Cafe Renroc Exhibition

See you all on the 19th.

If you can't make it on the 19th, then the exhibition will be on for 6 weeks.  Renroc is a great place in town to stop off at for some food or coffee and a look around.

Off to the land of the long cloud

I'm off to the land of the long cloud to look for my photomojo. I won't be back till mid Feb when normal service will be resumed. Check back then for New Zealand pics.

Online print orders

In conjunction with The Image File, I am pleased to announce that online sales of selected images on my website are available for sale online.

I am still in the process of putting together the final touches, so I have not yet linked to the online sales site from my main website, but those of you interested can get an advance preview here.

Any feedback on the site would be appreciated.

Essential viewing on CS4 updates

If you use photoshop and are thinking about upgrading to CS4 then these guys are doing a 4 part video showing what is new in CS4.  I've been using it for a couple of months now and learned about a whole lot of new features I didn't know about from watching this. 

Click here for a link to video part 1.

I'm no longer a pro...

...well on Flickr anyway as my pro account has expired. Not that I'm bothered, I'm going to see how long I can string it out before I have to go back to the paying for the service.

Couple of reasons really. I don't use it to put up lots of high resolution images so I shouldn't need unlimited upload capacity. There have been too many instances of Flickr images being used for profit without permission, so I only put watermarked images with a max of 1000px at 72 dpi. Perfect for web viewing and sharing. Images are now backed up elsewhere in other ways.

I use it more as a stream of images and don't need to group them into sets...

Emm... and I think that's all you get for your money.

I also don't really feel the love for the masses of u constructive comments. Constuctive ones I'm all about, see the post on the A or B group below.

Packing photons

The creation below appeared on a blog late last week and generated some considerable interest. 

12 x 580 Speedlights controlled with RadioPoppers, firing on full power is great for turning day into night.  However some people seemed to miss the point of what this gives you, arguing that for the same price you could get a high wattage studio light.

What this set up brings to the game is high power levels when using high speed synch at very fast shutter speeds.   In a normal high speed synch mode the power output of the flash is reduced as it is essentially firing a lot of short, very fast pulses to make sure that all parts of the sensor receives the same light as the shutter curtains sweep past. 

The poster plans to use this for getting a fast enough shutter to freeze the action of dirtbikes at the same time as having enough power to properly light the subject, and turn the midday sun into mere fill light!  Can't wait to see the results.

Head over here for some more indepth info and comments. 

Kendal Mountain Film Festival. - Updated

Well the results are in and can be found on the Kendal Mountain Film festival website.  The image of the prayer flags that I commented on below didn't win, each to their own I suppose, but I think it deserves special mention as the most emotive picture of the mountain environment on display. 

The winning image was the following entry by Jayne Smith of Burnside.

My image of Kirkjufell in Iceland did get special mention from the Judge, Colin Prior, and is up on the website with the winner.  Futher info can be found here.

Not sure what a "Special Mention" means, but lets say I'm chuffed to bits.