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TV OD – David Dunnico

Posted on 25 May 2009 by prodig staff

More from my CCTV photography project â€“ bit less dystopia and a bit more narrative than ‘Reality TV’. Most of photographs in this video come from a background magazine I’ve done as part of the project.
The title? If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember the new wave classic by ‘The Normal’

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Mountainstorm Lightroom Tether

Posted on 25 May 2009 by prodig staff

Mountainstorm has produced a free tethering application for Mac OS X 10.5 users shooting with Nikon, Canon or Fuji and using Lightroom v2.

Remote control of your camera & onscreen display of camera settings
Nikon LiveView support at 60fps! (recording coming soon)
Instant import of images into Adobe Lightroom; no waiting for Lightroom to detect the images
Integrated with Adobe Lightroom; single configuration

link: Mountianstorm Lightroom Tether (via @heninger )

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MCG Lightroom Presets

Posted on 22 May 2009 by prodig staff

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Sean Mcgrath at MCG studios has released a batch of Lightroom Presets.

link: mcg lightroom presets

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Whoâ€™s a Journalist, Who isnâ€™t?

Posted on 22 May 2009 by prodig staff

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 heÂ received a rather frosty response from those there.

The Commander was heckled off the platform as he began to question theÂ legitimacyÂ of those carrying press cards. He asked in his speech, probably rhetorically butÂ receivedÂ some very pointed answers:

I donâ€™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 whoâ€™s doing whatÂ legitimatelyÂ 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.

Itâ€™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 doesnâ€™t know how the UK Press Card works itâ€™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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Milk makes a Lensbaby movie

Posted on 22 May 2009 by prodig staff

Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D Mark II SLR Camera

“Last Day Dream” by Chris Milk
Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival
Beijing China 2009
42×42.com

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IPG/Terry O’Neill award 2009

Posted on 21 May 2009 by prodig staff

Submissions are now invited for the third IPG/ Terry O’Neill Award.

This year’s awards exhibition will be held at at Getty Images in September.
And for the first time entry is open to International Photographers.
Judges include:
TERRY O’NEILL – photographer
ROBIN MORGAN – editor Sunday Times mag
BRETT ROGERS – director Photographer’s Gallery London
IAN BERRY – photographer Magnum
MELISSA DEWITT – editor Hotshoe

Prizes of Â£3,000 (1st),Â Â£Â 1,000 (2nd)Â and Â£500 (3rd).
A selection of the top ten photogrsaphers work will be featured in the Sundat Times and Hotshoe magazines.

link: www.ipgbattle.com/oneillaward/

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Open Eye: On The Waterfront

Posted on 20 May 2009 by prodig staff

mann_island0509 Some of the first work I did after leaving college was to teach photography classes at Open Eye Gallery. At that time it was housed in what had been a rambling old pub in the centre of Liverpool.

Since then its moved several timesÂ and now its on the move again. This time to swanky custom designed premises in the new waterfront development, adjacent to the Liver Building, where Liverpool’s latest museum is being built.

Construction and fit-out of the new space begins in early 2010. It’s part of a bigger mixed-use development on Mann Island – a group of three new blocks between the Port of Liverpool building (on the Pierhead) and the Albert Dock. Architects RCKa have been asked to design the new space for Open Eye Gallery. The total area will be 400mÂ², more than twice the size of the current premises on Wood Street, including a mezzanine level of about 125mÂ² and up to 150mÂ² of exhibition space.

It’s an ambitious bid to create a more vibrant and popular gallery and play a bigger role in the city’s cultural life.

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Improving CS4 performance

Posted on 19 May 2009 by prodig staff

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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Nikon tether: free

Posted on 19 May 2009 by prodig staff

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Stefan Hafeneger has a Nikon Tether app. Soforbild is for Mac OS X

There is currently no support for Nikon D50, D70, D100, D1 and D2 in Sofortbild as Nikon does not provide camera drivers for third-party developers for these models.