Hi Lasse, > I don't have any money to pay you.
there would be no question of payment. I intend to shoot some film this weekend to check a lens I exchanged yesterday, and such film has no value to me once I've evaluated the results and I would normally throw it away. The only thing I wouldn't want to do is scan the results. I'd as soon send it to you as drop it in the bin, if you're prepared to scan it, but if your editors prefer to use their own archive footage then that's fine. > (Did you read my post regarding picture trades? :) ) I did. If you'd like me to do this then you can pass a favour on to somebody else at some time. These things work their way back round eventually. > if there is a general view of the building(s) that > most likely is similar to what they must have seen or made an impact > on them - well, that would be fine. > I don't mind at all if it is simply a typical "postcard" overview of a > front side. If there is a way to know what was a front side in 1920, > all the better. St James's Palace is a former medieval leper colony and hasn't changed (architecturally) for hundreds of years. It's still full of untouchables for whom bells toll wherever they go. This is one of the courtyards: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page562.asp This is an old picture of the front: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/architecture/feist/02.html It is cleaner nowadays and the brickwork is very pretty. Soldiers in red jackets and bearskins guard it. It is one of the typical tourist cliche views of London, so a 'postcard' overview is almost unavoidable. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, May 02, 2002, 2:45:06 AM, you wrote: > Bob W. wrote: >> Hi Lasse, >> I'd be happy to try and get a few shots of St. James's Palace this >> weekend for you, weather permitting, if you'd like. Only the > outside, >> of course. Some bloke lives there and he has men with rifles & big > furry >> hats standing outside to keep riff-raff like me away. Do you want > b&w or > Bob, many thanks. > Your offer is great. > However, I may have caused you false expectations. Because there is > this little problem - I don't have any money to pay you. > (Did you read my post regarding picture trades? :) ) > I haven't yet talked to the editors what pictures to use for the > article. This is a local newspaper with a very tight ass... oh dear, > very sorry about that...budget, that is. > They might say that they'd just as well use some (free for them) > pictures from their archives, like portraits of some people involved > or the like. > The only thing I can offer for sure right now is a trade (including > publishing rights) and a byline (if they run the picture)... > There is a chance that they will come up with s o m e money, but I > can't say anything for sure just yet. >> colour, prints or slides? > Well, in case - I was thinking of simply having a (colour) jpeg > picture sent by email, big enough for a newspaper printing size of > maybe 20cm at the long end. > Whether it will be printed in colour or B&W I can't tell and this may > be decided on only on the day they decide to run it. >> Any particular exposure requirements for >> publication? > The basic idea for the picture is simply to give the reader a sense of > the surroundings or settings of that meeting. I don't know what it > looks like, but if there is a general view of the building(s) that > most likely is similar to what they must have seen or made an impact > on them - well, that would be fine. > I don't mind at all if it is simply a typical "postcard" overview of a > front side. If there is a way to know what was a front side in 1920, > all the better. > Not to dark and dusky I'd say. The meetings took place during the day > and it was in June. Dark pictures are always a little trickier to > handle anyway. >> I'd get the film processed and send you the prints & negs or >> slides. I have a newly-acquired lens I want to try out, so this > would >> be a good subject. >> If anybody can get the address of the old Portland Hotel I'll > happily >> photograph whatever is there, too, but I can't for the moment think > of >> a way to trace the address. > An old telephone book maybe? Any of those lying around... :-) >>I'll keep looking though. > Thanks a lot, whatever you learn would be interesting to know. > However, the hotel is not crucial. It would definitely be great, great > fun to spot it though. > Thanks, > Lasse > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
