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An overview of some of the corporate video work we have done for a variety of past and present clients.

AIPP VPPY Print Award Judging

I have always loved going along to the judging of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) Australian Professional  Photography Awards, (APPA), being able to see so many quality images in the one place and to hear well educated discussions on those images is great. Of course with the awards being moved from state to state the opportunity to attend is not always available.

This year the introduction of live streaming of the Print Judging has taken things to a new level. Rather than sitting in the room with a small pair of binoculars trying to view the print, we now have full screen viewing with clear audio, nice. OK there is the occasional drop out, but then  I have been known to "drop out" of the room during judging anyway.

Working as a photographer we do not often get to work with other photographers, yes we see many images every day in the press and on the web, but the opportunity to hear our peers speak is wonderful. The debate between judges is healthy and reflects that there is a healthy respect for good work and constructive criticism for those developing.

Faces in Apple's Aperture 3.1

Wow, I have read a few negative comments on this feature and only turn it on to update when my machine is not in use, so I thought it was about time some positive was fed back.

Faces is a feature of Apples Aperture software that analyses every photograph for faces and then categorises them, allowing you to tag people and then have it find more faces that it believes matches your tags. It takes a fair while for the software to analyse the images and fair enough, I mean I have some group photographs with 50 plus people in them.

Well twice within the last week I have been saved hours by the faces feature. One company I shoot for, 44,000 images over the last 6 years, contacted me asking for all the images of two of their exec's that I have.

Now to manually go through each image looking for faces, including groups, general shots of audiences and so forth would take forever. Faces allowed me to find all the images, and I do mean all, from the portraits to the out of focus and side on in the background. Awesome, especially that I was able to do each within three hours, manually to do this in three hours, I would have had to view 244 images per minute!

From the obvious where the name is in the shot...

To the not so obvious...

The nice thing is that next time I need an image of either of these people, the metadata is now embedded and the search only two or three seconds!

I am impressed, okay it may take a machine with some serious grunt to achieve this, my guess though is that in another two generations of computers this task will be even quicker and achievable on the most basic of new computers.

Portrait shoot

Last Friday I had a full day location corporate portrait shoot with Just Group, always good fun working with these guys, they to have an amazing culture and attract high energy people, people who are always great to work with.

AGM's

Part of what we do is Event Management and last week was the AMCOR Annual General Meeting at the Park Hyatt Melbourne.

Co-ordinating the venue, presentation, staging, lighting, audio, auto-cue, webcast and video, this is the area of the business that Wayne most enjoys. Events like this bring together most areas of our business, graphic design, multimedia design, photography and video production, and event management, all good for business.

For me the day was some stills for the record and to set up two cameras for the webcast, a wide shot to cut to and a close up of lectern and the Chairman during Q&A.

Mornington Volunteer Marine Rescue, VMR

I have an uncle, Tim Warner, who is involved with the Mornington Volunteer Marine Rescue, a couple of years ago he asked if I could do a shoot for them with the idea of populating their website and to improve their promotional and sponsorship materials. This seemed to work well enough for them, and recently they asked me to do some more with them. Sunday 17th Oct, I headed over to their base and photographed all their committee groups, all the members and some portraits of the exec. Whilst there I picked up some abstract shots that they will be able to use on their site and in other places.

I enjoy supporting these guys, they make a great contribution to the community, check them out on their website.

Hockey Photographs

This Saturday saw the Mornington Peninsula Hockey Club, MPHC, have their presentation day, the afternoon for the juniors and the evening for the seniors. Both of my boys, Josh and Loch, play for MPHC and as I do not have the skills to coach, my way of supporting the club is to shoot group and action photographs of each team. These images are used in the year book compiled by Matt Haysom and on the website, managed by Harley Freeman, I then also run a basic slide show from Aperture of each team whilst they are on stage handing out their respective awards.

Some-one asked how much time I have to put in to do this, some quick sums.
I photographed
• 28 teams at 34 games, each game including before and after shots,
• about 12,000 21MP images
• travel to games
• sorting and process images, allowing 1 hour processing for every hour of shooting.
• exporting images for the designer and website

How much time, yeah it takes a bit, but then so does each of the other roles in the club and I enjoy mine.