In a relaxed class-room setting Bryan will walk photographers through the WOW! factor of this excellent workflow software, concentrating particularly on the SIZZLE! – the essential features that make DARKROOM the killer app for photographers who earn their money by selling prints.
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You'll need to bring your laptops to this symposium, as Bryan will have working copies of DARKROOM for you to use to follow him through his informative presentation.
Bryan will be showing you how to get DARKROOM to maximize your output (and your profit!) at events. He'll show you how to use DARKROOM to create prints instantly with templates that include borders, text, graphics and backgrounds – including the digital backgrounds you use with greenscreen effects.
Bryan's symposium has been very well received in the past (just look at the testimonials photographers gave it in the YouTube! clip below!).
And for those who want – having experienced the SIZZLE! – to take their introduction to DARKROOM even further, Bryan will be revealing the date of a special "ExpressDigital 101" workshop, to be held soon after the SUMMER SHOW!
Bryan will give two presentations of his ExpressDigital DARKROOM wine & cheese symposium at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your laptops to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.
• New SUMMER SHOW WEBSITE Launched! – www. photomart .co.uk has commissioned a special new web page to cope with demand for information about their forthcoming SUMMER SHOW bumper day of photo workshops in London on 18 June. The new web application presents all the information about the SUMMER SHOW in one easily accessible place, in text, video and audio formats. It includes thumbnail biographies of the presenters, and info about the sponsor companies, as well as the complete details of all the workshops. Visit it now at www.photomart.co.uk/summer08 [expand story >>>]
The www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW is a bumper day of photo workshops in London on 18 June, 2008. Leading photographers, sponsored by major manufacturers, will present workshops throughout the day, and it also includes a number of model-shoots, both in-studio and outdoors. Tickets are available from the www.photomart.co.uk website.
• Charity drive for St John at Summer Show! –www. photomart .co.uk is to run a mini charity drive for the St. John Eye Hospital during its SUMMER SHOW bumper day of photo workshops in London on 18 June. The charity drive is to take the form of a draw, at the end of each workshop, for a small item donated by the workshop sponsor. Workshop delegates will enter the draw by filling in a gift-aid donation form (for any amount) for the St. John Eye Hospital – they drop it in the tombola, and winners will be drawn at the end of each workshop! [expand story >>>]
The St John Eye Hospital was established for charitable works in Jerusalem in 1882. Since then, it has been the main centre for expert eye care service in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Eye care is a particular need in these areas due to the prevalence of eye diseases exacerbated by heredity, cultural factors, politics and issues of the economy and public health care delivery. You can get a flavour of what the Hospital is about in the online video below:
Eye disease in this region, particularly among children and the elderly, is ten times more likely to occur than in developed countries. 30 per cent of the population is under the age of ten. Common conditions are squint, infantile glaucoma, cataract and trauma resulting from accidents. Up to 80 per cent of all blindness is preventable. Diabetes is a major contributor to this problem. The St. John Eye Hospital treats patients regardless of race, religion, or ability to pay.
The Hospital is a Foundation of the well-known charity, The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. The Order of St John is over one thousand years old and operates throughout the world.
• Ephotozine give-away "over subscribed!" – ePHOTOzine, the UK's original photography e-zine, was overwhelmed by the response to its recent give-away of free tickets to the www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW. ePHOTOzine's Peter, Tracey and Tricia ran the offer so zealously it was over-subscribed four times over in just 24 hours! Not wanting to disappoint any of their members, ePHOTOzine went back to the SUMMER SHOW organizers and ordered enough tickets for all their winners![expand story >>>]
Simon Towler, www.photomart.co.uk's Marketing Manager, who has responsibility for the SUMMER SHOW, told us: "I was very impressed with the effort ePHOTOzine put into making their ticket give-away a success. They really got behind it. The phenomenal response they generated is testimony to the power of their community as a marketing medium. And the way they came back to us for more tickets shows how much they care about their members. We look forward to seeing the ePHOTOzine winners here at our SUMMER SHOW photo workshops." [add comment]
In Part 1 we looked at the origins of modern event photography, then in Part 2 we examined what it is about kiosk printers that makes them so suited for event photography. In Part 3, PhotoWeek! continued by looking at what happened when some eventers realized they didn't have to chop the printer out of the kiosk. Just last week in Part 4 we told you about Portrait Printers, larger-format event printers on steroids! Now this week we conclude with Part 5, a note on HiTi printers, the unignorable phenomenon without mention of which no survey on event printing would be complete! Expand, and read on! [expand story >>>]
If you're a serious amateur, a semi-pro or a photo entrepreneur on a budget, and you need quality dye sub prints without paying hundreds of pounds per printer, then HiTi may well be for you.
