{"id":442,"date":"2014-09-18T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-10-27T01:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:15:59","slug":"birdie-photography-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/photography\/birdie-photography-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRDIE Photography Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/birdieconf.com\/\">BIRDIE<\/a>, a brand new photography conference organised by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteoctoberevents.co.uk\/\">White October Events<\/a>. The event was held\u00a0at <strong>The Shoreditch Village Hall<\/strong> which is situated in sunny Hoxton Square, London.<\/p>\n<p>The conference\u00a0was very well organised, the venue was good, and the speakers were excellently curated.\u00a0It was an enjoyable day.<\/p>\n<p>There are some excellent web design \/ dev conferences here in the UK, but I\u2019m not aware of any similarly executed\u00a0photography events, so this was refreshing. I&#8217;m sure this event would\u00a0appeal to anyone into photography, even if it just happens to be a passtime.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few highlights&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Kevin Meredith a.k.a. Lomokev<\/h3>\n<p>Kevin was previously a web designer and talked about\u00a0how he initially fell into professional photography by earning a few quid snapping images at raves in the early 90&#8217;s. He found a niche experimenting with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lomography\">Lomography<\/a> and talked about <em>The Tokyo Lomo Olympics<\/em> which sounded like it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst other cool\u00a0client work, Kevin also talked about an exciting\u00a0commission he has just landed documenting the new\u00a0Brighton\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightoni360.co.uk\/\">i360<\/a>\u00a0and will be producing\u00a0a long duration timelapse of the construction process.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"blockgrid small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-3 large-block-grid-3 \">\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_i360.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Brighton i360\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Brighton i360<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_monkey.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - David Slater\u2019s mon\u00adkey\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>\u00a92011 Monkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_stevyn.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Stevyn Colgan\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Stevyn Colgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Naomi Korn<\/h3>\n<p>Naomi is an IP Consultant and talked about &#8216;<em>Copyright, photography and the Digital Age&#8217;<\/em>. This was a very insightful and well communicated presentation. It was fascinating\u00a0to learn a bit about the early beginnings\u00a0of copyright and the more recent technicalities\u00a0of\u00a0digital content protection.<\/p>\n<p>The law is still lagging behind in certain areas, but was good to hear things are changing. For example, this October the law will be changed here\u00a0in the UK for;\u00a0Caricature, parody and Pastiche,\u00a0Quotation, and\u00a0Format shifting\u00a0(making copies of digital content\u00a0for multiple devices).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d missed the recent news about <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2014\/08\/08\/photographer-david-slater-explains-hes-going-wikimedia-monkey-selfie\/\">David Slater&#8217;s monkey image<\/a> and was astonished to discover that US law ruled that the copyright in this case was owned by the monkey. Utterly daft, but just shows how whacky laws can be.<\/p>\n<h3>Stevyn Coglan<\/h3>\n<p>Stevyn is an author and also one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006ml0g\">BBC QI<\/a> <em>Elves<\/em>. His highly entertaining talk was suitably titled &#8216;<em>A Quite Interesting alternative history of photography<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>We were treated to a bountiful\u00a0array of historic images and accompanying facts. The Victorian &#8216;hidden mothers&#8217; who&#8217;s efforts to camouflage themselves in order to keep their babies still during laborious photo sittings, gave us all a good chuckle.<\/p>\n<h3>Chris Wild<\/h3>\n<p>Chris gave a charismatic presentation featuring\u00a0some captivating images from his online\u00a0digital collection\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/\">Retronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was so impressed by the subject matter, I whipped out my laptop and ordered Chris&#8217;s\u00a0freshly published book<em> &#8216;Retronaut &#8211; The Photographic Time Machine\u2019\u00a0<\/em>literally the minute he\u00a0had finished talking.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"blockgrid small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-3 large-block-grid-3 \">\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_triggertrap.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Conor MacNeill\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Conor MacNeill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_katja.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Katja Ogrin\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Katja Ogrin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_danrubin.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Dan Rubin\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Dan Rubin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Speakers<\/h3>\n<p>Every single\u00a0session\u00a0was great, so I must quickly mention the rest of the speakers and their talks here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefella.com\/\">Conor MacNeill<\/a> talked about some of his astrophotography experiences,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katjaogrin.net\/\">Katja Ogrin<\/a> showed us a selection of her music event photographs, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/film.agathaa.com\/\">Agatha A. Nitecka<\/a> discussed her work as a movie stills photographer, capturing\u00a0intimate images\u00a0on film sets exclusively using\u00a0a\u00a035mm film SLR with\u00a0prime lenses. Last not least,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fltrlive.com\/\">Tom Seymour<\/a> interviewed the event&#8217;s host\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/danrubin.is\/\">Dan Rubin<\/a>\u00a0which provoked\u00a0some thoughtful discussion.<\/p>\n<h3>Demos<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout the day there was demonstrations from <a href=\"http:\/\/triggertrap.com\/\">Triggertrap<\/a> a\u00a0smartphone-based camera triggering solution and also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.the-impossible-project.com\/shop\/cameras\/impossible\">The Instant Lab<\/a>\u00a0a smartphone to Polaroid instant printer. Both born from Kickstarter campaigns, both awesome products.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"blockgrid small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-2 \">\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_triggertrap-product.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Triggertrap\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Triggertrap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdie_instant.jpg\" alt=\"BIRDIE Conference - Instant Lab\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>The Instant Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Take away\u00a0mind blower&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;There will be more images taken this year than have ever been taken in the entire history of humanity&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(a brain\u00a0boggling number, something like 900 billion).<\/p>\n<h3>A quick timelapse<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen vimeo\">\n\t \t<video poster=\"\/\/cdn.4muladesign.com\/clients\/jb\/assets\/video\/2014.09.13_Birdie_720.poster.jpg\" controls><source src=\"\/\/cdn.4muladesign.com\/clients\/jb\/assets\/video\/2014.09.13_Birdie_720.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><source src=\"\/\/cdn.4muladesign.com\/clients\/jb\/assets\/video\/2014.09.13_Birdie_720.ogv\" type=\"video\/ogg\">Your browser does not support the <code>video<\/code> element.<\/video>\n\t <\/div>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>The event was certainly a success and looks as though it will be continuing, onwards and upwards, so I\u2019d highly recommend it to anyone interested in Photography.<\/p>\n<p>I always find listening to peoples stories in this format really interesting and insightful and I&#8217;m sure you will too.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations and thanks to the organisers and all people involved, great job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"links\">\n<ul>\n<li>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/birdieconf.com\/\">birdieconf.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIRDIEconf\">@BIRDIEconf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Organisers:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteoctoberevents.co.uk\">whiteoctoberevents.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Monkey image: \u00a92011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djsphotography.co.uk\/\">David Slater<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Brighton i360 image:\u00a0\u00a92014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightoni360.co.uk\">brightoni360.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRDIE is a new photography conference where talented photographers share their captivating experiences and stories.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[31,30,66],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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