Balance Assignment for Stock Photography

Please photograph it against a white background, and remember to adjust for white balance (there’s a pun in there somewhere).Upload data:1. DEADLINE: Friday June 8th 2007; 10:00 GMT2. FILESIZE: 300dpi, color / b&w. Pixel dimensions min. 2480 x 1748, to print at A5+3. CODE KEYWORD: ZOOBAL (input this among all your other apposite keywords describing the image in full and NEVER using the Code Keyword as your only keyword.)4. CATEGORISE UNDER: Science> ChemistryIf you feel you already have existing images on the site which fit the bill, just add the relevant unique code keyword to them.A) The only way you can make your pictures available for consideration by the buyers in any Picture Call is to upload them to the fotoLibra site ...B) ... and to include the special Code Keyword among your other keywords.C) Do not mark these images as Royalty FreeD) Do not send them to me as there is nothing I can do with them — my opinion would be highly subjective and probably not helpful.E) Please also make sure that they always match or exceed the requested resolutions and file sizes.Some of you may have noticed that the fotoLibra site is running slowly at the moment.The Dear Leader mentioned this in his blog on May 22nd: [quote]We have huge amounts of uploading going on in response to Jacqui's recent Picture Calls, which is wonderful, but the major problem is that the search engines have noticed that we've suddenly got thousands of new images they didn't know about. This has led to them hitting our servers as often as possible to catch up. We are installing new servers and storage to cope with the demand.This massive volume of automated enquiries really slows things down — Googlebot alone used up 7.8 GB of our bandwidth yesterday. We have temporarily banned search engine crawlers from some areas of the site, to speed things up.Another reason is simply the large number of concurrent uploads. The sophisticated fotoLibra system handles one upload at a time, and normally it's so fast that people don’t think about it. When lots of people try to categorise images simultaneously, a queue forms and everything seems to slow down.All this is in addition to the current transfer of all 200,000+ images in our database to a new storage facility in Manchester, prior to the installation of the new servers. This is using up a massive amount of our bandwidth. Not perfect timing, but we are beholden to server farms and timetables.We started this transfer on Friday evening, 18th May. It’s been running 24 hours out of 24 and so far (May 22nd) just over 6% of the assets has been copied over. It will get better shortly, and everything will be very much faster when the new servers are installed. We apologise and hope to have the system even better than normal very soon. Please bear with us. [/quote]As of today, June 1st, the transfer of assets is nearly complete. When someone tells you you’re on a 100mbps pipe, this is how you prove them wrong.Kind regards,Jacqui