Free lighting e-book

Part of the Amazon deal is that they are the sole distrutor, so I cannot possibly comment...
I'll send you a copy if you PM your email address but can't do it until the weekend, I'm at the farm until then.
 
juggler said:
Just like to say.. the new edit is a major improvement. It's now a really coherent piece of work.
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Thanks. Basically I've ignored the Amazon limitations with the pdf version. The final version - when completed - will be professionally edited and will hopefully get rid of grammatical errors including my overuse of emphasis capitalisation, for which I blame using the German language for years:). I will also expand the table of contents.
 
You're welcome to a copy, just PM me with your email.
But it's mainly about studio work and with powerful portable flash for outdoors. You'll get better info for your needs from www.strobist.com
 
I've just finished the book thank you Garry. I found it a very good read and found your style of writing easy to follow.

I've just left a review on Amazon for you and have made a donation to All For Horses.

I have printed a copy that I can regularly refer to as I need to - a great addition to my bookshelf.

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Many thanks.
Not including yours, we now have 21 reviews, which is a big help.
 
I only left it about fifteen minutes ago - sometimes it takes them a while to read it before publishing as I'm sure you know anyway. :)
 
If there's a PDF copy available rather than Kindle, that would be amazing. I'll be making a donation of course.
 
I'll happily donate for a .pdf version :) (seem to have missed this post first time around for some reason!)
 
Furtim said:
If there's a PDF copy available rather than Kindle, that would be amazing. I'll be making a donation of course.
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Have replied via PM but for the benefit of other people. . . Amazon forces me to use Kindle even though it's a pretty hopeless medium for illustrated books.
However, it is also available in pdf format and I send the pdf version to every Amazon buyer as soon as they have left a review.

I'm still trying to sort out a paperback version for Amazon, a bit of a nightmare to do, but it won't sell because their charges for printing etc means that the printed version can't be sold for less than £24.99. I'll get back to that when I can, meanwhile I'm working on two other e-books, one is about marketing and photographing general products for sale on t'internet and t'other one is about selling clothing.
 
Would like to buy a PDF version let me know where to make the payment Thanks
 
The best way for us - because we get all the money - is to donate the £4.99 to all for horses, then send me a PM with your email address.
Alternatively you can buy it from Amazon (kindle version) and again PM me your email address.

Both links are at the beginning of this thread.
I won't be able to send you the pdf until late Friday, when I get back from the farm..
 
Garry Edwards said:
The best way for us - because we get all the money - is to donate the £4.99 to all for horses, then send me a PM with your email address.
Alternatively you can buy it from Amazon (kindle version) and again PM me your email address.

Both links are at the beginning of this thread.
I won't be able to send you the pdf until late Friday, when I get back from the farm..
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Thanks for the quick reply Gary...donation of £5 just made to all for horses. No rush please send over PDF when you are next ready. I will pm you email address...
 
Thanks Garry - I got my copy via email and while I've not had the time to read much, what I've read so far looks good.

Having re-read the thread, I thought I'd also make a donation. As it's made direct, then hopefully your charity benefits way more than giving the money to Amazon and them creaming stuff off the top.

Cheers

Kell
 
Garry Edwards said:
The best way for us - because we get all the money - is to donate the £4.99 to all for horses, then send me a PM with your email address.
Alternatively you can buy it from Amazon (kindle version) and again PM me your email address.

Both links are at the beginning of this thread.
I won't be able to send you the pdf until late Friday, when I get back from the farm..
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Would I be able to do this for the PDF? I'll make the donation directly.
Thanks
 
Garry Edwards said:
The best way for us - because we get all the money - is to donate the £4.99 to all for horses, then send me a PM with your email address.
Alternatively you can buy it from Amazon (kindle version) and again PM me your email address.

Both links are at the beginning of this thread.
I won't be able to send you the pdf until late Friday, when I get back from the farm..
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keef32 said:
Would I be able to do this for the PDF? I'll make the donation directly.
Thanks
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The challenge that I (and of course other authors) have is that Amazon doesn't do pdf books.
It's available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions, the paperback is expensive and the Kindle version isn't really suited to colour photos, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place . . .

