tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28422084633788361722011-07-30T18:14:02.943+01:00SPB Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02834650435373564869noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842208463378836172.post-20450573668467467152010-03-26T12:31:00.001Z2010-03-26T12:33:11.279Z

There is some further reading regarding the DEB on the Copyright Action website. Please take the time to read through.S

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Fellow photographer Tim Gander has written an excellent piece on his blog about orphan works and the Digital Economy Bill. Its very much to the point and quickly gives you an insight into the issues. It is worth a read.You can find out more about Clause 43 at www.stop43.org.uk

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You may or may not have heard of the Digital Economy Bill.  It introduces powers that will enable your Internet connection to be cut if you're caught illegally downloading films, music or software, but It does more than that. It takes your photographs from you, too. Until now, if someone found one of your photographs and wanted to use it commercially, they couldn't without first asking you.

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After a lot of procrastinating, I decided to create a separate blog for the Round The World flight. I thought about posting it all here, but in the end, the flight will be a separate event and deserves a bit more than just a post on here. I opted for a Wordpress blog, which will allow me to add HTML pages and include a simple gallery of images. I will be posting a lot of the images on to my

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While the UK is having snow, I'm sat in Spain editing some photos and also trying to the Pilots Operating Handbook for the Bonanza I hope to complete the Round The World flight in July this year with my friend. Not having flown one of the big Bonanza's very much, the trip down to Spain and some flying time while here will give me chance to get used to the "feel" of the aircraft and get some

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I have been asked by a new model, via email, about how she can control where photos of her that were taken recently appear. Its a difficult one to answer, with no easy way to do it, but starting with the correct Model Release from the photographer and having the agreed usage in writing on the release beforehand will go a long way to controlling the situation.... you can see the full answer at

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I have often seen postings on photographers forums asking the question “What generators are OK to power my lights on location?” There have always been a range of answers from “you can use any generator” to “you can only use battery packs”I thought I’d write this post so that I can collect all the information into one place about the subject and make it easy in future for me to be able to post a

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Last night I was looking at some photos of my Nephew’s wedding. I was thinking about the composition, lighting, where the shadows fell and overall “feel” of the photos. I started to then think “I would have done so-and-so for this shot” or “that needed a reflector placed here”. I guess I was trying to re-shoot each photo in my head. I started to think that I would have done better for most of the

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Well after a couple of frustrating days trying to sort out a potential problem with my American Pilots licence... more of that later, I have managed to customise the two "Error 404 - Page Not Found" pages for my websites. I hope you will never ever see these, but just in case, I have generated them and included a Google search bar for each site. It was quite easy really, just tweak an existing

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After my jubilation in the early hours of the morning of finally getting the updates uploaded for my website, I sent off a couple of emails to friends saying "have a look" I got a couple of comments back saying they could not see the logo and the text was overlapping on one of the menus. Hmm...Sorting the text out was easy enough, a missing statement in the CSS, but the logo.. that had me stumped

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Well it doesn't seem that long ago I started this blog to go along with my new website. Well, it was 23 November 08 my first post and it only seems like last week. After two days of learning how to write CSS scripts and after learning from my mistakes of last week rewriting Spotlight-Party.co.uk using a great template I found on the web (see my previous blog) I discovered that I needed to

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Well after a marathon evening of using dreamweaver, I have updated one of my other websites spotlight-party.co.ukI have wanted to do this for the last few months, but I was struggling to find a "look" for the new site and yesterday I started trawling through the free html template web sites, not looking for a template, but for ideas. After a couple of hours, I came across one designed by a guy in

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A few weeks ago I was asked a couple of questions by someone embarking on her first steps into modeling. I replied to her questions and she thanked me. A couple of days ago, she emailed me again, all excited as she had just got her first studio shoot. Well the next question was inevitable... "What happens in a photo shoot" I expected this, it's one of the more frequent questions photographers are

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Happy New Year to everyone.I have spent the last day or so getting to grips with Flickr. In the past I have used the more traditional photo agencies to "library" my images so that they are searchable and available as 'stock'. Over the last couple of months, some of these agencies have either ceased trading because of the economic climate, fallen victim to buy-outs by other agencies or just plain