Few issues divide event photographers so much as whether HiTi printers are event machines or not. On the one hand, there are respected professionals established in event photography who would say you shouldn't recommend HiTis in this role. On the other hand, there's always been a loyal contingent of photographers deploying numbers of HiTis at events and swearing by them. And numbers is the key here – HiTis make most sense in a commercial setting where a number of dye subs are needed. Plenty of successful event crews, Internet cafes and photo labs are using HiTis.
Eventing aside, the HiTi proposition is simply this: good dye sublimation prints on quality affordable media from excellent technology in a really affordable package! The casings of these little compact plastic wonders hide all kinds of bells and whistles, including (in some cases) media card slots and direct printing facilities, built-in feature rich software, detachable wired remote controls and the ability to output 4-up prints for ID photos! For the price, the technology and quality is amazing. (One of www.photomart.co.uk's photographers, George Bowdidge, is a well-known user of HiTi for his home printing needs.)
If you're a serious amateur, a semi-pro or a photo entrepreneur on a budget, and you need a number of printers to produce quality dye sub prints, without paying hundreds of pounds per machine, then HiTi may well be for you. (And if so, you've probably already got a brace of them in the back of your Skoda!)
• The Summer Show Will be Televized! –PhotographyTV is to cover the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW this year, Executive Producer, Peter Davey, has confirmed. Presenter Sian Welby will be on location with a three-man crew to shoot an episode of PhotographyTV's groundbreaking magazine-style webTV show entirely at the SUMMER SHOW on 18 June, 2008. Sian will be interviewing many of the leading photographers and industry figures assembled for this event, and will participate in a number of the workshops. [expand story >>>]
The www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW is a bumper day of photo workshops in London on 18 June, 2008. Leading photographers, sponsored by major manufacturers, will present workshops throughout the day, and it also includes a number of model-shoots, both in-studio and outdoors. Tickets are available from the www.photomart.co.uk website.
PhotographyTV is the brain child of photographer and marketing man, Peter Davey. This new webTV channel is centred around a regular magazine-style show, presented by the lively Sian Welby. Sian brings you photography news, reviews, interviews, on-location features and techniques, all presented in her inimicable upbeat way. It's fun, exciting and topical.
• Fujifilm: Bertus Vos will Present at Summer Show! –Fujifilm UK have confirmed they are committing Bertus Vos, formerly of FujiHunt (and before that of the South African Air Force Phototechnical Establishment), to the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008. Mr. Vos will present Fujifilm's GreenBox wide format and canvas printing solutions. In particular he'll demonstrate the Fujifilm ESP software RIP, arguably the single most distinctive component of Fujifilm's GreenBoxes (which are bundles built around Epson and HP printers). Photographers still sceptical about doing their own enlargements on inkjets should definitely catch this workshop! Mr. Vos will be showing a number of "photo paintings" he printed on canvas for the British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley. [expand story >>>]
ESP is a Fujifilm software RIP. ESP stands for Easy Studio Print. Mr. Vos was kind enough to let us video an off-the-cuff presentation of the RIP at the SWPP show in London last January (2008). You can watch his presentation in the YouTube clip below.
Besides its main purpose of colour management, Fujifilm have incorporated many features into the RIP to make it easy for photographers and photo labs to do a lot more than just print.
It uses an easy five step print procedure.
The first step is to open your image library. Thumbnails of all the images in your image library folder will appear along the bottom of the ESP screen, and you'll be able to scroll through them.
