Prodig contributor Ian Anderson has brought this short film by skin care company Dove to our attention.
link: Dove video

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In an interesting spin-off from the Iceland Adventure, Derrick Story spontaneously videoed an interview with colour specialist Bill Atkinson whilst they were there.
In it Bill discusses how to analyze colour shift across your image sensor and a possible way to map dust on your sensor to help you retouch the image later on.
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Adobe have released Lightroom 4.1 which fixes a number of bugs and other issues on both Mac and Win.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

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When Google introduced Google Base on November 15, 2005, it passed many people by.
But David Sanger, the new president of the Stock Artists Alliance, started immediately one day later to work with Google Base and loaded up 200 fine art prints and afterwards “all 6000 images”. And it´s obviously working. Generating new revenues. Without paying [...]

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CreativePro have published a set of articles by Ben Long on how to start and get the best out of your printer.
Part 1: Selecting a photo printer.
Part 2: Color management, soft proofing, make your first print.
Part 3: Paper profiling.
Part 4: Paper profiles, RIPs.

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ZUSE, by Austrian company Inseq Design, is a compact toasting device that can be attached to the wall. It is automatically activated through an optical sensor when any slice of bread is put in. As a special gimmick it is possible to burn black & white pictures with a resolution of 12 to 12 [...]

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An Advanced Photoshop Techniques course starts this Sunday in central London. The course runs for two Sundays, the 8th and the 15th October, and is taught by Matthew Ward who is a regular Prodig participant. For further information or to enrol please call 0207 7831 7831 or visit the City Lit web site at [...]

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In Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography, the renowned photographer writes about his journey on the “bleeding edge of digital photography’s evolution.” In this podcast, Johnson talks to Sara Peyton about his career, photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the wild places [...]

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O’Reilly talks to Mikkel Aaland about shooting RAW in this podcast. But Mikkel also starts with a surprising story about Ansel Adams. We may think of Adams’ classic black and white images of our National Parks, but Adams was very interested in technology. (11:34)
O’Reilly Mikkel Aaland podcast 

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Photo-i took the chance to interview Henry Wilhelm, the man behind Wilhelm Research archival print testing, whilst they were at this year’s Photokina.
Its a two part interview during which Wilhelm talks about the stbility of pigment inks and the ability of photographers to reliably produce their own archival prints for sale.
Wilhelm interview 

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