May 27, 2009
Are you meta-smart?
If you create, distribute or use digital photos, you’d better be!
Prodig Listee David Reicks is leader of the Stock Artists Alliance ‘Photo Meta Data project’…
In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Stock Artists Alliance created the Photo Metadata Project to promote industry wide use of standardized photo metadata in every digital file. Through live events and online resources, we are committed to helping make this happen.
Their current events programme is in full swing. But if you’re in the US there’s still plenty of opportunities to take part…
Dallas / May 27
San Antonio / May 28
Seattle / June 11
San Francisco / June 17
Los Angeles / June 18
New York / June 22
Washington / June 25
link: Photometadata.org
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May 22, 2009
Jonathan Warren recorded the follow meeting regarding Police/Press relationships, which was held in light of recent confrontations between the two parties.
Jonathan is a freelance photographer based in London working for daily newspapers, magazines and news websites.
On Monday (18 May) Commander Broadhurst, head of public order at the Metropolitan Police spoke at the NUJ Photographers Conference and with all the events over the past few years he received a rather frosty response from those there.
The Commander was heckled off the platform as he began to question the legitimacy of those carrying press cards. He asked in his speech, probably rhetorically but received some very pointed answers:
I don’t know what vetting system there is for holding an NUJ card. Can anybody who has a camera apply for an NUJ card? [...] How do we manage who’s doing what legitimately or otherwise?
- Commander Broadhurst, Metropolitan Police
He went on to question the motives of journalists working in public order situations and it quickly descended into a shouting match between the conference and the Commander. Probably sensing he had dug himself deep enough into a hole he left the platform and went into answering questions.
It’s well worth listening to both the Commanders speech and the discussion afterwards as it probably explains a lot towards the treatment of press photographers by police over the last few years. If the man in charge of public order policing doesn’t know how the UK Press Card works it’s little surprise so few police respect it.
To listen to the recordings visit the link below…
link: http://jwarren.co.uk/blog/whos-a-journalist/
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May 19, 2009
Has Adobe Photoshop CS4 caused your system to slow down?
Here are some tips to help…
1. Install the 11.0.1 update.
2. Go to the Nvidia website and download the latest driver for your card.
3. Turn off “Enable GPU Drawing” in the performance panel of Photoshop
Preferences.
There’s a more extensive article at:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439.html
via: Russell Williams
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