The second step is to choose a predefined photo pack. Photo packs can be a layout of multiple images of one size, or they can be a mix of different size images. You drag your images onto the photo pack layout. Images may be used at their original size, or new sizes can be picked for them from presets. If you drag a portrait image onto a landscape format photo pack, it will be rotated automatically. You can make a photo pack from multiple instances of the same image – at different sizes if required – or you can make a multi pack of many different images in a variety of sizes. Where a single image is used, you only need to drag it onto the photo pack once, and all the place holders in the pack will be filled with the same image. Any zooming or cropping you do on the image in one place in the photo pack is automatically replicated in all other places.
(The ESP RIP is also ideal for printing schools packages, where hundreds of different images can be imported onto the photo pack, and the RIP will lay them out across as many sheets as necessary to print all the images.)
The third step it to apply any of the editing features, such as Full Size or Size to Fit, Rotation, Mirroring (vertically or horizontally), or Cropping into the image.
The fourth step is to choose your media profile (in other words, the media that you are going to print on). The ESP RIP will help to prevent you printing onto the wrong media, putting your job on hold if the wrong media is loaded in the printer.
The fifth step is choosing how many copies you want, whether to show crop marks or include job labels, and whether to use Auto Nesting (which automatically rearranges your photo pack to make the most economic use of media). Then you just choose Print!
The ESP RIP has a comprehensive photo pack editor that allows you to edit the presets or create your own.
So in summary, the ESP RIP – as well as delivering the essentials of colour management – also gives you a tool to do page layout with, and nesting to save paper.
The ESP RIP is just one of the inclusions that make Fujifilm GreenBox wideformat packages a complete printing solution, and not just a printer. Fujifilm GreenBox is a complete wide format printing business in a box. It's as simple as that. Sit down to the Bertus Vos presentation at the www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008 and learn all about it! [add comment]
• Hal Satterthwaite to Exhibit at Summer Show! – Art photographer Hal Satterthwaite, author of the "1000 Faces of Walthamstow" photo project, is to exhibit a selection of these portraits at the www.photomart.co.uk studios in Walthamstow, London, during the company's mammoth SUMMER SHOW on 18 June, 2008. [expand story >>>]
Hal's "1000 Faces of Walthamstow" was a community arts project that illustrated the diversity of the people of East London's Walthamstow district – a particularly cosmopolitan quarter of the capital. The project took two years to complete, and resulted in a body of work six feet tall and 120 feet long!
Hal has been invited to attend the www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW, which takes place in Walthamstow, as an honoured guest of the organizers. He will exhibit a selection from the 1000 Portraits at a reception at the www.photomart.co.uk headquarters during the event. [add comment]
In Part 1 we looked at the origins of modern event photography, then in Part 2 we examined what it is about kiosk printers that makes them so suited for event photography. Last week in Part 3, PhotoWeek! continued by looking at what happened when some eventers realized they didn't have to chop the printer out of the kiosk.
Now read on, while we tell you about Portrait Printers, larger-format event printers on steroids! [expand story >>>]
So, what is a Portrait Printer?
Roll-fed Portrait Printers are the bigger cousins of the professional dye-sub photo printers used in Eventing. Typically they print 8×10" and 8×12" size prints on the same kind of media used by other dye-subs. Rollfeed enables them to produce borderless prints, which is a key requirement of the portrait market. Some of them can also simulate a matte finish.
The typical application of a portrait printer over the past couple of years has been to substitute for some of the lab printing that a portrait photographer customarily gets done. An in-house portrait printing solution enables the portrait photographer, shooting digitally, to contain their whole capture-to-print workflow in-house for some prints, giving them fine control over quality and colour adjustment, saving time, and giving them instant feedback as to whether they need to colour adjust or reshoot. It also saves them the relatively high cost of 8×10" and 8×12" prints charged by some labs.
And because they're based on the same design principles as 6×8"/6×9" event printers, they can also be pressed into service at events, producing a succession of high value, high quality portrait-size prints for quick sale.
Until recently, though, these larger, heavier machines were relatively expensive, and could only just about be described as portable. But they didn't drain too much power, and were very robust, so some folk went ahead and used them for on-location work too. However, it has to be said that, up to now, eventers wanting portrait sizes chose sheet printers instead, on account of their smaller size and weight, and lower price tag. (New generation roll-fed machines, with radically redesigned form-factors, are changing that.)
