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Riddell. What on earth are you going on about cropping for????

Any photographer/magazine editor/anyone with any knowledge of images, can do a decent crop. The guy is just showing us what he has photographed, and very nice they are too. You are way of like a mad dog barking up the wrong tree after an imaginary cat.
Jules
riddell said:
riddell said:
I would remove them from Pbase: magazines buy the exclusivity and or
the news value of your pictures. Having them in the public domain
diminishes their value.
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Absolutely. I totally agree with that.

Secondly personally I didn't think the photos were that great.
Nothing jumps out at me at all. In fact they look quite dull, boring.
Maybe they would be of interest to someone who is interested in
orithology, but to someone like me, who has no special interest they
don't. But -

Perhaps if I were to see those phots cropped and printed full A4 in a
magazine then they may have a completely different impact. Then I
might be stunned by them. But as they stand

So first question, is the quality high enough to be presented to a
magazine at full page resolution when cropped?

If so, then I would crop them, and get them over to some people.
(magazines)
But don't be too suprised if you get a lot of rejections because you
only have a few photos and not a whole portfolio when it comes to
dealing with stock.
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Kelly, a friend of mine runs a very successful photo library here in the UK. If you would like, I will draw their attention to these shots. I don't know what they would say as I am not in the animal photography business.

I also know Attenborough's chief camerman who was a bird stills photographer before moving to being a camerman and can ask him if he has any ideas.
Email me off board.

This forum can get you great advice and it can get you useless advice and who knows which is which?
Jules

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You don't seem very knowledable at all of the way a professional photographer works.

Firstly you'd never crop images, leaving that up to the editor, even when you have to present the images to them on spec.

Then you know this successful guy running a successful stock library and you believe he will take a new photographer with just a half dozen images? all of the same subject? Doesn't seem you know a lot about decent stock libraries.

Its like the blind leading the blind...
 
Riddell - you say "new photographer with just a half dozen images"

FYI ... I am not new just not pro and as far as images go I have a library with just over 18,000 images which approx 1,000 are marketable if I chose to do so...I have only ever shgot for my own personal pleasure as I have a FT job with the airlines and photography is JUST a hobby...these newest ones are definately the poorest quality due to the situation I shot under....

I also purposely did not crop them as I thought anyone with half a brain could do that if they wanted to use them.

please don't make assumptions.
 
Kelly Munday said:
FYI ... I am not new just not pro and as far as images go I have
a library with just over 18,000 images which approx 1,000 are
marketable if I chose to do so...
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OK, thats fair enough, but thats the first I, or anyone else on this forum knows about it.
Kelly Munday said:
please don't make assumptions.
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The assumptions here are made by the poster who claims he can get you into this 'successful' photo library without knowing that you had all these other shots.
 
Riddel, read what I said. I stated that the images should NOT be cropped at this stage.

I also said that I would talk to my friends. The library owner is someone I have known for thirty years and if she thinks they are sellers she would take them, believe me.

And if I'm not very knowledgeable about running a photography business , how come ours is one to die for, running very profitably and has for twenty years, with clients coming in the door litterally every day.

If I'm blind with my experience then I hate to think what half the posters on this thread are.
Jules
riddell said:
You don't seem very knowledable at all of the way a professional
photographer works.

Firstly you'd never crop images, leaving that up to the editor, even
when you have to present the images to them on spec.

Then you know this successful guy running a successful stock library
and you believe he will take a new photographer with just a half
dozen images? all of the same subject? Doesn't seem you know a lot
about decent stock libraries.

Its like the blind leading the blind...
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Why can't you blow bubbles with chewing gum?
 
I removed them from PBase.

I have a few University's that are requesting the pictures for lectures they are giving as they have never had this documented before...I have also been contacted by a few organizations to "donate" these photos for scientific studies.

maybe they will be published in a journal of some sorts...

I don't really care about the money.....I do this as a hobby and love showing my stuff to others....my income comes from my other job.

Kelly
 
A word of caution, if you are entering the images into a contest, these days, many rules of contests include giving them the rights to use the image, if you have concerns about that, read the rules very carefully before agreeing to them.
 
JulesJ said:
Then someone says don't put them on the internet. I semi agree hear
and would have put smaller versions up, but they are only about 1MB
and not big enough for serious reproduction so I think you are ok
there.
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You "semi" missed the point here: I only suggested this because of my experience with editors who wanted exclusiv rights and/or first publication in the past. Internet publication was and still is for quite a vew of them a big no no. If your experience is differend, fine. But this is what came up with dealings I had in this field as a pro.

And yes, this is a fine place to ask for advice. As fine as any. Just what you do with all the bits and pieces is, as always, something the OP has to decide for him/her self.
 
i couldnt even have a look before u removed them.
My granma saw them and wanted to print one of them for her wall....

please post the non watermarked original, coz i beleive the watermarks are very distracting in print. and the websize is kinda small for a large wall size print.

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My pictures have appeared in "The Sun" today without my permission!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1165655.ece

I have emailed them to advise them that they did not have my permission to publish the pictures, that they have the wrong information on the story and did not give me credit as the photographer.

Any idea if I can go after them for illegally publishing my photo with out my permission. I am in Canada so not sure of the laws etc with foreign publications etc etc.

Any advise would be appreciated!

Kelly
 
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