WINE AND CHEESE PARTY AT SUMMER SHOW!

•  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.

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.

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GREENSCREEN TAKES OFF IN UK!

• Greenscreen Takes Off in UK! –
by Parinita Salian


"What's all the fuss about greenscreen, then?", wedding photographer Kevin Poucher asked me the other week. Like many togs today, he was keen to know the benefits. Movies have used mattes to superimpose subjects onto background scenes for decades. But the greenscreen being adopted by photographers is the instant digital kind (as used to put maps behind weather reporters). This type of greenscreen is so fast, it can even be used for instant snapshots at events. Software like ExpressDigital DARKROOM Professional can matte a subject onto a digital background, with little or no manual intervention, in seconds. [expand story >>>]

It's especially beneficial to wedding, portrait, and sports and event photographers. David Solomon, a schools photographer, told me: "The other day I ended up doing a school football team shoot on a very cloudy and dull day. So I decided to shoot the various teams against greenscreen, and at a later date I took shots of the school building on the sunniest day possible. I was able to get a picture perfect result for all the teams."

Event photographers use it to drop their subjects onto digital backgrounds. At a fancy dress, that might be a fantasy background, or a themed background may be used at other events.

The use of greenscreen has been a staple of photographers in the U.S. for years. It's clearly starting to take off on this side of the pond now too. [add comment]

EXPRESS DIGITAL TRAINING DAY!

• Express Digital Training Day! – ExpressDigital held the first of this year's quarterly UK Darkroom training dates in the London studios of www. photomart .co.uk last month. Darkroom is a photography workflow productivity program that helps togs to get from capture to print sale in the fastest, most profitable way. Darkroom expert Bryan Osborne presented the workshop, and PhotoWeek!'s own Parinita Salian was on hand to ask the delegates what they thought of it. [expand story >>>]

"It's very informative", one delegate told Pari in the video interview below, "We certainly learned quite a lot this morning. We came open-minded, not having used the software before. I'm hoping to learn a bit more about the greenscreen this afternoon. It seems very usable. It does seem to be the thing we need".



"The workshop was good", another delegate told her, "Very interesting, very interactive. DARKROOM is invaluable, it's excellent. I've tried to do similar sorts of things with Photoshop, and it's just not possible. ExpressDigital DARKROOM is the way forward."

There will be DARKROOM training days at www.photomart.co.uk London quarterly this year, with the next one due to be scheduled for late June.
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VAN MAN WINS DARKROOM AT FOCUS

• Van Man Wins Darkroom at Focus! – Full-time mobile home live-aboard, portrait photographer Stewart Wall, won a free copy of ExpressDigital DARKROOM Professional software on the www.photomart.co.uk stand at FOCUS on Imaging last month. Online photo supplies company www.photomart.co.uk has always been a favourite with the UK's legion of mobile van-based photographers, and it's great that this year one of them walked away with a top prize! [expand story >>>] Stewart is a portrait photographer who lives aboard his motorhome full-time with his partner Shona and their daughter Jessica. He won his prize by entering the business card draw that www.photomart.co.uk ran on their FOCUS on Imaging stand. He has posted a message about his win on one of the motorhome forums. Congratulations, Stewart! (Hey, why not come to the ExpressDigital Training Day in London on March 27 ? The ticket price is refundable to anyone who already owns the software, or buys it reasonably soon after the training.) Related Stories: photoweek/2007/09/photographers-van photoweek/2007/09/vans-fitted-for-power photoweek/2007/09/marine-batteries [add comment]

PHOTO REFLECT TAKES UK CREDIT CARDS SOON!

• Photo Reflect Takes UK Credit Cards Soon! – The UK presence of PhotoReflect.com, which launched here last week, will soon be accepting UK credit cards on behalf of its photographers, ExpressDigital have said. PhotoReflect from ExpressDigital provides photographers with an Internet storefront and e-commerce facilities for selling images and prints. [expand story >>>]

PhotoReflect storefronts have no storage fees, no upload fees, and no monthly fees. All photographers can start a PhotoReflect.com website for free! Commission on each sale depends on volume and works on a sliding scale beginning at 15% plus payment processing fees. All financial transactions are handled on the site and ExpressDigital will post cheques to all photographers for storefront earnings every two weeks.

Users of ExpressDigital DARKROOM will be able to integrate PhotoReflect into their workflow. In the US, PhotoReflect (established in 1999) is already the largest professional photographer Internet storefront, with over 28,000 customers. [add comment]

PHOTOREFLECT UK LAUNCH TODAY!

• PhotoREFLECT UK Launch today! – The UK presence of PhotoReflect.com launches today! PhotoReflect from ExpressDigital provides photographers with an Internet storefront and e-commerce facilities for selling images and prints. [expand story >>>]

PhotoReflect storefronts have no storage fees, no upload fees, and no monthly fees. All photographers can start a PhotoReflect.com website for free! Commission on each sale depends on volume and works on a sliding scale beginning at 15% plus payment processing fees. All financial transactions are handled on the site and ExpressDigital will post cheques to all photographers for storefront earnings every two weeks.

Users of ExpressDigital DARKROOM will be able to integrate PhotoReflect into their workflow. In the US, PhotoReflect (established in 1999) is already the largest professional photographer Internet storefront, with over 28,000 customers. [add comment]