Category Archives: Photography

Visa Pour L’Image 2008 – Photos Part 02

Posted on September 10, 2008 | Leave a comment

Paula Bronstein/Getty Images: Afghanistan – A Fragile Peace: Presentation at Palais des Congres




Outdoor evening screening at Campo Santo

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Visa Pour L’Image 2008 – Photos Part 03

Posted on September 10, 2008 | Leave a comment

Horst Faas/AP: 50 Years of Photojournalism: Couvent des Minimes




The last picture I took in Perpignan, just before
the superb beach party got into full swing!

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The Ugly Of War

Posted on September 10, 2008 | Leave a comment

My good friend John D McHugh has two new reports from Afghanistan:




Well worth watching.

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PPY – the Press Photographers’ Year

Posted on August 30, 2008 | Leave a comment

The PPY exhibition is on at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Foyer on the South Bank in London.
The exhibition closes on September 13, so you’ve only got two more weeks to see it if you haven’t already.
Talking of which, I highly recommend you do! I finally managed to see the exhibition a couple of days ago and its absolutely stunning. Its a collection of the best news and sports photography from 2007, and I’m sure will be one of the best exhibitions you see this year.

Its proving so popular that its the NT’s most visited exhibition this year and they have extended the exhibition by two weeks. There’s also a book of the work, so visit the NT book shop afterwards.

A temporary part of the exhibition (which may be changed any day), is the Olympic Wall, where British photographers covering the Beijing Olympics wired in images from China. These were then printed onto large format Canon printers and immediately exhibited in real time.
A few notable images to look out for were taken by Daniel Berehulak, Sean Smith (who also has a film being shown at the exhibition),  Lefteris Pitarakis, Andrew Parsons, Gareth Copley and David Bebber.

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Red Bull Air Race Slideshow

Posted on August 30, 2008 | Leave a comment

Its taken almost four days to finish, but at least now its done!

Since covering the air race, I’d wanted to make a slideshow from it. I needed to have full control of all aspects; timing, transitions and audio.
My workflow for this project was:
1-Image editing and processing was done using Apple Aperture.
2-Audio was cut and mixed using Apple Soundtrack Pro.
3-Slideshow and final audio editing was in Apple Final Cut Pro.
Its by far the most complex multimedia project I’ve done. Hopefully you’ll all think it was time well spent!

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Photosynth

Posted on August 25, 2008 | Leave a comment

Yep, there’s a new term to remember!

In a nutshell, Photosynthing is a method to combine multiple images from the same scene into an explorable panorama. The way it differs from normal panoramas is that the images do not need to have been taken from the same spot. In fact, it works best when images are taken from different view points.
Its a Microsoft project, and as yet isn’t available to run on a Mac; to quote their web site,”Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS”. It goes on to say,”as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site”. If you have a PC though, do check it out as it looks very interesting.
You can find details on the Photosynth web site and at Microsoft Live Labs.

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