{"id":7770,"date":"2017-10-17T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T16:45:29","slug":"my-london-diary-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=7770","title":{"rendered":"My London Diary 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/12\/16\/061216_d0439.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether to be annoyed or amused  or what to find that my book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.co.uk\/b\/3641938-2006-my-london-diary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 2006: My London Diary,<\/a> published on Blurb in 2012 is now available for &#8216;free&#8217; download from a Russian web site in various formats and has so far apparently been downloaded 21,407 times. Which I think is over 21,000 more than I&#8217;ve actually sold copies to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/02\/11\/060211_d0278.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I do know is that my profit from those downloads comes to exactly zero. This isn&#8217;t the first time that I&#8217;ve found one of my books available in this way and I think a diligent search would reveal more sites making offers of this kind, but its an area of the web that often makes my security software pop up warnings and suggest I get out of there without delay. And I certainly wouldn&#8217;t dream of downloading anything from the particular site, which also demands some kind of membership fee to use its download services.  <\/p>\n<div class='share-on-blog' style='margin: 2px;vertical-align: top; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; color: #000; max-width:300px;padding: 20px;border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; text-align: center; display: block;margin: 5px auto;'>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.co.uk\/bookshare\/app\/index.html?bookId=3641938\" data-bindattr-77=\"77\" target='_blank'><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookshow.blurb.com\/bookshow\/cache\/P5491655\/md\/cover_2.jpeg\" data-bindattr-78=\"78\" alt='' style='max-height:300px; max-width:300px;border:0;zoom: 50%;box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px 1px #999;' \/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='margin: 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='text-decoration: none; font-size: 18px; color: #00c0be; text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 0;'><script id='metamorph-433-start' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script>2006: My London Diary<script id='metamorph-433-end' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<p style='margin: 5px;'>By <a style='text-decoration: none; color: #00c0be; order-bottom: 0;'><script id='metamorph-434-start' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script>Peter Marshall<script id='metamorph-434-end' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>2006: My London Diary costs \u00a36.49 for a legal &#8216;Instant PDF&#8217; download from Blurb, who take about three-quarters of that for themselves but I still get a reasonable payment. Of course even if the 21,407 is an accurate figure I haven&#8217;t actually lost the \u00a335,000 or so that this number of legitimate sales would have provided, as only a very much smaller number if any would have considered a purchase rather than a free download and my real financial loss is most likely in two rather than three figures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/04\/09\/060409_d0461.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006 when I took these pictures, DSLRs were a little more primitive than now, and so was the software for processing RAW files. But the Nikon D200 I was then using &#8211; bought immediately it became available in December 2005 &#8211; was perhaps the first really decent digital camera I owned, a real step up from the D100, particularly so far as the viewfinder was concerned &#8211; and with around twice the file size. Though its 10.2Mp sensor is small by recent standards it was really enough for almost all purposes. A couple of years later I updated to the D300, also a significant advance. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/05\/06\/060506_d0353.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Head and shoulders above other RAW processing software at the time was  Pixmantec&#8217;s Rawshooter image processing software which I used for developing these images. Adobe couldn&#8217;t match it, so in June 2006 they bought it out and slowly used its technology to bring Lightroom up to scratch. For the book I reworked all of the pictures in the latest Lightroom at the time, Lightroom 3.5, but still ended up using many of the Rawshooter files. <\/p>\n<p>There are a few images in the book I&#8217;d do a little differently today, and I would probably also make a slightly different choice of images. But it was tough. My initial selection from the roughly 6000 images I&#8217;d published on the web was around 3000, and I had to cut that down to around 70 for the book, to keep within the 80 page format I wanted to publish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/10\/21\/061021_d0252.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a good cross-section of my work from that year, and I was happy to have a copy of it in one of our major collections &#8211; and they also have a CD with most or all of the 6000 from that year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/05\/20\/060520_d0265.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book is still available on Blurb, though the print version (softcover only) is a little expensive at over \u00a333, and Blurb&#8217;s delivery fee adds a ridiculous amount. I alway recommend the PDF version, but should you want a hardcopy then buy directly from me and save considerably &#8211; I still have a few copies at \u00a325 + \u00a32p\/p &#8211; details are <a href=\"http:\/\/buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/comments.htm#books\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One small satisfaction from that Russian site, apart from knowing that 21407 people have bothered to look at my work, is that the book gets a rating on the site of 8.5\/10 &#8211; which doesn&#8217;t seem bad.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 80px;\" src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/follow?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpeter.marshall.712&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=450&amp;height=80\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small>There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, a <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donation<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated. <\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">My London Diary<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/londonphotographs.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buildings of London<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/river-lea.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/petermarshallphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small>All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/comments.htm\" target=\"_blank\">To order prints or reproduce images<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether to be annoyed or amused or what to find that my book 2006: My London Diary, published on Blurb in 2012 is now available for &#8216;free&#8217; download from a Russian web site in various formats and has so far apparently been downloaded 21,407 times. Which I think is over 21,000 more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=7770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My London Diary 2006<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}