Patrick Sobers Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

 Commissioning and editing photoshoots for the travel desk. Picture Edited travel pages for Mail on Sunday. Good Understanding of Copyright and Content licensing laws  Photoshopped & composed images for the News Celebrity & Sport secetions of the online edition. Montiored wires for potentional sports stories for the online sport section of the Daily Mail Picture edited for Mail on Sunday and The Daily Mail Sport section. Liaise with contributors regarding fees and picture useage. Researched pictures for the Business & Finance pages \ Picture edit for the Mail Plus website and app.

London, United Kingdom

Covering T2, Weekend, Special Reports, Business, Sports Picture Desk, Sport & News Online Picture Desk. Commissioning Photographers. Providing pictures for The Times Sport App in conjunction with the marketing department. June 2014 - Present acting Sports Picture Editor Role at The Times.

London, United Kingdom

Worked collaboratively with various departments including production, servicing and editorial and liaised with independent production companies when requiring information on BBC programmesAllocated numbers to film and electronic tape formats both transmitted and un-transmitted and labelled for storage purposes Added data relating to technical components, titles, spool/can and programme numbers, durations and information relating to TV output Identified and processed material received by the library and input into Infax computer system

London, United Kingdom

Obtained correct caption and credit information and used specialist software for editing and manipulating images; scanned negatives with careful consideration of content and copyrightManaged the archive of digital images for all news and international titles, search coordination and access researched, scanned and captioned retrospective images using Esko, Negative and Leaf scanners; archived pictures published in The Sun for Page Three website and 2,500 digital and negative millennium pictures for The Times Used digital camera for the digitisation of pictures for the Retro Project Maintained image stock levels within a team, monitored and captured image copyright on used items Effectively liaised with Picture Editors for the use of published pictures used in The Times

London, United Kingdom

Developed in-depth knowledge in sporting activities and skills and expertise in the use of specialist technical equipment; using in-house C41, E6 and black and white processing machinesAssisted photographers on photographic shoots and performed editing and captioning for photographic library Set up and maintained an efficient library and filing system for 350,000 colour transparencies and 10,000 black & white negatives Scanned pictures onto Apple Mac system and syndicated sports and leisure photographs to agents and newspapers in the UK and abroad Dealt with face-to-face, telephone and fax enquiries; negotiated fees and monitored picture usages and returns Trained new members of staff in the Picture Library

Photography

English Language, Mathematics, Graphical Communications, Biology And Art, O'Level