F2 Freelance Photographer October/November issue is on sale now in Borders book stores, The Photographers Gallery Book Shop and other specialist photographic outlets.
18/11/08
Photographer's Gallery
Nikon Solutions
READER OFFER: Portrait Professional
Today marks something of a milestone in British Photography as, after 37 years, The Photographer’s Gallery has closed.
The closure is however only temporary as the gallery, founded by Sue Davies OBE in 1971, is moving from its long time home in Great Newport Street to new premises a ten minute walk away behind Oxford St: opening at 16-18 Ramillies Street on 6th December. The good news is the the Ramillies Street Photographers Gallery will have double the gallery space of Great Newport St and access will remain free of charge.
For further details about the new space, a map showing how to get there, and details of forthcoming events visit The Photographer’s Gallery web site at www.photonet.org.uk
9-10 Dec:
Nikon Solutions
Our next major event is Nikon Solutions Expo, at Olympia on 9 & 10 December. Again we will be on hand to view folios, talk about all things Freelance and run the F2 Freelance book shop
Nikon Solutions provides access to the very latest Nikon kit along with stage and studio photo opportunities, including catwalk fashion shows, portraits, bridal and macro. Expert technical advice will be on hand as well as free masterclasses and seminars, speakers including internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer Andy Rouse.
New for 2008 is the addition of The Magnum Masterclass in collaboration with HP. Themed masterclasses led by award-winning photographers and industry experts, including John Clements, Uzair Kharawala, Martin Grahame-Dunn and Gareth Jones, will be running both on stage and in the studio. Solutions Expo also offers the opportunity to try out the latest products from some of the imaging industry’s leading brands – including HP, Mitsubishi, Epson, Lexar and Apple, as well as how Nikon digital cameras and wireless technology can enhance your workflow. Solutions Expo also features the Discovery Awards Gallery foregrounding the work of emerging photographers from colleges and universities around the UK in this exclusive exhibition, all brought to you by the Nikon Academy.
Advance registration for Nikon Solutions Expo is free of charge so why not reserve your ticket today at
http://www.solutions-expo.co.uk/register_now.htm
READER OFFER: Portrait Professional
Portrait Professional is a new intelligent airbrushing software that lets you improve your photos instantly and simply just by moving sliders. It's easy and fast to reshape all or any aspects of the face to make it more attractive, fix skin blemishes, reduce and/or remove wrinkles and adjust the lighting on the face to make it more flattering.
All of these operations require a minimum of artistic ability: the automatic airbrush does all the hard work for you!
A free trial can be downloaded from www.portraitprofessional.com
Standard price for this innovative software is £39.95 and F2 Freelance readers can buy at a special 10% extra discount price by entering coupon code F210 when ordering on-line
8/11/08
BJP Vision
BJP Vision
Great to see so many people, who'd travelled from all parts of the country to attend BJP Vision at the Islington Business Design Centre; and to discover so many of you are already subscribers to F2 Freelance. Our Editor David Land spent the entire day looking at folios, and hearing stories of the ups and downs of freelancing. Several that have a message for a wider audience will be making their way into F2's pages over the coming months
One conversation point for the day turned out to be the Moving to London Graduate Guide in the current issue. An awful lot of copies were sold over the course of the day, with many specific mentions of the use of, and need for, the guide; but it also provoked quite a bit of debate.
Some students (notably from Carmarthen College and Newport, but also from Yorkshire and the North West) were unconvinced of the need to move to London to begin their freelance career. Here at F2 Freelance we've long thought a Moving to London Graduate Guide an absolute necessity, as London can look very daunting to someone moving here for the first time. Certainly there is a healthy living to be made outside London in the, increasingly sophisticated, social and wedding arena, but it's enormously difficult to make your mark in editorial from outside town. It's also very much the case that the great majority of desks commissioning freelance photography in the UK are in London.
We hope those of you moving to London, to take the next step on the freelance career path, this year find our guide really useful. Jen Allan, who compiled it with the help of several top freelances, moved down from Sheffield University in June so much of it's written from bang up to date personal experience.
We are however always keen to hear opinions contrary to our own, and success stories made long distances from London, so if you've comments, criticisms, or contributions to make on this issue please go to the F2 blog www.f2freelancephotographer.blogspot.com and get blogging - freelancing certainly isn't going to get any easier over the credit crunch months ahead and here at F2 we're keen to hear any and all suggestions and stories about generating work, or for that matter the pitfalls you've encountered along the way.
