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‘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.

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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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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.”

Annie Leibovitz gives up rights to her work - Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has pawned the rights to her work to help pay off her debts.

World famous photographer Annie Leibovitz has given away the rights to her negatives and contract rights so she could receive a loan to pay off her debts.

According to the New York Times the photographer borrowed $15.5m (£10.8m) from Art Capital Group in New York. The paper says the loan is to pay off mortgages as well as other financial worries.

Reports suggest the Art Capital Group expect to make around $120m (£83.3m) in art-related loans this year.

FOCUS ON IMAGING is Europe’s biggest annual imaging show, covering all your needs from image capture through to output and beyond.

Whether you are a professional image maker or processor, a buyer of image making equipment or materials, a manufacturer or distributor of products or a keen hobbyist, a visit to FOCUS ON IMAGING is a must.

Over 200 exhibitors and product launches galore - including all the very latest digital cameras and processing equipment - will feature at FOCUS 2009.

EXHIBITORS & PRE-SHOW GUIDE

Over 17,000 sq.m of imaging in two halls makes FOCUS the largest imaging event ever staged in the UK and the largest annual event of its kind in Europe. FOCUS is the most diverse and comprehensive imaging show ever staged in the UK, making it the most useful, informative and inspirational to all image makers.

A huge cross-section of products from image capture through to output and beyond. Click on the News links to see special product release information as it happens.

Mark Cleghorn Photography and PhotoTraining4U are on STAND D60

“FOCUS DEMOS EVERY 45 MINUTES”
Everything From Off Camera Flash To Photoshop
Focus on Imaging 2009 is only days away now and we have put on a great variety of demos every 45 minutes on our stand, which is stand D60, the talks also include some guest appearances each day.

To fully launch PhotoTraining4U we have a large stand area which should be buzzing, so if you fancy dropping by to say hi or settling down for a day of demos you know were we are.

On Monday and Tuesday we are joined by top husband and wife photographer team Gary & Sue Williams who are helping us out as well as promoting the “Wedding Photographers Wanted” seminar in May. Gary is also doing the “Wedding 48 Shots” slots for me during the 2 days, so don’t miss that.

Debbie and Clare have hi-jacked part of the stand for the PhotoKit 4U sales, they have secured some deals on OnOne Software, Honl, Quantum, Ring Flash as well as Lastolite, so if you fancy a piece of kit remember to stop at the shop.

The New Shape of Wireless Freedom. Built on the new ControlTL platform, the dedicated MiniTTI Transmitter with E-TTL II capability is the perfect on-camera PocketWizard solution for any Canon digital camera.

The Most Versatile PocketWizard Ever. The FlexTT5 Transceiver maximizes E-TTL II capability of Canon photographic equipment by greatly expanding their operating environment. Lock your flash into the FlexTT5 built-in hot shoe, turn it on and you are ready to shoot. With 32 standard triggering channels, 20 E-TTL II channels and Multi-zone capability, it’s the perfect MultiMAX partner. But wait, there’s more…

Units will not be available until after April 2009 outside of the USA, this is due to CE approval.
Cost is still to be confirmed in the uk but is selling in USA for the MiniTT1 MiniTT1 Transmitter is $199 while the FlexTT5 Transceiver will cost $219

PRESS RELEASE

Professional photographers have depended on PocketWizard radio slaves for reliable triggering of their manual flashes and cameras for years. With the advent of digital technology, photographers have been seeking a simple solution for off-camera TTL flash without limitations or complexity. PocketWizard has made it possible with the “Slide-n-Shoot” simplicity of the new ControlTL™ system, featuring the MiniTT1™ Transmitter and FlexTT5™ Transceiver for Canon and Nikon. These new E-TTL II and i-TTL capable radio slaves make taking off-camera flash as effortless as slide-in, turn-on and shoot.

Now you can get perfect off-camera flash photos in any environment — around corners, out-of-sight and in bright sun. Canon and Nikon users can use the new MiniTT1 Transmitter and FlexTT5 Transceiver to control single or multiple off-camera Canon E-TTLII or Nikon i-TTL flashes at speeds up to 8/fps.

