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Early morning dog walk
Misty morning in Brockhill, Redditch
Frosty Parklands
At the moment we are experiencing some pretty chilly weather here in the uk and so I wasn’t too surprised when I received an email from one of the stock libraries I contribute content to requesting more weather pictures. Grabbing some nice warm clothes and my gear I set out to top up my portfolio. While I was out shooting the stock images I shot some more images for my fine art portfolio.
To visit the frost images I shot for stock follow the link to my images on Alamy
How to add pictures to a post in the Alamy forum
There seems to be a few people that are struggling to add photos to the forum. I hope they find this helpful!
When you hit the ‘post a reply’ button you get the following screen:
If you press the add picture button. Up pops the following HTML:
It can be quite confusing what to do with this so I hope I can make it easy! All you need to do (see below) is pop in the image address, for example, open your alamy image and right click on it. Select ‘copy image address’
Nb. I know this is safari (Mac) based but hopefully someone can add a comment for internet explorer.
Once this is copied to your clipboard all you need to do is paste it in-between the code brackets.
If I write TEXT above and below the code:
And then hit preview you can see how it will appear in your post:
I hope someone finds this post useful! You can add any image on the web this way by copying the image address or url, even from your own website or portfolio.
Never the right time, gear, light or place but never say no!
One of the things I have some across as a travelling photographer is that as soon as people find out your a photographer they would love it if you could just take some photos of this and that.
My reaction to this has always been to cringe, my mind racing to the gear I don’t have, the poor light or a million other excuses. This is all part of why people need a professional photographer to take their images for them and why we always get better results.
This precise scenario arose recently with a friend wanting some images of the great food produced by their kitchens to promote their restaurant. Food photography is well known as quite a difficult area of photography to get right.
The gear I had was just my SLR and flash gun. Not the ideal setup and with the images to be shot in the kitchens themselves, during a busy food service just before the food went out to the diners, the pressure was going to be on!
Overall I was really pleased with the images I produced, especially as I had no time for prep and considering that in a normal commercial arrangement I would have insisted on completely different conditions for the shoot.
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- Why is food photography so expensive? (foodservicewarehouse.com)
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