Category: Chit Chat
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Run, bike, picnic. With beer from De Koninck.
One of the bits I love about my job is the fact I get to meet a lot of people. These events organised by brewery De Koninck are no exception. In the last couple of weeks I’ve covered 2 events for them in Antwerp. A family picnic in the park and a 2nd hand bicycle…
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Belgian Beer & Food Magazine.
What started a year ago as a pipe-dream for Editor in Chief and Publisher Paul Walsh, finally became reality last night. Issue 1 of ‘Belgian Beer & Food‘ was launched and presented to a group of passionate beer lovers. The magazine is produced by ex-pats living in Belgium who share the love of beer, especially…
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The face of things to come – Undermining photography as a profession.
I read this article earlier this week and shocked at how unsurprised I was at the report of The Chicago Sun-Times‘ decision to lay-off their 28 staff photographers and training their journalists to take photos with the mobile phones. Unsurprised because this isn’t the first time I have heard of a newspaper taking this step. What…
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Beer god – Duvel Brewmaster
Last week saw the launch party of the new Duvel ‘Tripel Hop Selection’ from the brewery Duvel Moortgat. I was asked to go along and record the event, as I do for a variety of other events for the brewery. One of the requests was to shoot a portrait of Hedwig Neven, the ‘Duvel god’…
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Fujifilm .RAF processing in Lightroom 4.4RC
I’ve just done a quick test of the new Lightroom release candidate. At last, Adobe have included the long awaited optimised file handling of Fujifilm’s X-Trans sensor output. I personally hadn’t had much issue with the processing of my Fujifilm RAW files but some people have complained about mosaic patterns being seen in detailed areas…