I've Just had a pic shown on BBC News!

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Does this count as being published? :lol:

Uploaded a pic taken yesterday to the BBC website a couple of hours ago, had a call shortly after asking if I took the photo and that they might show it during a small feature on the BBC news channel! Just before half past nine they showed it along with a couple of others, got a credit too :)

taken at Ropley station in Hants on the Watercress Line (Santa Express) in yesterdays blizzards.

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WOW thats amazing. Well done. Go and pour yourself a very large drink.

Stew
 
Looks like you had about 3 seconds to live unless all is not as it seems :)

You must be thrilled. A great Christmas present.

Graham
 
Congratulations, both for the shot and for the air time!
 
That a very nice wintery shot. Well done on getting on the BBC.

I had a couple on the BBC and some video of a fire locally. It's always nice when they say your name next to your pic.
 
Congratulations. They've just had quite a long piece about the Tornado on BBC Radio 5.
 
Very well done. You should have had your web link (if you have one) on the photo.
 
jerry12953 said:
Didn't you ask for payment? I know its an old chestnut but why give your pictures away?
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Because being able to say "Published by the BBC" on his CV/Website is better than fifty quid in his pocket ;)
 
Nice one, i keep sending in some weather shots to look north but none as of yet.
It must be a great feeling :)
 
well done, lovely shot, must seem wierd ( in a good way )knowing how many people saw your pic!
 
Kaouthia said:
Because being able to say "Published by the BBC" on his CV/Website is better than fifty quid in his pocket ;)
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No it isn't.

Unfortunately being published by the BBC for sending in a photo isn't a big deal at all.

You should never give away photos for free, it damages the industry.

The BBC now have a HUGE library of images that they can use for whatever they want, and they paid nothing for it. It's a joke. The reason there's so little money in press photography is because people give away their stuff for free just for measly credit which means sod all.
 
If a person grants them a perpetual royalty free license at no cost, then sure, that person's an idiot.

A one-off image, if you don't shoot for profit anyway (but might like to some day), for a one-time use, it can look good, and it's "free" advertising. He might have 20 people get hold of him now wanting to license that image or contract him for other stuff after seeing that image on "the beeb" that would've otherwise never heard of him.

Even if photography is your primary source of income, it can also work as the photo equivalent of a "loss leader" with some clients (although probably not the BBC). I've given away the odd image or two before in the past to clients that have then come back and spent a decent bundle of money with me (that they probably wouldn't have otherwise done).

If there's no money in press photography, do something else? The world is constantly evolving, everybody and his brother has a digital camera now, and given that even 1080HD is only 2 megapixels, they aren't going to care about quality. Many "Rights Managed" stock photographers learned this lesson with the advent of online "Microstock" agencies. The world changes, you have to as well.
 
Yes - that counts.
Big Drinks all round - congratulations!
 
MagicMynx said:
Well done it's a beautiful shot, kinda Harry-Potter-like

- and for the not paying thing - guys, surely it's upto the OP whether or not to ask for payment and his decision should be respected? :shrug:
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It is a nice pic, but every time someone gives a picture away, it devalues the worth of every photograph by just one little bit more.
 
Well done - Nice shot and air time as well :clap:
 
8utters said:
No it isn't.

Unfortunately being published by the BBC for sending in a photo isn't a big deal at all.

You should never give away photos for free, it damages the industry.

The BBC now have a HUGE library of images that they can use for whatever they want, and they paid nothing for it. It's a joke. The reason there's so little money in press photography is because people give away their stuff for free just for measly credit which means sod all.
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jerry12953 said:
It is a nice pic, but every time someone gives a picture away, it devalues the worth of every photograph by just one little bit more.
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:agree:
 
awp said:
:agree:
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I'm not in the 'tog business in any way, but I don't disagree with the statements above and I do sympathise.

However it seems pretty irreversible to me, and ultimately if someone wants to give their work away for free that is their choice, and it's only going to happen more and more.

Times are a changing, and ultimately people will have to change with them or sink. People are not going to not post photos for free to stop them being devalued.

Nice photo by the way :thumbs:
 
akr said:
However it seems pretty irreversible to me, and ultimately if someone wants to give their work away for free that is their choice, and it's only going to happen more and more.

Times are a changing, and ultimately people will have to change with them or sink. People are not going to not post photos for free to stop them being devalued.
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:agree:
 
akr said:
I'm not in the 'tog business in any way, but I don't disagree with the statements above and I do sympathise.

However it seems pretty irreversible to me, and ultimately if someone wants to give their work away for free that is their choice, and it's only going to happen more and more.

Times are a changing, and ultimately people will have to change with them or sink. People are not going to not post photos for free to stop them being devalued.

Nice photo by the way :thumbs:
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If you aren't affected by people giving pictures away, it is easy to be complacement, even if you are simpathetic to the action.

Without taking anything away from the photographer in this instance, you can't get away from the damage it does.

"Times are changing....change with them or sink" It is the changing times and flood of "free" pics that will sink the industry.
 
fatphotographer said:
If you aren't affected by people giving pictures away, it is easy to be complacement, even if you are simpathetic to the action.

Without taking anything away from the photographer in this instance, you can't get away from the damage it does.

"Times are changing....change with them or sink" It is the changing times and flood of "free" pics that will sink the industry.
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I agree with you 100%. Unfortunately akr has a point. I don't have the answers to remedy the situation. With everyone and their dog in to photography (so it seems) at the moment, pros are going to have to learn to diversify some how. But please don't ask me how.
 
I pointed that out on the last page too. Whether you agree with the way things are going or not, that's just the way things are going and there's nothing you can do about it.

As long as every idiot and his brother out there has a mobile phone with a camera in it (which is pretty much all of them these days), people are going to be giving away free pics and free video footage (even if the quality is lower than youtube, the old Youtube, before HD and h.264 ;)).

The trick is knowing which companies will pay good money for high quality images (and where to go to market to them), and which won't pay regardless, but will accept crap. Not to say that the image in the OP is crap, it's excellent, but a crappily compressed JPG cellphone image would probably have been shown in its place had he not submitted it.
 
fatphotographer said:
If you aren't affected by people giving pictures away, it is easy to be complacement, even if you are simpathetic to the action.

Without taking anything away from the photographer in this instance, you can't get away from the damage it does.

"Times are changing....change with them or sink" It is the changing times and flood of "free" pics that will sink the industry.
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Hi

I'm not sure if you misunderstood my point.

I am as I said not affected by people who give away their pictures, but I sympathise with those it does affect as I can see the problems it would cause them.

My point was that there is not much you can do about people giving away pictures for free. Ultimately if winning competetion prizes etc by giving away rights to photos etc is all that some people are looking for, they are not going to stop to not hurt the 'industry'. So you have to diversify or market your images in a different way.

Apologies if I have been insensitive, just how I see it.

Good luck

Al
 
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