It's a nice way to make a living, getting paid to do something you really enjoy and I'm sure most photographers feel the same way. They probably also feel the same about the frequent requests that come in asking to use your photographs for free on websites and in other media promising 'great exposure' as the reward - but that's a discussion for another time - and generally expect to get paid. Fair enough, and I'd usually agree, but an exception to that was when I was asked if one of my pictures could be used on Wikipedia.
The picture in question was for the singer Frankie Sandford's Wikipedia page, and features her on stage with the Saturdays. It's not going to create any great revenue fro me, and it's certainly not driving masses of traffic to my website... But sometimes it's just nice to know that out of all the images of a subject out there, (and assuming they hadn't been turned down by everyone else) someone chose yours.
Well not quite murder, but it did get pretty hot in there for a bit as Sophie Ellis-Bextor did her thing. Anyway, no harm done and 2010 comes to a very satisfactory end. Looking forward to 2011 and hoping things continue to grow as they have done over the last 18 months.
Whilst former Spice Girl Mel C. was the perfect subject as she posed for a portrait, you couldn't help thinking she'd been in front of the camera once or twice before. How do you go about taking the picture of one of the most photographed faces of recent times...?
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