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  • smug content – photography related…
  • grumm
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    I have got really into photography in the last 9 months or so since buying my GF1. I now do some photography work in house as part of my job, but I have been thinking about trying to get some private sales/commissions too but haven’t done a lot about it apart from start making a website.

    But completely out of the blue, I got an email from someone from English Lakes Hotels on flickr saying they had seen my picture, and would like to use it in the new brochure for the Midland Hotel in Morecambe.


    Morecambe Sunsets (17 of 19) by Grum Wynne, on Flickr

    They offered me a stay in one of their hotels in lieu of payment, which I was quite happy with – so me and my girlfriend are getting a luxury lake view room with dinner, bed and breakfast etc at the rather fancy Storrs Hall near Bowness. Sweet!

    They have also said they will bear me in mind for future photography work. Suffice to say I am rather chuffed. 😀

    druidh
    Free Member

    Hey – I got an email from a guy who wants to use a photo of mine for his new beer range. I said that was OK as long as I got paid in free samples.

    Hairychested
    Free Member

    You talented lucky bust’ard!

    donsimon
    Free Member

    Well done, nice pics.

    bassspine
    Free Member

    excellent! It is a good photo, too.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    Good on you fella I am in a trail guide somewhere from a mate who had a similar stroke of luck- enjoy the trip surely on a certainty that night 😉

    grumm
    Free Member

    Cheers folks.

    I should point out, the second pic isn’t mine.

    druidh – that’s a very cool pic – have you done some weird processing to it? Looks like a painting. Or are you taking the piss? 🙂

    finners
    Full Member

    druidh, i love the photo!! may i ask where it is?

    stuartie_c
    Free Member

    Glen Affric, Druidh?

    Nice photo – unusual effect, almost monochrome.

    I had this one published in this year’s Montane catalogue which earned me a t-shirt. Livin’ the dream!

    [EDIT – nice one Grum!]

    Denis99
    Free Member

    Hi Grum

    You deserve it – the photo’s you’ve posted on here are excellent.

    I’ve had a similar request for my speedway photo’s – a few riders have contacted me for use in promotional work.

    I’m trying to work out how I can become more involved in photography as a serious hobby / semi professional work.

    Reading the recent wedding photography posts though – that looks like something I’d want to avoid.

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Awesomeness! 🙂

    grumm
    Free Member

    I had a look at how much it would cost them to buy a similar image for what they wanted on Alamy and it was about £280, so I was a little cheeky – they originally offered me a room, but I asked for a luxury room plus dinner for me and my gf. It would actually cost about £300 (though of course it won’t cost them that much) but I probably would be too stingy to splash out on something like that so it’s quite nice really.

    It remains to be seen whether anyone will pay me actual money for my pictures, but a few more nice treats won’t go amiss either. 🙂

    It seems like the decent bread and butter money is in weddings/cheesy studio portraits but I’m not sure I am up for that really.

    forge197
    Free Member

    Great picture is that taken with th gf1

    jools182
    Free Member

    druidh – is that pic real?

    looks amazing

    grumm
    Free Member

    Great picture is that taken with th gf1

    That one was taken with the G1 and 45-200mm lens – basically the same camera as the GF1 but with a viewfinder and flippy screen (and no video).

    allthepies
    Free Member

    druidh – is that pic real?

    🙄

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    that’s really cool Grum, bet you’re glad you got the cam back!

    i got a very nice cheque for the single use of this for the CTC mag feature on lights

    June 20th by rOcKeTdOgUk, on Flickr

    yetiguy
    Free Member

    Nice work Grum, i am local to you and know the midland well, thats a great shot.

    i am a photographer as well (weddings)

    druidh
    Free Member

    stuartie_c – Member
    Glen Affric, Druidh?

    Aye

    I had this one published in this year’s Montane catalogue which earned me a t-shirt. Livin’ the dream!

    Montane seem to be rather good at this. I got a free Pertex wind-jacket for this one a couple of years back..

    2006-10-15 12-12-35 by druidh_dubh, on Flickr

    As for the Glen Affric photo, it was taken on a lovely spring evening, using Fuji Velvia 50. The slide was scanned, but I’ve tried to keep the colour as accurate as possible.

    stumpy01
    Full Member

    Wow! Congratulations!

    crewlie
    Full Member

    Well done, but having seen the photos you’ve posted I’m not surprised 🙂

    forge197
    Free Member

    Thanks grum I will take a look as in the market for a new camera either long zoom compact or g1 form factor camera just something smaller than a full dslr, and again great pictures all round in this thread

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    Don’t wish to detract from Grum’s fantastic result, and they are great pics.

    BUT

    I have to say, this is one of the loveliest pics I have ever seen on this forum.

    Seriously. That’s stunning. I know photography/art is a very subjective thing, but rarely have I been moved as much by a photo on here (and there have been tens of thousands, if not more). It’s almost like a painting. Simply gorgeous.

    Well done Onion. You deserve to be really proud of that one.

    lodious
    Free Member

    Nice one grum, well done.

    grumm
    Free Member

    Cheers everyone.

    yeti guy – I’ve seen some of your bike porn pics on here – very impressive!

    rocketdogs lights pic is awesome.

    I have to agree about druidh’s pic – despite him trying to steal my glory – pretty amazing 😉

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    No I’m sorry Grum; your stuff is fantastic, and you are genuinely talented. But there’s just something about Onion’s pic, that elevates it above most others, imo. I think you’ll agree; credit where it’s due.

