Paul Brown Photography

Causing Chaos For Cancer Charity Gig

Paul Brown — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:58:59 +0000

I haven,t shot a gig for ages and my good friend Shepy was the official tog for this event (as he was last year) and he gave his services for free for the charity, so he asked if I wanted to pop along for a couple of hours after a shoot I was doing at Newcastle College yesterday. So I dropped in for a bit. My intention was to stay an hour, but I loved the atmosphere and the people there were great. Some of the nicest bunch of guys and girls I have met. Don’t let appearances put you of, afterall this event was to raise much needed funds for Cancer Research. 12 bands were on the line-up!!!

Here’s a few snaps I done, but if you require any images, contact Shepy as it was his gig and thanks for the invite matey

More of mine here

Comments are welcome!!

Micro DV Camera

Paul Brown — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:01:24 +0000

After reading and watching lots of videos about photographers being harrased by nugget security guards, CPO (plastic police) and Police with no common sense, using Section 44 to try and stop our lawful interest of taking pictures on the street, I decided to get myself one of these, for my own good and my own defence.

I also made a small adapter to fix it the hot shoe of my camera. I love it!!

Check out the Veho Got my from Amazon

New Derelict Images

Paul Brown — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:43:38 +0000

My first real derelict explore this year and what a gem it was!!

Even though I have photographed various sections of this complex, it just keeps turning out the goods. Checkout more in the Derelict section on the Gallery

It’s Time To Stop This

Paul Brown — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:44:48 +0000

Source: Copyright Action

The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which – unless amended, which HMG says it will not – will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.

Copyright in photos is essentially going to cease to exist, since there is no ineradicable way of associating ownership details short of plastering your name right across the image. Photographer’s organisations have pressed hard for mandatory attribution to deter orphans being manufactured. Early in the consultation process the IPO accepted the irresistible logic that it was completely unreasonable to permit orphan use without a balancing requirement to not orphan photos in the first place. However, the IPO recognised with dismay that this would mean “taking on Rupert” (Murdoch).

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