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The Studio Frog guards all soundboard settings. Don't mess with Studio Frog; he will attack if provoked.
I was trying out my iPhone 11's ultrawide camera recently, seeing if I could get any half decent shots with it in anything other than bright sunlight. It is sort of possible, but not with Apple's in-built Camera app; this tends to apply a huge amount of denoising and other sorts of processing which results in extremely mushy images.
This was taken from within Lightroom Mobile which does a lot less processing of the files.
This was with the studio lights turned right up, and balancing the phone on the top of a chair for some vague stability.
It's still nowhere near the quality of what I can get with my other proper cameras, but it's a passable alternative, and great to have that 13mm equivalent focal length for wide shots like this.
For anyone that doesn't know, I'm a sound engineer at the BBC in London, and since the pandemic I've still been going in to the studio every day to record, edit and mix programmes made by Radio Current Affairs. These days I've been making our weekly programmes like More Or Less, The Briefing Room and How To Vaccinate The World, all on Radio 4.
Since coronavirus and lockdown I decided I wanted to stay in the same studio every day at work and not have anyone else using it. It helps me feel a little bit safer and happier about coming into the building everyday.
I went with the end studio, S48, and I’ve been pretty happy there for the past three months. I get to have it nice and chilly, plus I have the lights set to an ‘art gallery’ level of dimness which suits my light-sensitive eyes nicely. I've shot this view before, and this is merely an update of a very similar snap of the studio which I took 5 years ago. This time I have the small benefit of shooting on a tripod at the camera's base ISO ...
Jonas and Mads mixing live during our "main subject"-week (Linjefagsuge) at DRH.
We (the 7 sound techs) took turns doing live and studio work and observing the other techs working, and on this day I took the opportunity to bring my camera along whilst observing, bringing me to take pictures of one of the things I love most in this world: mixers!
It's an Allen&Heath GL2800, installed with the big stage at DRH, if anyone's interested.
Altitude 2000+ special
It's all a question of perspective: The shot above is Andorra's Pic de Casamanya's Segudet slope, with Pic d'Estanyo at background. Both seem to be direct neighbours, but in fact their distance is 4 km. Camera position distance is 12 km.
So "perspective" is the main keyword of what we're doing, optical perspectives and others...
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How we work
"Altitude 2000+" is an image collection of Andorra's mountain regions beyond the tree line (timberline), short distance or macro distance images of this ecologic precious zone, presenting rare mediterranean-alpine plants of the Pyrenees getting smaller and smaller with getting rarer and rarer.
Most shots are done at another time at often another lighting mood. Bringing it together over the years an orga conception is quite useful. To get plausible results for a story idea someting like a "film-style storybook" it's a must for scene continuity together with an esthetic framing (cadrage). Means: for trustable results we should have enough good scenes in stock that might match.
That's the way we work. Here in Andorra since 2005.
Well, we still are talking about "still photography", not about "video". Nevertheless our workflow offers quality headroom for movie quality, using the scene quality of just 1 perfect lighted and edited high-res still photo.
An example: A virtual flight through Andorra, based maybe on just 1 HiRes photography shot. Medium Format photography is recommended in this case. This kind of production via a selected high resolution still-photo gets interactive at a website or via mobil-phone app.
Medium format has the headroom for it. A zoom-in for details seem to be endless compared to amateur formats, and your video can be updated anytime as all images are based on dng format, a "quasi root format".
Tech-Talk: Size of Medium Format is about 2-times (or more) bigger than FullFrame (36/24) and 4-times bigger than HalfFrame as APS-C. And this is by far not the end. Best resolution at this level finally is defined by optical components before reaching the xxx-megapixel-sensor. Lenses in this category cost often more than the camera. Professionals need a lot of it, as each lens should be "prime", means no-zoom.
Does it bring something? Well, photography is similar to an audio production (where I basicly come from as soundengineer & recordingproducer). Overall quality is determined with both by the weakest link in the chain. And: Sins with both happen often (always...) at the begin of the recording chain, whether accoustics or optics, whether microphone or the lens. Or the singer :). Or impatience of the photographer.
Another aspect of our capacity is a metadata-controlled base to get best and "everlasting" results. Today, next months, the coming years - not a big problem yet. Yet! Or not? Proven standards of the internet exist since min 20 years, IPTC rules even much longer.
Operation of our "GEO-photography" system.
GEO photography in our own definition is a local/regional related interactive network of GEO images, based on our philosophy of "functional photography" (always need millions of additional dates). Explaining: We store the relation of a normal GPS location (camera position), but related to possible targets seen on this image, supplemented, if available, with editoral researches.
GEO photography is a mixture of automated records of all camera-movements, distance measurements plus a database interface including editorial edits as names, synonyms and story text to describe a target more exact and consistent. This 1 image is also related to all the others done over the past.
