[Closed] smug content - photography related...

Hey - I got an email from a guy who wants to use a photo of mine for his new beer range. I said that was OK as long as I got paid in free samples.
[img] [/img]

You talented lucky bust'ard!

Well done, nice pics.

excellent! It is a good photo, too.

Good on you fella I am in a trail guide somewhere from a mate who had a similar stroke of luck- enjoy the trip surely on a certainty that night 😉

Cheers folks.

I should point out, the second pic isn't mine.

druidh - that's a very cool pic - have you done some weird processing to it? Looks like a painting. Or are you taking the piss? 🙂

druidh, i love the photo!! may i ask where it is?

Glen Affric, Druidh?

Nice photo - unusual effect, almost monochrome.

I had this one published in this year's Montane catalogue which earned me a t-shirt. Livin' the dream!

[img] [/img]

[EDIT - nice one Grum!]

Hi Grum

You deserve it - the photo's you've posted on here are excellent.

I've had a similar request for my speedway photo's - a few riders have contacted me for use in promotional work.

I'm trying to work out how I can become more involved in photography as a serious hobby / semi professional work.

Reading the recent wedding photography posts though - that looks like something I'd want to avoid.

Awesomeness! 🙂

I had a look at how much it would cost them to buy a similar image for what they wanted on Alamy and it was about £280, so I was a little cheeky - they originally offered me a room, but I asked for a luxury room plus dinner for me and my gf. It would actually cost about £300 (though of course it won't cost them that much) but I probably would be too stingy to splash out on something like that so it's quite nice really.

It remains to be seen whether anyone will pay me actual money for my pictures, but a few more nice treats won't go amiss either. 🙂

It seems like the decent bread and butter money is in weddings/cheesy studio portraits but I'm not sure I am up for that really.

Great picture is that taken with th gf1

druidh - is that pic real?

looks amazing

Great picture is that taken with th gf1

That one was taken with the G1 and 45-200mm lens - basically the same camera as the GF1 but with a viewfinder and flippy screen (and no video).

druidh - is that pic real?

🙄

that's really cool Grum, bet you're glad you got the cam back!

i got a very nice cheque for the single use of this for the CTC mag feature on lights
[url= http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3651578682_33a78534f6.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3651578682_33a78534f6.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/3651578682/ ]June 20th[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/rocketdog/ ]rOcKeTdOgUk[/url], on Flickr

Nice work Grum, i am local to you and know the midland well, thats a great shot.

i am a photographer as well (weddings)

stuartie_c - Member
Glen Affric, Druidh?

Aye

I had this one published in this year's Montane catalogue which earned me a t-shirt. Livin' the dream!

Montane seem to be rather good at this. I got a free Pertex wind-jacket for this one a couple of years back..
[url= http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5094713116_b1f74cd6a4_z.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5094713116_b1f74cd6a4_z.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/druidh2000/5094713116/ ]2006-10-15 12-12-35[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/druidh2000/ ]druidh_dubh[/url], on Flickr

As for the Glen Affric photo, it was taken on a lovely spring evening, using Fuji Velvia 50. The slide was scanned, but I've tried to keep the colour as accurate as possible.

Wow! Congratulations!

Well done, but having seen the photos you've posted I'm not surprised 🙂

Thanks grum I will take a look as in the market for a new camera either long zoom compact or g1 form factor camera just something smaller than a full dslr, and again great pictures all round in this thread

Don't wish to detract from Grum's fantastic result, and they are great pics.

BUT

I have to say, this is one of the loveliest pics I have ever seen on this forum.

[img] [/img]
/p>

Seriously. That's stunning. I know photography/art is a very subjective thing, but rarely have I been moved as much by a photo on here (and there have been tens of thousands, if not more). It's almost like a painting. Simply gorgeous.

Well done Onion. You deserve to be really proud of that one.

Nice one grum, well done.

