my butt and do it :). --ShaunMacPherson 20:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- That is a good idea indeed. Do you think it's better to use a vectorial drawing program? I find myself quite comfortable with Sodipodi, and the GIMP for editing. It is true that wikipedia still lacks of everyday life's pictures, so I believe it would be valuable even the smallest or the simplest thing. In the end all the credits we have is "glory" and respect of the others, but that is what the whole wiki idea is aboout, isn't it? ^_^
- I find myself to spend quite a lot of time in this project, I think it is giving me quite a lot of satisfacions, I see friends reading my articles and so on, it pays be the work you do and the effort that you put in these things. The only regret is that up to now I don;t have many contacts in the community, just how did you find out about me and the pictures I was uploading, which page did redirect you to me?
- Federico Pistono 21:56, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
- I made a wikimedia account where I uploaded some of my drawings with the doublee license. Check it out if you want:
- Federico Pistono 20:41, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hi!
Interesting idea having discussions based on each person!
I haven't been around much since I had lots of work to do :). I looked at your drawings and they are very very good. What I like to do to practice is edit art I find to play around since I do not have the ability to create things from scratch. Lot's of artists hate when people do that (and release the art as well) but if I was an artist I don't think I would mind, just like how I don't mind people editing articles I created on Wikipedia :).
How did you make these, do you draw them by hand then scan them? When I try to make art I use a mouse and a paint program but i find it isn't as accurate since you have less control with a mouse compared to a pencil/pen/etc.
Did you do any photography yet? I have to do some, maybe I am just waiting until I see your pictures to motivate me into doing something hehe. --ShaunMacPherson 17:20, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I find that to be very nice and clean, it keeps everything organised.
- I made the drawings just with a soft pencil and an eraser, it's called "gomma pane" in italian, literally "bread gum". And then yes, I scanned them, and yes again, if you wish to modify them with a program I don't mind, I put the license clearmfor that, though. ^_^
- Unfortunately I did not do any photography yet, I am still looking for a good camera. I do not know if I should try eBay, where I found good prices for a 5M Pixel (around 130€). Do you think Canon is a good choice? Or maybe Nikon (without reflex, though, that would be too expensive for my wallet...)
- Federico Pistono 17:59, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about digital cameras but I think most of them are pretty much the same. If you go professional and will spend more than $500 then it might be worth it to spend lots of time researching.
- You can get some pretty ok ones for like $60 Canadian dollars just to see if you like it or not, then you can sell it to someone else just starting out and buy a better one if you need more features. Usually what a cheap one will lack is a memory card slot, and probably no zoom. If you can I'd get optical zoom and a memory card one.
[edit] Reply to Audio
Hi, it's me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pain/ShaunMacPherson). I did not buy a decent camera yet, but instead I tried to create something useful on other branches, like the Spoken Wikipedia for example. I was not sure about it becuase I was afraid that my accent would not be acceptable, but so far I received quite positive feebacks, so I think I'll keep improving.
I enjoy ver much the spoken article idea, and I'm experimenting a lot with Audacity, really a great tool. If you whish check this out: Solid Snake, i'll put the links at the right side here. Listen to this article · (info) Icon of loudspeaker This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-10-09, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. (audio help) More spoken articles
Bye, and remember to keep me informed of your projects as we promised each-other. Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 07:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry for not replying in a while but I have been very busy! :( I really like your audio idea, and I've played with audacity, I like FOSS appilcations a lot. I saw a few articles in which someone did voice for them but that involves a lot of time. It would be great for a FOSS application to be able to automatically read the article (text to voice), hopefully in javascript so it's all done on their computer (if it's done server side the transmission of audio is a lot of bandwidth).
- I had an audio idea a while back to get the anthams of countries and include them on the Wikipedia articles as midi files, but have not been able to find a good midieditor that is free/open source.
- The only other project I was thinking of working on is working a bit at Wikinews. Have you been to wikinews yet, seems interesting.
- Bye for now, --ShaunMacPherson 19:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
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