‪Photographing Children - Tips

For those newbies who want tips on taking photos of their active children

We get a lot of newbies at DPR saying that they need the bestest camera at the cheapest price in the smallest package with the most bang for buck to take photos of their never still, restless children. I happened to see a video at the Tamron website and then followed the breadcrumbs....

When you can get your hands on 100 digital cameras....

Gotta see this one: What You Can Do With 100 Olympus Cameras


Porcelana - Making Of from Real Creations on Vimeo.

When Camera Advertising is More Effective

We've been lamenting how Olympus makes superb gear, well thought out, gentle and genteel, with a flair for breaking out of conservatism. But in many instances, the relevant marketing efforts in each country, well, they can't market for nuts. Really. I had a look at YouTube and these are the ad styles that I would pick. It's very hard to establish a hunger to want to buy your product in 30 seconds - priming the public on tech supremacy is just, well, ineffective. So don't. Establish the need some other way.

Give it to an Idol to show
(and for heavens sake, not Kevin Spacey spouting grumpy old negatives - Kevin himself is better than that)




Lifestyle - make it look easy


Talk Straight but twist it with the incongrouous