new website a-go-go!
I finally have my new website up and running. It’s pretty much the same as the old one but better, in my opinion, for having finally ditched that hateful chunk of buggy code they call Flash. This means I’ve also had to give up on SlideshowPro and while I’ll miss the very lovely SlideshowPro Director [...]
t4 in black and white (and colour)
I’m very lucky to have two main jobs, both of which I enjoy – stills photography and television camera operation. I work on T4 as a camera operator a lot, and they just got a new set with lots of colourful neon lights so I was asked if I could bring in my camera and [...]
all new Hipstamatic at-a-glance
There’s been quite a few Hipstamatic lens/film packs released since I last posted my ‘every lens and film combination’ image last year. Actually, it turns out that a few of them were limited edition and they aren’t available any more. I stopped using Hipstamatic for quite a while and I missed a couple of these, [...]
One way to fix an iTunes ‘Error 1013′
Last night I was updating my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3 (from 4.2.1) and it got almost all the way through until it sought to verify the update with Apple and failed with error code 1013. The support document said this was likely to do with security software preventing iTunes from connecting to Apple but [...]
adam deacon’s anuvahood – in UK cinemas from March 18th, 2011!
I shot the stills for Adam Deacon’s directorial debut, Anuvahood at the end of summer last year (2010) and they’ve just flipped the switch on their website – visit it here – which is packed with video and photos to keep your bad man satisfied till da real ting hits da streets on March 18th. [...]
if you like Hipstamatic, you’ll love these
There’s dozens of retro processing apps in the App Store, but Hipstamatic has captured the ol’ zeitgeist and it’s great that so many people are interested in it because it’s a cool wee photo app. I love it – to the extent that I created a huge matrix of all the lens/film combinations possible at [...]
Pixelmator: they’re not ripping you off
With the launch of the Mac App Store recently, Pixelmator, amongst a few other existing Mac apps, went Mac App Store Only. This means that eventually (once the application reaches version 2.0) users that already bought it from their website will stop getting free updates through the app, and will need to ‘transition’ to the [...]
iPhoto libraries and Dropbox – a warning!
You may be considering syncing your iPhoto libraries between various machines using Dropbox. I tried this recently and it works, but there are some serious caveats, that if you ignore could result in wiping out a lot of your iPhoto changes. Skip to the last paragraph if you want the short version, but for those [...]
pictureshow – stealing hipstamatic’s crown
The iPhone photo app market is saturated with apps to replicate the retro look. It’s probably a fad that should be on it’s last legs, but the apps keep coming and truth be told I do still like the look when it suits the image so purists be damned! For the last few months I’ve [...]
won somethin’!
I got an email yesterday from Madison at Online Schools: Dear Owen, Congratulations! Madison here, and your blog, My Glass Eye, was determined to be one of the best blogs to learn about your topic, and has received our 2010 Top 45 Photography Blogs award! You can see your name amongst our winners here at: [...]
neil marshall’s ‘centurion’ is out now!
Any excuse to post a cracking portrait of director Neil Marshall
my Technorati claim token
I thought I should register this blog with Technorati as I don’t really think many people know about it and apparently this is just one of many ways to get new visitors. Having said that I’ve also heard that Technorati is pretty irrelevant these days but hey, anything’s better than nothing. Anyway, they have a [...]
have you pleased anyone lately?
I was having a tinker with MarsEdit last night, trying to get it to run a preview of my blog posts as I work on them. Still can’t get it working but in the process of reading up on it I read found a very interesting post on the developer Daniel Jalkut’s blog about his attitude to ‘approval seeking’ as facilitated by the likes of Twitter and Facebook. It so closely echoed my feelings on the subject that it could have been written for me or even by me.
it’s tinker time
I like to mess about with my websites – gives me something to do during the holidays/days off other than watching TV, drinking beer at 11am or arguing with idiots on Eurogamer. :) This week I’ve latched onto a lovely new theme called ‘The World in 35mm‘ for Pixelpost. It’s working nice over at The [...]
…and we’re back!
Further to yesterday’s unpleasant discovery that something in my back end was b0rked, I went ahead and upgraded all the Pixelpost files to the latest version and that appears to have fixed it. Who knows what I did… I hope your Christmas week is going nicely. I’m off to do some food shopping and to [...]
we’ll be back shortly…
Apparently this image to the left is all anyone’s seen of my blog for almost a week now, but seeing as I haven’t updated it in almost a month, I had no idea. I was tinkering with it last week and took it all offline deliberately for a couple of days, but I thought I’d [...]
some TV exposure for Not Alone
You may recall I worked on a feature for my mate Tristan Versluis a while back, a horror called Not Alone starring Lucy Benjamin. I wrote a wee bit about it here. Lucy was just on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in the UK and is doing the publicity circuit now. Tomorrow [...]
a pretty cool milestone
A few weeks back I mentioned that the website for 1 Day had gone live, a movie I did some stills for in 2008. It opens next week and today I arrived at work to discover a bunch of my photos from it on page 3 of The Independent. It turns out the film, which [...]
ten great photography blogs
I’ve tried to cut down on the amount of stat-checking since my crisis of confidence a couple of months ago, but I do still sneak a look more often than I should, and I keep seeing links from a site called Blogtrepreneur. I’ve always assumed it was just one of those photoblog aggregate sites like [...]
1 day is coming
In August 2008 I spent a couple of days in Birmingham shooting stills on a new film by Penny Woolcock called 1 Day. I’ve not been able to really talk about the film until now, but they’ve started their publicity drive so some of my shots are in the public domain at last. It tells [...]
what’s happening with iPhone camera apps?
I love my iPhone for all sorts of reasons. One of them is that although it has a terrible camera (as mobile phone cameras go – and yes, even the new 3GS camera is pretty crappy in comparison to the rest of the market), it’s fun to use. Because I take my phone everywhere, I [...]
meltdown: refocussing
I’ve had a bit of a meltdown in the last few weeks and it’s had the result of forcing me to rethink what these blogs mean to me, what photography has come to mean to me, what I mean to myself, what other aspects of my life mean to me, and what’s most important. Basically, [...]
go the extra mile
Thought I’d give a motivational sermon today. I did a ‘half day’ job for a client recently, portraits to publicise a documentary they’d made for the BBC. They’d asked my rates, I told them, they decided it was a half-day job, I booked it in. It subsequently changed date numerous times. So many, in fact, [...]
fotomoto: prints and e-cards made e-asy (and 50% cheaper!)
UPDATE: February 2012 – I’ve long since disabled the Fotomoto plugin as part of general redesigning – it never generated a single penny anyway! Ah well. A few photoblogs I visit, such as Daily Dose of Imagery and Chromasia, have recently added the Fotomoto toolbar to their front page and seeing as it’s pretty damn [...]