I doubt a salary structure would work, as Ilovesaabs says I doubt the pay would reflect a reasonable annual income and as you mention the copyright would likely be retained by the club. Also it restricts you from other activities, you may find the experience leads to other photographic opportunities in other sporting events for instance. An annual retainer might be the way to go with attendance to a defined number of matches and events, plus a charge for other work. There are organisations for professional photographers who may be able to advise: link link

Good luck!

That sounds a unanimous vote for the natural look. MrB, the stone isn’t in its original place, it was uncovered from behind panelling where it had been re-used and is now sitting on a shelf against a plaster wall and held in place by steel straps, hence my idea to hide all that and isolate it.

Swarf, nice examples are spread pretty thin but I was interested to see how similar the motifs are to Celtic and Norse art; at a time of conflict between regions before unification as well as battling the Vikings yet they seem to share a common artistic style rooted in pre-Christian beliefs. It is hard to believe now but 1000 years ago England was mostly forest with settlements in clearings and rivers forming the main trade and invasion routes - a temperate version of the Amazon and Borneo today. The forest was a source of food and materials but also of unknown terrors populated by mythical beasts so it is no wonder it figured so large in stories (Gawain and the Green Knight) and as a source of artistic inspiration. When looking at objects like this I like to imagine the man wielding the chisel and mallet and feel the 1000 year gulf evaporate.

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Thanks Aitch53 I am beginning to think the same. I have tweaked the exposure a bit and refined the edges where I blacked out the background:


This upload has taken away some of the sharpness in the original:link

In a small unused church near me is a superb example of Anglo-Saxon carving which I photographed conventionally using pixel shift. Being of soft oolitic limestone the original crispness has gone but you can still make out scales on the dragon etc. so I decided to post process to try and bring out as much of the original detail as possible; rather than black/white I tried a green caste to reflect the arboreal nature of this type of art - think of the green man and so on. Do you think it works? I am thinking of doing a series based on surviving examples where the style has persisted in small rural communities long after the Norman Conquest and the spread of Christianity.



Or do you prefer the original colouring?

I was photographing a derelict church this morning when a strange rustling noise came from a dark corner, whatever it was didn’t show itself and I didn’t poke around to find out!

Try this? link

Hi Gareth is this better? link

Idly scrolling through Phoblographer’ s latest feed it listed the ten best cameras available today based on DXOMark’s ratings, and placed the Pentax 645Z second behind a Hasselblad. Pretty extraordinary for a camera that hasn’t been updated for years. Typically though it featured a photo of a Sony in the headline despite them being some way down the list.

Thanks Gareth I think you are right, I have got more space on the left but I wanted to keep the path on the right intact and the cropping was very long and thin, but there is scope to move everything slightly. However over on Flickr it went crazy after being picked for Explore with 4.3K views so I can’t change it there.