Print quality is more important in portrait printing than it is in eventing. Portrait printers produce superb quality prints on media with a look and feel approximating traditional photo paper. The specification of most portrait printers includes 600dpi resolution for sharper, more detailed images with higher definition. The ability to produce multiple detailed and compelling images quickly at short notice can also make them useful in Public Relations applications, and in Law Enforcement, where multiple copies of images are produced for use in court evidence. A significant portion of these big machines are sold into the public sector.
Next week, in Part 5, we talk about HiTi printers. – Love 'em or laugh at them, there's no denying they carved out a niche for themselves in event photography, and no survey of the subject would be complete without some treatment of them.
On 14th May 2008, the Guyana High Commission in London's Notting Hill was buzzing with activity as around a hundred Guyanese, including the High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr. Laleshwar Singh, flocked to see an exhibition of photo-art of this beautiful country, captured by British travel photographer Ian Brierley. Ian's canvas prints of his unique photo-paintings brought out the subtle, elegant, and captivating hues that accentuate his Guyanese photography. [expand story >>>]
Looks of nostalgia on visitors' faces showed that Ian’s wish to stimulate memories in the Guyanese diaspora was fulfilled. The High Commissioner was extremely impressed with Ian’s body of work of over 3000 images of this exotic country, and expressed his intention to use some of it to help promote tourism in Guyana.
(You can watch the High Commissioner introducing Ian in the YouTube video below).
(This exhibition also marked the official launch of Zoom Airlines weekly direct flights from London to Guyana – the first regular route of this kind so far. Ian Brierley will be presenting a workshop on Travel & Tourism photography at the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London on 18 June 2008.)
In Part 1 we looked at the origins of modern event photography, then last week in Part 2 we examined what it is about kiosk printers that makes them so suited for event photography.
This week in Part 3, PhotoWeek! continues by looking at what happened when some eventers realized they didn't have to chop the printer out of the kiosk. Read on. [expand story >>>]
You can turn ordinary photo kiosks into event systems, or you can assemble your own. An event system is a dedicated arrangement of hardware and software that some photographers put together to shoot their events with. It takes eventing to another level, moving up several gears from the one-man-and-his-laptop approach. Event systems are all about productivity, about maximizing speed and sales, and getting the most out of the limited selling-window available at events.
Event Systems usually comprise an event printer, and a computer front-end. They're often chopped-down photo kiosks. The computer typically is an all-in-one unit with an integrated touch-screen. It runs kiosk software, or a decicated productivity program like ExpressDigital DARKROOM.
Eventers use systems like this for a number of reasons. The simplicity and ease-of-use of photo kiosk software can enable an event photographer to deploy a number of crew-operated units, without have to spend too much time on training and familiarization.
The units typically have good presence, a distinctive appearance that forms a focal point, and they can help to differentiate the dedicated eventer from other photographers using less specialized equipment.
The operators are continually gesturing and pointing to the touch screen, showing customers images and helping them to make choices. All this activity, with a bit of showmanship, can enhance the system's effect as an attention grabber.
Ultimately, though, what an event system is really about is workflow. It's used to help to enable a good workflow. The software is often a dedicated workflow product like ExpressDigital DARKROOM. (Photo kiosk software can also be used, because it too enforces a set workflow.) Keeping to a good workflow provides a productivity advantage during an event. Experienced eventers have estimated this is worth several hundred pounds a night in extra takings.
Another take on the Event System concept is to pack a printer and computer together into a flight case and use the whole arrangement together as a single unit. In operation a flat-panel monitor is usually set up on top of the flight case with a keyboard and mouse. The computer is housed in the case, with the printer and spare media. It's all a bit like a photo kiosk pedestal, but ruggedized, and collapsible (or pack-up-able!) for portability.
Using a general purpose PC, instead of a photo kiosk terminal, allows a photographer to eschew standard kiosk interfaces for the more sophisticated workflow programs developed specifically for eventing. The prime example of this is ExpressDigital's excellent DARKROOM Professional.
Next week, in Part 4, we look at Portrait Printers, larger format dye-sublimation units with all the advantages of event printers, but at a bigger print size!
