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- BLOG 14 July 2021 – YourPortfolio – New Portfolio Hosting Site
Where do you publish your photos online? On your website? Twitter? Instagram? Flickr?Well, there is another player in the game – and this one looks interesting: “YourPortfolio“. If the style and layout looks familiar it is from the team that created “modelfolio” (the model/photographer site formally called Mad Cow Models) and “AdultFolio” (which caters for those shooting glamour, nude and adult level images).
The reason I think “YourPortfolio” is interesting is that it combines some of the best features of model/photographer websites in a site that is for general photography. This means you can showcase your images get feedback enter competitions and join in a discussion forum. Unlike some platforms like Instagram the uploading of nude images is permitted (providing they are appropriately tagged). The site also has limited options for selling collections of images to prospective buyers.
It is early days and it is a little quiet at the moment, but why not pop over and take a look. Here’s my profile for example: https://yourportfol.io/ianbutty?referid=69195 – It doesn’t cost anything to join. There are paid options if want to upload more than 100 images.
(Please note, I have no affiliation with any of these sites, and I have not received any payment or reward in return for this review – I’ve written it simply because I think it might be of interest to those who follow my blogs).
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- POTD 12 Nov 2020: Lockdown20/8 – Doctor Who Magazine, Issue #1
Doctor Who Weekly – Issue #1
Doctor Who Weekly – Issue #1 (Image Reference: 20201112A-G0602)
Issue #558 of Doctor Who Magazine should have arrived in my letterbox today. It didn’t. So that spoilt my idea for today’s photo.
So instead I decided to do a little bit of time travelling myself and dig out my copy of the very first edition of the magazine (then called Doctor Who Weekly) from 17 October 1979. I can vividly remember going into Manchester after school to buy it.
The addition of the model Dalek in the image was an attempt to make the photograph look more interesting.
Settings: 1/40s, f/6.3, ISO 6400. Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM @70 mm.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a source of free photographs.
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This photograph is (c) Ian M Butterfield. All rights are reserved. No use is permitted (including non-commercial use) without prior permission. If you wish to use any of my photographs please ask first. - POTD 11 Nov 2020: Lockdown 20/7 – The new toy
DJI Pocket 2
DJI Pocket 2 (Image Reference: 20201111A-G0595)
This arrived in the post today – a new video camera! This should open up a lot of possibilities for training videos and travel videos. As well as BTS video and providing a wide “cover shot” while doing video jobs.
Settings: 1/160s, f/8, ISO 6400. Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM @65 mm.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a source of free photographs.
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This photograph is (c) Ian M Butterfield. All rights are reserved. No use is permitted (including non-commercial use) without prior permission. If you wish to use any of my photographs please ask first.
Stock Sales
For those who are interested in Stock Photography here's some information about some of the strange and not so strange sales that I have made.- SALE 24 Jul 2020: Goodbye Marco Polo – FIRST SaleContinue reading →
Deck party on the MV Marco Polo as it leaves Tortola (Image Reference: FK0312A-G03662)
Date: 12 Mar 2017
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens: 12-24mm @12 mm
Exposure: 1/200s, f/8, ISO 100
Exposure mode: Aperture priority
Metering mode: Pattern
Exposure compensation: -2/3 EVNUMBER OF SALES TO DATE: 1
SOLD VIA: Alamy
LICENCE: Rights ManagedA few days ago the cruise company I have been a guest speaker for went into administration. Then I had a sale on Alamy of this image of the Marco Polo. I think I can guess what the newspaper story is about that it will be illustrating.
Link to image at Alamy: https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=%7B8f3f18b2-aa86-461e-af37-4f21cbbf9092%7D
You can see the other images from this shoot here: http://photos.imb.biz/travel/bvi/tortola/roadtown1703
Sales Info (Newest First)
Country: United Kingdom
Usage: Editorial
Media: Newspaper – national
Print run: up to 500,000
Placement: Inside and online
Image Size: 1/4 page
Start: 18 June 2020
End: 19 June 2020
One use in a single editorial article used within print and /or web versions, with re-use of the article in other titles or web versions within the same newspaper group. Digital use includes archive rights for the lifetime of the article. Any placement in paper and online - SALE 05 June 2019: Russian Dolls – FIRST SaleContinue reading →
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