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Tuesday Roundup
June 1st, 2009
Yesterday was a long day shooting in the sun, my brain’s barely up to more than a roundup of some things I’ve been intending to mention.
First, last week I was down in Tampa with my friends at Kelby Media to flog the book (see the bald guy smiling suspiciously in image above). At some point I’ll pull back the curtain and tell all about the seedy underworld of the publishing industry, but for now go watch Episode 188 of Photoshop User TV and watch me babble about conceptual contrast and Within The Frame. 
Secondly, one of my heroes, Steve McCurry, has started blogging and you can stalk him find him HERE.
I’ve been looking for a great new travel vest. Until I have my own design made for me, the Scott eVest Travel Vest is pretty darn close. It’s got some fantastic features including a gigantic pocket in the back that’ll take a 13″MacBook. So next time your carry-on is overweight, load up the eVest and you’re good to go. And unlike doing this with a Domke vest or other photog vest, this is one you’ll actually wear. I got one this week and love it. In fact the entire SeV line of clothes is worth checking out for travelling. It doesn’t clear me of my barely controllable desire for a Gitzo fleece jacket but it’ close
I found this Top 10 list of mistakes to avoid during a photography workshop on Paul Burwell’s site and while I’m pleased to say we’ve never had these problems on our Lumen Dei workshops, it made me chuckle all the same.
Finally, two things book related (but wait, keep reading, there’s FREE STUFF!)
First, be sure to check in on the Peachpit TV WITHIN THE FRAME Podcast. Episode 1 is up and more are following. Episode 2 should be up soon as well. For the next ten weeks I’ll be choosing images from the Flickr Within The Frame pool and doing a critique based on principles discussed in the book. You’ll need to join the group, submit images, and give us your consent to be part of it, but I’d love to see you there.
Second, and finally, Barnes & Nobles is about to kick off a promotion that includes Within The Frame. From June 3 to 30, selected books, including mine, from Peachpit Press, will be 30% off at Barnes & Noble bookstores and BN.com.There will fancy in-store displays and dancing girls also. Or end-of-aisle promo thingies. So I tell you what – I’ll send a Lexar 8GB 300x CF card to one reader, randomly chosen, who posts a photograph of my book, on a B&N promo display, and twitters the photograph, with the city it was shot in, and includes the @pixelatedimage handle in the tweet. Read that through again if it sounds confusing. Why am I doing this? Shameless self promotion would be the obvious motive, getting more of you to join me on Twitter would be a second, and the need to get this meddling CF card off my shelves so I can make room for, I dunno, something else, is also important. Mostly it’s the first one. Free, or potentially free, highspeed Lexar CF card and all ya gotta do is twitter me a pic. Go!
That is one great vest, I’ve got one on the way.
[...] where does that leave us? Just about nowhere. Until today on David’s blog (this is a long way to go about promoting his blog entry) where he linked to this thing of beauty. [...]
Thanks for this roundup David!
And maybe the photographing girls out there would like to know that there is a ‘female version’ of the vest as well:
http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/New_Travel_Vest_Women.shtml
Looks like a solution for my carry-on problem
Have you checked to see what you can actually fit into the eVest? I’d be curious to know how much it’ll reasonably carry since it wasn’t specifically designed for photo equipment. It certainly does look better than pure photo vests.
Yes David, I’m sure you and Mr. MattGyver will look stunning in your 47 pocket vests. (kidding, really!)
I tried this method once on a trip from HK to Beijing. Just keep in mind that anything that goes into those pockets will have to come out, be placed in a tray and be run through the x-ray machine, hopefully to be returned intact. And sometimes you forget just what you’ve stuffed into all those pockets and it can be embarrassing interesting to see the reactions when you start to unload them.
I don’t have a good answer to this global issue with the airlines but the 50 pocket coat (or vest) isn’t my first choice.
Cheers!
Jeff
Jeff – Never had a problem with stuff in pockets. Take the vest off, put it all in (except laptop). Of course the regs differ from place to place and the inconsistency of it all drives me mad. Some want shoes off, some don’t. Some want laptops out, some say it’s ok. Jeepers. Set an industry standard and follow it, people. C’mon, I learned about standards in Gr. 4, surely this isn’t hard…
As for vests looking corny – you should see the one I designed. It’s pretty dang nice.
I looked at the eVest and I’m sure you’ll look great in it but on us old farts with a few extra pounds around the middle they don’t hang quite the same way.
As for international travel, I knew I was in trouble years ago going from Singapore to Taipei to HK to Beijing and back to KL when I couldn’t figure out whether I was in the queue for the mens room or to pay the exit tax. (Do they still have this?)
I look forward to seeing your vest design. Fleece works.
J
Love it! Wahooo…you’re on TV!!!
[...] Travel Vest comes to the rescue. I had read a bit about it on David duChemin’s blog, pixelatedimage:blog. Most of the photo vests that I have come across all look very ordinary. My ScotteVest will [...]
[...] Travel Vest comes to the rescue. I had read a bit about it on David duChemin’s blog, pixelatedimage:blog. Most of the photo vests that I have come across all look very ordinary. My ScotteVest will [...]