PJ. Morley

One Life Church Middlesbrough Teesside

PJ — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:11:16 +0000

One Life Church is one of the many growing churches in Middlesbrough that is committed to magnifying the Name and Person of Jesus Christ. The membership consists of many local people in Eston and from across the Teesside area. We all have a heart for revival, a desire to know God intimately and to have His Word dwell in us richly and live in and by the power of God’s Holy Spirit.

Please visit us at www.onelifechurch.org.uk

New Model Portfolio Site

PJ — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:01:30 +0000

Well, not just models but photographers and make up artists amongst others. Model River is brand new and looking for models, photographers and make up artists to register. Registration is completely free and allows you to find models, find photographers and make up artists and make contacts through the forums.

Although it’s in beta stage at the minute, it is fully functional. You can add images your portfolio, add all of the usual important information in a very comprehensive resume of physical characteristics, work experience and conditions of employment etc.

There are models of the month as voted for by other members which gives the winning model their own high profile presence and a neat little feature where you can link your youtube and myspace videos directly into you profile.

Goto http://www.modelriver.com

My Canon Competition Entry

PJ — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:52:15 +0000

Canon recently launched the Canon 2008 Euro competition and the voting period for images starts in just a few hours from now at 00:01 CET. I submitted an image of this tree nymph butterfly in the Macro category. If you think it’s a contender, I’d appreciate your vote on the image.

You can vote here or click on the image to take you to the vote.

Thanks in advance to anyone that votes.

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PJ — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:57:20 +0000

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Microstock Earnings Poll

PJ — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:37:32 +0000

If you sell images on any of the microstock sites, please take a minute to take part in this poll.

Completely Free Stock Images

PJ — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:53:30 +0000

You may already know that images can purchased at rock bottom prices from the various microstock sites but did you know that many of them offer completely free images to download and use under their royalty free licence?

Try the offerings from the following sites. You may have to sign up to the site to get access to the images but that’s free as well and they change them for new ones on a regular basis.

iStockPhoto - Offers one free image per week

Shutterstock - Double freebies are available here. Shutterstock give a free photo AND a free vector image every week.

Dreamstime - Not just one free image but well…. lots of them. Just click on the ‘Free Images’ tab at the top of the page. The quality is variable however so you may have to look through a few.

Fotolia - 10 free images at any given time are available and these seem to change on at least a daily basis.

So there are a few to be getting on with.

iStockphoto Reveals More Details of Subscription Package

PJ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:09:28 +0000

iStockphoto have revealed more details it’s new subscription packages to be launched on 26th May 2008. Why is this news? Well, this new package appears to be a competitive move aimed directly at Shutterstock’s long standing and until now, unique subscription model. See Previous Post.

If this is the case then iStockphoto will have an edge that could severely impact on sales over at Shutterstock. New details of the iStockphoto package reveal that is very close to the existing Shutterstock subscription package with only a few minor differences in the way that contributors are paid. Ultimately, for buyers that requires a lot of images, iStockphoto will offer a realistic and attractive alternative to Shutterstock which is a situation that hasn’t existed before.

Early indications suggest that iStock will offer 3 month subscriptions with packages allowing subscribers to download images with a value of between 30 and 480 credits a day. With each iStockphoto image selling for somewhere between 1 and 10 credits, that offers a potentially amazing 480 images per day for small blog sized images. And even large images that sell for 10 credits will see iStock subscribers having the potential to download as many as 48 images per day.

Assuming there isn’t a massive and previously untapped customer base for the new subscription model, it looks like iStockphoto may well be targeting the existing Shutterstock customer base. Although prices for the iStockphoto packages haven’t yet been confirmed, the model itself compares very favourably with Shutterstock packages that allow a maximum 25 images per day regardless of image size. Only time and price will determine the outcome.

Photographers Accused

PJ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:48:02 +0000

This page is to highlight times that photographers are wrongfully suspected and accused doing nothing more than taking photographs when they have a legal right to. There are many examples of times when the police, park wardens, security officers or any other official for that matter use completely inappropriate reasons such as anti-terrorist laws or even non existent powers to stop and search. What do they do? Just make it up as they go along. In some cases it seems they do, especially if they lack experience or don’t know the law themselves.

Can you justify stupidity, bully tactics, intimidation of the public and lack of common sense in the name of national security?

Here are some examples. I’ll add more as I find them.

Terror Laws Used on Photographer

Innocent photographer or terrorist?

Father Angry at Photography Ban Ridiculous! A father told that taking photos of his own children ice skating was a breach of the Child Protection Act.

Have You Got a Licence for That Camera!

PJ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:18:26 +0000

Have You Got a Licence for That Camera?

What sort of nonsense is this?

You see this sort of story from time to time. When will officials realise that just because you carry a camera it doesn’t automatically make you a terrorist or a paedophile? In fact. How many actual terrorists or paedophiles have actually been caught because they were randomly stopped from taking photos in a public place? None!

This example of thoughtless and inappropriate stop and search of a photographer taking pictures of a soap opera actress in a public place is completely unnecessary and just confirms that in many cases, officials themselves haven’t got a clue.

Why does this ridiculous and paranoid suspicion carry on? Come on people. Get a grip!

See the story here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7351252.stm

The excuse is often that the officers or officials involved in wrongful accusations of this sort are inexperienced. Well that is NO excuse. If I broke the law then I wouldn’t be allowed to claim ignorance of the law to get away with it. And certainly a law enforcement officer shouldn’t be able to make that claim when trying to explain why he wrongfully stopped and search someone. Can you believe he actually asked the question;

‘Have you got a licence for that camera?’.

‘Key’ Words to Selling Images

PJ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:14:29 +0000

Wouldn’t be great if the sites selling our images told you what keywords were used to locate the images you sold? With that sort of information, you could streamline your keywords and ensure that only the most efficient keywords were used thus ensuring maximum exposure for your images. That sort of information would give you an insight into the way real buyers find images.

Well there is at least one site Dreamstime that reveals this information and it is proving to be very helpful when deciding on keywords for images. Well in most cases it is….

Look at this illustrated image of a solar eclipse.

Let’s say you wanted to buy this to use in a project. What keywords would you use to locate an image like this? Well, maybe you would start simple with ‘illustration’, ’solar’ and ‘eclipse’.

WRONG!

The actual keywords used to find the image of the solar eclipse were…….. ‘flight’ and ‘geese’. Hmmmm…..

OK, that could be just a one off. Let me think now. I need an image to suggest a good idea. How about a lightbulb or even better, two lightbulbs, yes that would work, it suggests sharing ideas. Start simple and I’ll use the keywords ‘two’ and ‘lightbulbs’ and see what happens.

Success! But apparently, the keywords actually used by someone to find and buy this image were ‘art’ and ‘easter’.

OK how about this image.

Keywords used: Blindfold

Or this one

Keywords used: Strawberry

Or this one

Keywords used: Handshake

Well it seems this keyword thing is a little bit trickier than one would first imagine. I’m just not thinking like a buyer would. It seems the buyers start out looking for one thing and then get sidetracked in to something completely different. I think I’ll just stick my usual approach of keywording for now.