The workaround for Amazon customers is that if they buy the Kindle version I will then send them the pdf version. If you donate a fiver to the All For Horses charity, and let me have your email address via PM I'll send you the pdf.
Kell said:
Thanks Garry - I got my copy via email and while I've not had the time to read much, what I've read so far looks good.

Having re-read the thread, I thought I'd also make a donation. As it's made direct, then hopefully your charity benefits way more than giving the money to Amazon and them creaming stuff off the top.

Cheers

Kell
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Yes, we get about 5x as much that way, Amazon is expensive for book sellers, especially for books that have a lot of photos.
 
Garry Edwards said:
The challenge that I (and of course other authors) have is that Amazon doesn't do pdf books.
It's available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions, the paperback is expensive and the Kindle version isn't really suited to colour photos, so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place . . .

The workaround for Amazon customers is that if they buy the Kindle version I will then send them the pdf version. If you donate a fiver to the All For Horses charity, and let me have your email address via PM I'll send you the pdf.

Yes, we get about 5x as much that way, Amazon is expensive for book sellers, especially for books that have a lot of photos.
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I would want you to get the full whack, ill make a donation of £5 and PM you my email address if you can send over a PDF copy when you have time.

Thanks :)
 
What a great idea I've just donated on the site will PM you me email address
 
And now my latest e-book, Product Photography Magic.

Copies are available free to TP members

As the title indicates, it's all about product photography. It's more limited and more specialised that Lighting Magic because it doesn't include anything on photographing people, it's all about (non clothing) product photography.

Overall, I feel that Product Photography Magic, which includes a lot of information about how to sell as well as how to photograph products on Amazon, Ebay and other online marketplaces should sell better simply because there are a lot of firms - of all sizes - who want to do their product photography in house.

Product Photography Magic has just gone on sale on Amazon, priced at £4.99. All proceeds are going to All For Horses, www.allforhorses.org.uk a small horse rescue and re-homing charity that I support. I spend a lot of time volunteering there, doing mainly labouring and driving jobs, hopefully the income from the book will carry on being useful when I no longer am.

Regardless of whether it’s any good or not, Product Photography Magic has to compete with a lot of other e-books on Amazon and it will only sell if we can get it right up there in the visibility list, and the best way of doing that is for a lot of people to post detailed reviews about it on Amazon.

Which is where we need your help – please read the book, and then help us to make it more visible on Amazon by writing as detailed and as useful a review as you can.

This offer will end at 12 noon on Sunday 14th April - I feel that this gives plenty of time for active members of this forum to have requested a copy.

However, I will be at the farm from Monday 1st April and don't plan to return until Saturday 6th April, and because I'll be busy there and because the internet there is very poor (on a good day) I won't be able to respond to these requests until I'm back - don't think that you've been forgotten.

Please drop me a PM with your email address and I'll email it to you.

A lot of people have kindly made a donation to our charity, All For Horses. I really appreciate these donations, but am not asking people to donate - the book is free.
The book can also be purchased from Amazon in Kindle format, and this is the buying page https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PM95HZM and you'll see where to click to post your review

If you feel that you do want to help financially, a direct donation to the charity means that we get all of your donation. A purchase from Amazon means that we only get a small part of it. However, there is no easy answer because when people buy it from Amazon and then leave a review it's a big help because reviews from verified purchasers are a massive help.

Surprisingly, sales of both books, each of which is available from Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback versions, are getting their highest volume of sales from Germany, even though I wrote them in English! I did work in Germany for a few years but this was many years ago and I would have thought that my name was forgotten there now, so the relatively high number of sales there is a bit of a mystery.
 
Sales of my books have now started to grow, and to produce a small but steady income for the charity - but will be better if more of the people who received a free copy were to post a review on Amazon . . .