• Keith Trainor For Photomart Summer Show! – www. photomart .co.uk has managed to secure legendary event photographer, Keith Trainor, for their gigantic Summer Show in London on 18 June 2008. Courtesy of SONY UK, Keith now becomes one of the bill-toppers for this bumper day of photo workshops. The Summer Show also includes presentations from fashion and advertising photographer Jon Gray, travel photographer Ian Brierley, and two ex-forces photographers, Fujifilm printing expert Bertus Vos, and ExpressDigital workflow aficionado Bryan Osborne.
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Keith Trainor is one of the world's most sought-after lecturers on event photography. He is frequently asked to present workshops here in the UK, on the continent, and in the USA. He is the distinguished holder of the MPA/BPPAwards inaugural Event Photographer of the Year title. And he's a really nice bloke!
Keith will be presenting his popular workshop, Event Photography – Techniques for Profit, at the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London this June 18, 2008. It's aimed at beginner and newbie eventers, and those thinking about getting into eventing. The most valuable things it teaches are the business side of successful event photography, the market for work, and how to sell yourself into it.
You'll learn how to find, contact and deal with event organizers – from head teachers to masonic grand masters. You'll learn what to charge, when or whether to pay, and how much. You'll learn the necessity of good workflow, the value of a team you can trust, and all the tips and tricks for wringing the most profit out of the limited selling-window available at each event. And you'll learn how to keep earning from your events, with after-sales of images from your web site.
At Event Photography – Techniques for Profit Keith will also demonstrate market-leading event photography hardware and software, like fast SONY event printers and highly productive ExpressDigital workflow software. He'll demonstrate a portable mini-studio of lights and backgrounds, and show how to meter it. He'll teach practical photographic techniques for creating images with enhanced perceived value. Techniques for posing couples and groups quickly in compelling arrangements, techniques for high-key shots with instant drop-out white backgrounds, and greenscreen techniques for superimposing subjects instantly into fantasy digital scenes.
He'll show you how to incorporate text and logos on your prints, and how to output seven of them a minute! He'll also teach you the value of selling your prints in folders, and of specializing in particular niches that you have special knowledge of, be they motocross events, masonic functions, or even swim suit contests!
This workshop's an absolute gem. It's invaluable. And it's great fun too! At Event Photography – Techniques for Profit you the audience are yourselves the revelers at an event. You are the subjects that get called up onto the background – individually, as couples, and in groups – to have your photos taken and to choose the ones you want. It's not only a realistic scenario, it's also a great opportunity to mix with other like-minded photographers, and a highly enjoyable social occasion.
Event Photography – Techniques for Profit will be presented twice at the London studios of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just type SUMMER08 in the www.photomart.co.uk Search Box. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free. Book Now!
• Jon Gray To Present Workshop at Photomart Summer show! – Successful fashion and advertising photographer, Jon Gray (who teaches photography at the American University in London), has been confirmed for the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London (on June 18, 2008). This has kindly been enabled by sponsorship from BOWENS. Jon will present one of his popular lighting workshops, using his experience – and extensive knowledge of equipment – to teach you techniques from fashion and advertising that you can apply in your own portrait and wedding business.
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Jon Gray's career in photography already spans more than three decades. His client list includes, amongst others, Gucci and Saatchi & Saatchi. He's the author of a number of books and DVDs, and now teaches Fashion & Advertising Photography at the American University in London.
Jon will kick off his workshop by introducing himself and showing a presentation from his portfolio. This will illustrate some of the lighting techniques he's going to demonstrate, and will be followed by Q&A. Then, using a top professional model, in a studio with a rail system and wind machines, Jon will workshop a number of lighting setups – High Fashion with ring flash (Jon will use the latest new ring flash from BOWENS); and Beauty Portrait on a white background (including pointers on how to avoid hot spots).
Jon promises a highly interactive, hands-on workshop, where each individual photographer will get the opportunity to work the model. YOU MUST BRING A CAMERA FOR THIS WORKSHOP!
These workshops are excellent for learning practical techniques you can take away and apply straight away. The Beauty Portrait workshop, for instance, teaches you how to do most of the work in the lighting setup – once that's right, all you have to do is shoot, it's like magic! You also learn more about studio equipment, including some inexpensive and highly effective items – like beauty dishes and tri-flectors – that can make all the difference.