Result: 1 image is (in our case) related to all matching motives from the last 15 years, sometimes even longer. For Andorra this are 100.000+ images! Please note: To see the full functionality on a webpage or an app it needs individual server-side programming.
Another hot feature is an interactive use within a smartphone-app via GPS-sync. Means: A smartphone (with localisation function) shows stored selected images inclusive redactional text content in a continous flow while hiking Andorra. Fully automated. For example based on our new "Camis & Rutes" collection.
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That's it here!
Full features are available with full licensed images. Here at Flickr we present just "footage" in low resolution - not "ready to use" films or videos. Same with any additional information via metadata or editorial. If interested please ask your IT/Media partner and remember the old marketing rule: "Instead of 1001 words - just let pictures speak!"
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About the image above:
* Half frame format 3x2 image
* Usage: Large format prints optional
* Motive is suitable as symbol pic
* "Andorra authentic" edition (10 years decade 2008-2018)
* "Andorra camis & rutes" active collection
* 2000+ collection „beyond the treeline“
A how-to about "Altitude 2000+ collection" and the way we work please read here:
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We offer 100.000+ photos of Andorra and North of Spain. HighRes & HighColor GeoCoded stock-photo images including metadata in 4-5 languages. Prepared for an easy systematic organising of large image portfolios with advanced online / print-publishing as "Culture-GIS" (Geographic Info System). The big stockphoto collection from the Pyrenees.
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Netherlands, Rotterdam, Charlois, Dynamo, Monitor room, Techie (uncut)
Dynamo's sound engineer at his mixing console. Shot during our band's Saturday recording session.
(Strobist info: camera hot shoe mounted Canon Speedlite 430 EX with a Sto-Fen Omnibounce, -1 E/V)
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Richie Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is an English-Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s.
Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus, primarily for his own projects.
Hawtin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in England, but moved when he was aged 9 to LaSalle, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, and just across the river from Detroit, the birthplace of techno. His father worked as a robotics technician at General Motors, and was a fan of electronic music, introducing his son to Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream at an early age.
He has one brother, Matthew, who is a visual artist and ambient music DJ. Hawtin attended Sandwich Secondary High School in LaSalle. He began to DJ in clubs in Detroit at 17, and his early style was a mix of house and techno.
In 1990, along with Canadian DJ John Acquaviva, he formed the label Plus-8 in order to release his own tracks under the name FUSE. Hawtin was billed for DJ appearances under the name Richie Rich, a name also used by an American hip hop music DJ who was a member of 3rd Bass, and also a UK house music DJ who was actively producing remixes around the same time.
He spent part of 2002 and 2003 living in New York City, and has since moved to Berlin, Germany. He said, "I’d always wanted to move to Europe. I needed somewhere that was inspiring and where there were like-minded musicians and artists, somewhere you could still experiment with music and with life. Berlin is so liberal in so many different ways; there’s an amazing club scene, there’s a great development software tech scene, there are so many resources here."
Hawtin has recorded music under the aliases Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Concept 1, Circuit Breaker, The Hard Brothers, Hard Trax, Jack Master, and UP!. He also recorded and performed, in combination with other artists, under group names such as 0733, Cybersonik, Final Exposure, Spawn (with Fred Giannelli and Daniel Bell), and States Of Mind. Additionally, Richie and Pete Namlook collaborated to produce the From Within series of albums blending minimal techno and ambient sounds. He has also released an album Sounds of the Third Season with Sven Väth.
Hawtin collaborated with choreographer Enzo Cosimi to create a composition called "9.20" for the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. He said, "Enzo and I are very much interested in pushing boundaries, both as artists and for our audiences. Working together for the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games delivers the creative endeavor to not only entertain a huge audience, but to also introduce them to sights and sounds that they may have never experienced before."
In 2007, Slices magazine launched a series of biographies called "Pioneers of Electronic Music", with the first issue being a roughly 60 minute documentary dedicated to the life of Richie Hawtin. The film follows his career from his early days crossing the border to Detroit to his current life in Berlin, interviewing many colleagues and family members.
Hawtin dismisses recent talk of the death of dance music. In an interview he said, "In the last few years, the interest in electronic music has gone back up, the quality of the music has gone back up, there’s a buzz which reminds you of the early days,” he insists. “From where I’m sitting right now, dance music is more vibrant than ever. In some countries you’ll always have the press saying it’s going down and writing it off, but somewhere else the interest level is soaring and people are discovering this music for the first time, like in South America, where it’s completely kicking off – it’s unbelievable down there. There are some great festivals and parties in Europe, and over the last five years I’ve seen Ibiza go from complete cheesy shite music to the resurgence of a number of different types of progressive electronic music."
