Archive for August, 2007
Final post for Mighty Fine
Wed Aug 1st - 10:25pm
Perth photographer Shaun Ward has a poignant image in his latest Sports Shooter gallery, showing the race horse Mighty Fine winning the John Smith's Handicap yesterday. Shaun's caption:
Mighty Fine riden by Paddy Brennan races home to win the John Smith's Handicap at Perth Races on Tuesday 31st July. This was the last minutes for the 13 year old grey as it collapsed and died of a heart attack shortly afterwards.
Click here to view Shaun's gallery and then click on the second image. SS.com galleries tend to get shuffled around a lot so if you can't find the pic there then there's a smaller version on Shaun's blog.
There's also a brief news item on the Sporting Life web site.
Blowing a raspberry at 1,000 frames per second
Wed Aug 1st - 9:08pm
This is a slow-motion video of a man blowing a raspberry, filmed at 1,000 frames per second with a Photon FASTCAM 1024 PCI.
Stats on that camera: At its highest resolution of 1024×1024 pixels the standard 2Gb of memory is only enough to record 1.54 seconds at 1,000fps. The maximum 24Gb can store 18.44 seconds. Lower resolutions can be recorded at 3,000fps, 27,000fps and over 100,000fps. Just out of interest I've been trying to get a price but the manufacturer and retailers are a little secretive. Considering that there are rebates in the $7000+ range I think we're talking megabucks.
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This one's good too. Someone was slo-mo filming an object being dropped into a pile of salt, when a fly decided to have a look. Notice how controlled and graceful the fly is in the air, but when it tries to land it just sort of points itself in the right direction and crashes down.
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Photography e-mail list closed after union intervention
Wed Aug 1st - 6:13pm
Editorial Photographers UK reports that the NUJPhoto e-mail discussion list has been closed following intervention from the National Union of Journalists.
A private photographers’ email discussion list has in the last few hours announced itself as having closed after it came under pressure from the NUJ hierarchy to accept a membership application from a high ranking union official.
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NUJ Irish Secretary Seamus Dooley, who is currently embroiled in controversy over the proposed Drogheda Independent house agreement, applied last week to join the private email discussion list, open to photographers who are members of the journalism union.
His application was subsequently turned down.
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Last week, NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear criticised the decision and ordered the union’s Freelance Industrial Council – which contributes a small amount of funding towards the running costs of NUJPhoto – to reverse the decision and admit Dooley.
