National Trust Photography Issues

Amateur Photographer is reporting today that stock photo library Alamy is set to remove thousands of images from its database after the National Trust complained they breached its policy on picture use. Under strict rules, the National Trust bans the commercial use of photographs taken at its properties. Normally I wouldn’t have an issue with [...]

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DSLR Video Catching On

It’s surely a sign of a maturing martket when accessories start to be produced for something. With the increasing number of DSLRs that now allow you to take video such as Nikon’s D90 and D5000 and Canon’s 5D Mk II and 500D, it seems people are catching the DSLR video bug. There was the recent [...]

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Happy Birthday DPS!

The Digital Photography School site is three years old this month. In addition, they’ve also just posted their 1,000th article. To celebrate they’ve posted the top 10 articles ranked by views. The top ten are: 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples How to Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo [...]

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The War on Photographers

I was exceedingly disappointed today to see an article over on Amateur Photographer about how the UK Government is continuing to encourage people to report photographers despite very little evidence that terrorists wander around with cameras taking snapshots of their targets (apart from in the movies of course). The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) [...]

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Yes, yes. I know know I haven’t posted anything for a while but things have been a little quite of late. So for all of those friends of mine who like pinhole photography (most of who have made their own matchbox pinhole cameras) here’s something for you. This Sunday (26th April) is Worldwide Pinhole Photography [...]

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