Photomechanic 4.6 now available
As many of you know much of my workflow centres around use of Photomechanic (www.camerabits.com) A new upgrade was launched today, although I have been using the beta version for the last couple of weeks. Major changes include: Live Ingest. Embed GPS coordinates in photos. New Upload templates such as Secure FTP, Amazon S3, ExposureManager, [...]
Lightpainting
This weekend sees a break from sports shooting. After a very successful one-on-one workshop on Friday the night sky was very dark, cloudless and a myriad of bright stars. Inspired by the work of sports photographer Dave Black and his use of a technique called lightpainting I decided to give this a go myself and, [...]
Shooting sport in the snow
Unfortunately yesterday’s snowboard parallel slalom at Cypress was cancelled due to ‘unsuitable snow conditions and lack of time to prepare the course between competions’. I just hope that this is not a forerunner to problems during next years Olympic Games which will take place on exactly the same days and timetable as this year. I [...]
Snowboarding – Sport or culture?
Today I have spent 7 hours on the side of the half pipe at Cypress Mountain listening to incessant rap music during the men’s and ladies semi finals and finals of the pre-Olympic World Cup and been left wondering if this is a sport or simply a youth culture masquerading as a sport. Don’t get [...]
Pre-Olympic Snowboarding
This week it is the turn of the snowboarders on Cypress Mountain, the weather is proving to be much kinder than last week for the snowboard cross with almost blue skies. This time I decided to head toward the top of the mountain to try and get a better chance of getting all four skiers [...]
Scam Alert
Just to re-iterate the warning I gave in my last newsletter perpetrated by a Mr Chris Tann. Another round of this email scam has been sent out where this person offers working commissions to photographers, citing work for leading companies such as Vodafone or well known magazines. The catch is that he has to provide [...]
Artistic skiing – Cypress Mountain
Another pre-Olympic test event – this time the mens and ladies moguls at Cypress Mountain. Fortunately the fog that rolled in yesterday stayed away for mosy of the day rendering excellent photography. The main test today was physically climbing up the side of the mogul hill to the photographers positions – impossible for those who [...]
Vancouver Pre-Olympic Events
Thursday 5 February – Four Continents Figure Skating The Four Continents Figure Skating at Vancouver’s Coliseum has been billed as a pre-Olympic event and the infrastructure surrounding it is to test facilities for the the 2010 games. Unfortunately the Coliseum looks anything but an Olympic standard venue, it is drab and kind of sad looking [...]