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My early photography

GS — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:51:21 +0000

There wasn’t any money to buy proper photographic equipment when I was growing up. So it wasn’t until I got a part-time job after school that I was able to fund my interest, which was primarily in film-making by then rather than still photography.
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Manchester Local Image Collection

GS — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:55:33 +0000

I’m a huge fan of the Manchester Libraries Local Image Collection which puts 80,000 archive photographs at our fingertips online.

A week I ago I discovered some changes had been made which meant the hundreds of links that I have from my website to theirs didn’t work anymore. But I’m glad to say that after I alerted them to the problem they fixed it.

The Image Collection has been integrated with the site’s shopping cart system, making it easier to buy a high-quality print. An 10″x8″ print costs £7.

Good news for photographers as ‘orphan works’ clause is dropped

GS — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:13:38 +0000

Last night the government was forced to drop clause 43 of the Digital Economy Bill. This badly-thought-out legislation would have given publishers the freedom to use ‘orphan works’. In other words, any photograph belonging to a photographer who the publisher claimed could not be traced.
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The highs and lows of film-making and why relatively few good videos get made

GS — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:29:05 +0000

Watching the G20 protests on TV it seemed that every other person had a camera. Yet only two video clips of the Ian Tomlinson incident have come to light so far. One was shot by a member of the public, the other by a broadcast news team and despite professional cameras being outnumbered by ‘activist’ cameras to the tune of hundreds to one.

A fluke? I suggest not.
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More4 News presenter attacked live on air following G20 protests

GS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:24:57 +0000

Last night as Alex Thomson presented More4 News live from the City, a man pushed his way in front of the camera.
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Keys copied from photos on Flickr

GS — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:52:12 +0000

‘At a computer conference in Alexandria, Virginia, Stefan Savage, a computer security expert who led the “Sneakey” project, surfed the photo-sharing website Flickr and found pictures that clearly showed peoples’ keys, even if personal information in the shots had been blurred out.

In one demonstration, the team cut duplicate keys after analysing images taken on a mobile phone. In another, they used a telephoto lens to take pictures of a set of keys on a cafe table from the roof of a university building.’

The Guardian: Copying keys from photos is child’s play

Ugly utility boxes in the street are disguised by pasting photographs

GS — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:52:57 +0000

The urban art of Joshua Callaghan: the man who can turn street objects invisible.

Free online photo prints offers

GS — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:41:14 +0000

MoneySavingExpert.com has a round up of photo print special offers.

MP fights for photographers’ rights

GS — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:50:40 +0000

Labour Member of Parliament Austin Mitchell, a photographer himself, has tabled an early day motion supporting the rights of people who take pictures in public places.

What is a ‘professional’ camera?

GS — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:27:21 +0000

It makes me laugh to see articles on photo websites and in magazines that say a particular camera is for professionals and some other camera is just for enthusiasts or amateurs.

Photo mags are all about selling you expensive equipment. The sad thing is that people are led to believe they can’t be creative unless they have some costly piece of kit. The fact is, you can make wonderful photographs with any camera.