My images on ALAMY.COM

Whenever I can find a spare half hour, I have a look to see if I can find some more images to upload to www.alamy.com

Alamy is an online sales portal (stock library). Pete Jenkins has given quite a few talks, at Calumet branches, on being successful with Alamy. So I've picked up quite a few tips from him.

As Pete pointed out, it would be a good strategy to have a goal - add say 50 extra images a week, or a month, if time is tight. Steadily, you'll build up a collection that should start to earn some money.
Here's my current collection

Vignette Effects in Adobe Photoshop

I came across this tutorial on www.dphotojournal.com and thought I would share it. I use similar methods, myself, sometimes. Although I also use the excellent vignette options in Adobe Lightroom 2.

I tend to like to see a vignette added to a lot of my images, although I tend to keep it subtle, so that it is not always obvious. Adding a vignette can help emphasise key parts of the photograph. I do feel that photographers should use areas of lights and darks to lead the eye around the image.

http://www.dphotojournal.com/vignette-effects-in-adobe-photoshop/

John & Kate's wedding at Thrumpton Hall is now online

Guests, family, and friends of John and Kate can now view the photos of their wedding online.
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/jasonbatterhamphotography

Wedding: Margaret & Paul

Just a quick pic from Margaret & Paul's wedding. I like the quietness of this picture, and the emotion....deep in thought?

Kate & John's wedding at Thrumpton Hall, Nottinghamshire

I had the pleasure of photographing Kate and John's wedding at Thrumpton Hall - which is an idyllic spot in Nottinghamshire.

Myself and an assistant covered the whole day's proceedings, from 9am to 9pm, and captured many, many images. In fact, editing them down to a manageable number for Kate and John to see, has been the hardest part.

Kate and John have already seen a rough edit of about 1300 images ! I am in the process of editing further, with the aim to come back to them with about 800 images, after receiving feedback from them as to which areas of the day they want to see the most extensive coverage.

I adore doing weddings like this one. Great venue, great looking couple, natural in front of the camera.

The shoot was done using Canon EOS 5D MK2's - by God they are amazing for low light photography. I was able to photograph, during the ceremony without flash, causing none of the disturbance that would normally be caused.

All images are being edited in Lightroom. The effects, you see here, are my own presets.

A large selection of images will be chosen to go probably into a Graphi Studio album, telling the story of the day.

Robert's portrait shoot

Robert commissioned some photographs of himself, with a view to having images that have a bit of an 'edge', some mood, and maybe a little mean !

Here's a selection.

I used my favourite lens - Canon's 50mm F1.2, used wide open for all images. The best images were selected, and then processed in Adobe Lightroom.

I used my own Lightroom presets as a starting point, and then took them further, from there.

Enjoy!

Hasselblad H3D

Been out, today, for a test shoot using the Hasselblad H3D. Fantastic quality images !