Focus on Imaging 7th -10th NEC Birmingham
STAND F50

Well its that time of year again down at the NEC with Mary Walker Exhibitions, 4 days all about photography and PhotoTraining4U are in the thick of it with 81square metres of full on teaching every 45 minutes.

All the team as well as a few of our new PT4U Masters will be on hand to chat and present some new and exciting ideas for photographers for 2010, plus the hunt for the new Apprentices starts so remember to stop by the stand.

Debbie and Nicola also have some great offers from Lastolite, Ray Flash and ExpoDisc on PhotoKit4U.

If you are not a member of PhotoTraining4U yet we have some join up show offers for you as only members will be eligible to become the next Apprentices and this year its all about wedding photography, with 12 months of training with Mark and the Team in Cardiff.

Members will be asked to submit a contact sheet of images in June for first selection and then in an exciting weekend in Cardiff in July, 2 lucky members will be chosen to become the next Apprentices, life changing training worth over £20,000.

Sunday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 Black –with Mark Cleghorn
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Photoshop Edge EFX –with Mark Cleghorn
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn
15.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
15.45 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
16.30 - Creative PhotoShop –with Mark Cleghorn
17.15 - Creative Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn

Monday, Tuesday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 -Black –with Kenny Martin
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Kenny Martin
15.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
15.45 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
16.30 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
17.15 - Creative Portraits –with Mark Cleghorn

Wednesday
10.30 - Creative Hi Key –with Mark Cleghorn
11.15 - Back –2 -Black –with Kenny Martin
12.00 - Meet The Apprentice –with John Moore
12.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack
13.30 - Simple Speedlite –with Mark Cleghorn
14.15 - Back-2-Basic Portraits –with Kenny Martin
15.00 - Posing The Bride –with Mark Cleghorn
15.45 - Lightroom –with Sean McCormack

THE QFLASH ACADEMY

Flaghead Photographic, Quantum’s exclusive UK & Ireland distributor, are pleased to announce the launch of a new DVD: THE QUANTUM QFLASH ACADEMY!

The new DVD explains in minute detail all aspects of Quantum’s range of Qflash products: The Qflash T5D-R, X5D-R, Trio and Pilot units are explained in easy to follow lessons by US photographers Rick Ferro and Will Crocket.

All features of the Qflash are explored and technical aspects are explained in real shooting situations with lots of technical tips. Areas covered include:

· Creative lighting techniques
· Manual output control
· TTL features
· Wireless TTL applications using FreeXWire radio system
· Wireless TTL using the QNexus I R system with Nikon & Canon cameras
· Fill-in flash in manual and auto modes
· Auto mode
· Camera settings
· Wireless remote control in manual, auto and TTL using the new Pilot

The QFlash system is unique: three portable, mains independent flash heads that combine many of the modern features found in on-camera flashes with the range of light shaping possibilities only offered by mains operated studio lighting units!

The Qflash Academy is also available online: www.qflashacademy.com

To receive a FREE copy of the DVD contact:

Hardy Haase
Flaghead Photographic Ltd
Tel: 01202 733 123
info@flaghead.co.uk
www.flaghead.co.uk

Photographers are now treating the Convention as a ‘must-do’ event’ –Phil Jones

The Societies To Run Europe’s Biggest Ever Photographic Convention

The Societies (incorporating the SWPP) is set to stage the biggest photographic convention Europe has ever seen.

The seven day event at London’s Novotel, Hammersmith starts on January 12, 2010 and will set new benchmarks for ‘one-stop-shop’ conventions in the UK.

One hundred and fifty speakers have been booked, including ‘international imaging heavyweights’ Jerry Ghionis, Kevin Kubota, Charlie Waite, Mark Cleghorn, Henk Van Kooten and Trevor and Faye Yerbury.
And two hundred and fifty imaging industry exhibitors are expected to take stands – a 25% uplift on the 2009 event.
Phil Jones, The Societies’ CEO said: “The countdown to the biggest event of its kind ever in Europe has begun. Despite the recession, interest in the 2010 The Societies Convention is keener than ever.
Over 12,000 visitors attended this year but all the signs are that figure will be easily overtaken next January. Over 60% of our trade stand allocation had been booked by March.”