Jon will give two presentations of High Fashion & Beauty Portrait at the London studios of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just type SUMMER08 in the www.photomart.co.uk Search Box. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free. Book Now!
• Models Speak On BBC! –BBC Television has been showing a couple of series lately about the working world of photographic glamour models. BBC Three's Glamour Girls has been described, cleverly but unfairly, as "a yawn in a D-cup" while their related Page Three Teens series was similarly dismissed. Both documentaries though manage an authentic and not especially dumbed-down representation of a part of the world of professional photography, and give a voice to the models themselves.
• EPSON Supplies To Go Up! –Epson is the latest manufacturer to give advance notice of UK price increases forced by the weakness of the pound against the Euro. From the beginning of June the cost of many Epson inks – including Ultrachrome K3 – will go up, by as much as 15 Per Cent in some cases![add comment]
• BIPP Appoints Ex-Fuji Man Honourary prez! – The BIPP has appointed Graham Rutherford, retired director of Fujifilm Professional, as Honourary President. Mr. Rutherford will take over from the departing Paul Dyer. PhotoWeek! understands that the BIPP Honourary Presidency is an active role similar to that of a non-executive company director. [expand story >>>]
Graham Rutherford is widely credited with the very effective work that Fujifilm did in the UK to establish their brand with professional photographers here, a heritage the corporation still benefits from to this day. During his time at Fujifilm he did a lot of work with the BIPP. He is the father of both the Fujifilm Student Awards and the Fujifilm Wedding and Portrait Awards. Statements reported by the BJP suggest that as BIPP President, Mr. Rutherford will put emphasis on the regions, and on the organization's role in photographer training. [add comment]
• Event Photography (Part 2) – Last week in Part 1 of this series we looked at the origins of modern event photography, and how photographers found printers they could use at events – by adapting the heavy-duty commercial dye sublimation printers designed for photo kiosks.
This week, PhotoWeek! continues by examining what it is about these printers that makes them so suited for event photography. [expand story >>>]
Event photographers found that heavy-duty commercial photo printers were just what they needed for printing at events. These dye subs are roll fed, so they can print continuously, very quickly, and will rarely jam. They take high-capacity media rolls, and don't need frequent reloading. Their printing technology is dye sub, not inkjet. This means they make prints that look and feel like proper photos, on media robust enough to tolerate handling at an event. The prints don't tear or crease easily, and the images won't smudge or run in the rain.
The print sizes go up to 6"x8" or 6"x9" inch sizes – in the UK, these sizes are considered the "sweet point" at which the eventer can make the most money.
The prints from these printers are edge-to-edge (no whiteborders) and are cut and trimmed by the printer - no extra work to do at the event. The printers are built to last - any machine engineered to sit in a kiosk churning out print after print nonstop should have acceptable life in eventing. Media for them is always available and affordable, because it's the same media that is produced in volume to supply photo kiosks globally.
And the machines can load with enough media for several hundred prints at a time. This minimizes reloading, which reduces the amount of time you would waste at an event, and the amount of dust you will get on your print head. When you do reload, many of these printers are front-loading, which makes it easier to use them in confined spaces, or while operating them in a flight case.
Next week, in Part 3, we look at Event Systems, or what happened when some eventers realized they didn't have to chop the printer out of the kiosk!
• Trainor DOES 7 Prints a Minute at Cannes! –Keith Trainor gave an impressive demonstration of the capability of modern event photography at the SONY World Photography Awards gala VIP ceremony at Cannes on April 24. In just 90 minutes, he and his crew shot and printed 625 live 6"x8" event photos – an average of almost seven a minute![expand story >>>]
Keith used the new SONY Alpha a700 camera to take the photographs, they were displayed via ExpressDigital DARKROOM on SONY Bravia widescreen TVs, and printed on a bank of four SONY UP-DR150 fast event printers. You can see Keith's Event Portraits team in action at Cannes in the YouTube video below:
Keith used simple borders in ExpressDigital Darkroom to put a black keyline and border on the images, and to include the logos of the SWPA and SONY.
