Photographing Shops is Illegal...

...apparently! Yet another case of security guards harassing photographers.

Whilst we are on the subject, check out photographersrights.org.uk it's a new website created by John Stolz to provide a hub of information about our rights in, what used to be, a free country. Please give it all the support you can

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Big Prints

There are few times in my life when I have unrolled the contents of a cardboard tube and exclaimed "wow" but this weekend was one of them!

I have just had some large A1 sized prints made of some of my favourite pictures and I have to say I am very impressed. Up till now I have not bothered getting large prints done as finding a supplier who can reliably reproduce images at a reasonable price can be a bit of a pain, I often have been disappointed with the results…but not now!

My prints were produced by Dave Newton of Photopositive, for those of you who don’t know Dave he is the technical editor of CPN (Canon Professional Network) and EOS Magazine and more importantly he is very, very picky. Years of testing cameras and lenses means that he knows "pin sharp" from just "sharp" and he knows a good colour rendition from a bad one. Dave’s site features printing services, which uses a simple 4 part process to produce your prints:

• Preparation - simply sort out the pics you want printed and create a text file explaining what you want printed.
  
• Upload - either ftp or snail-mail the files.
  
• Payment - The site features a rather wizzy javascript calculator that works out the pricing for you. You then click the paypal button to pay (using either your paypal account or a credit card).
  
• Wait - for your prints soon your prints will arrive through your (or even your customers) door.

Defences at Dawn (looks great printed large)
(Click to view large)

Now I have a reliable supplier, it won't be long before I am offering large prints of some of my more popular shots.

Fotoritim Photo Magazine

I am rather chuffed that the Turkish web based photography magazine Fotoritim have just done a feature on me. If you don't read Turkish the English translation is further down the page.

A big thank you to Levent Yildiz at Fotoritim for taking the time to produce such an excellent magazine.

Patrick Smith is Photographer of the Month for April

Patrick Smith is a San Fransico based photographer who produces work of remarkable clarity and perfection. A visit to his website is a real treat for the eyes.

Rust & Surf
by Patrick Smith

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Previous Photographers of the Month

Painters with Light Gallery Owners Presentation

The Painting with Light team get quite a few enquiries from gallery owners about exhibitions and being visually orientated folk we decided to create a presentation about the group and its work. Dave Peck did all the hard work, designing and building a powerpoint presentation to showcase our work.

The thing is, powerpoint is not really a format you want to stick on the web. So I have used authorPoint Lite to convert the presentation to flash and then stuck it on some spare webspace. If you get a spare few minutes, why not take a look at the Painitng with Light Society Gallery Owners Presentation and let me know what you think.

Lightroom Tips and Tricks

Just came across this free ebook of Lightroom tips & tricks - might be of use to all you Lightroom users.

Photoshop Disasters

I have just come across the Photoshop Disasters blog. there is some great stuff on there. It is really interesting to see how much the view of the world we are presented with has been manipulated. My current favourite is this headless sportsman:

In addition I notice the Daily Mail still has this image on their site - even though half the front wheel of the left hand motorcycle is missing.

Whilst we are looking at Photoshop manipulation, if you haven't visited the portfolio at Iwanex studio it is well worth a look to see how much the images of the beautiful and famous are tweaked (click on portfolio than a persons image - moving the mouse gives you the before & after).

If "the camera never lies" then it seems Photoshop can make it fib a bit!