Cheers everyone.

yeti guy - I've seen some of your bike porn pics on here - very impressive!

rocketdogs lights pic is awesome.

I have to agree about druidh's pic - despite him trying to steal my glory - pretty amazing 😉

No I'm sorry Grum; your stuff is fantastic, and you are genuinely talented. But there's just something about Onion's pic, that elevates it above most others, imo. I think you'll agree; credit where it's due.

In fact I've just remembered I've got a bottle of Innes + Gunn Original in't fridge, that I'm going to open in honour of that pic.

Fantastic grum.

You deserve some luck with the last year being a bit yucky.

My nephew is now a professional photographer at the age of 22. He started out with some pictures of a local band, who got quite well known. Then another well known band spotted his talent and then he got signed to do some work for NME. He's just had to move to London to keep up with demand. It's mostly advertising work now, for example 'Top Shop'. But he's met and shot quite a few famous people. It's well paid, but he knows it may stop tomorrow.
So keep at it grum, you never know where it may lead.

Gorgeous photo druidh.

Oops - sorry Grum. TBH, I think your second photo is pretty ordinary, but the top one is superb - the light and reflections are perfect.

Thanks for the comments on mine. It does make me wonder about going back to shooting "analogue".....

Bigger version [url= ]here[/url]

No worries, thanks for the comments 🙂

The second one isn't mine btw - that's just of where I'm going to be staying I pinched off their site. Will try and get some better pics of the hotel and flog them to English Lakes as well. 😛

Thanks Bunnyhop - that's good to hear about your nephew - I have to say I was getting a little discouraged recently especially with losing my camera but this has given me a nice boost.

Can't stop looking at Onion's pic. Beautiful.

Onion, YGM.

druid, did you do the loop counter clockwise from chisolms bridge to get to that point?Did you do it on a bike? I took some pics from that exact spot and they too came out like paintings. its just the area thats so nice. i love the view at the top of that track above the lodge.

hate to agree with the dwarfy chippy mockney, but thats a great photo there druidh.

EDIT: thats being unfair, its a stunning image. Maybe there's something in the slide scan that does it. Ive had great results taking photographs of photographs taken with Ektar 1000.

reminds me of the film Excalibur.

and grum thats a top shot too, dont feel churlish over the value of the payment in kind, for them a room costs very little compared to the list price.

Wow Grum and Druid some great photos, Grum yours has great commercial value, let us know when your websites loaded I'd love to take a look. Druids photo would make a great watercolour.

martinxyz - I'll post what I just emailed to Elfin...

It was taken on my last ever trip with a (pre-digital) SLR. It had been a very long day out munro-bagging (Sgurr na Lapaich, Mam Sodhail, Beinn Fionnlaidh and Carn Eige and all the Tops out to Tom a Choinnich) and we were just descending to the car. We'd already got some good shots in the morning as we walked up through the cloud layer and all you could see were the very peaks sticking out of the cloud. By the time it came to the walk out, I was pretty done in. However, I looked along Loch Affric and the sun was just setting, casting some lovely shadows on the hillsides opposite. I took a couple of shots at different positions while the sun was "just right" and thought that this one was the best. I think the trees just to the right of centre fill that area quite well. The shrubs and grasses really are that colour in the spring as they have all died back under the snows and they are only just beginning to come alive again. If I'm disappointed in anything, it's that the sky is a bit "blown out", but I've resisted tampering with it in order to best record it exactly as I saw it.

(Sorry again grum...)

Maybe I should ask the mods to change the thread title to 'let's all suck thread-hijacker druidh's balls'? 😛
(only kidding - 'tis a lovely pic)

I wonder if now I have a good excuse to buy a nice full frame DSLR to go with my GF1? 😉

Druidh, that is simply beautful - almost like a painting. My immediate thought was HDR, but the fact it's on slide explains a lot of that 🙂

Nice pics from you too Grum, I really must get round to getting a flickr pro account and doing some proper tagging myself.

