| Friday 14th December 2007 Welcome to the first edition
of our free weekly magazine for photographers. Our objective is to provide you
with selected information that will assist you to enjoy and succeed with your
photography, and to do this in a way that also allows a very useful
photographers resource to be built.
Each newsletter will not be
huge, and contain often just a brief overview of the topics that we have looked
at, with links to the detail for those who want it. We don’t expect everyone to
be interested in every article but to check what is on offer and to read the
ones that grab their attention. We are in no way attempting to compete with
printed magazines, or any other service that is currently available.
In each newsletter you will
find some common features like a photograph of the week, a technical term
explained, a look at a type of photography, a featured location and several
other locations in less detail, technical tips and articles. Regular items will
include reviews, a look at a course, diary items showing what is coming up over
the next couple of months that would be interesting to photograph, and about
once every 3 weeks we will introduce one of the models that you could be
photographing while attending one of our courses. We will also be expanding the
reference section and several other sections and from time to time will tell you
what has been added.
We will also carry news that
we have come across, where we feel it may be relevant or interesting to you.
Starting soon we will be
adding a challenge each month, this will run over the months editions with the
challenge to start, then explanations of ways you might meet this, and what we
have come up with. Perhaps also featuring what some of you have done as well. We
also want to develop a competition, but this process will start with a
discussion paper explaining what we are proposing and getting your feedback,
before we put anything into practice.
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What is he thinking? Put your mouse
point over the picture. White
Lion taken at West Midlands Safari Park, October 2007 with Nikon D2x and
80-400VR lens at 400mm ISO 500 1/320th f9 (through car window) edited
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Of course we are limited in
what we can do, some weeks we are so fully occupied training that writing much
for the magazine is difficult, this week is a good example with Keith
running a 5 day and 4 evening course for a client who has just bought a D300. So
the amount of material in magazines will vary, however we have developed a
schedule of what we would ideally like to cover that runs 6 weeks ahead, so some
material can be created ahead of when it will be needed, we decided not to publish this
as we won’t be sticking to it. If more interesting or topical things happen, or
something comes up, or new developments happen, or we get our hands on something
new we will want to tell you about it, after all we are involved in photography
and photographic training because we are enthusiastic photographers, and want to
enjoy our involvement to the full.
Our articles will often cover
specific areas of photography, perhaps looking sometimes at specific features of
the cameras, or at a type of photography. We would appreciate that you cannot
learn a great deal from a magazine article, but get in many cases an overview of
a topic. However looking at a specific camera feature or aspect may be a useful
way of covering both minor items that tend to get overlooked when you are
learning so much more on a course and refreshing your memory on some other
aspects.
The largest item we are
currently working on is an in depth review of the D300, and this will appear within
the next few weeks, due to the reviews size this may be broken down to run
over two or more weeks. It would not be possible to do such a review in a
printed magazine.
We would encourage you to
register to get the email headlines, so that you know immediately each edition
is available, this is done with an automated system, and you can unsubscribe to
this any time you want very easily by just clicking the last line of the email.
As we know how many people have been circulated it will give us some idea of how
many are reading the newsletter, and down line when numbers grow may help us to
persuade manufactures to lend us items to review. While you could just pop in
occasionally when you remember and the last few newsletters will be available,
you would miss out on some of the offers we have planned, some of which will
only appear in the newsletter and be for a week only. Our objective is to bring
out a new newsletter every Friday, and we hope you try it for at least a month
to see how interesting you find it.
If you don’t read it
regularly or you remember something you have seen covered but didn’t make a note
at the time, then you will still be able to find articles, reviews, reference
information, what is coming up that can be photographed, locations and a lot
more from the website, that will grow week on week, with sections and pages
being updated and extended as new information comes to light.
Other pages in this
newsletter
An
introduction to reference
resources for photographers.
Type of Photography:
Photojournalism
An
introduction to photochromes - just like travelling back in time.
A quick look at a course:
The Conversion Short, moving to a different Nikon DSLR camera.
Technical Tip:
Resetting the way windows links to a program when a camera is connected,
particularly relevant if you have previously set Picture Project as your default
and now want to use ViewNX and Nikon Transfer.
Photographers Diary for
December 2007 and
January 2008, while we may think there is
not much on at this time of the year we have been able to find a few interesting
events, as the year goes on we expect the number of identified opportunities to
increase.
Featured Location:
Martin Mere, WWT centre in Lancashire. This time of year is the best for this
and some of the other WWT centres as there are large numbers of geese and swans
visiting us from the north.
Location Guides:
Brecon Beacons National Park,
South Wales
Cairngorms National
Park, Scotland
Castell
Henllys Iron Age Fort, Pembrokeshire
We will be adding more
location guides each week.
