Visual Peacemaking
The International Guild of Visual Peacemakers – IGVP – officially launched to the public on Monday morning. About a week ago, Matt Brandon wrote a post entitled “Tom Little, IGVP And The Need For Peace”. In it he briefly discussed why he is a part of the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers and made mention [...]
Taiwan SPCA Event – A Guest Post by Carrie Kellenberger
Carrie of Taiwan Photographers and My Several Worlds joins us here this evening for a guest post concerning the upcoming Taiwan SPCA Event. It’s on this Sunday in Xindian, Taipei, so read on after the jump to see what Carrie has to say.
Taipei Photo School
Have you ever wanted to have photography lessons in Taipei, Taiwan? Do you travel to or live in or near Taipei and want to learn photography in English? There is no photography school in Taipei that teaches in English but I have started private and group lessons, for people of all skill levels. Read on [...]
Help Portrait, Taipei
Help Portrait is a movement of photographers who are using their time, equipment and expertise to give back to those who are less fortunate this holiday season. This will be a global event and I’ll be setting up a local version here in Taipei on Saturday December 12th. This is the call to photographers, make-up [...]
Myows – A New Online Copyright Management System
With the World Copyright Summit having just ended and new Orphan Works legislation proposed in the US, anything that can help content producers better protect and manage their copyrights is welcome. In the next couple of months a new online copyright management system called myows will be launching. I conducted a pre-launch interview with Max [...]
Apologies: Digg is bringing lots of traffic – UPDATE
Things are moving back to normal. Well over 110 000 page views in 24 hours was too much for the server to handle. The site is back to normal now. Stay tuned for Five For Friday tomorrow and then another tutorial next week.
Weekly Critiques Coming Soon
I plan to start a new feature in the coming weeks. It will be a weekly critique where I’ll take a user-submitted image and critique it. That could be anything from suggestions for how to improve it to reasons why I like (or dislike) it. At times I will run the image through Photoshop and [...]
Happy New Year from Taipei
Happy New Year. 2009 is shaping up to be a great year here at Craig Ferguson Images. Lots of cool stuff in the works, more giveaways, more competitions, more fun. So stay tuned and check back often.
Stay Tuned – Something New and Exciting is Coming
After a very busy few months doing a lot of photographic work for various agencies and clients, I now have a little more time to dedicate to this blog. So with that, let me make a little pre-announcement. I have a couple of things in the works that are new, fresh, exciting and possibly a [...]
Photoshelter Collection Closing
News in this morning is that the stock photography marketplace, Photoshelter Collection is closing down. Here’s the official statement. Today, we regret to announce our plans to close The PhotoShelter Collection, our stock photography marketplace, effective October 10, 2008. Going forward, PhotoShelter will focus our energy and resources on enhancing the PhotoShelter Personal Archive our [...]
Adobe Lightroom and Camera RAW Updates, Media Player and TV Launch
The teams at Adobe have been busy over the past few days. First up, we have the Lightroom update to 1.4.1 and Camera RAW update to 4.4.1. They are both available in the downloads section of Adobe’s site. For a complete list of what’s been changed, updated and fixed, visit Tom Hogarty’s blog. Tom is [...]
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta released
Adobe have announced the release of a public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom® answers the digital photographer’s call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web [...]
Photoshop Express Launched
Adobe have released Photoshop Express, a free online editing program in beta form. It’s a stripped down, basic version of Photoshop that lets the user edit photos online, and comes complete with 2GB of storage. Key features include Includes tools for applying spot healing, distortions, sharpening/softening, color tweaks, image filters, and more Offers 2GB of [...]
April Events
As another month comes to a close, it’s once again time for a look at events and goings on over the next few weeks. March was a busy month, and April is shaping up to be equally as busy, with a couple of major festivals taking place here in Taiwan. Before we head into April, [...]
Partying with the Blues
The 2008 election season in Taiwan came to an unsurprising conclusion on March 22nd with a resounding win to the KMT (ä¸åœ‹åœ‹æ°‘黨) candidates Ma Ying jeou (馬英ä¹) and running mate Vincent Siew (è•è¬é•·), ending eight years of DPP rule. Ma and Siew, whose winning margin was 17%, will take office on May 20th, 2008. There’s [...]
Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008
Renowned photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths succumbed to cancer at his home on Wednesday morning. He was 72. Born in North Wales, he switched from pharmacy to full time photography in 1961, working for The Observer. In 1965,working for Magnum, he arrived in Vietnam, although he found it difficult to sell his images as they concentratedon [...]
316 Super Sunday
Sunday March 16 saw the last weekend rallies for the 2008 Presidential Election take place. In cities all over Taiwan, hundreds of thousands came up to support their preferred party. The DPP’s main rally in Taipei started at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall under the slogan “A Million Giving High-Fives to Reverse the Tide”. The [...]
Facebook – Your Uploaded Content and the Rights You Give Away
Since it was created in February 2004, Facebook has grown into one of the biggest sites on the web, with 64 million active users and an Alexa ranking of 7, accounting for 6% of global internet traffic. A staggering 14 million photos are uploaded daily to Facebook, making it the worlds largest photo sharing site [...]
San-zhr Pod Story @ File Magazine
A story about the San-zhr pods has just been published over at File Magazine. 14 of my images were used in the story, so go and take a look. And check out the other parts of File – there’s some great photography there.
Chen’s Last Act
In his self-described last appearance as head of state, Taiwan’s president Chen Shui-bian (陳水æ‰) yesterday took part in the 228 Peace Memorial Day (和平紀念日) ceremony in remembrance for the 228 Incident (二二八事件). After a speech to mark the occasion at 228 Peace Park, Chen and vice-president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) headed to the Democracy Memorial Hall [...]
Chen’s Last Act
In his self-described last appearance as head of state, Taiwan’s president Chen Shui-bian (陳水æ‰) yesterday took part in the 228 Peace Memorial Day (和平紀念日) ceremony in remembrance for the 228 Incident (二二八事件). After a speech to mark the occasion at 228 Peace Park, Chen and vice-president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) headed to the Democracy Memorial Hall [...]
March Events
I hope everyone’s ready for another busy month because there’s a lot going on in March. If it’s politics, cycling or temple events that you like, this will be a great month. Starting off at the end of February is the 228 Peace Memorial Day holiday in Taiwan, to remember the victims of the 228 [...]
New DSLR’s at PMA 2008
The worlds largest annual photography trade show is set to start for another year. PMA 2008, held in Las Vegas from January 31st to February 2nd, has already seen a few announcements of the DSLR side of things. In a widely expected move, Canon have announced the successor to the 400D, to be called the [...]
New DSLR’s at PMA 2008
The worlds largest annual photography trade show is set to start for another year. PMA 2008, held in Las Vegas from January 31st to February 2nd, has already seen a few announcements of the DSLR side of things. In a widely expected move, Canon have announced the successor to the 400D, to be called the [...]
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