{"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’m sure this event would\u00a0appeal to anyone into photography, even if it just happens to be a passtime.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s a few highlights…<\/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’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 ‘<em>Copyright, photography and the Digital Age’<\/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’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’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 ‘<em>A Quite Interesting alternative history of photography<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n<p>We were treated to a bountiful\u00a0array of historic images and accompanying facts. The Victorian ‘hidden mothers’ who’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’s\u00a0freshly published book<em> ‘Retronaut – 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…<\/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’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…<\/h3>\n<p><em>“There will be more images taken this year than have ever been taken in the entire history of humanity”\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’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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