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This episode of PhotoGeek’s weekly audio podcast was recorded once again in the offices of Big Trousers. I have a cold so my ears were blocked for the audio editing. (making excuses again)
Hosts include Phil Greenwood and James Bellew, with special guest geek Helen McLean.
We talk with Helen about her career that covers art and design, web design, photography and now modeling.
Big news this week is the Canon announcement of the hardware fix for the 1D Mk111 focus woes. Rob Galbraith goes over the details.
Canon release the 1Ds Mk111 as a 21 Megapixel monster.
Olympus release a 4/3 format DSLR the E3.
We talk to Helen about her various areas of interest and ponder the lessons learned from different disciplines. As a model does it give a better understanding of how to shoot another model?
Helen mentions Simple Viewer as a WordPress plugin for photographers to display images.
We discuss with Helen the lack of women in the photography industry in Australia.
We talk a little about wedding photography.
Helen talks about the inspiration for her photographic and illustrative art being 50′s cheesecake glamour images.

See more of Helen’s work at Red Bubble
Helen talks about WordPress as a CMS system for web creation in relation to Blogger. Phil mentions a favourite plugin for WordPress that is an eCommerce system from Instinct.
James mentions how important MySpace is to musicians these days.
PhotoGeek Gadgets
James mentions the HDD stage rack
Justin TV opens the gate to allow anyone to broadcast live video.
GMail goes IMAP
Sensor cleaner from Delkin.










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