James Stier

Found a cool set of time lapses that we shot for Phlegm comics a while ago, never been posted before.

Phlegm – House Skate Park from Voidcomp on Vimeo.

The spray job was done for The House, a skate park has been open since 1998 down in the depths of Sheffield in the extreme quarter. It’s a big place, contained in a 10,500 sq ft warehouse which used to be a smelting plant. It has an awesome atmosphere, especially through the night with fantastic lighting and acoustics. The spray took around 6 hours including the odd break. We shot on two cameras,a 1D and a 5D both connected to a laptop which triggered a shot every 10 seconds. No I would probably have shot at more frequent intervals and not changed angle as often, however the effect still works really well. Music by CloudDead.

More to follow.

Just got this email today by Marcus Bleasdale Vii photo agency.

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As a result of the message I recently received from the Guardian, I have canceled my subscription. I encourage those who have a similar subscription to do the same.

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We are writing to inform you that GNM will cease paying reuse fees in respect of photography it commissions from 01 September 2009. What this means is that from this date GNM’s standard terms for commissioned photography shall include a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to re-use commissioned photography in its products and services without further payment.

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I am just about to start photographing a selection of miniature models I painted a while back, it gives me a chance to experiment with some lighting and a few new lenses. Thought I would post a first test.

James.

RIAT, otherwise known as the Royal International Air Tattoo went off without a hitch this month, and as such I was asked to support 606 (Chiltern) Squadron based at RAF Benson with some photography of the weekends events. The air show is held annually each July at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, RIAT is the world’s largest military air show.

For the event I was given a Nikon D300 kit for use with 606. With the body was a 24-70mm f2.4 and a 70-200 f2.8.

Coming from a Canon system everything seems to fit either upside down or the wrong way around, but you get used to it, and nowadays I am not that precious over what kit I use as long as its up to the job and the Nikon… well… was and was great really. Its way more featured packed than the Canon EOS 1D, the image quality is good and the camera’s ergonomics make sense after a while. I can’t fault the lens quality either, I will always remember Mike Jolly, an old colleague of mine telling a story about Robert Capa and how he used Nikon optics in Vietnam, and when one of his pictures came back with 4 specs of dust in the corner they were investigated and blown up to reveal Black Hawk helicopters still retaining amazing detail.

I have included some of the “alternative, weather dictated PR shots” for you pleasure.

Take it easy.

The main video player I use is by far VLC, its been a beta version for an eternity but finally has been released as 1.0 with a predicted 4 million downloads within the first month of release.

This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.

The VLC project only lives with volunteers and would love help from new users and contributors: time, code, hardware and money would help us a lot. You don’t need to be a developer to help.

More info can be found at: http://www.videolan.org