7September2009
Posted by Neill under: Opinions.
There’s been a lot of talk about EPaper disposable LCD’s recently and how they might be the saviour of the magazine industry. Some say that being able to enmbed video into a magazine will be revolutionary, others comment that the ‘disposability’ factor and apparent wastefulness in this age is unacceptable.
What both sides have yet to comment upon is the new wave of ebooks about to hit Read the rest of this entry »
2September2009
Posted by Neill under: Personal Projects.
I’ve been meaning to kick this one off for more than a year now, but I guess with the birth of my Driving Images car photography website, it’s a good time. Dead Metal will be my first real ‘personal project’ as such. I’m a big believer in personal work, but in the past, personal projects have been one offs, helping out organisations and groups I believe in and other subjects. Read the rest of this entry »
2September2009
Posted by Neill under: Technology.
Last weekend, I was shooting a personal car for someone and it seemed like the perfect chance to test out the Elinchrom Ranger lights the guys at The Flash Centre are so proud of. I have to say that the more I use this kit, the more I love it. Read the rest of this entry »
18August2009
Posted by Neill under: Latest News.
I’m really pleased to announce that I’m working with Canon UK and The Flash Centre to present Shooting Supercars at The Yorkshire Air Museum on 9th September. Read the rest of this entry »
13August2009
Posted by Neill under: Articles.
It’s something I needed to do. I’m moving more and more into shooting video and as I climbed the learning curve, it made my head hurt, but I really needed to do it.
There are lots of stills photographers out there moving to video as an extra skill. Right now, there are great new oportinities to use video and new technologies to tell stories in ways we’ve never been able to until now. You’ll have read how I shot the Ice Driver video in Sweden on the Canon 5D Mk2, but how easy is it for a professional stills photographer to move into shooting video? Until this year I’ve been a 100% stills photographer. I shoot a combination of car editorial and commercial work, together with commercial aerial photography and ground based building assignments. Early last year, I could see the potential, but Read the rest of this entry »
5August2009
Posted by Neill under: Opinions.
If you’ve read some of my blog posts from earlier this year, you might have come to the conclusion that I’m starting to dance on the grave of the traditional car magazine, but you’d be wrong. While I’m a big believer in blogs and online car mags (I’ve started writing some myself) I still enjoy picking up a magazine and flicking the pages, before settling down for a good read. But I’ve been struggling to put into words just what it is that means that one car magazine should survive Read the rest of this entry »
30June2009
Posted by Neill under: Blogging / Self Publishing.
I was having quite a long chat with a prospoective client last week about how their website wasn’t performing and how using blogging and other social media ideas would work well for them. The company spends a lot of time with their clients, they’re a motorsport company, but they’re in the ‘people’ business and they’re good at what they do. The owners and main staff are all professional and really nice people. So why did they talk to me about this social media thing? Read the rest of this entry »
29June2009
Posted by Neill under: Blogging / Self Publishing.
Having got all excited in early June about starting the first of several new websites about cars, photography and driving, I paused for a moment to re-assess exactly what I was trying to do. This ‘moment’ turned out to be several weeks long, as I re-thought my whole plan about these sites and decided to totally re-write one of them, so apologies for the lack of forthcoming info.
So, here’s the first site I’ve been working on. Read the rest of this entry »
9June2009
Posted by Neill under: Video.
Philip Bloom is a lighting cameraman who’s teamed up with Dennis Lennie to create F Stop Academy, specifically tailored to people who want to know how to achieve the film look from a video camera. Personally, I also think it could well be a very useful course for stills photographers like myself how are making the move into shooting video. It that’s you, here’s my thoughts on the Podcast you can download from them. Read the rest of this entry »
3June2009
Posted by Neill under: Blogging / Self Publishing.
My quest for global domination starts today. Well, no not really. But the websites I’ve been tinkering with for a while now are going to get vastly more attention starting right now. More and more people, both close freinds, clients, Twitter followers and others have been telling me to basically stop poncing around and just get on with it. “We like your stuff” they say, “Write more of it, shoot more stuff, get it online”, so here goes. Read the rest of this entry »
