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Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 5:17PM From 2010's PhotoWalkthrough coverage of the Focus On Imaging show in Birmingham, UK. Panasonic launched their newest camera, the G2 here at the show and we've got an exclusive first look at this 21.1 megapixel camera with touch screen and superb AVCHD video features.
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 1:10AM It's not often I get to break a news story but I'm covering Focus On Imaging in Birmingham again this year and Panasonic have chosen this show to announce their brand new camera, the G2. It's a touch screen 12.1 megapixel camera with AVCHD video recording capabilities. I'll be doing PhotoWalkthrough shows as usual for these in a couple of days but for now I'm uploading smaller versions to YouTube so they're out and available right away.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 6:32PM Chris Marquardt has just posted episode 436 of Tips From The Top Floor which contains part 2 of my contributions to Photo Day 2009. Photo Day was a full day of photography based podcasting run on Leo Laporte's TWiT network and hosted by Chris. I was lucky enough to be involved a couple of times in the day and this video is from the session I did showing how to post process a rather nice black and white landscape shot from Portmeirion in Wales.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:03AM his week I finally got my hands on a gadget I've been lusting after for years, a Wacom Cintiq. The Cintiq is a combined graphics tablet and screen so you can literally draw on the screen when editing your photos. In this show we've got what I hope is a very complete product review with conclusions about how useful it is to photographers and natural media artists such as those used to working with paints, pencils or chalks.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 3:16PM If you're a british photographer of any kind (amateur or professional) you should be aware of the new Digital Economy Bill which effectively removes your automatic copyright on images you create. It will open the doors to wholesale theft of formerly copyright images through the orphan works provisions and what's worse much of the bill covering descriptions of "orphan work" or "adequate search" are not even included.
At the same time, and in a completely unrelated piece of legislation the Information Commissioner's Office is proposing changes to the Data protection Act that will make non-consentual photography of people in a public place illegal. Rather than re-hash what's already been well reported elsewhere I suggest you check some of the links included below.
Both of these issues will be implemented in a matter of only a few weeks so NOW is the time to take action. I urge all british readers to write to your MPs letting them know how you feel. Writing to your MP is really easy - check out www.theyworkforyou.com for a very simple and effective browser based way to contact them. More information on both issues is available at Copyright Action along with templates for letters to your MP and links to comment on the ICO changes. There's also a very well written article on the subject on the Online Journalism Blog and you can see the British Photographic Society's response the the Digital Economy Bill also.
copyright, digital economy bill, news, photographers rights, uk in General Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:17AM My good friend Chris Marquardt has recently been posting episodes from the Photo Day that aired on Twit Live in 2009. I was privileged to be part of the day and Chris recently posted part of my contribution. You can find the episode on the Tips From The Top Floor website as tfttf429 - Photoday 2009 Video - Post Processing with John Arnold - Part 1 of 4. There's a link on the page there to download the MP4 version, which is much higher quality than the embedded YouTube show. I recommend viewing that one.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 3:17PM This is the second and final part of Tutorial 17 where we do some further colour cast removal and then work on light and tone, guiding the eye and some dodging and burning. This show is in the new shorter PhotoWalkthrough style which should enable to me to get more episodes out.
burn, color cast, colour cast, dodge, dodge and burn, fix, guide the eye, lightroom, lightroom 2, remove, tone in Lightroom 2, Tutorial, Tutorial 17 Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 11:04PM It doesn't seem like long since the last time but I've moved the PhotoWalkthrough site once again to new hosting. We're now hosted with Squarespace (not a sponsor, though I wouldn't say no based on the extreme ease of use and excellent functionality). The simple fact that I'm no longer going to have to keep the server software up to date in order to avoid hacks and spammers is worth the small monthly fee. But in addition to ease of administration I've taken the time to reorganise and tidy up the tutorials. As you can see we've got all the tutorials going back to tutorial 1 all nicely categorised and linked into the menus. We've also got the various specials and quick tips shows separated out. Finally you can now search by category and tag by clicking Archive in the menu to the right. This will allow you to search by product or technique.
