Ray D'Arcy Photography Thing

Enygma · 23-09-2005 1:05pm #1

This was only described to me second hand so I don't know the details but it's something like this:
Ray D'Arcy is asking people around Ireland to send in photographs taken on October 1st to be published in a book. Something like A Day in Ireland or something.
It's for amatuer photographers and even cameraphone pictures will be accepted.

Sounds interesting, does anyone have any more details on this?

rymus · 23-09-2005 1:16pm

yes it sounds interesting, no id say you have all the details there pretty much.. I'm not too gone on the idea of them accepting cameraphone pics... I would have thought that they'd produce some kind of high quality book and not have thousands of people sending in cameraphone pics of their cats and themselves out in the pub the previous night.

But then again, I'm a photosnob.

Shrimp · 23-09-2005 1:55pm

Some sort of link would be helpful maybe............?

Enygma · 23-09-2005 2:05pm

Couldn't find anything on the TodayFM website about it. They're never the quickest to update things though.
It's a clever marketing trick really. Anyone who's photograph is in it is almost guaranteed to buy at least one copy.

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I'm sure they won't publish too many crappy camera phone pictures. If they do they'll have to be fairly small anyway.
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Monkey · 23-09-2005 7:41pm

There is a book on this theme by Professional photographers - it's a week not a day though. they did a day in London before this and decided a week would be better for Ireland.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712695184/qid=1127504394/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl/026-4833746-5139657

This was in 1985 though

rymus · 24-09-2005 10:59am

on the same topic.. I have a copy of "A day in the life of America" which is pretty amazing. I think that was done sometime in the mid 80's aswell.

Shrimp · 24-09-2005 2:27pm

seeing as we are talking about photogrpahy books, I have one.. "The Times: Photography in War" or of the similar title, it's a very good book, all about war photogrpahy in wars past.

Rabies · 24-09-2005 2:39pm

the website will be up some time next week. all entries are to be sent on the 1st of oct. prints can be sent up to a short time after. They hope to have the book in the shops by christmas.

joolsveer · 24-09-2005 2:53pm

Anyone know how copyright on your photo works on these books?

Karoma · 24-09-2005 6:25pm

At a guess: 'all your photo are belong to them'
Or at least publishing rights - theirs. Intellectual property - yours. (i.e. They print and reproduce however pleases them and they give you a pat on the back for the trouble)
I'm sure full T&C will published..

Shrimp · 24-09-2005 7:25pm

Yeah ,Karoma is right. Same as designing a web page, u made the page and you can say it's your work, but it's their possession.

FX Meister · 25-09-2005 2:00pm

All profits are going to charity so don't begrudge them your work which probably wouldn't be published otherwise. Meteor are sponsoring the printing of the book. They said the plan was to have some pages with lots of smaller pictures from the camera phones and larger pictures from proper cameras. There was a book done like this before with pictures all from one day, I looked through it last month but it was published about ten years ago or so. Again it was for charity but I can't remember which one. Gay Byrne did the foreword.

JackKelly · 25-09-2005 4:02pm

Great idea IMO. I like those kinds of pictures, "in the day of".It would be nice to be published. Still no linky?

Flipflip · 25-09-2005 10:03pm

That sounds ****ing deadly.

I cant wait to see how it turns out.

Shrimp · 26-09-2005 7:46pm

Can someone tell me where I can get info on this, as I wanna send some photos to it.

FX Meister · 26-09-2005 7:52pm

For now all you can do is listen to the radio show, 9am - 12pm I think.

joolsveer · 26-09-2005 9:12pm

FX Meister wrote:

All profits are going to charity so don't begrudge them your work which probably wouldn't be published otherwise.

Have the terms and conditions been published? Have you a link please?

Shrimp · 26-09-2005 10:31pm

I'm in school during that time. Maybe I'll give them a call..

KoNiT · 28-09-2005 11:26am

Why not do a day in the life of boards members?

3 pic's each ? (morning, aft & evening?)

Sully · 28-09-2005 11:42am

Tis true cause I heard it on the radio last night.

You man, Jay is it? And his bitch? The two that are on Today FM every night - great laugh they are. Well they said it alright and mentioned to send in dirty pics too (joking obviously)..

Twas funny

danniemcq · 29-09-2005 1:50pm

KoNiT wrote:

Why not do a day in the life of boards members?

3 pic's each ? (morning, aft & evening?)

So hungover drinking and drunk photos aplenty!

Enygma · 29-09-2005 2:07pm

There was some info on http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer about it earlier but it's down at the moment.

LB6 · 30-09-2005 8:21am

Ray D'Arcy was on this am.

Photos can be sent to

us at todayfm.com

rymus · 30-09-2005 12:54pm

almost makes me wish I'd set the date on my camera every day to oct 1st... I'd have such a wide variety of images to choose from. Instead I'll have to boot around like a hoore tomorrow taking hundreds of shots. Curse this honesty thing, curse it to hell.

Karoma · 30-09-2005 1:21pm

linky: http://www.todayfm.com/Article.asp?id=121772

Ray D'Arcy Photography Thing

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