Phil Robinson

But you can control dynamic range and noise. You can very easily change the ISO by changing the shutter speed or aperture - which, as I said, are a lot quicker to change than ISO on most cameras. The two variables that have most effect on the final image are shutter and f-number. I'd rather have an image with less than perfect dynamic range or a bit of noise than one that's blurred or out of focus.

I find auto ISO very useful and use it nearly all the time. Unless you use you camera in full manual mode, it is always going to make one decision for you, either ISO, shutter speed or aperture. I nearly always use manual exposure mode but auto ISO so I have full control over aperture and shutter speed, and if I can see the ISO going beyond where I want I can easily change the shutter or f number. I think on most cameras they are the easiest and quickest things to adjust - on my cameras certainly changing the ISO is the fiddliest.

I had the same last month, but from a charity. They were sent a huge bill and I contacted Alamy who reduced the amount as a 'gesture of good will'. I still get a decent sum and the charity were grateful. I'll just count it as my charitable donations for a year (or two).

I think they sum up his day quite well.

Hmm, if you have to email them to tell them the captions have been butchered, I would say that rather proves the opposite.

I did a pic search for 'Naples cathedral saint book' and it came up with another Alamy pic 2T9WWJR - with the name visible underneath (even though the photographer didn't think to put that in the caption!)

and your point is...?

I think the top row says something like "canons (so priests) buried in this place". Any Latin scholars on the forum? C - Giovanna Antida Thouret, French saint 1765-1826. The bloke behind looks like he might be Francis of Assisi (and might not). You can usually identify saints by what they are holding but I'm not sure what that is in his right hand

You must have been standing next to me!

I hope you don't mean me. I was responding to the original idea of the post - AI keywording may be coming soon to Alamy. My comments weren't aimed at you. I saw this topic pop up and hadn't seen it before (I don't come here much) and read some posts at the beginning. I was just expressing the hope that AI keywording wouldn't become the norm and photographers wouldn't be relying on it to do the work for them, as in my experience it's even less reliable than Google Translate.

One of Alamy's greatest strengths, in my opinion, is its ranking system based on the relevance and accuracy of keywording. Other sites I contribute to (video only, I'm exclusive to Alamy for stills) have AI systems for keywording and the results vary from quite useful to hilariously ludicrous. Some examples can be seen on Alamy - pics that have very obviously been sent to another site and have had keywords added with no thought by the photographer and copied over to here. Keywording is as much of a skill as taking a photograph. Far too many people don't realise that - and I suspect they may be the same ones who constantly complain about a lack of sales.

Toady's handy hint for all News contributors: Date your news pics 2025 instead of 2024 and they will stay at the top of the news feed for 12 months!

Worst month for some time. Luckily I sold a few videos elsewhere.

Maidstone is currently full of Seans the Sheep. We had Elmer a few years ago.

I've been trying something new this week