Had an interesting and fun evening at the Natural History Museum last night at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards.
News
BBC Blue Planet II
Having worked on all the stills inside the new book of the BBC’s Blue Planet II for most of the year its a great relief that the project is no longer secret!
Mark Carwardine – analogue artwork to digital press
Very pleased to see Mark Carwardines new book drop through the post recently: Mark Carwardine’s guide to Whale Watching in North America, USA – Canada – Mexico.
Out of hours emergency retouching and imaging service
Don’t spoil a book, campaign or web launch with sub par but correctable images: Help is at hand…
Getting View: Print Size to work properly in Photoshop – older method
I love using “Print Size” in the Photoshop “View” menu as it allows me to see how big the image will print in the physical (real) world.
Welcome generosity
Credit: Bernard O’Hara & Renos Savva. Wellcome Images
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Growing crystals of a DNA repair protein bound to
DNA. This particular repair protein is the E. coli
mismatch U:G DNA glycosylase. The crystals are
produced for x-ray crystallographic studies to
determine the structure of the protein-DNA
complex.
Published: –
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Welcome images – the photolibrary arm of the Welcome Trust has decided to make its image collection freely available to all under the Creative Commons image license.
High res images are available for download under either a free use for any purpose or free use for non-commercial purposes only. You can read more about this on their website here: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/page/News.html
Client Story: Natural History Museum new book
Very pleased to have worked on the new book from the Natural History Museum titled “Unforgettable Behaviour”
The book shows some of the most interesting animal behaviour from past “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” overall and category winners and adds descriptive text that adds context and depth to the story of each image.
Im a big fan of having a better understanding of the world and happy that this book is not just visually strong but also contains a depth of knowledge in the subject matter.
t was my job to translate the RGB images supplied from multiple sources into a cohesive and consistent set of CMYK separations that could be printed safe in the knowledge that shadow, midtone and highlight details are preserved and best represent the image on paper.
Update: Preparing the workshop
Very much looking forward to presenting my half day Imaging Workflow Workshops at Chester Zoo in September this year. I’m going through material for the presentation and I’m determined to fill the session with as much information and insight as possible.
As well as my session there is a half day session each with Sue Flood (photography) and Cindy Miller Hopkins who will guide you well on metadata amongst other things. The final half day sees us all together to review and help answer any outstanding questions. It will be a very worthwhile 2 days, we will pour out our knowledge with no compromise or commercial break.
Lightroom is too slow? don’t get me wrong, I do love Lightroom, I use it to ingest shoots, search for images, manage collections, bulk print and make the occasional web gallery, it really excels in lots of important areas. Where it falls down on is speed for editing and retouching, I will be showing work arounds and methods for faster and more accurate workflow using Bridge and Photoshop but in the meantime, here is a message I posted for Adobe:
Adobe:
Lightroom is getting a little long in the tooth, the mobile apps are a fun and sometimes a useful addition but we really need the main desktop program to be better.
Editing and retouching – even with pre built smart previews is achingly slow.
I have monitored processor, memory and disk usage during these tasks and found nothing on my fast i7 PC is stressed, the headroom in speed and bandwidth is simply unused – there must be something fundamentally askew with the code to be causing this latency.
Please use a tiny fraction of your newly expanded profits to employ someone who can write tight and fast code to get the job done, it would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Stephen Johnson
Copyrightimage Ltd
Update: July 11th
Adobe have released a statement acknowledging problems and have promised a fix. Nice to see Adobe responding to its wider community, I hope a better product will be the result.