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Do you take photographs?

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:52:30 +0100

The US are proposing an Act called the Orphan Works Act of 2008 which will take away the automatic copyright protection that photographers and artists currently have. In the US, if you take a picture, or make a piece of art, you automatically own...

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Built-in obsolescence

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:31:14 +0100

I recently bought the new Canon 450D - great camera, by the way - to augment our digital camera arsenal for an upcoming wedding shoot. The general approach we take with photography is to stick with Raw mode wherever possible as it gives us a bit ...

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Seen the latest Cadbury's Dairy Milk advert?

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:42:25 +0100

http://www.aglassandahalffullproductions.com/ Just brilliant! Oh, and if you want to read what the Independent thought of it: http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2537369.ece

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US holiday 2007: Disney's PhotoPass service

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:01:09 +0100

This is part of a series of blog entries that I'm gradually putting together about the holiday we just finished in Florida. In previous visits to the Disney parks, we've made a point of getting our photo taken in front of the Tower of Terror. We'...

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US holiday 2007: Blue Man Group

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:30:13 +0100

This is part of a series of blog entries that I'm gradually putting together about the holiday we just finished in Florida. Microsoft's Tech-Ed convention was ending on Friday 8th June and the plan was to stay in Florida for another week, filling...

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US holiday 2007: the Disney Dining Plan

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:01:38 +0100

This is part of a series of blog entries that I'm gradually putting together about the holiday we just finished in Florida. For the last five days of our holiday, we were staying at a Disney hotel - the Beach Club Resort, so I decided to add the ...

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Working with Encore CS3 and Blu-ray

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:33:23 +0100

Dave Helmly at Adobe has written a great article about the workflow and experience of using the latest (yet to be released) versions of the video tools from Adobe to take HDV footage and create a Blu-ray disc. http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/...

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Working with Encore CS3 and Blu-ray

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:33:17 +0100

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Smaller desktop icons in Vista

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:12 +0100

I'm lucky enough to be able to run a high resolution desktop - 1680x1050. As a result, though, the icons on the desktop look stupidly big, taking up about an inch or more of real space. So I started looking for a way to reduce the size and came a...

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A Mexican Wedding

nobody@vox.com(Papillon Pictures) — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:12:02 +0100

(Click on any of the photos to view a larger version) The flight from Heathrow to Mexico City was pleasant, uneventful and, at 9 hours, quite long so it gave me an opportunity to try out the Nikon S10 point-and-shoot digital camera that we’d boug...

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