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I’ve been play­ing with my new DSLR this month (thank you Santa), and have been think­ing about some of the cool pho­to­graphic effects used in cam­paigns over the last cou­ple of years.

Get­ting the LED out in London

What do you get if you take a cam­era with a long expo­sure, some LED lights, some Lon­don scenery and some Kraftwerk-esque music?

This: Licht­fak­tor for Sky Movies. A bunch of guys hack­ing about with lights, cam­eras and action. Throw in some Star Trek and Star Wars noises and this is a great exam­ple of where cre­ativ­ity meets tech­nol­ogy. Waste some time this after­noon with a browse through the Licht­fak­tor Vimeo Chan­nel.

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I have pretty much estab­lished myself as an anti ‘i’-product per­son. Whilst I recog­nise they are beau­ti­ful, work straight out of the box and have brought joy (and smug­ness) to mil­lions, they are not for me. I like a prod­uct that I can tin­ker with, basi­cally an item that I can make my own.

I don’t own an iPhone (I’ve got a Motorola Flipout – Android based) or an iPod (I use my phone) or an Mac­Book (I have a HP lap­top, which has been tweaked to be super­fast for my gam­ing / retouch­ing use) or an iPad (I’ve got a Kin­dle).

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Never work with chil­dren or animals

The Dig­i­tal Couch has never been one to shy away from a chal­lenge, so this week he’s taken on kids and ani­mals in the world of tech. Sounds like a recipe for dis­as­ter you say? Only time will tell…

Baby-Facebook

A new study com­piled by Dubit has revealed that nearly 50% of the UK’s under 12s are using Face­book, despite being too young to do so. Face­book requires its mem­bers to be at least 13 yet many young­sters are log­ging on way before this. And 66% of six year-olds are also aware of Face­book, so the pres­sure to be part of it must be high – even at this young age.

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