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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Mitchell" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Mailing List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: [OM] My photo is famous !
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just had to share my moment of pride !! This evening, between 7:40pm
> and 8pm UK time, one of my photos was used fairly extensively on a major
> news programme. OK, so it was Dutch TV so I didn't get to see it, but
> I'm still proud of it. The story goes like this ..
>
> I work as an engineer for a Television Studios company based just
> outside London. At about 5pm today we got a call from a Dutch
> broadcaster to ask if we could do them a favour. A Dutch professor was
> in London and they wanted to interview him as an insert in their news
> programme - something to do with today's events in London. He was at a
> book signing until 7pm, so we were the only TV studio local enough for
> him to get to in time. And they wanted it at 7:30pm !!
>
> Now usually with this sort of thing there will either be some kind of
> backdrop, or the production company will provide some kind of image to
> electronically put behind the presenter (called "chromakey" for the
> tech-heads, or "blue-screen" to give it it's more common name). This
> being very much a last-minute thing that the broadcaster in Holland
> organised as a response to today's attempted bombings, there was no such
> backdrop or image. With time running out, and most of our staff already
> gone home, one of my colleagues started trawling the web for
> copyright-free images we could use as a background - the requirement
> being that it was a suitable image of London. The copyright problems
> really had us stumped, as this is usually sorted out weeks in advance by
> the production company, until I remembered my Tope 15 entry !
>
> So my Tope 15 entry was lifted directly from the Tope website, uploaded
> into our vision mixer, and used as the background for a 5 or 10 minute
> piece into the news programme on a Dutch TV channel called (I think)
> something like "Channel 1". If any Dutch listees saw the interview with
> the Dutch professor of explosives, at around 7:40 to 8pm UK time this
> evening, then the background image of Tower Bridge was mine, and can
> also be found here . http://www.millennics.com/olympus/tope/gallery.html
>
> And no, I didn't get a fee. I was just happy that my photo was being
> used !
>
> And for those who were there, it was taken on one of the OM list-members
> gatherings in London, summer (august ?) 2003. And taken with an OM-2n.
>
> Right, got to go to sleep now. Lots more work to do tomorrow !
>
> Jon
>
>
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