6/11/08
BJP Vision
Photovision Roadshow
Today we're getting ready for BJP Vision at the Business Design Centre in Islington tomorrow (Friday 7/11/08). As ever at Vision F2 Editor David Land and Publisher Simon James will be on our stand to view your portfolios and we'll also have back issues and subscriptions at a reduced rate for the duration of the event. So if you're an established professional, working semi-pro or just starting out in the industry please feel free to stop by and say hello.
Also attending this year is F2 Editorial Assistant, Jen Allan, who wrote our current issue's Moving To London, Graduate Guide, having done so herself in the summer – so if you’ve any questions or concerns about moving to the big city Jen’s the one to ask - come and see her on the F2 stand!
Vision opens at 10.00 am sharp tomorrow: with lectures and seminars beginning at 10.30. First up is with Sam Faulkner, closely followed by rising star Simon Roberts, so make sure you get there early!
It was good to see so many of you at Photovision Roadshow at Brand's Hatch on Tuesday. In 2009 we will be attending Photovision Roadshows at Hatfield House on 28th April, Ricoh Arena Coventry on 12th May, and Royal Windsor Racecourse on 30th June and Brand's Hatch (2009 date TBA)
4 Nov
Photovision Roadshow, Brands Hatch. Register for a free ticket at http://www.forwardevents.co.uk
3/11/08
Photovision Roadshow
BJP Vision
This week we're at the Photovision Roadshow at Brands Hatch on Tuesday 4/11/08, and then BJP Vision at the Business Design Centre in Islington on Friday 7/11/08. We're happy to view portfolios, and will have back issues and subscriptions at a reduced rate for the duration of the events. So if you're an established professional, working semi-pro and just starting out in the industry please feel free to stop by and say hello!
4 Nov
Photovision Roadshow, Brands Hatch. Register for a free ticket at http://www.forwardevents.co.uk
7 Nov
BJP Vision, Islington Business Design Centre. £10 entry at http://tinyurl.com/4uo6qn
30/10/08
f2 now has a blog!
Nikon Solutions
Keep up to date with news, equipment, books, exhibitions and more, at:
www.f2freelancephotographer.blogspot.com,
...where we'll be regularly posting on news, books, exhibitions, equipment and software, along with general chit chat and titbits about the business of freelance photography. If you have anything you think we'd be interested in, then get email jen@ec1publishing.com.
We also have yet another date for your diary..
9-10 Dec:
Nikon Solutions
Nikon Solutions Expo, Olympia. Register for a free ticket at http://tinyurl.com/5yg7yj
29/10/08
Roll Up Roll Up!!
Bring Your Portfolios
Next week we'll be at the Photovision Roadshow at Brands Hatch, and BJP Vision at the Business Design Centre in Islington. We'll be selling back issues and subscriptions at discounted rates, and our team will be on the lookout for promising talent, so make sure you bring along your portfolios. We're always on the lookout for new photographers with interesting stories to tell about the business side of freelance photography to feature in our magazine. Dates and details below....
4 Nov
Photovision Roadshow, Brands Hatch. Register for a free ticket at http://www.forwardevents.co.uk
7 Nov
BJP Vision, Islington Business Design Centre. £10 entry at http://tinyurl.com/4uo6qn
23/09/08
Expo dates for your diary...
f2 will be at the following events over the coming months:
23-25 Oct
Mac Live Expo, Olympia, London. Register for a free ticket at http://tinyurl.com/5ewoon
MacLiveExpo is joining forces with CreativeProExpo at London’s Olympia for a major cross-platform, digital event and this year photography will be featured throughout. MacLive Expo and Creative Pro Expo are to be built around a series of targeted areas providing specific focal points on the creative market, from Digital Photography to Design Print & Publishing and Digital Audio & Video to Business Applications. Features dedicated to each area include free seminar sessions, hands-on labs, theatre workshops, photo opportunities and dedicated master-classes. F2 Freelance Photographer will be in attendance on all days, so why not stop by and see us while visiting the show?
4 Nov
Photovision Roadshow, Brands Hatch. Register for a free ticket at http://www.forwardevents.co.uk
7 Nov
BJP Vision, Islington Business Design Centre. £10 entry at http://tinyurl.com/4uo6qn
9-10 Dec:
Nikon Solutions Expo, Olympia. Register for a free ticket at http://tinyurl.com/5yg7yj
19/08/08
F2 at MacLiveExpo/CreativeProExpo - Olympia, London
Diary Date - Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th October
F2 will be in attendance on all days, so why not stop by and see us while visiting the show?
www.macliveexpo.co.uk
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