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10
Aug 10

iPhone Photography

What has it done to us?

Well, I found that having a camera phone with a half decent (for a phone!) camera, that it saw me doing a lot of “snapping” on my iPhone, and getting out my dSLR for the more serious stuff.. But “why” yeah, a lot of people say, if you have your dSLR, why don’t you just use it for every shot? Well, sometimes I just don’t want to, I just want to snap and send or upload or tweet or flickr or facebook… you know, not process and decide and be serious…. I’ve found, over the last four days that having a very convenient, always with me iPhone with a decent (for a phone!) camera, has been really great!… Here’s a few pictures from the last four days…

Does convenience outweigh quality?

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28
Jun 10

A little test, perhaps…

17:33pm UK Time…Ready, Set… GO!

Dear Ted, welcome to gtvone.com — This is my personal blog, read by oh… maybe 30 people! [sad times!] I’m due a call with you this evening about your website that I find very exciting for photographers everywhere.

One thing I did note with the website where the software lives is that there is no option for a trial – so I thought, what better way to try it out than to “steal” one of your images and post it here on my blog and see how long it took you to comment below… I hope you don’t find this tooo cheeky!

Amazing photograph by Ted VanCleave

Your time starts...

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25
Jun 10

Elemental Photographic Studio Lights – Unboxed

Dan at Elemental sent me across some kit this week to check out and review for Digital photography School. I wasn’t aware of Elemental who actually started trading on January 29th 2005, selling Jessops Portaflash gear. They started making / importing their own branded products in January 2007, and started engineering and designing their own gear about 8 months ago…

Trinity 600W - Without the leather coat, guns and attitude

I always love a great first impression, and I have to say that for the money and even for a wad more money, this gear made me smile! I’m not sure if it was the decent build quality or the extra little ideas that are stuffed into each product – the ePod / tripod for example – has a level on the legs and the head and also has a tiny little compass for those of you into your location / gps / nature / direction photography. The light stands that come with the 600W twin set “Trinity” heads are really solid and extend all the way up to the roof – 9’2″ as well as being air cushioned and solid as a wombat, they’re well priced if you want to buy them separately.

Enough of my rambling, this is just the unboxing – the full review is still a couple of weeks off and will be available on Digital Photography School.

Oh, yeah, as for value – try spec’ing up a set of gear of this calibre, with these accessories for this price!…

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20
Jun 10

A Change for the better

My entry in the Digitalrev Video competition… “A Change for the better”

We all know I don’t actually mind Nikon, but imagine…

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14
Jun 10

Think Tank Photo | Urban Disguise 60

Received my Think Tank Photo Urban Disguise 60 today…

I’ve been using a Crumpler laptop bag and I’ve been carrying my 5DMkII / Grip and a 24-70L f/2.8 in to work with me each day – just incase, you know… Well, I’ve filled out my Think Tank Photo family and now have a bag for literally, every occassion…

Urban Disguise 60 | Think Tank Photo

Urban Disguise 60 | Think Tank Photo

With plenty of room for a 17″ MacBook Pro laptop and a Canon 5DMkII with the battery grip and a 24-70mm f/2.8L lens with the hood in place, or indeed, as in this image, my Canon 30D with battery grip and a 100-400mm f.4.5-5.7L with the hood reversed, plus a 50mm f/1.4 and a 580EXII flash that I’ve just realised you can’t actually see in any of the shots… There’s more than enough room for my regular lenses and laptop and body….[more]

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8
Jun 10

Adobe Lightroom 3 Released… but…

Err, Yeah, So Adobe released Lightroom 3 which I will purchase, but I have a question first, Adobe…

Why, when I opt to purchase and have the product delivered via download which saves you packaging costs but costs you 250mb of hosting plus a crapper load of bandwidth for downloads, do you charge me two pounds more than if I were to buy a boxed copy – Download £76.88 – Shipped £74.66

Umm, Adobe, Don’t you mean.. [mind the rude word, oh la la!]

Or, now thanks to UBPICS, I’ve been informed that it’s EU VAT LAW that makes it more expensive to download than to box and ship… so, effectively, EU VAT LAW is helping to destroy trees everywhere!

So, I wanted to confirm this… I popped onto the Adobe Live Chat and this is what happened…

None the wiser, I will buy a downloaded version of the product – I realise that you have to off-set the download / electricity / server with the box manufacture / delivery truck / trees – I’m sure it’s a lose|lose situation – but I still don’t get it… Adobe? Insight?

UPDATE: “Technically it is still Adobe’s “fault” as they chose to locate it Ireland… Rate of Corporation Tax is 12.5% compared to 28% in UK whereas VAT is 21% in Ireland compared with 17.5% UK (at present). For the download your order is fulfilled by Adobe Ireland so VAT charged at the Irish Rate. Physical product shipped by Adobe UK so charged at UK rate. Adobe could setup a UK download centre so you save a bit on the VAT but they’ll pay a hell of a lot more Corp Tax on their profit per copy.” — Thanks to Brad at www.ubpics.com for this

–sime

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20
May 10

Think Tank Photo – Retrospective 20 Video

Think Tank Photo Retrospective 20 is what I’m talkin’ about… A quality piece of kit that deserves your love… Here’s a short’ish video on its main features.

Think Tank Photo – Retrospective 20 from Simon Pollock on Vimeo.

A new camera bag from Think Tank Photo – The Retrospective 20. Could this be “The One”

PLEASE NOTE: The bits I said you might hang a tripod off, they can also be used to swing the wide range of accessory bags from TTP
You can find Think Tank Photo on Twitter | Facebook and Flickr and here’s the main website should you wish to go on an immediate buying frenzy..

Vimeo

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20
Apr 10

www.thinktankphoto.com | competition

I’m running a competition on the www.thinktankphoto.com Facebook Page… You really should be part of it!

Really, you should… Now, go… click it!

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24
Mar 10

Testing Testing… Gear Reviews

I have a couple of bits of kit on the dPS test bench right now… I thought I’d give you a sneak preview!

1. PapStrap! This is a slingy type camera strap that slings your camera down at your bum, meant to be comfortable, take away camera lugging related neck and back ache…

2. i-gotU GT-600 GPS Logger …it’s a water resitant, small, easy to use GPS logging device that can track where you take photos, tell you where you’ve been, how fast you got there and if you were lower than the centre of the earth etc…

3. Pag Orbitor - This is a shoulder mount for your HD dSLR shooting camera, my 5DMk2 in this case…

What are your thoughts on this stuff? Any opinions for me to consider?

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9
Mar 10

Cactus, Framing and the Olympus Pen Thingy… *gtvone podcasts*

Another QUALITY gtvone podcast… “Photography Monthly” over a cup of coffee…

 

Photo of the month came from Colin Millum above is pretty sweet, Nice one Colin! Hope you’re having a great world trip!

www.merrellpublishers.com for Jason Hawkes “London At Night” photography book – shot from a chopper, quality!

Olympus PEN E-PL1, Camera Bags, WorldPressPhoto

There was Anna Evgen (Naked girl + Apple = Winner)

Johnsons Photopia who are most likely glowing from Focus

Martin Middlebrook – Old School Purist

….I won’t list the rest, you can damn Google it!! Nice coffee, good songs – they were playing in the background, so I matched them up  -  Killers, Sam’s Town, Cracking album – please go buy it.

Peace out… Sime

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