Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's also troublesome as many things you want to photograph have people in the way!

Not usually a problem for me as my preference is landscape photography. However, if I had a time machine I'd love to go back and find the parents of the person who invented bright red cagoules and suggest contraception to them :rotfl:

I have occasionally included people, if they happen to be looking the right way or for a sense of scale. I remember standing at the back of a huge cave for about half an hour waiting for the light to be right on the fell that was visible through the mouth of the cave, reflected on the water in the cave. There were people at the mouth but they weren't a problem, they'd show how huge the cave was. One of them did call over at one point, asking if I was waiting for them to move their pushchairs, so I thanked them and assured them that if anything the pushchairs (and they) would give the sense of scale.
Eventually the light came, just after my boots decided they weren't going to hold the water out any longer :rotfl:

silvercar

OH lugs a Canon something around with us on holiday, I just use the camera on the phone.

I vaguely recall parents being very pleased with themselves when they upgraded to a trimphone


Previously we must have had something like this

I don't remember leads being anything other than coiled plastic covered wires.

My first proper job was in 1982 and the cleaner would come round once a week to clean the phone receiver of germs.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's dedication

Worth it though - looks great as a 16"x20" print on my lounge wall

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do look at "photographic exhibitions" sometimes and just think "OMG that is so easy .... I could get better than that".
I guess the "secret to success" as a photographer/seller of framed photographs is simply believing that somebody WOULD want to part with money for it
I could take great photos .... if I had that self-belief that I'd not be wasting my time/money.
Just "for me", I'm happy with an "I WUZ ERE" reminder.

I know what you mean. I've never really tried to sell prints - the market for my preferred locations or subject matter tend to be already flooded with other people selling. To break into that you have to be either really good as a photographer, really good as a marketer or plain lucky.

I did sell a few images once, a company wanted some for an educational display they were making for a local park. Had they just been the park people I'd probably have jut given them the images but they were obviously a company being paid to do it so I charged them.

I did better selling a domain name, actually. The guy gave me several grand for it and was intending to set up a DSLR-oriented e-magazine. I've just looked and all it is now is a search engine for used cameras. I think I definitely had my money's worth out of that

Pyxis

Did you know that in the Arms there's a thread dedicated to photos? "Favourite photos you have taken over the years".

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2175679

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Did you know that in the Arms there's a thread dedicated to photos? "Favourite photos you have taken over the years".

No I didn't, I'll go and have a look.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I started work some places were still using phone switchboards where the women placed plugs into a wall of holes to make the connection! Although they were "the last of them", it was unusual in about 1982.

Don't they still use those plugs 'n' holes then?


The second type of phone you mentioned were pretty much the standard ones for years until cordless came in.

The Trimphones were to be coveted! Very much the epitome of poshness!
I really wanted one, because the design was sooo new and different, but I was very young and my mum didn't earn much and couldn't afford it.

chris_m wrote: »

Worth it though - looks great as a 16"x20" print on my lounge wall

Wow!

That's fantastic!

I hope you sold lots! :T
Edit...crossed post....just seen that you don't sell them
I bet that one would sell well in Yorkshire!

michaels

I'd be worried about that cave mouth snapping closed with me inside :eek:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Wow!
That's fantastic!

Thanks.

I bet that one would sell well in Yorkshire!

Except it's in the Lake District Maybe it'd do well to show people what there is on the right side of the Pennines, i.e. outside Yorkshire? :rotfl:

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

If he wanted to take a photo of, say, a bucket, a spade and a deckchair he'd watch the weather until the weather was right, then pack the car up the night before - including taking the bucket/spade/umbrella/deckchair, set his alarm and get up about 3-4am and drive 30-40 miles to be on the beach before the sun rose to get it all set out and everything lined up .... then he'd shoot a bunch of stuff and from that one photo that made him, say, £2k as stock, was all he needed to feel he hadn't wasted his time.

For that subject, way OTT IMO. I'd do similar for a particular landscape if I wanted the right light, etc., but not for something as mundane as that.