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I guess like me, you are in the lull between Christmas and New Year. I have spent a couple of days archiving my 2008 images to a backup drive... all 4.2 Terabytes of them and doing a bit of housework on my Mac's ready for 2009. IN the process, I discovered a few photos I had forgotten about as they were taken for personal reasons not commercial so were not stored in my main photo library, and I

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North West Makeup Artist Jane-Louise has done a section for my web site on some of the basics of makeup for models. When you are starting out and building your portfolio, it is not always possible to book your own makeup artist for each shoot. Sometimes if you are lucky, the photographer will have already have a working relationship with a makeup artist and occasionally, the MUA will want to

SPB Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02834650435373564869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842208463378836172.post-13720304906462890842008-12-23T10:32:00.005Z2008-12-23T10:52:44.220Z

I have now started to post some of the questions that I have been asked by email about modeling. Quite a few have asked specific questions, that it would not be suitable to answer on the web page, so I have taken the liberty of "generalising" them for the web and in some cases, combining questions from several people in to one slightly more generic question. A couple of people, I have answered

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I thought long and hard about adding a list of links to my page about modeling agency's that have websites for new and existing models to upload their portfolio's for all the world to see. I have always advised caution when doing this as sometimes, some of the agency's are not much more than glorified dating sites or places the GWC's trawl.After a bit of thought, I decided to add a dozen or so,

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Well, the title is not quite right but "Posing for a Model" didn't seem right either! As promised a few days ago, I have started to add some posing do's and dont's for models and a few hand tips and things to think about. I thought it would be easy throwing together a bunch of words together so it would be a nice easy read about posing and largely devoid of illustrations. I decided to stay away

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I traveled a couple of hours north yesterday to Cumbria, to work with a new model. It was Francesca's first time in a pro shoot and despite her being nervous, she settled into it quite easily. Normally, I would discount the first hours images while the model settles down and get used to working with someone she has never met before and goes through the steep learning curve of picking up on the

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I was arranging a shoot the other day with a new model and I happened to say in an email that i would forward on a copy of my Model Release for her to look at before the shoot. I got an email back asking about the release and where the photos would be used. I replied to her email, but it got me thinking, there are a lot of models, some that are embarking on their first shoot and some that may

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Well, it's been a couple of days or so since my last post. I have been checking on the Google Webmaster and Analytics reports and the site has now been indexed by Google.. their "bots" have combed through the site and done what they have to.  If I Google "Simon P Barlow" i now come up on the first page with half a dozen entries at the top of the list and "SPB Photography" also brings a couple of

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Well, all seems to be well with the web site so far, and I am pleased to say, I seem to be generating some hits already.Being a professional photographer, I, and I guess a lot of my fellow "Togs" are often asked about models and modeling. "How do I get started?" and  "Do you think I could become a model?" are among the early questions. In an attempt to help someone who was asking far more than

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After a couple more cups of coffee, and some nifty keyboard work on the Google Webmaster and Analytical sites, I have finished embedding the Google code into the website. So, I can sit back, and let the Google Bots trawl through the site and start collecting their data. For anyone with a website, I would recommend these two tools, they are free, easy to use... heck if you can set up a web site,

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OK, I am finally there. After some faffing about, and it just goes to show you shouldn't work all day then start playing about with technology at midnight. This morning, I decided to have another look at my account settings with the hosting company, and "ding" the lightbulb above the head moment.... I had missed not changing something in the settings. 20 minuets later, I had uploaded the site and

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After 24 hours of waiting for a support ticket to be resolved by the hosting company, I thought I was all set to go. I can log in to my domain, twiddle about with bits of it via the hosting companies interface.... but can I set the ftp password... No.So, most of the structure of the site complete, tested all the links, all I need to do now is upload it, add it to my Google Analytics account that

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So, what's next? I guess putting something in it may be useful, but, as I am still working on the new web site, where this will appear, will anyone see it? And further more, will anyone care?I have read a few blogs in my time, and been amused at some, learnt new things in others..... and thought " what the.... what was this guy on at the time!" I hope I turn this into the former two, not the

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