• 2024 Drone Summit – What I Learned. And It Was Fascinating

    2024 Drone Summit – What I Learned. And It Was Fascinating

    It was an eye opener discovering what uses drones are being put to even today, and some of the existing and emerging technologies in this space are, I found, absolutely fascinating, and there was stuff I didn’t even know about. Here is what I discovered.

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  • Has LinkedIn “Jumped the Shark?”

    Has LinkedIn “Jumped the Shark?”

    When it started, LinkedIn was a useful place for job searching, finding courses for betterment, connecting to like-minded professional people and so on. But now … If it is not someone spruiking their latest book, video, podcast or website that can tell you that following their advice will guarantee instant success “just as I had”, […]

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  • Editorial Comment: Is There a Time When Crews Can Be Unpaid?

    Editorial Comment: Is There a Time When Crews Can Be Unpaid?

    What I do have an issue with, is people asking others, professional and with gear or not, to do it for free.

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  • Latest Creative Content CCTV News Now Live

    Latest Creative Content CCTV News Now Live

    Stories this week from Blackmagic Design, ABE, Maxon, ATOMOS, Insta360, DJI, and more. All in an easy to watch, bite sized 5 minute video format. 

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  • Online Video Quality: Does Anything Go?

    Online Video Quality: Does Anything Go?

    There is an interesting conversation happening at the moment among members of the IT / Tech community and some publishers. Whilst everyone seems to agree that the future in publishing is video – a subject close to my heart of course – at that point the disagreements kick in. Not of a nasty or violent […]

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  • Why Independents are Needed. And Subscriptions.

    Why Independents are Needed. And Subscriptions.

    To be fair, just as the latest closures in Australia closed – Kotaku, Lifehacker and so on, it appears Game Informer was shut down by its parent due to it non-performing in a business sense.

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  • “It’s Ripe for a Movie Script Don’t You Think?”

    “It’s Ripe for a Movie Script Don’t You Think?”

    Now I am not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination – I believe Man did land on the Moon and Harold Holt wasn’t nicked by a Chinese or Russky submarine.

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  • Creating Tutorials: Complete Details of the Kit I Use …

    Creating Tutorials: Complete Details of the Kit I Use …

    I have had a number of requests as to what equipment and software I am using to make the tutorials (there are 3 so far and at least another 7 in the pipeline) I am putting together, collectively called 5 Minute Tech. So here it is.

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  • Manual Photography. With REAL Film. A Starter’s Primer.

    Manual Photography. With REAL Film. A Starter’s Primer.

    In another article I wrote about the absolute optimism apparently some retailers may have about what they can make out of the resurgence of analogue photography, where if you did not know, instead of shooting to a memory card you use real film. I started this way like many of my vintage, and really, it […]

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  • Aperture Explained

    Aperture Explained

    So here is a 5 minute tutorial I have put together to help all those who need to understand about a camera’s aperture settings. It’s not that hard. No. Really! Watch and see for yourself.

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