Phillip

Nah, I do have a job offer so sorry I have to disappoint you, I won't be leaving.

Tomorrow is Anzac Day in Australia and I took photos' and sadly submitted the images to Alamy of the Ernst Corey Memorial in Cooma. They are sculptures representing trench warfare during WW 1.

Who knows if the images will sell, but they are all part of the Snowy Mountains scheme and Snowy 2.0 is involved in the production of green Hydro electric energy. I also have a number of images of Brumbies that will never be submitted to this site. Brumbies are a contentious issue and I have images of the damage that they have done. Take for example Batlow Rocks, I was in the process of obtaining their indigenous name as well as other areas. No, this site will not see me as I improve as a photographer and my best work. I simply do not trust, for example, if I uploaded 200 images and one failed QC but all were rejected. Next year I had hoped to get a media pass for the Man From Snowy River festival and if I succeed this site will miss out on the images because I am not put in the work to get a kick in the guts because one image is not up to QC.

But to reject 100% of 80 images submitted is bloody stupid

None of the images that were rejected will ever be resubmitted to this site, and when I compare my shots of Talbingo with the ones on this site, mine are much better.

I took shots of Talbingo Dam and they are much better quality than the images on this site I also covered Tantangara Dam and Snowy Hydro 2.0 Ghost Gully camping Ground Bullocks flat horse yards Talbingo township Batlow rocks Blowering Dam spillway and bush fire. I will not be resubmitting these images to this site, they will be posted elsewhere.

I have just had 70 submissions rejected because of one so-called soft focus. Spider webs with the dew hanging off them and the sun making them glitter in a foggy landscape. this was only about 5 images and the rest were landscapes. I am seriously thinking about telling Alamy to take a running jump off the nearest cliff. I had thought about making this my primary site, but no longer if I am going to be treated like crap.

Same here, then people look at me blankly

That I now have, I recently learnt that if I want to take photos in a National park and submit them to stock libraries I needed to obtain a permit and in order to qualify I needed to have public liability insurance. I just spent a week in our High Country learning, my main project was to photograph the Brumbies, but other opportunities also presented themselves. There is a wide variety of different subjects. The images have been submitted and I am waiting for QC.

Finally got time to watch a few of the videos, I took normal and slow-mo as an experiment. The sound at the normal recording rate is awesome. When Photographing the sound becomes secondary and seeing the boat and skiers in action it is astounding how fast they are going.

I have taken way too many images, and learning as I go. This job turned out bigger than I expected.

Those guys would be moving at a snails pace compared to the boats I was shooting. Had shutter speeds of 1/1000 to 1/1250 mostly around F4 Iso was set to auto

Can anyone tell me how to make the images low-resolution? I searched the internet, and all the information was about making low res into high res. I have had a number of people interested in buying images from me. So any advice would be welcome.

Thanks for the tip, as it was my first time and it is playing around to find what works. I definitely need more computing power and much larger memory. I bought an external hard drive as I was running out of USB sticks.

I took around that number over the two days of the event, and I haven't even gotten to the videos yet. I have headed in a direction I didn't expect and my computer and IT skills are currently not up to the task. Someone somewhere suggested the process of drip-feeding the shots over a period of time. I currently do not have my own website and hadn't planned on doing that. So in order for clients to see the images I need to do that in the future. One of the comments made to me was that they found it hard to find photographers willing to shoot water skiers, and an idea ( I am full of them) was if there was a ski racing team who was really interested in getting images, we could perhaps find a mutually beneficial arrangement.