He added: “We are finding that increasing numbers of photographers are treating The Societies Convention as a ‘must-do’ event. They know the choice of seminars and workshops by world-acclaimed speakers is simply unmatchable – and they also know that all the key players in the industry will be on hand to demonstrate their latest products.”
Our planners will lay on over 350 Masterclasses over four days; over 12 hours of exclusive Business School workshops and over forty hours of free seminars and demonstrations.
And the Trade Show element of the Convention (Jan 15-17) is free as long as visitors pre-register online before January 8, 2010.

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The Societies director Juliet Jones said: “The Convention has grown from a one day event, held at a small hotel in Liverpool, with a smattering of visitors and a handful of exhibitors eight years ago, to the pioneering seven day showcase it will be in 2010.
Planning and executing an event of this size is a mammoth organisational and logistical challenge but we now know that 2010 will be our biggest and best convention ever – with an unprecedented speaker list and workshops covering every imaginable photo-discipline. Plus of course we’ll be running our annual awards night and usual array of legendary Convention parties.”

She added: “The Societies’ members and non-members are welcome. Our members will get discounts on their seminar bookings – and this year we have organised an exclusive ‘Members Day’ at which photographers will pay just £20 for the chance to spend all day at key creative lighting and high fashion seminars by Mark Cleghorn and Doug Gordon.”
In addition our Superclasses will offer delegates a unique opportunity to engage with top speakers over four hour-long workshops on a 10 to 1 or 15 to 1 basis.”

The ‘Extraordinary Effort. Extraordinary Results’ full day seminar by award-winning Australian wedding photographer Jerry Ghionis will take place on Monday Jan 18 (Cost £75 for members; £85 non-members)
For more details and ticket options for The Societies’ 2010 Convention visit www.swpp.co.uk.

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Further information: Trevor Lansdown at Wordengineers.com
Email: info@ wordengineers.com
Telephone: 021206 241575

July 2009

Green Clean Silky Liquid & Silky Wipe for optics & touchscreens

Austrian manufacturer GREEN CLEAN has developed a special cleaning system for optics, touchscreens and many other sensitive surfaces:

The Silky Liquid & Silky Wipe

This fast and safe cleaning system is designed to be used on a variety of sensitive surfaces and provide a long lasting effect to prevent dirt build-up and static!

For use on:
Lenses, coated & un-coated
Spectacles & sunglasses
Touch phones, PDA’s, computer screens
GPS navigation devices
Digital photo frames
LCD screens on cameras

	Silky Liquid & Wipe kit,
	incl. 1 x Pumpspray 20 ml Silky Liquid, 1 x Silky Wipe 25 x 25 cm
	Price: £	Qty:

The Silky Liquid comes in a 20 ml pump-spray bottle.
Silky Liquid key features:

· fast acting on all types of dirt and contaminations
· water-based
· economical
· antistatic
· does not build deposits
· smoothes structures
· biologically completely harmless
· long lasting prevention of dirt build-up and static

The special Silky Wipe cloth 25 x 25 cm square with the following features:

· specially developed for use on sensitive & coated surfaces
· woven from refined silk derivatives, cotton and other fine fibres
· does not contain binder, glue, chlorine or bleach
· can be machine-washed at least 200 times

The innovative SILKY LIQUID combined with the well-known cleaning properties of SILKY WIPE assures perfect cleaning of sensitive surfaces!

Don’t forget to visit
Lastoliite.com

‘Deaf people, including photographers, have been excluded for too long’ – Cardiff-based photographer Dafydd Everleigh

Cardiff-based Dafydd Everleigh, an amateur landscape shooter, contacted PhotoTraining4U.com founder Mark Cleghorn when he noticed the site’s training videos had no subtitles.

Mr Everleigh said: “I was extremely upset and annoyed about it. Deaf people have been excluded from society for too long. I accept that even eighteen months ago subtitles on flash based movies were both expensive and very difficult to do - but technology has moved on and now providing subtitles is relatively cheap. There is just no excuse not to subtitle online videos – in fact it could be financially rewarding for training organisations as a whole new audience will be able to access the services. For example, the Facebook group, ‘Deaf Photographers’ – alone boasts over 1300 members.
There is no specific requirement to subtitle web-based movies but the Disability Discrimination Act which states that services must be reasonably adjusted and be made accessible.”

He added: “I contacted Mark Cleghorn about this and although it has taken some time, I am delighted that he is now providing subtitles on all his training videos.
His PhotoTraining4U site is a terrific idea because it allows people to learn what they want, when they want and where they want. There is far more flexibility compared to the conventional training approaches, like college tuition - and it doesn’t matter if you are ill.
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PhotoTraining4U founder, Mark Cleghorn said: “Dafydd contacted us directly and he was rightly very upset that we had no subtitles on our training videos.
We were actually working on the challenge at that time but it took us a while to put it into effect.
Dafydd’s comments are all valid and his complaint stirred us into accelerating our pioneering subtitle programme. Now all new videos have subtitles options and within weeks our entire back catalogue will also have this facility.”