Post 32 in this thread mentions one of our horses that had an attack of colic that was cured quickly, but we've just had another pony where everything went less well, and he ended up having emergency surgery, followed by even more expensive complications. If anyone would like to help with the cost, which will be in the £thousands, please see my post in the OOF charitable donations thread https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/tp-charitable-thread-sponsorship-donations.139589/page-4
 
I left a review some time ago, hopefully this will spur a few others on to do the same :)
 
I think it's shameful. You were generous enough to give away copies - the least people could have done was to give you a review.

As for donations - some people are just plain tight and expect everything for nothing. :mad:
 
Manxmaid said:
Am I looking in the right place, Garry? I left a review a while back on your first book, but there don't seem to be any at all on the Product Photography Magic book on Amazon?
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You're right, so far there are none at all on the Product Photography Magic one.

Update on Shadow:
He died last night despite having 24hr intensive care at the equine hospital since being admitted on Tuesday.

Everybody at All For Horses is devastated, and we would like to thank everyone for your donations and many kind messages of support.

The day before the colic, Shadow was bucking and playing in the field with his herd as normal. He was fit and healthy and a good candidate for surgery. The colic returned and he was simply too ill to pull through. The staff at Rainbow worked tirelessly round the clock and did all they could to save him.
We are still appealing for donations towards the cost of Shadow's treatment, as this is a massive expense for us. Please help if you can.

Before this incident, we've been very lucky. Another horse had colic a few months ago, emergency callout of vet but hospitalisation not needed, vet bill of £1200. A couple of years ago we had a Feather with a serious eye injury, complete recovery, £900 vet bill and another horse, Grace, needed surgery for a leg injury and this cost about £1500. Until Shadow, we've only lost 2 horses in the last 10 - 12 years, both to relieve suffering.
 
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Donation made :)
 
My apologies Garry - after moaning about everyone else, my senile old mind forgot that I hadn't reviewed your second book myself. :facepalm:

However, that has now been remedied and I've made another donation to your cause. :)
 
A quick update . . .
We've now managed to buy a telehandler for the charity, basically a heavy duty (7 ton) off road forklift with 4 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering, crab steering and a 2.5 ton lift. It's old - they cost over £60K new - but will solve a lot of problems for us.
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It will be used for a wide variety of jobs, but it's main use will be getting large round bales of hay into the field feeders during the winter. This has been a challenge in the past because our tractors only have 2 wheel drive and it's very muddy and hilly. The telehandler allows the hay to be carried 10m in the air, which means that the horses hopefully won't try to kill themselves by grabbing the hay on route.

I won't pretend that anywhere near all of the money needed for this has come from the book sales and donations, but it's been a big help, so many thanks.
 
I can't believe that it's now over a year since I started this thread and made copies of my e-books available free to members . . .

I'm now going to re-open the offer, which means that you can get a pdf of my books free. All that I ask in return is that you submit a review on the Amazon page, this will help potential buyers to decide whether or not my books are right for them and will also help our charity, All For Horses.

There are now 3 books.
Lighting Magic
Product Photography Magic
Wedding Photography Magic

This offer will end on Sunday 12th January 2020
If you would like one (or more) in pdf format please send me a PM with your email address, which obviously won't be passed on to anyone else. I spend every 2nd week at the farm, and won't be able to respond to your requests between the 6th - 11th January, but will then deal with them straight away.

If you would like to donate to our charity then your help will be greatly appreciated, but it isn't a condition and as I don't administer the donations I won't even know about it. You can donate on this page https://www.allforhorses.org.uk/donate

And finally, I mentioned in the post above that we have now been able to buy an old telehandler. Well, my youngest son, who is an agricultural mechanic, has been bringing it up to scratch and it's now at the farm and working hard. It's a cracking machine, it has all of the features that we could possibly want and it's making life a whole lot easier, and safer. This was paid for partly by book sales and donations.
 
Garry,

Only just seen this.

As one of the more knowledgeable and informed posters on here, I always valued your opinions (and Lencarta made a few quid as a result too), so more than happy to post a review for you.

Email coming by pm.
 
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