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Industrial photography in a foundry

Casting the steel A few notes about a photograph produced for an industrial client.

This is as close as it’s safe to get.

The molten steel could fracture the mould. Unlikely, but this is not a place for the close up wide angle lens ;-)

Pouring molten steel into a mould at a steelworks

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No more big Fuji Velvia films?

I see that Fujifilm is stopping production of Fujichrome Velvia 100F in 35mm, 120 and 4″x5″ formats It’s also halting 4″x5″ and 8″x10″ versions of Velvia 50 (still to be available in 35mm and 120)

Time to fill up the freezer, last shipments due in the UK in December.

I’d not count on a re-launch [...]

The photographer working for free

As a pro photographer, is there a place for ‘free’ work?

Is this a free lunch?

One of the traps that many new photographers fall into is the ‘Pictures for credit’ ruse.

It goes like this:

“We’d love to feature your work in our website/brochure/magazine, but we’ve no budget. If we can [...]

Nik Software and HDR Efex Pro 2

I notice that Nik software have just announced an update to their HDR software ‘HDR Efex Pro 2′

Last year I wrote a lengthy review of HDR Efex Pro, and was very pleased to see, how with care it was possible to avoid much of what I’ve long considered the more obvious excesses of much [...]