The MiniTT1 Transmitter is a tiny, low-profile unit (2.8 x 1.9 x 1.3 inches) that slides into the camera’s hot shoe. The FlexTT5 Transceiver is also low-profile but slightly larger (3.6 x 2.9 x 1.4 in.) transceiver. Both take the complex TTL data being sent through the camera’s hot shoe and digitally transmit it in a reliable radio signal. Photographers can now place TTL (or manual) flash units anywhere to illuminate the scene: behind walls, under tables, on stands – anywhere out of sight. Each flash unit is connected to a dedicated FlexTT5 Transceiver for TTL operation; there are no wires or connecting cables required. Any change in ISO, aperture and shutter speed is automatically adjusted for. Changes in flash exposure compensation on your camera are passed along giving you convenient remote power control of your TTL flash. The new units are compatible with any PocketWizard for triggering manual flash or remote cameras or you can mix your TTL flash with any manual flash if desired.

These products are the beginning of a new era in PocketWizard technology featuring the ControlTL firmware. Designed for the latest in digital cameras, ControlTL enables some previously impossible camera capabilities including HyperSync™. HyperSync enables photographers to achieve standard sync speeds up to 1/500 second and not just with TTL flash, but with any flash.

Need more speed? Push beyond 1/500th and go into FP/High-Speed sync mode automatically. No buttons to press or settings to change other then your shutter speed will give you flash sync all the way to 1/8000th. Photographers can now use flash with wide-open apertures, outdoors in bright sunlight resulting in some amazing new images.

Both units have a two-position channel switch with “Learn” mode that can be programmed either by computer or with another PocketWizard radio. The system works on 20 ControlTL channels or any of PocketWizard’s 32 existing channels for traditional triggering and it works with Canon and Nikon’s A-B-C zone capabilities including ratios. Plug a Mini or Flex unit into a computer with the PocketWizard utility software loaded and you can configure channel and zone settings, HyperSync timing, sleep timers and more or just update the unit’s firmware with the push of a button.

The new MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 radios can do all this and more and as digital technology advances, more capabilities will be added to the system, essentially offering “future proof” technology.

Versions for Canon are available March 1st, Nikon in 2Q, 2009. US & Canadian markets. Other markets expected to be delivered April 1. Please contact your local distributor for availability.

PocketWizard products, including the PlusII, MultiMax, MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 are made by LPA Design, based in South Burlington, Vermont and sold by distributors around the world

CREATIVE FLASH ROAD SHOW

To carry on from last years successful 7 date tour and my goal of training for everyone we are on the road again, this time we get creative with flash.

The road show is a combination of trade and training at a next to nothing price of £20+vat for the day.
*The seminar is also fully redeemable against an “ACTION PACK”- a set of my 6 actions and 6 Adobe Camera RAW Pre Sets, which basically makes the day almost free again, plus you get the chance to win some great prizes.

What’s happening

I will be presenting 2 seminar programmes again during the day; one on Business and Technique the other on Photoshop in adition I will be shooting live during the day with a model, so it could be classed as 3 programmes.
If you want to shoot during the off camera flash set-up no problem, just bring your own camera and cards, because you aint using mine.

“Monkey Business 2 - Selling It”

- looks at the business of how I Shoot, Promote and Sell creative flash to Portrait, Wedding and Commercial clients alike.

“Photoshop 10-1 Techniques”

- where I will demonstrates how to really enhance images with CS4 using 10 simple steps including specialist retouching and manipulation skills for an even faster workflow.

“Practical”

I will also be shooting in a off camera flash set up in the trade area during the day where I will demonstrate some key creative lighting skills using portable flash and speedlites.

In addition to training there is of course the trade and on show will be a variety of equipment from suppliers including cameras, backgrounds and lighting with some great offers.

Numbers are strictly limited so don’t delay book it to day.

NO TICKETS ARE ISSUED, YOUR RECIEPT GETS YOU IN.

You will be given a download pass on the day for instant download of the Free Actions and Pre-sets

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