The cameras keep saying that batteries need recalibrating, at first it was one, then two now all five need it, so here we go again. One done, four to go. I probably should have dusted the chargers first, but hey ho to late now.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Busy Day…
Had three jobs in the diary (well two, but one of them twice) The 4th river Wey Festival & QPR v Burton Albion. The football was pretty dull, a bore draw that produced very little & the Festival didn’t get interesting until after dusk.
Having a tidy up…
17/09/2017. Nikon Fisheye.
And found something that I haven’t seen for a very long time, thinking I may whack it on ebay, I seem to recall that it was quite expensive when new, this was back in the day when there were no real ultra wide lenses available for crop sensor cameras, I think I was shooting with a DCS3 at the time & this was used on a little Nikon Coolpix.
Ready for Work
Having purchased an iPad Pro a little while ago, I am now pleased to say that it is ready for work, I have used it once on a news job last weekend, but now the case & the screen protector & iOS 11 are now installed it is ready to be used in anger.
Seems Funny
Some 12-13 years ago, I started experimenting with a piece of software, called Pocket Phojo a clever piece of software that enabled me to nearly leave my laptop at home. Running on a Windows Mobile PDA with a built in CF card reader ( I had the Fujitsu Pocket Lookz, if I remember correctly) and was able to hook up to a wifi network or use a bluetooth modem to wire pictures to picture desks. Quite a lot has changed since those early days of experimenting with largely unreliable & flaky technology. However there is still not yet a single app that will do everything that a press photographer needs. There are some that come close including PhotoMechanic (on OSX) PicturePro (iOS).
More Backing Up
Having filled another load of hard disks, it is time to upgrade the Back Up procedure. Having been using 2TB hard disks for the current archive (which covers from 2015 to present day) plus another 2TB disk as a back up, plus a 5TB hard disk which is a back up to the back up, with additional (less important back ups) I have now moved to 2x 4TB Disks, which will provide online Archive for 2015 to hopefully 2020 & a back up for the same. The main archive hard disk will also be backed up to the external 5TB hard disk.
And now the process of copying across the archive begins.
Seeing As….
Seeing as the Omoton screen protector for the iPad Pro is so good I decided to purchase the same brand for the iPhone. Once again very impressed by the packaging, it also comes with everything that you need to successfully install the screen protector. They are a little more expensive than the cheapest ones out there, but seem to be worth it.
Ling Long & Prosper
F*ck me! It’s not often that I swear… OK you got me! But F*ck me! I put my alloys in for refurb yesterday and the people doing the refurbishment have kindly lent me a set of wheels & tyres in the mean time.
Anyway on the road to a football game yesterday, I had to pull over because of the noise, I thought that either a rear bearing was going bad or the wheels (which are a slightly different off-set to the originals) were rubbing on something.
On checking there is no interference and and the bearings are fine, it turns out that the culprit is the shocking cheap Chinese tyres that are fitted. One pair are “Ling Long” which I think is the Thai Bride from Little Britain and the other pair are something called Wanli, who may have been Bruce’s brother.
Anyhooo, I can’t wait to get my OEM tyres back on the car. I will need new tyres in a few months & one thing for certain I won’t be going for cheap Chinese shite.
Sunbury House GVs
Today saw me at an address in Sunbury-on-Thames, which is allegedly the home of one of the suspected bombers at Parsons Green.
Brentford Draw
Yesterday saw me at the Brentford v Reading “M4 Derby” main shooting stock images, but some action as well.
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Florian Jozefzoon close to connecting with a cross
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Florian Jozefzoon
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Andreas BJELLAND heads over
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Florian Jozefzoon launches free kick
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Josh CLARKE celebrates
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Josh CLARKE shoots & scores
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Josh CLARKE
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Neal MAUPAY
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Ollie WATKINS
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Josh CLARKE celebrates
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Nico YENNARIS
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Kamohelo MOKOTJO
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Neal MAUPAY goes close
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Ollie WATKINS
16/09/2017. Brentford FC v Reading FC. Action from SkyBet Championship Match at Griffin Park. Brentford’s Andreas BJELLAND shoots over
Posh Screen Protector
A screen protector arrived today for my iPad, and if the packaging is anything to go by it should be f*cking awesome! I have used a few protectors over the years but never have any of them turned up in such a posh looking folder.
I have fitted it, and seems to look the part, time will tell if it is any good.
Latest Arrival
Well the new iPad Pro arrived this afternoon, and it is now set up & ready to shoot with, probably at the Brentford game this weekend. I have only had it 10 minutes and I already want to upgrade to iOS11.
Reboot
Having had issues with the image sizes that the iPad was receiving from the cameras (about 2000 pixels by 1400, and nothing that the authors of any of the software worked) for the past couple of weeks, I decided to do a complete restore & re-install all of the applications, which seems to have solved the problem, however, in the meantime I accidentally seem to have ordered an iPad pro.
So with the impending release of iOS 11, and the fact that Photogene has been reporting that the next iOS upgrade will not be supported, and the author seems to have gone AWOL, I decided that I should prepare by updating the apps that I am going to be using when the upgrade arrives.
Having dealt with the author of ShutterSnitch I shall be retaining that application, as there maybe some really interesting developments on their way, PicturePro will probably be retained along with Filterstorm in the short term, I shall evaluate them in the first few months and settle on one of them.
Transmit will remain as it is an app that I use across all of the platforms that I use. Snapseed will remain as the route to social media & WeTransfer will remain as the way of moving video footage.
Busy Bunny
Several jobs today including GVs, a beer festival when no-one was awake & Fulham v Cardiff
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham’s Floyd AYITÉ
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON scores
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham’s Floyd AYITÉ
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulhams Tim REAM shoots
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham FC Manager Slavisa JOKANOVIC
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON
09/09/2017. Fulham v Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship League Action. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON scores
Busy, Busy
Had the head unit in the car upgraded to a DAB unit, wanted to keep it OEM so went for the VW RCD 510 DAB, as the canbus needed to be upgraded to enable the unit to work correctly, I decided to get the professionals involved. What should have been a simpleish job turned out to be a little more involved than anticipated. However, after 5 hours it was completed. New head unit & MMI fitted!
Then over the weekend, I realised that something wasn’t right, the display was so dark that it could barely be seen. It appears that there is an ambient light sensor that was covered by the Parrot hands-free control unit. I have relocated it & it all works as it should. I have also now hardwired the Dash Cam, and so far no RF interference with the DAB. So many thanks to http://www.cartronics.co.uk for their work.
The ramblings of a press photographer 