• Photographer Rides for Charity! – Lincolnshire-based photographer Pete Norton welcomes sponsorship and support for his charity Humber-to-Severn solo cycle ride. It's in aid of kids charity, When You Wish Upon a Star. Pete will ride 230 miles for the kids, from the Hull side of the Humber Bridge to the Bristol end of the Severn Bridge. [expand story >>>]
When You Wish Upon a Star is a charity that fulfills wishes for under-16s with life-threatening or terminal illness. Pete became aware of the charity when he volunteered his services as photographer at one of the wish-fulfillment events, a snooker demonstration, where two children were taken to meet Jimmy White and John Virgo. Children's photography is a specialty of Pete's. One of the ways he markets himself is as "Little Devils", a kids photography service.
Joanne Kernon of When You Wish Upon a Star told us, "Pete's fundraising efforts will help to bring about some magic to a very special and brave child. For our children, many of whom have suffered more pain and harsh treatments than we could ever imagine, the need to make a dream come true is of the utmost importance. We are very grateful to Pete and Norton Photography for helping us with our ambition of never having to say 'no' to a deserving child."
Pete pedals off on 19 May, and stays in the saddle till 22 May. Watch out for him along the route! [add comment]
British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley, is to present "Endless Summer", his workshop on speculative travel & tourism photography, as part of the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London on 18 June. "Endless Summer" will teach delegates how to finance their travel through photography, as a way of life!
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Ian Brierley started making money out of photography as soon as he got his first camera at the age of 15. Since then he's travelled wherever he's wanted to, whenever he's wanted to, paying his way through (often speculative) photography. He's photographed Her Majesty the Queen in Ghana, Miss Universe in Trinidad and Tobago and Miss Ghana in Accra, as well as doing an extraordinary range of other interesting and enjoyable work. His photography has illustrated a number of books.
At "Endless Summer" he'll be telling photographers how to do travel and tourism photography as working holidays – how to get airlines to sponsor flights, tourist boards and hoteliers to cover accommodation, and how to sell postcard designs and present other propositions, such as aerial photography, to potential buyers.
The workshop will include an outdoor model shoot with an exotic model, pointers on how to find models overseas, and how to shoot for their complexion in local light. Ian will also demonstrate his own technique for creating "photo paintings" from his images, and will get one of these printed to canvas during the workshop.
When he travels by van, Ian follows horse boxes, and sells event photos at equestrian shows. He'll demonstrate event photography using the ICI Olmec OP1000 PrintBox, and will show his van, fitted with a mobile digital editing suite.
Ian will give two presentations of "Endless Summer" at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just type SUMMER08 in the www.photomart.co.uk Search Box. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.
• Event Photography (Part 1) – Event photography is news, but it's not new. It has a long history. Photographers have been doing event photography almost since photography was invented. The famous society photographer Lafayette established the vogue at the 1897 Devonshire House Ball, where he shot high-society and royalty in fancy dress.
This week, PhotoWeek! starts a short series of weekly articles explaining the basic concepts of event photography. [expand story >>>]
Late in the century following the 1897 Devonshire House ball – nearly a hundred years later, in fact – photographers realized they could sell more prints, at a higher price, if they could actually show them at the event. By then we had minilabs capable of developing and printing in less than an hour. Event photographers began whizzing film round to local labs during their events, and whizzing prints back to sell to their customers. Not everybody did this, because it wasn't easy, but it was a way to make more money.
Then along came instant digital photo printing, using heavy-duty commercial dye sub printers, and event photography boomed. Instant digital photo printing enabled more eventers to make their prints at the events. It's immediate. You can shoot a group of revelers at a ball, and less than a minute later sell them their photograph. This immediacy makes them far more likely to buy, and willing to pay more for the prints. It can make a big difference to your takings.
The heavy-duty commercial photo printers that event
photographers make their instant digital prints on have their origins in photo kiosks. Essentially, they're chopped down kiosks. Although they are also marketed as stand-alone printers, they were all originally designed for kiosks.
Next week, in Part 2, we look at the features of these printers that make them, rather than any other kind of printer, the ideal event machines. [add comment]
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• Express Digital Wine & Cheese Party At Summer Show! – Photography workflow aficionado, Bryan Osborne, will be hosting a wine & cheese symposium on ExpressDigital DARKROOM at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008. 
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