Hundreds sign up for ‘real and raw’ specialist photo-training videos online:

So what do you need to learn today?

UK photo guru Mark Cleghorn is asking Photography Monthly readers: ‘So what do you need to learn today?

Hundreds of photographers nationwide have already signed up to his pioneering online photo-training website; Phototraining4U.com since its official launch at Focus this spring.

Billed as ‘the UK’s first affordable and comprehensive online photo-training solution’,
the site provides video tutorials in bite-sized learning chunks with at least one brand new twenty minute lesson added to the site’s knowledge bank each week.

Says Cleghorn, one of Europe’s top ranked and most respected professional photographers:
“This programme is the first of its kind in the UK. The photographer’s skill level doesn’t matter. You can be a seasoned professional or a complete novice. Just log on and select the video tutorial that you want to learn about at that time. Phototraining 4U is all about lifting the technical fog.”

Now leading social lab, Loxley Colour, is pledging a £100 voucher to every new photographer subscribing to Cleghorn’s soaraway website and every photographer signing up to his £199 a year training programme will also receive free onOne PHOTOTOOLS 1 plug-in software worth over £100.

Adds Cleghorn, who holds no less than four industry Fellowships and has notched up hundreds of photo-awards in a 25 year career: “This has been years in the planning but now it has really got wings – and expansion plans are already underway. “

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“I want to show photographers how they can improve; how they can sidestep all those mistakes I made along the way. And right now in the middle of a recession increasing numbers of amateur photographers are looking at Phototraining4U as a must-have launch guide to a new career.”

The site’s ‘knowledge bank’ already boasts over 35 hours of training and includes tutorial videos on a wide raft of topics including: camera and lighting techniques; software applications: posing subjects: marketing strategies, PR, back to basics: photography fundamentals revisited hints and tips for every day shooting; how to beat the recession and which kit to buy.

Says Cleghorn: This is 21st century learning at its best – these are genuinely affordable short lessons that can easily fit into a daily coffee break.
We are proving that Phototraining4u can transform the way photographers work and the profits they can make – and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich per session.”

Loxley Colour Marketing Director Chris Kay comments: “There is a substantial market for ‘on demand’ professional training at a cost-effective price -and Mark is providing it.
Photography can be a lonely world for newcomers too, and Phototraining4U enables them to access top quality tuition.
New registrants can redeem our voucher against any Loxley product, including print, until the promotion ends later this year.”

For more information visit: www.phototraining4U.com.

Join Mark Cleghorn’s PhotoTraining4U.com on line training web site now and get £100 to spend at Loxley Colour on any of their products as well as onOne Softwares PhotoTools 1 worth over £100 for free.

Pree Release
How to snap up £200 worth of photo-products.FREE.

Photographers who sign up for Mark Cleghorn’s pioneering
Phototraining 4U.com tuition programme will be able to claim over £200 worth of ‘added value extras’ from May 1st.

Leading social lab, Loxley Colour, is pledging a £100 voucher to every new customer subscribing to Cleghorn’s soaraway website.
In addition, the Cardiff-based photo-expert has negotiated free onOne PHOTOTOOLS plug-in software worth over £100 for every photographer signing up to his £199 a year video-based online training programme.

Hundreds of professional and serious amateur photographers have already registered at the website, which offers scores of specialist training videos across all key photo-disciplines, including camera and lighting techniques, posing guides, business ideas and Photoshop application.

Said Cleghorn: “We are delighted with the immediate impact that Phototraining4U.com is having in the imaging community. Photographers can now cherry-pick their video training at a time to suit them – and all for less than the cost of a coffee and a sandwich each week.”

He added: “From May 1st every new delegate will also receive a £100 Loxley Colour voucher and an onOne software package – all within the £199 (incl.VAT) fee for a full year’s membership on the site.”

Loxley Colour Marketing Director Chris Kay said: “Loxley Colour is always keen to see photographers climb the social photography ladder.
We are 100% behind Mark and his new online training programme. It’s clear there is a substantial market for ‘on demand’ professional training at a cost-effective price -and Mark is providing it.”
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He added: “Photography can be a lonely world for newcomers too, and Phototraining4U enables them to access top quality tuition.
New registrants can redeem our voucher against any Loxley product, including print, until the promotion ends in the autumn.”

