New photos

[gravymaster]

I finally got round to taking some more photos. Its been a month since i touched my camera so i set an hour aside this afternoon to snap away.

I cant decide whether i like these so please comment!:










Cheers for looking!

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>>> Edited by gravymaster on Saturday 15th May 18:59

[BrianTheYank]

1st and 2nd are nice but the last 2 I dont like.

What are those things anyways?

[gravymaster]

Cheers for the comments.
They are japanese toys made by medicom called the Kubrick range. They are pretty hard to get hold of in europe.

[simpo two]

No 2 for me. Nice to see some tabletop!

[bobfrance]

Nice work.

That sort of stuff would prove popular with photo libraries.

Ever tried contacting any?

[gravymaster]

No ive never tried to be honest!

I had an email from Andy Morgan at evo saying he quite liked my car shots and that they've got my details on file so I can come along for a shoot if they have something suitable. I've been meaning to reply to him for ages, but I need to have a serious think about what I want to do with photography because i dont want to waste his time. Ive also had some interest from a pro car photographer in S.A. Here is a snap of a lotus s2 i took that has been quite popular:



These trooper photos were taken with view to getting a contract to snap the models for a new online retailer to go on their site. Meeting is on tuesday so fingers crossed!

Do you know the details for any libraries who might be interested? Please post or email me if you do!

I never really get involved in the technical threads that go through this forum. To be honest I dont really know anything about that kind of stuff. To me it seems really simple: compose the photo, set up the camera and have a bit of fun.

I wish I could afford one of the nice nikons or canons but from my experience, its not the camera, its taking your time and learning from the shots you like!

Cheers for your comments guys!

Matt

number one is my favourite btw.

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>> Edited by gravymaster on Sunday 16th May 00:09

[zetec]

BrianTheYank said:

What are those things anyways?

Are they not Tie Fighter pilots!!!

[rico]

Nice pics Gravy.



Unless someone's been cloning hills, thats Brill... i live about 3miles from there when im back home.

Drop me an email if you're shooting there again and i'll pop along and say hi. Know the owner of the pub (Pheasant) on the hill, good food

[gravymaster]

Will drop you a mail when im next over there. I live in oxford so its a pretty convenient place to shoot. Do you know any other good locations round our way?

Cheers!

[Jay-Aim]

gravymaster said:

I finally got round to taking some more photos. Its been a month since i touched my camera so i set an hour aside this afternoon to snap away. I cant decide whether i like these so please comment!:

Top 2 are nice

[Jay-Aim]

rico said:

That would a nice pic if it wasn't for the reverse lights being on!!!!!!

[gravymaster]

not one of my best. I must admit.

[.Mark]

I think the reverse lights give it a quirky kind of look for the better.

Have I drunk too much Stolichnaya?

[nighthawk]

Top marks for the inspiration and use of table top.

I find that sort of photography to be the hardest (second to animals!!!!!!)

I always get a brain fade when I decide to do tabletop shoots.

I managed to take over 100 shots of my sisters dog today and managed about 10 i'm happy with

special forces/swat team lego looks great

[gravymaster]

Here is a better one from that esprit shoot:



Cheers.

[ehasler]

gravymaster said:

Do you know the details for any libraries who might be interested? Please post or email me if you do!

I've just submitted some shots to a library called Alamy. There are a number of very good pros on there, and a friend of a friend recommended them to me.

[gravymaster]

cheers for that mate. Ive looked through their terms of submission and they dont accept sharpened images.

This seems a bit odd to me.

I sharpen a lot of mine with the unsharp mask tool as a corrective measure.

Do you think they will notice and bin them?

[ehasler]

They may well notice - do you not have the original unsharpened images available still? You'll also need to bump up the image size as well if you're shooting digitally.

[simpo two]

gravymaster said:

cheers for that mate. Ive looked through their terms of submission and they dont accept sharpened images. This seems a bit odd to me.

Even the RPS allow sharpened images - as long as it's not 'noticeable', IYKWIM.

[ehasler]

Ah yes, but as a stock library, Alamy are selling the images on to people who may or may not want to sharpen them, and if they do sharpen the image, the amount will depend on what they want to use the image for.

As sharpening an image degrades it slightly, I can understand why they require images without sharpening.

Obviously, if you submit sharpened images and they accept them, then you're laughing. If they reject them, then you'll just have to re-submit without sharpening.