Teach as well as do
Copyrightimage helps people make the most out of their Photography.
From helping the Natural History Museum produce Wildlife Photographer of the year and the BBC with their major wildlife productions to helping individual photographers (both professional and amateur)
With 35 years experience of electronic imaging workflow expertise Im opening the doors to help even more people get the most from their images.
Please be patient as I re-develop the website
Client Story: Julian Lennon
Julian recently published this short video about his photographic retrospective in Venice. I helped Julian by managing the files for both the book and exhibition. Some prints were measured in metres rather than centimetres and the print files required careful work to retain print quality at such large sizes. I backup and manage Julians images via a secure VPN connection and also provide secure links for print files for print partners worldwide. I act as a virtual staff member on Julians team and manage technical / photo queries on his behalf. If you have an important print or exhibition project and would appreciate help in getting the best possible results then please feel free to contact me for an initial chat: stephen@copyrightimage.co.uk
Client Story: Sue Flood
Delighted to hear Sue Flood has been awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours list 2026. I have helped Sue with her imaging workflow for twenty years now. As well as preparing her images to Getty Images standards I ensured her collection of images were catalogued and backed up multiple times (including offsite nightly backups). Over time I have become great friends with Sue and her husband Chris. Sue gives her time and pictures to a range of environmental and animal charities. The power of the photograph helps people to understand animals and their environment and enabled change. Photography can carry powerful messages and Sue is a great photographer – well done Sue.
Client Story: The BBC and The Natural History Museum
Always a lovely moment when the post lady drops off samples of the books I have been involved with! A couple of good ones this week:
BBC Kingdom: Narratred by David Attenborough and follows the lives of four major species. As always the camera work on the programs is cinematic and a pleasure to watch. It is in Ultra High Definition with a bright high dynamic range to really emerse yourself into the environment.
My job was to translate video grabs and stills images into the confined spaces of the printed pages but retain the open feel of colour and tone that shape the images.
When I first got involved with BBC Books in 2011 it was for the origional Frozen Planet. There may have been the ocassional screen grab by the early HD cameras limited the use to small inserts. Fast forward 16 years and the 4k and 5k+ cameras are more than capable of stunning double page spreads. Of the 287 images I worked on in the book the majority (188) were from log stills provided in the ACES colour space – normally used in Cinema workflows. This did mean using Davinci Resolve to work on the images leaving Photoshop to do the CMYK conversion. By using images from the shot sequences its possible to expand on the behaviour shown in the programs, the images are accompanied with detailed and highly readable text by Will Millard and Felicity Lanchester who are able to refer directly to the behaviour in them.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 35 : A strong showing from this years competition winners. As before my remit was to adjust the images from the winners to preserve their look and mood by doing custom CMYK conversion to get the most out of the printing process.
In an age of AI its good to work with images of nature captured by people sensitive to the reality in front of them.