Cleghorn is adding new themes to the website’s video ‘knowledge bank’ every week.
For more information visit: www.phototraining4U.com.

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Further information: Trevor Lansdown at Wordengineers.com
Tel: 01206 241575.
Email: info@wordengineers.com

PhotoTraining4U.com

At last - the answer to All your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short lessons that you can easily fit into a daily coffee break.

Your skill level doesn’t matter in this programme, you can be an amateur or a seasoned Pro - you just choose the video subject that fits.

Meticulously planned and developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the UK’s best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way photographers work and the profits they make - and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

The site is based on Streaming Video all in bite sized chunks so you you can dip in and out as you wish, there is a new film on a different theme each week and members get to influence topics as well.

Topics Include
Camera Skills
Lighting Techniques
Posing Guides
Photoshop & Plugins
Off Camera Flash
Business & Pr
Starting a Photography Business
Equipment Guides
Tips & Ticks
and loads more.

N.B. - Loxley Colour Vouchers will expire on the 31st October 2009

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Join Mark Cleghorn’s PhotoTraining4U.com on line training web site now and get £100 to spend at Loxley Colour on any of their products as well as onOne Softwares PhotoTools 1 worth over £100 for free.

PhotoTraining4U.com

Your skill level doesn’t matter in this programme, you can be an amateur or a seasoned Pro - you just choose the video subject that fits.

Meticulously planned and developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the UK’s best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way you work and the profits you make - and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

The site is based on Streaming Video all in bite sized chunks so you you can dip in and out as you wish, there is a new film on a different theme each week and members get to influence topics as well.

Topics Include
Camera Skills
Lighting Techniques
Posing Guides
Photoshop & Plugins
Off Camera Flash
Business & Pr
Starting a Photography Business
Equipment Guides
Tips & Ticks
and loads more.

Photo Training 4 U · 14 Jan 2009

Top photographer launches pioneering online training programme - ‘High quality training should be affordable and easily accessible to all’– Mark Cleghorn

One of Britain’s best-known photographers has launched a revolutionary online training site that he claims could change forever the way photographers learn their profession.

Cardiff-based Mark Cleghorn, who holds four industry Fellowships and has hundreds of photo-awards to his name, including 17 coveted Kodak Gold Awards, has spent months secretly setting up Phototraining4u.com – a unique ‘affordable’ online resource for both amateur and professional photographers.

Cleghorn revealed: “Alongside my own photography business I have been teaching and training photographers for 16 years both in the UK and abroad. Now I have channelled all that priceless experience into this pioneering new venture. Phototraining4u has been launched to provide high quality online training for photographers at all levels – and all for the price of a coffee and a sandwich per session. Our customers will be able to access a minimum of 50 videos at launch, covering all aspects of photography from camera lighting, software techniques and application, to business ideas, tips and tricks of the trade and constantly updated new kit reviews.”

He added: “Each video session will be coffee break length (around 20 minutes) and we will be adding a new theme each week. Photographers can dip in and out as they wish. The streaming video will be ‘Real and Raw’ and our subscribers can simply search the menu for the topics they want to cover. And they can access the video content as many times as they want at no extra cost.”

Cleghorn, who will be promoting the new programme extensively at Focus, is discounting the £199 annual fee to £149 (including VAT) for photographers signing up before the 1st of March.

He said: “This new programme enables photographers to learn both new and ‘back to basics’ techniques on every photo-subject under the sun – and in handy bite-size chunks. They will be able to monitor real client shoots and the sessions will be ‘warts and all’…. showing how professionals cope in real-life situations. If, for example we’re shooting on a beach and it starts raining – we will show photographers how to cope with that situation. If a small child won’t stop crying during a video shoot about family portrait photography – we will describe in real time how to solve that challenge.”

Cleghorn admits his new site will negatively affect sales of his own extensive library of ‘how-to’ videotapes that he has been selling for years at up to £70 a time. “All that is now history” he said. “This is the new way. Photographers need top quality training that they can afford and that is easily accessible…especially during a recession. This new programme provides the perfect solution. It’s a no-brainer.”

Key imaging companies, including manufacturers and a leading prolab, are being lined up to work with the Phototraining4u.com programme.

Said Cleghorn: “We are talking to some major companies about how we can evolve the programme over coming months.”