Video sniffing
Channel 4 News reveals how film-makers are using footage from public cctv cameras. It’s called ‘video sniffing’.
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What is a ‘professional’ camera?
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 … What is a ‘professional’ camera?
Can the Pink Paper be trusted on Manchester Pride figures (or anything)?
How much fact-checking does The Pink Paper do? Does it publish information from press releases without checking the accuracy? Would it ever pull the wool over our eyes if it meant a bit of extra advertising money from Manchester Pride?
St. Peter’s Square, Manchester
Looking through the pictures in the Manchester Local Image Collection, I came across this wonderful photograph. It’s reminiscent of those vintage shots of men working on skyscrapers in New York.
If you’re not too keen on heights it will
Kentucky Fried Cruelty (video)
Pamela Anderson introduces this shocking video. Some chickens raised for Kentucky Fried Chicken face cruelty from birth to painful death. More info here. Contains upsetting scenes. The Sunday Mirror wrote this article about the hideous conditions in Britain. A growing number of people are boycotting chains such as KFC until they improve animal welfare.
Strange grey blur and circles on photographs
These are three photographs that I took on 11 February 2004 at about 6pm. At the time I thought they were rather odd and sent them to a few friends. Now it seems that other people have experienced strange circles and ‘orbs’ on digital images, so I thought I would publish them with some information.
Photographer loses image library in fire — how safe is your audio and visual data?
As a photographer myself, I broke out into a cold sweat reading how this poor man lost most of his image library in the Lever Street fire. Equipment can be replaced but unique transparencies, negatives and digital images can’t be.
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