    In fact I’ve just remembered I’ve got a bottle of Innes + Gunn Original in’t fridge, that I’m going to open in honour of that pic.

    Bunnyhop
    Full Member

    Fantastic grum.

    You deserve some luck with the last year being a bit yucky.

    My nephew is now a professional photographer at the age of 22. He started out with some pictures of a local band, who got quite well known. Then another well known band spotted his talent and then he got signed to do some work for NME. He’s just had to move to London to keep up with demand. It’s mostly advertising work now, for example ‘Top Shop’. But he’s met and shot quite a few famous people. It’s well paid, but he knows it may stop tomorrow.
    So keep at it grum, you never know where it may lead.

    Gorgeous photo druidh.

    druidh
    Free Member

    Oops – sorry Grum. TBH, I think your second photo is pretty ordinary, but the top one is superb – the light and reflections are perfect.

    Thanks for the comments on mine. It does make me wonder about going back to shooting “analogue”…..

    Bigger version here

    grumm
    Free Member

    No worries, thanks for the comments 🙂

    The second one isn’t mine btw – that’s just of where I’m going to be staying I pinched off their site. Will try and get some better pics of the hotel and flog them to English Lakes as well. 😛

    Thanks Bunnyhop – that’s good to hear about your nephew – I have to say I was getting a little discouraged recently especially with losing my camera but this has given me a nice boost.

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    Can’t stop looking at Onion’s pic. Beautiful.

    Onion, YGM.

    martinxyz
    Free Member

    druid, did you do the loop counter clockwise from chisolms bridge to get to that point?Did you do it on a bike? I took some pics from that exact spot and they too came out like paintings. its just the area thats so nice. i love the view at the top of that track above the lodge.

    Stoner
    Free Member

    hate to agree with the dwarfy chippy mockney, but thats a great photo there druidh.

    EDIT: thats being unfair, its a stunning image. Maybe there’s something in the slide scan that does it. Ive had great results taking photographs of photographs taken with Ektar 1000.

    reminds me of the film Excalibur.

    and grum thats a top shot too, dont feel churlish over the value of the payment in kind, for them a room costs very little compared to the list price.

    King-ocelot
    Free Member

    Wow Grum and Druid some great photos, Grum yours has great commercial value, let us know when your websites loaded I’d love to take a look. Druids photo would make a great watercolour.

    druidh
    Free Member

    martinxyz – I’ll post what I just emailed to Elfin…

    It was taken on my last ever trip with a (pre-digital) SLR. It had been a very long day out munro-bagging (Sgurr na Lapaich, Mam Sodhail, Beinn Fionnlaidh and Carn Eige and all the Tops out to Tom a Choinnich) and we were just descending to the car. We’d already got some good shots in the morning as we walked up through the cloud layer and all you could see were the very peaks sticking out of the cloud. By the time it came to the walk out, I was pretty done in. However, I looked along Loch Affric and the sun was just setting, casting some lovely shadows on the hillsides opposite. I took a couple of shots at different positions while the sun was “just right” and thought that this one was the best. I think the trees just to the right of centre fill that area quite well. The shrubs and grasses really are that colour in the spring as they have all died back under the snows and they are only just beginning to come alive again. If I’m disappointed in anything, it’s that the sky is a bit “blown out”, but I’ve resisted tampering with it in order to best record it exactly as I saw it.

    (Sorry again grum…)

    grumm
    Free Member

    Maybe I should ask the mods to change the thread title to ‘let’s all suck thread-hijacker druidh’s balls’? 😛
    (only kidding – ’tis a lovely pic)

    I wonder if now I have a good excuse to buy a nice full frame DSLR to go with my GF1? 😉

    nbt
    Full Member

    Druidh, that is simply beautful – almost like a painting. My immediate thought was HDR, but the fact it’s on slide explains a lot of that 🙂

    Nice pics from you too Grum, I really must get round to getting a flickr pro account and doing some proper tagging myself.

    I’m another Montane winner, got a nice pertex for Mrs NBT with this shot

    Boredale Hause singletrack by Notoriously Bad Typist, on Flickr

    Never did see the catalogue to see if it got printed though.

    Stoner
    Free Member

    My immediate thought was HDR, but the fact it’s on slide explains a lot of that

    exactly mine too.

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    Grum; I’m really sorry. I din’t meant to hijack your thread, which was meant to relay your happiness to others. I feel bad now. 🙁

    I can’t help it though. I can’t even explain why I like that pic so much. I just do.

    And look; it’s got me and Stoner in mutual appreciation of something. All we need now is for Ernie and Woppit to come along, and then maybe Peace can reign on Earth after all…. 🙂

    The purpose of art is to provoke an emotional reaction, surely? That pic’s done it for me.

    MrSmith
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    Druids photo would make a great watercolour.

    is that supposed to be a compliment?
    if somebody said that about one of my photographs i would have to ask why they think it needs to be copied by somebody who uses watercolours to elevate it’s worth?

    (lovely image BTW)

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    Nice on grum. 🙂
    When my brother got into this photography lark I half expected it to be another fad, but he seems to be making a go of this one.
    I’m sure he’s had a few published now.
    I do like this one:-


    Strawberry and Cream by DazaT, on Flickr

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