Posted on June 9, 2010
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in All Posts, photography, Research & Education, Teaching Resources, Tutorials
I had a brilliant day at the Learning Lighthouse last Thursday where I ran a Digital Photography and Photoshop session for 7-11 yr olds with their parents/ grandfathers and guardians. Each session was only 2hrs long and the children/ adults got through quite a lot and more importantly had a lot of fun learning (then breaking) the rules of Photography. The first part of the session was a practical based learning as the young photographers used digital cameras and we followed the Digital Photography Tips & Tricks Presentation . The group then did an introduction to Photoshop and ‘played’ with making titles and adding filters to their photographs. Here is a gallery of all the final pieces. You don’t have to have Photoshop to edit your photographs, there are lots of free on-line photo-editing software . Well done to all the students now photographers who participated on the course and thanks to the lovely crew at The Learning Lighthouse.
Posted on May 5, 2010
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in All Posts, Filmmaking, Hatched projects, Motion Graphics, Moving Image, Teaching Resources, Techniques, Tutorials
Have been really busy with the BBC the last month working with Milky Tea on the production of a CBeebies’ pilot. We shot the pilot over two days in a converted barn down in Hemel Hempstead. It was a fab couple of days and I will post a bit later once we have got going on the project. In the meantime, here are a few shots from the shoot. It was a completely green screen shoot and was shot on DV Cam. Bit of a shame really as i was trying to convince the Beeb to shoot on HD progressive …. but the budget didn’t allow the extra cost for the pilot. Dave the camera man did a class job of filming and DOP’ing. Again, at a later date I will give a detailed breakdown of the shoot and how he lit the event.
Posted on January 7, 2010
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in All Posts, Graphics, Techniques, Tutorials
Just been doing a bit of Spring (I know its way too early & its cold) cleaning of my Bookmarks folder and came across some great websites for Graphic Designers; tutorials, free stuff, textures etc. Anyways, here they are; 30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies by Six Revisions…Colorburned & Bittbox
Posted on January 6, 2010
by admin
in Graphics, Tutorials
Hi All, Happy 2010 to everyone and wishing you all the best and a whole heap of success for the year. Apologies I have been very quiet on the blog but have had a bad case of Laryngitis and flu all over the festive period but hey ho! Anyways, gonna kick of the New Year with a post by Abducted Design – ‘A Collection of Visual Inspiration and Useful Tutorials’. Have a good one!