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 2:58AM Adobe has announced the beta for the latest version of Lightroom. As before it's an open beta and anyone can try it out. Headlining the new features right now are enhancements to speed, noise reduction and image quality - all of which are significant and important but I've a hunch there will be more new toys for us too. Check it out at labs.adobe.com and remember - this is an unfinished BETA version of the product that doesn't yet have all the intended features of the final version. Download it, try it out, but DON'T rely on it and don't start using it for your main photography workflow. It will run along side Lightroom 2 without interfering.
adobe, beta, lightroom, lightroom 3 in General Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:08PM In our 100th show today we start a brand new tutorial where we look at how to remove nasty reflected coloured light from a photo. We also have our usual assignment and the entries to the last assignment set to music.
color, colored light, coloured light, lightroom, lightroom2 in Lightroom 2, Tutorial, Tutorial 17 Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:16PM The illegal use of images has become quite a hot topic on the internet since the launch of photo sharing websites. Making sure that the stock images you're using are legal is one more thing to worry about. So iStockphoto have decided to offer a guarantee to their customers on their entire collection. On Sept. 16, any video, image or audio file purchased and used correctly by the customer, will automatically be guaranteed against any copyright or moral right, trademark and other intellectual property dispute, up to $10,000. This has been something that traditional, more expensive stock agencies have offered but it's brand new to micro-stock.
istockphoto, stock in General Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 10:12AM Canon have announced their latest prosumer level dSLR, the 7D. This 18 megapixel, APS-C sized sensor model aims to bridge the gap between the world of the 50D and 5D by adding features like full HD video recording. The 7D also adds some exciting new features that will appeal to pros and enthusiasts alike.
Monday, August 10, 2009 at 5:14PM DataColor, makers of the Spyder range of colour profiling devices, recently sponsored a photography contest, The Colors of my Life, inviting contestants to submit photographs capturing colours that represented their lives or personalities. The entries have been turned into a photo art book available through Blurb.com with the proceeds going towards Chilean children's charity, Hope For Children. The book is available from blurb.com at €16.95.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 1:32PM 04 August, 2009 – Global imaging pioneer Epson today announces the release of a free firmware update for its P6000 and P7000 Multimedia Storage Viewers. The new firmware enables tethered shooting, offering photographers immediate and direct access to high-quality previews of images and remote shooting. The update is available on Epson’s European website from 04 August, 2009 to all users of the P6000 and P7000 Photoviewers.
epson, p6000, p7000, tethered shooting in General Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:17PM George Smyth has been kind enough to ask me a third time if I'd like to contribute a segment on his show - One Minute How-To. His show offers weekly tips on a variety of interesting subjects, each being a very digestible minute or two long. Quick, informative and fun. Well worth a look. Check out my latest contribution on How to shoot panning shots and be sure to subscribe to George's show.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:51AM Cannon released a new Image Stabilization mechanism today. Here's a quote from the press release.
"Canon Inc. announced today the development of Hybrid Image Stabilizer (IS), the world’s first* optical Image Stabilizer which compensates for both angular camera shake and shift camera shake. The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009."So can anyone tell me the difference between angular and shift camera shake? I guess I'll just be happy to know that this new mechanism does image stabilization "better".
Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 1:54PM PhotoWalkthrough has joined forces with Welshot Academy to bring you a series of workshops covering Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and creative composition. John will be teaching in a beautiful, inspiring location with plenty of opportunity for shooting and one on one advice. If you've never attended a photography workshop before these 1 or 2 day short courses are an ideal affordable, educational and fun introduction. Visit our new Workshops page where you'll find dates, locations and links to everything you need to pick a course and make a booking. See you there!
photography courses, training, uk, workshops in General Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 10:11AM On today's show we've got exciting news about a special Photo Day on TWiT Live, hosted by our good friend Chris Marquardt. I'll be joining Chris on air at 4pm pacific (midnight UK time). We've also got another quick tip showing some of the new targeted adjustment features in Photoshop CS4. These features have been ported over from Lightroom and make editing your images much more natural. And of course we have a new assignment ready for our next show - the big Episode 100!
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 10:30AM On July 15th our old friend Chris Marquardt, the host of Tips From The Top Floor, will be taking the reigns at TWiT live while Leo is away in China. Chris will host the TWiT Live feed all day and has an array of fascinating guests. A full run down of the Photo Day schedule is on Chris' site and I'm excited to say that I'll be one of his guests at 4pm PST - that's midnight UK time. Chris' other guests include Catherine Hall, Frederick Van Johnson. John Chiara, Jon Miller and Ron Pepper. So please come along and watch as much of the day as you can and in particular I'd be over the moon if you joined me at 4pm PST to fly the flag on TWiT for PhotoWalkthrough!
photo day, tips from the top floor, twit live in General Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:39PM In this stand-alone tutorial we have a little fun decorating a netbook using our own photograph printed on moo stickers. We cover how to create the stickers in Photoshop using guides and slices then we have a quick timelapse of sticking them on the netbook. As a bonus Moo.com have given us a promo code to get 10% discount on the stickers used so you can try this yourself. Use promo code pwtmoo09 at the checkout.