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--> Richie Hawtin's official website: www.plastikman.com/
--> LoveParade2008: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx7XBjeVWw
My home for today and tomorrow, where I'm mixing this week's edition of the Radio 4 programme More Or Less.
The studios we have at New Broadcasting House are really Rolls Royce-like compared to what I was used to when I worked at Unique. So spacious, and very well appointed technology-wise.
For any tech-heads out there, I'm using SADiE 6 to mix with, including some old hardware controllers, the desk is a Studer OnAir 3000, and we have Dynaudio BM5A mkII monitors.
Bjarke and Andreas working with our teacher Stig, at the school I spent the second half of 2013 at. Here in the large half analogue studio (24 ch tape, 24 ch Pro Tools).
My impromptu portrait of Peter was taken in a stolen moment when he was providing the sound for the JQJAZZ Festival at the UCB McIntyre Building on Sunday 22nd. May 2016. Peter has been the unsung hero of many a jazz gig I've attended in recent years providing the sound for numerous bands and solo performers.
Peter Dixon arrived in Birmingham from Leicester, where he grew up, in 2004 to study Composition (Classical) at Birmingham Conservatoire. He studied under Joe Cutler, Lamberto Coccioli and Andrew Downs. "By studying composition I had the opportunity to immerse myself in music for four years", he says, "I was also able to record many of my fellow students who were studying on the jazz course". He added, "like my father, my preferred role within music is one that enables others as opposed to being in the spotlight". Peter's father spent his professional life as a piano tuner, piano engineer and "all round piano expert". He feels that his role as a sound engineer approaches music from the same standpoint. "My passion is to allow audience members to hear the music that is being performed as the musicians on stage intend it to be heard" He adds "well at least, and possibly very selfishly, the way that I think it should sound to an audience member". It was during his time at the Conservatoire that Peter got himself properly involved with live sound and began to work engineering jazz gigs including Thursday nights at the Yardbird (then Bread & Roses) started by Simon Harris. He became involved with Birmingham Jazz in 2007. "Since then I've been given incredible opportunities" he says, "through Birmingham Jazz, Jazzlines, The Edge (with Alison Vermee at the helm) and the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton I've been able to engineer gigs by many incredible artists that have passed through the West Midlands".
Take Five - Peter recommends the following Five-a-Day.
J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2 (BWV 846–893) - enough said...
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - A gem from my composition degree days which inspired a lot of music that I wrote.
My Violin and Alto - Though getting a little neglected at the moment...
The Olllam - John McSherry, Tyler Duncan and Michael Shimmin - My soundcheck CD for the last few years... something that I put through every PA system before mixing.
Birmingham... It has let me have it as my home and never stops surprising me with the number of amazing events that happen and originate here and the all the inspiring people that are associated with the city.
Opuh Koffie (Open Coffee), a weekly meeting of photographers and other
crazy people in The Hague. The video (dutch only): www.flickr.com/photos/raaphorst/3723414079/
On the left: Rene Bom, night mayor of The Hague
On the right: Marco Raaphorst, sound engineer.
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30 May 2014. That's me in my studio in the British Library Sound & Vision's Technical Services. It was my last day before retirement after nearly 25 years in the job. The studio is named the Alan Dower Blumlein Studio and that's Nipper at my feet. All the equipment has been disconnected and powered down in readiness for the next person to work there and to set up how they would like it.
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Lasse working sound for Chubby Toucan.
Being a sound engineer primarily myself, I love shots of guys working "behind the scenes", or in this case 10 meters in front of stage, making sure everything goes as planned and the musicians and audience can have a good experience without worrying about the huge amount of stuff that needs to be in place for a concert or play to work.
Besides, techies are usually around a lot of equipment stuffed with LEDs and buttons that do very well OOF and make delicious bokeh.
Bjarke and Andreas working with our teacher Stig, at the school I spent the second half of 2013 at. Here in the large half analogue studio (24 ch tape, 24 ch Pro Tools).
Electric Hotel Studio rack:
2 x RND portico 511 mic preamps
1 x Elysia Xfilter 500 (10 years anniversary vinyl LTD edition)
1 x Elysia Xpressor 500 (coffee LTD edition)
lindell audio 506 mk1 power supply.
I added some m3 hex screws to improve the look today, minor thing but it makes it look much better.
Monitor engineer on the tour Russ. Cheeky portrait after the soundcheck at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester.
27 May 2014. Will.
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This is an iconic microphone, and one that I use in the studios every day in my job as a studio manager at the BBC.
The microphone's design goes all the way back to the C-12 in the early 1950s ...
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19 May 2014. Tony. The machine is an Otari MTR-90 MkII 24 track on 2 inch tape recorder.
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