Editorial and Commercial photographer in the North East of England
North East
Happy Christmas
Dec 25th
Children sledging on Blyth beach
Wishing you all a fantastic time.
Cheers!
Tony
Good news sells
Jun 18th
Finley Burton with mum Donna
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I shot some pictures for a lovely heart-warming tale a few days ago. It’s a simple story about a cute little baby called Finley, who was ‘frozen’ to try to bring his erratic heartbeat under control after a couple of heart operations at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
Nothing too out of the ordinary there. But inexplicably, the story went global.
It was printed in most of the UK’s national papers (front page of the Daily Mail), also appeared on their websites, foreign papers published it, deals were done with magazines, ITN followed it up, US TV stations ABC and CBS loved it, speciality medical websites have featured it. And they’re just the ones I know about the following day. International syndication will spread it even further. It’s truly astounding.
Seasoned colleagues are also a little baffled by its unexpected (though very welcome) popularity. Originally we thought it might possibly make a piece for a women’s magazine and a website or two. Didn’t dream it would explode worldwide. Thrilled it has.
A better way to view panoramics
Jan 25th
Panoramic photos are always a bit of a problem to view. As you can see below, when viewed as a whole image it’s simply an interesting view of a scene. In this case it’s a picture of Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides, showing an unusual 220ยบ angle of view.
Normal view
Okay that’s pretty neat. But it’s a 80MB image comprising of about 10 separate carefully shot images that are then stitched together by some clever software. There’s a huge amount of information in that picture that you can’t normally appreciate, unless you were to sell a kidney and print it up on a billboard.
But there’s another way to present this photo so that you can zoom in and pan around the image. It’s by a company called Zoomify and Adobe have incorporated it into Photoshop CS4 as an ‘Export…’ option, so even numpties like me can make it work. There’s nothing new about all this, but I just discovered it and think it’s really quite cool – take a look below.
Zoomify!