All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'photography'
Training courses tagged
BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days
The course would suit a candidate that requires a broad introduction to creating, editing using and managing a digital image collection. The skills covered could be used by anyone who is involved directly or indirectly in producing or managing a collection of digital images. The skills in the course can be used in education, cultural heritage and other roles, which requires image capture and delivery.
Read course description...Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching
Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data for learning and teaching. It will also be of interest and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff where patient recordings are made available for learning and teaching. Learn about the ethical principles that underpin the guidelines.
Read course description...Internet for Audio Resources
Internet Audio Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find audio resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources
Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Image Searching
Internet for Image Searching - would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?
Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
Read course description...Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course
This course is intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.
Read course description...Introduction to Metadata
This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.
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Blog entries tagged 'photography'
Exposure compensation - making your snow white
The lightmeters built into today's cameras are quite capable of delivering well exposed images of most types of subject. However there are times when the meter gets it wrong.
Read blog entry...Tethered camera app for Android phones
It has been possible to operate a digital SLR from a mobile device for some time but this has required a direct conection between the camera and a PC.
Read blog entry...High-end iPhone photography?
Photojojo has just released a new product: a mount which enables you to use standard SLR lenses on an iPhone 4.
Read blog entry...Refocus a picture after it has been taken!
A newcomer to the photography market is close to launching an impressive new camera which allows the user to refocus the picture after it has been taken.
Read blog entry...How do light meter Apps measure up?
I know a few photographers who can quite accurately predict the correct exposure to use under a variety of challenging lighting situations, most of us however require a little help from a light meter.
Read blog entry...An antidote to the digital zoom
The cameras built into most portable devices use fixed focal length lenses, to alter the framing the user normally has to move closer or further away from the subject or use the dreaded digital zoom. The digital zoom simply crops into the original frame to give a closer look. The zoomed image has no more image detail than the un-zoomed shot and so digital zoom should be avoided whenever possible.
Read blog entry...New Additions to VADS Collections
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) has made two new additons to its collections which contain images from artists working from the middle of the 20th century until the present day. A statement from VADS contines:
Read blog entry...Camera phones come of age
As a photographer I have never found the camera stuffed into most mobile phones to be a deal breaker. Whenever I have bought a new phone I have tested the camera, but have always found it lacking. After a recent phone upgrade I thought I should repeat my usual test on the camera, this was mainly to confirm my firmly entrenched prejudices.
Read blog entry...Remarkable eclipse photo
Sometimes taking just one photo requires a tremendous amount of preparation and perspiration.
Read blog entry...The 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas
Tuesday the 7th of December 2010 sees JISC Digital Media launch the 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas, a very lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek series of videos.
Read blog entry...Photos should be relevant
In Jakob Nielsen's latest alertbox Photos as Web Content he demonstrates the results of a recent eyetracking study regarding the use of photos with/as web content.
Read blog entry...New advice on the video enabled digital SLR
Video capture is an increasingly common feature in today's digital SLR cameras. While the controls are crude compared to those of a dedicated camcorder the video output has a cinematic look popular with many filmmakers.
Read blog entry...Blow up photographic studio
Not the location for Antonioni's 1966 film 'Blowup' but a 20 foot long inflatable photographic studio.
Read blog entry...Playing with the Zumi
I recently purchased a Zumi, properly known as the Digital Harinezumi 2++ and have been getting a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Read blog entry...Introduction to the copystand
Digital SLRs are increasingly being used to capture 2D objects which until recently would have been digitised using a scanner. Recognising the increasing use of the copystand we have just published a new document which explains what it is and how to use it is used: The Copystand.
Read blog entry...Guide to GIMP image editor
Following our recent guide to free online image editors, we have updated our Introduction to GIMP Image Editing Software.
Read blog entry...Photoshopping for alternatives
Photoshop was in the news last week - as the tool used by a BP photographer to alter images for use on its website.
Read blog entry...Operating your camera remotely
We have just published a new advice document on Tethered Camera Operation.
Read blog entry...Free online image editing tools
We've just published our latest advice document on Free Online Image Editors.
Read blog entry...How to get attention on Flickr
Once you have produced a collection of multimedia resources, it is typical to hope that many people will visit and view said resources.
Read blog entry...New lens document just released
We have just released a new introductory document on lenses, it describes the main components of the lens and what you should consider before choosing a lens for a task.
Read blog entry...Workflow by Thomas Hawk
One of the key tools needed to produce resources is the use of various workflows.
Read blog entry...New optical character recognition (OCR) document
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting printed text into a computer readable format.
Read blog entry...New lens document and Adobe CS5 to be released soon
Adobe have just announced that they will be launching their new version of Photoshop CS5 (PDF) which will be available around the same time as we will be releasing our new document on camera lenses.
Read blog entry...Time to unplug
Eye-fi have recently released their new (and the first ever) range of memory cards fitted with wireless technology that allows you to upload photos and videos directly to your computer or the web.
Read blog entry...Interesting photography apps for the iPhone and iPod touch
Of the very many photography apps for the iPhone that exist, two have struck me as particularly nice, DOFMaster and DSLR Camera Remote Professional Edition.
Read blog entry...Instant film makes a comeback
In 2008 the Polaroid Corporation stopped manufacturing their instant film products.
Read blog entry...Using a digital SLR for video
There's a very interesting article in Creative COW about the Canon 5D Mk II, a very advanced digital SLR (or HDSLR) that the author has been using to shoot video with.
Read blog entry...How to photograph or scan those tricky objects
We have just published a new advice document on scanning and photography.
Read blog entry...Google snaps up online photo editor
Google has acquired Picnik an online photo editing site.
Read blog entry...Using photos to enhance user experience
Local usability consultancy Cx partners have a thought provoking take on the power of photos to enhance your resources.
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Negative thinking
We have just released a new advice document looking at the different materials used to make film for stills and moving images.
Read blog entry...Two new lighting documents
We have just released two advice documents which cover lighting for stills and video production.
Read blog entry...Time-lapse photographic evidence of climate change
Photographer James Balog is using over 30 time lapse cameras to document global ice loss caused by climate change.
Read blog entry...Flickr’s new search results page
The new layout for Flickr search results is now live.
Read blog entry...New digital restoration course among autumn training dates
The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.
Read blog entry...The answer to your camera-mounting dreams…
Ever been shooting still images or video and wondered, "How can I possibly provide a steady support for my camera here?"
Read blog entry...Updated digital camera document
To reflect recent developments in digital camera technology we have updated the Digital Camera paper.
Read blog entry...Real life in miniature: tilt-shift video
A great piece of timelapse/tilt-shift video.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media goes analogue
Yesterday lunchtime a few of us got back to basics learning a little more about pinhole photography.
Read blog entry...Large scale photo project visible from space
The French photographer, JR has created a huge photographic installation on the rooftops of houses and on the sides of trains that pass through a large Kenyan slum.
Read blog entry...Can I take a photograph anywhere?
Do you think that there has been an increase in the amount of legislation introduced which has curbed individual freedom?
Read blog entry...Red’s new cameras
In November, Red Digital Cinema announced their new range of cameras which are expected to be available between this spring and the summer of 2010. "Range of cameras" isn't quite accurate, as Red have adopted a completely modular approach. It includes two of what Red refers to as Brains, the sensing and capturing core of the system. These are called Scarlet and Epic and are accompanied by an almost mind-boggling list of performance specs.
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Training courses
- Managing Digital Media Collections 06 June 2013
- BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days 17 June 2013
- Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course 24 June 2013
- Introduction to Metadata 17 July 2013