I'm another Montane winner, got a nice pertex for Mrs NBT with this shot
[url= http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/404445790_d93692cb88.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/404445790_d93692cb88.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/n_b_t/404445790/ ]Boredale Hause singletrack[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/n_b_t/ ]Notoriously Bad Typist[/url], on Flickr

Never did see the catalogue to see if it got printed though.

My immediate thought was HDR, but the fact it's on slide explains a lot of that

exactly mine too.

Grum; I'm really sorry. I din't meant to hijack your thread, which was meant to relay your happiness to others. I feel bad now. 🙁

I can't help it though. I can't even explain why I like that pic so much. I just do.

And look; it's got me and Stoner in mutual appreciation of something. All we need now is for Ernie and Woppit to come along, and then maybe Peace can reign on Earth after all.... 🙂

The purpose of art is to provoke an emotional reaction, surely? That pic's done it for me.

Druids photo would make a great watercolour.

is that supposed to be a compliment?
if somebody said that about one of my photographs i would have to ask why they think it needs to be copied by somebody who uses watercolours to elevate it's worth?

(lovely image BTW)

Nice on grum. 🙂
When my brother got into this photography lark I half expected it to be another fad, but he seems to be making a go of this one.
I'm sure he's had a few published now.
I do like this one:-

[url= http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/4978135274_e4f882d184.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/4978135274_e4f882d184.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/daza_t/4978135274/ ]Strawberry and Cream[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/daza_t/ ]DazaT[/url], on Flickr

Fuji Velvia 50

Nice one Grum - I always enjoy your photos, good to see its paying off 🙂

Well done. Just wish the buggers had liked a few more of my Midland Hotel pics 😉

Nice asking for the "Luxury room" as well.

nice one Grum, nick me a dressing gown! 😀

and Onion thats a peach of a shot!!

druidh's pic still looks almost unreal

love it

and the montane winners - were they running a competition?

and the montane winners - were they running a competition?

yes. Not sure if it was advertised here or on bikemagic.com. I think it was on here as around the same time I won a bikemagic jersey with a different pic. It was about 4 years ago as I gave the BM jersey to Monksie to thank him for helping up move house.

Nice shot Grum. Storrs Hall is very nice, we looked at it for a wedding venue, but it was far too expensive. I'm sure you'll have a great stay.

That shot of Druidhs is quite something though. Must get back up Scotland soon.

Cheers folks - and er.... cheers to those who completely ignored my post and just commented on druidh's (lovely) pic 😉

I was driving past yesterday so I went and had a look at Storrs Hall - it looks pretty fancy! Probably too posh for the likes of us but I'm sure it will be fun.

Well done Grum - Lakes pic still looking lovely on our wall. Keep at it. Maybe make your own trip up to Glen Affric cause that Druid shot is a stunner and puts my own point and shoot of that location from a few years back to extreme shame... 😉

cheers to those who completely ignored my post and just commented on druidh's (lovely) pic

Sorry Grum. 🙁

Cheers ART - glad you are enjoying the pic 😀

No worries Elfin - I wasn't really meaning you - at least you had the courtesy to mention my post too. 😉

just been told one of my pics will be in Derbyshire Life in December

I've made it!

I won a Montane voucher for this one. Bought a nice windproof and a P&P top. It's nice to win stuff!
[img] [/img]

Nice one Grum 😀 My only "claim to fame" photography wise is one I took of Park Guell in Barcelona, which is featured on schmap.com. Unpaid 😆

Some of mine have been used by bmtb holiday websites.

If this was Talk Photography, we could get into a tedious argument about people giving away their work for free and devaluing the industry. 😉

Good to hear other people are getting their pics out there - it does give you a nice bit of encouragement.

woop! 🙂

[img] [/img]

Did I ever show you a photo I took...... 😉

Verrry nice Grumm.

I was only bumping the thread so everyone could jizz themselves over your pic again. 😛