[KenCo]

Police and fire crew were at the scene of a fire at around 5am yesterday, although I didn't know anything about it until 7:30am but quickly went back home for my camera and back on the scene by 7:45am. According to the police I was the first photographer there but too late for the flames protruding through the roof shots. I did think this was a chance to get some shots emailed to the local newspapers, something I've never done before......but ended up staying longer trying for other shots.
A while later another photog arrived and then the BBC neither stayed very long unlike myself who got chatting to a copper about photography and then it was 11:30am....... I shot nearly 2 gig raw and weeded a couple of shots out, processed the first creating an action for the rest....While they are batch processed, I searched for Garry s article regarding submitting to newspapers and the web for our local rags, phoned the editors who suggested I send them in as they were unsure if they had a photographer there. I emailed 10 shots At around 1.5 - 2 meg after completing all my details in the exif as Garry sugested at about 12:30pm. Sadly, none of my pics have been used but with the editor asking for them I was quite hopeful. If there is a next time I hope to post them off sooner!
All these images have been processed from the same action I created only using small amount of levels and contrast + sharpen, resized for 1.5 - 2meg jpgs and then resized again for here at quality 4 to keep file size down...so there may be some issues with quality in these.
This First shot is one of the ten I emailed.....the rest are what I got while hanging around.











A link to the pic that did make it The Chronicle.
Any more tips and thoughts to share for the next time Garry?
TFL.
Ken.

[Charlotte]

These are outstanding shots Ken I'm VERY surprised none were used

#1 I'd crop off the very top distracting bit above the 'decades' board, + #4 I'd crop off the bottom blurred FG.

They really are top notch, + great additions to your portfolio, well done

[KenCo]

Thanks Charlotte, Yeah I didn't do any cropping or rotating as yet and will spend a little more time on sorting through and processing later. It was very hard to pick just 5 out of the ones I did batch convert to upload to the gallery as per daily quota...but I am pleased you like.
Thanks again.
Ken.

[P-E]

Nice clean shots Ken

Shame about not getting any used in the papers ......better luck next time