Monthly Archives: June 2010

Hey Red, you’re late!

By photograjph | Published June 23, 2010

Some of you may recall my drooling over the much anticipated Scarlet Mysterium Monstro FF35 – sure it looks like a Lego camera, but this thing seriously had tech spec cred back in October of last year!

Of course, the existing HDDSLR players were going to be nipping at Reds’ heels with their big budgets and massive global R&D efforts, and the Canon HDDSLR offerings (particularly the 5D MkII) has shown that hardware cheaper than Red (or Alexa) can produce some pretty impressive results!! Continue reading »

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Copy-pocrisy?

By photograjph | Published June 13, 2010

Copyright has long been one of those really interesting topics for discussion, that quickly turns dead boring as soon as you start looking into the details on the legal side!! As photographers, we’re really good at communicating how we’d individually like copyright to be handled so that our own works are treated right, but terrible at coming up with a useful set of rules that we think should apply to everyone – face it, we live in a world that is dominated by exceptions to the rule, and not the rule itself!! Continue reading »

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No filming the police??

By photograjph | Published June 7, 2010

In an interesting (and growing) trend in the US, apparently at least 3 states have banned filming and photographing police officers on duty. It’s an interesting situation, apparently based on the proliferation of YouTube videos of police violence and brutality!!

No commentary from me on this one, everyone will have their own opinion – given the mini-flurry regarding photography in public places (underground train stations in particular), this is another extension of the same theory…

Check the articles out here and

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Techgasm meets snowboarding

By photograjph | Published June 7, 2010

Seriously, where do I sign up?? What do I need to do to get good enough (or rich enough) to play with this kind of tech, in spectacular locations!!

If you’re not using helicopters in your shooting, you’re not trying hard enough!! And check out their site, Brain Farm

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Zack Arias – Transform

By photograjph | Published June 7, 2010

Ages ago I was pointed towards a guest post by Zack Arias on Scott Kelby’s blog – I posted it here, but it would appear it was lost during one of the site upgrades!! So I want to repost it, even though some of you might have seen it – I find it inspiring, gives me some perspective and gets me enthused about shooting!! You can check out the original post and be sure to take a look around Zack’s site!!

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