Mark Baigent

It would be interesting to see where you got that :-)

Thanks David, that is an idea.

Thanks Jill, the Lenovo range looks good. I guess my next question will be about monitors :-)

Hi all I need to upgrade my steam driven PC to something that can cope with modern photoshop/lightroom. A desktop system. I have a budget of £1,700 to £2,000, Any suggestions for an off the shelf system? Not Mac.

You are competing with billions of stock photos available on line, standing out in that lot is tough. It is the nature of the industry now that there is not many people making a lot of money. IMHO

That is amazing!!

Thank all, then all I have to do is re-keyword and caption what is left, sigh

Now that makes sense, that is what I will do, ta muchly

Ta both

I have been away from stock photography for ages and I have just dropped in to review my images, I got a bit of a shock. I have so many crap images so time to delete a load of them. Maybe losing the rubbish will give the better images a better chance?

I carry a couple of copies of the Photographer guideline by the Association of Assistant chief constables https://www.theiac.org.uk/resourcesnew/filming-in-public/ACPO_Guidance_PhotographsPublicPlaces.pdf

like who Martin, news is not an area I know anything about.

The camera is not the issue, you need to look at images in adverts, magazines etc and shoot what people want to buy. Try picking a theme such as "bullied, bully, bullying" then make images that show that subject. We have all gone through the stage where we shoot what we want to rather than what is wanted. Research the market. Good luck

Pretend that you are a professional and do not upload duff images, if the duff images reach clients it affects the reputation of Alamy and all of us photographers. I remember when the ban was 30 days.

OK, done it.