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Why is it that reporters never bother to ask photographers anything?

continue reading "Polonium balonium"

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I'm not interested in reviewing software, but today I'm making an exception. What's a PITA that photographers deal with every day, sending digital images around the net by email?

continue reading "Shrink pic"

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More in the Gigapixl Project vein, a fairly amazing zoomable composite of Machu Piccu by Scott Howard. All done by stitching together 404 separate Canon 10d images to form a single 13.5GB original file. Amazing.

continue reading "1500 Megapixels from a Canon 10D"

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Hanging around YouTube or Flickr is teeth-grinding agony for professional guardians of quality, because it's all daft t

continue reading "Reportage 2006 style"

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Here's an interesting thing. This colour image was printed in ... 1939. The best part of a lifetime ago.


Spencer colour plate

 

continue reading "Eat your heart out, Epson"

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It's that time of year again when professionals are beset by newly graduated students hoping for work. Every summer UK colleges spit out 3,000 or so of the hopefuls. It's like watching baby turtles running for the sea, you know most can't possibly survive, but you feel sorry there is nothing you can do.

continue reading "So you want to be a photographer?"

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