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#76 ‘Google’ for photos

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Exposed! photo newsletter went out late last night – New subscribers will receive the newsletter today or tomorrow! Older issues are available for reading on my site.

I recently discovered a website that searches the web for your pictures. It’s like google for your photos. Tineye scans the world wide web for other placements of your photos. Quite amazing and has great applications for working photographers!

The site is new and growing – ie it is in beta format and there is still some growth needed before it is fully comprehensive. You need to register, but give it a whirl!

Harry

#75 New Exposed! Newsletter

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My Exposed! newsletter will be coming out in the next few days for those who have signed up to receive it (see top right of this page). Older Exposed! articles and homework can be found on my site.

This month’s article will feature what I like to call photographer’s insurance – ways to maximize your odds of success! It will include photos & anecdotes of shooting rock bands and golf!

drum set @ ChelseaGallery.ca

My cycling race photo workshop is less than two weeks away – spots are still available. We will be shooting for the EMD Serono cycling wonen’s and men’s team with a chance to connect with these athletes.

Have fun,

H

#74 Loose Ends

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The week has raced by – bursting a bit. Some highlights:

Feist at Ottawa Bluesfest
Feist at Ottawa Bluesfest – ChelseaGallery.ca

  • filing and paperwork – not my favourite
  • I was asked to be a moderator on the fun and large photo news site PhotographyVoter.
  • A really fun  stock assignment for the government was agreed upon in principle – waiting the official go ahead.
  • I am teaching a custom course based on my Urban Landscapes photo course.

A diversion for you today – a story on a man who took a Polaroid a day for 18 years! The story is both fun and sad.

H

#73 I am not old!!!

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It keeps happening.

It happened again on the weekend.

I met a reader of my ‘Exposed!’ articles, blog, etc. and she exclaimed “I thought you were much older!”

Based on my writing people seem to think I am much older than my actual and youthful 39.9 years. And I am not sure why!

To show my youthful complection see some fine photos people have taken of me:


A youthful Harry

shooting a marathon


teaching a course

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Self portrait from ChelseaGallery.ca


teaching motion photography


skiing

Am I being touchy with my 40th birthday looming!? Dunno. I am perplexed as to why people imagine I am much older than I feel.

Have fun. Celebrate your years,

H

#72 Marathon Photos

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It was the National Capital Marathon weekend In Ottawa, Canada. I had three jobs:

  • cheering for my girlfriend and friends
  • shooting for stock agencies
  • shooting for the blog

My hat goes off to everyone doing it – the elite who work hard to achieve winningly fast times and those who work hard to achieve finishing the race at all.

Below are a few photos of the event:

Ottawa Marathon - HarryNowell.com

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Nice work, everyone!

Shooting sport events is some of my favourite work. Check for my sport event photo workshops and experience the fun!

H

#71 New Microsoft technology – boggling

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My brother, who oversees some Cisco hardware development, keeps me in the loop with some cutting edge technology.

He sent me a link about some cutting edge developments from Microsoft’s R&D department – Microsoft Live Labs. It’s a presentation showcasing how visual data can now be viewed, morphed and displayed. It has applications for social networking and collective online projects. Welcome to the future. It’s boggling.

The technology is brought to you in part by Seadragon who are developing ways to overcome limits of bandwidth and large amounts of data.

Photosynth, also discussed in the link above, is a revolutionary new way of accessing and collectively archiving photos and data on a global scale – enormous volumes of information at your fingertips.

Welcome to the future,

H

#69 Bluesfest and the media

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Ottawa Bluesfest is coming. It’s a fine time of the year for me. Shooting this fine festival is the easy part.

The challenging part is finding the photos a market. Media passes are granted with the expectation that the photographer (that’s me) will get the event (that’s Bluesfest) press and media attention.

Ottawa Bluesfest

Feist playing to her fans. Shot on a panoramic film camera.

My Bluesfest photos have been licensed to a range of media outlets over the years. My favourite usage was by the federal government to promote tourism in Canada. A generic concert shot showing off the Bluesfest stage, below, was printed in the LA Times, NY Times and Boston Globe:

Ottawa Bluesfest

Tomorrow I meet with a client about some Bluesfest imagery in anticipation of Bluesfest’s 15th anniversary.

#68 Photographers beware!

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Everybody’s out to save a buck – even large multinational corporations – and photographers seem to be easy targets!

I was cruising photographervoter last week and came across a link to Lightchasers – a Phillipines based photo web site. They posted a story about a large US based oil firm that has asked the public to donate photos to the company for commercial use. The payment? – a ‘chance’ to win a prize.

It gets worse – please read the posting and just say no to donating photos to large business looking to save the price of well executed photo work!!

For more info read my recent photo newsletter article on the ‘Value of Photography.’

In other news there will be new work posted on ChelseaGallery.ca soon. One of the new prints soon to be available:

Have fun,

Harry

#67 Prize awarded

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Congratulations go out to Deanna S. who correctly answered the first photo blog contest at HarryNowell.com!

The question:

I asked for the appropriate lens for a tricky assignment. See blog post #66 for the complete question.

The answer:

A large apertured, moderate telephoto lens would get the shot well! I would choose an 85mm f1.8 lens to let as much light into the camera while still allowing a moderately fast shutter speed. A mid range zoom – 80-200mm – with a wide aperture of f2.8 would also be a good choice.

Deanna wins a print from ChelseaGallery.ca! Competition was fierce with the first two correct answers arriving minutes apart. Stay tuned for the second photography blog contest at HarryNowell.com in June.

Nice work Deanna,

Harry