Controlling your light and environment.

One of the key aspects of successful commercial photography is the ability to control the light and subject.

This is not always as straight forward as it seems.

For instance, how would you get a picture of a duck, half in and half out of the water?

Read this story to find out:

Duck Shot

CES 2012

The latest in Camera Technology will be on display at the CES Show.

The Photography industry always watches these big events with interest.

From the CES SHOW itself:

The Industry’s Brightest Minds Come Here
Every year, the most cutting-edge innovations can be seen in one place. Join us January 10–13 (Tuesday-Friday), 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., for the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. Register now, and be prepared to be surrounded by thinkers, creatives, leaders, dreamers and innovators – and the life-changing products they create.

Product Image Zoom Technology

More and more ecommerce platforms are placing an emphasis on delivering high quality images.

One of the more recent popular software solutions is zooming of images.

These software solutions do need high resolution images and in fact raise their importance.

Here we have ekmpowershop offering their latest variation of this software:

Image Zoom

The power of social media...

Interesting story here.

Man takes a picture of his daughter at a shopping centre and then runs into problems with the security staff and the police.

Details here:

Braehead Shopping Center

What is interesting about this story is that due to the man "marketing" his story on Facebook and receiving lots of support, the shopping centres changed their policies.

Amazing what a little communication can do...

Have you ever considered offering Photography to your clients?

Imagine you are involved in Real Estate in one way shape or form.

Would you use professional photographers and supply them "free" for your clients to use?

One company has and is in fact uing it as a unique selling point:

Airbnb marketing through photography

This is actually a piece of genius as a selling point, I hope it works for them and others follow suit.

Hereford Photography Exhibition

The Exhibition runs from October 28 to November 26, featuring more than 200 works in a range of venues, including Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, The Courtyard, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford College of Arts and The Watershed.

More information here:

Hereford Photography Exhibition 2011

Can a blind man take a photgraph?

Apparently so...

Using techniques where they asertain conditions based on temperature, warmth of the sun, sound etc, a group of blined photographers have been taking pictures and exhibiting those images.

More information on this fascinating story here:

Blind Photographers