Simon

Plus one of mine just under Simons .. doing the double in the weather section again with Mr Dack

Hi Bryan, if it’s still not working in the new year I’m more than happy to remotely have a look for you, in return for all the pix of mine you’ve found online. I do this stuff on a daily basis almost. regards Simon

Nice to report that total sales have just gone up another multiple of $1000 by a picture of orange tulips from 8 ish years ago. ( although a miserly $9 sale ) Been a reasonable December ( thanks to a $$$ historic Dawn French pic, TV use). On the whole a poor year compared with previously, mainly I think down to me not getting enough pictures in and the declining prices. Suitably enthused to pull my finger out now. Have a great new year everyone, and see you on the other side !

I did get a free subscription with my local library to Pressreader, which used to give online scanned versions of many papers, including Mirror, Telegraph, but not the Times. Now though the pages are greyed out, but just about good enough to spot any pictures.. a lot of my sales are random weather pictures - with people swimming in the sea etc. I mostprobably get around a 20% success rate on trips out / a sale, and rarely check to see if they make it online or into print, one has to wonder how many slipped through the net.

Thanks Bryan, I'd missed that one 🙂

Can't say I've heard of this before, it does sound shocking ! .. I have filed in the past with other agencies who primarily do "live news" kind of pictures, rather than stock. One advantage of filing with those guys is that they scan most of the papers daily and clock any print uses straight away in the mainstream publications. I'm sure as that is their major source of income that they aint going to let it slip. The disadvantage is that pictures don't then fall into stock, and produce sales down the line. I will definitely be speaking with my contacts in the live news team in the new year to get clarification on this.

Hi Nick, are you signed up with Alamy live news ? - if you are then they do a pretty good job nowadays of helping with accreditation for events, obviously pre the event.

I had a bunch of ISO4800 ( or thereabouts ) from my X-T5. The Fuji JPGs did a reasonable job of denoising, but the result was a bit blurry. The LR de-noise on the raws was much better, and that vast majority of the pictures were useable. I've got a high spec Dell XPS laptop, and it take about 10 seconds ( and thats for a high mpixel count ). One useful trick I eventually realised, after sitting there waiting for the de-noise to finish, and then move onto the next picture, is to put all the pictures you want to de-noise into a collection. Then just highlight all the pictures, hit de-noise then go out and do something else, and let the PC chunder away for an hour.

Got to say I find Lightroom a great piece of software, rarely need to go into Photoshop other than for more complicated object removal. The new features with subject detection etc are really good, and the AI de-noise is amazing. It makes for a quick workflow especially on weddings.

Low $$$ unexpected TV use from a picture taken quite a few years ago, 5 minutes from my doorstep 🙂

I tried it briefly, it was a nightmare to get anything uploaded and approved, seemed to be one guy doing it - so deemed to be a waste of money and I cancelled it.

Just had an unexpected $$$ sale show up for one of my live news weather pics to a museum of all places ..not sure where / why etc, but very welcome.

I kind of assume, but would love to be corrected, that it means even more competition for news images, and therefore a lower probability of us selling news pictures, unless we go really niche ?

My sales volume was up on the previous 2 years ( no surprise there ), but for less uploads. Revenue kept pace just about with the sales, Average price per sale $28.30 Zooms dissapeared over the last few months virtually. However, reading through the above leaves me feeling quite positive, and definitely going to upload more this year as last year I was sidetracked.

Thanks for the spot Nigel