Articles on miscellaneous photography related topics
Weirdly, 2021 was the best year we’ve had as a business. Despite Covid we posted a third consecutive year of growth. Covid necessitated a change of direction and the Digital Marketing Business we set up at the beginning of the pandemic took off like the proverbial rocket. It seems as though there is an appetite…
2020 – the year of living dangerously. What a year! It’s been our best year ever but there have been times when it’s looked bleak. I was hospitalised with Covid 19 between Xmas and New Year and nearly died. Not an experience I’ll easily forget. But I recovered and now even our accountant is happy!
Photography and Covid-19 don’t mix! This post shows how we survived the lockdown period and continue to build our business. Some of you may know that I was hospitalised last Christmas with a condition that in hindsight was almost certainly Covid-19. It was possibly the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me.
The WebXR Device API replaces WebVR in products such as Oculus Quest, Google Chrome and Firefox browsers. What does it do? It brings Augmented Reality under the same overarching API as Virtual Reality, opening the door to special effects like the one here (Chrome or Firefox) What does the X stand for? Nothing, it’s a wildcard…
At Helter Skelter Studios we’ve been racking our brains as to what we can offer our local community in these troubled times. We looked on the internet for inspiration and came up with a few ideas.. 1. Nude self portraits tutorial …. hmm REJECT 2. Cat and Dog portrait tutorial… not really our thing…
Colour Management & Product Photography go together like cheese and biscuits. You can have one without the other but at best you risk nuance, at worst you have a mouthful of dry biscuits. Colour Management solves a problem that bedevils all types of photography to some degree. The colour you see when you open the…
What is WebVR and why WebVR is important to VR Providers. First things first. From the WebVR Project: “WebVR is an open specification that makes it possible to experience VR in your browser.” The goal is to make it easier for everyone to get into VR experiences, no matter what device you have.
Septimus the Giant Shrewsbury Cobbler is an Arts Council funded project by Thingumajig Theatre and Shrewsbury Morris. Helter Skelter Studios photographed and filmed the whole project from building the giant to the debut performance in Shrewsbury Square.
Across all our web sites and social media we are finding that Virtual Tour engagement is consistently returning figures of 10% minimum. This is not an average; certain tours have returned figures in their thousands within hours of being made public. Our Funky Frankwell project features Virtual Tours heavily and some have registered views in…
The Funky Frankwell Website went live today. It is a crowdfunded, VR powered site; one of a kind and it has attracted a lot of interest. Crowdfunding We’d never used crowdfunding to underwrite a project before, but for this one we made an exception. Why?