I was contacted recently by the Schmap team when they requested use of a picture I took of RAF Cosford to be included in their online mapping system
Schmap are a mapping service like Google maps, only Google maps focus more on their road mapping technology with the occasional user supplied picture.
Schmap on the other hand are more of a classic mapping service like Streetmap, only they actively seek decent photographs of surrounding areas so people can see what’s nearby in every location possible.
With that, I was contacted by them for one of my pictures to be added into their 9th edition.
The picture I took was from my recent trip to Cosford for the BIPP annual conference. I was a bit surprised they used the picture they did as I had some other ones that I thought were much better/more interesting, but the client often has their own preference.
If you get the chance to visit the RAF museum in Cosford then it is worth the trip. Lots of memorabilia housed in it’s amazing buildings and hangers
Here’s a direct link to Schmap so you can see it’s features: http://www.schmap.com/
To see my image on an iPhone in schmap, click here: http://bit.ly/ixlGL
To visit the series of images I took at RAF Cosford, click here: CallumW BlogPage
Was out on Saturday 27th getting my car serviced at Greenwood Racing when James, the owner, asked if I would take some shots of his car (the ‘pimp wagon’ 🙂 )
I was happy to oblige and below’s a sample of what I sent over to him today.
It wasn’t an easy shot to get as it was a bright afternoon plus there was a lot of clutter around the car (cones, bins etc). I found a better location for the car by a large gravel mound, but James was too tired after a day of playing with his spanners to move the car.
So I had to do the best I could where it was.
I used a couple of bare speedlights I had in the bag in order to separate the car from the background, plus and a little bit of photoshop magic and hey presto 🙂