The monthly glossy magazine shows me what other professional photographers are doing, & the equipment they are using, and the best bit is a monthly column by John Henshall, who was one of the top BBCTV stills photographer using dig when I was still not trusting anything smaller than 5x4. His column showed me how to put up web gallery pages when they were almost unknown and has showed how digital imaging can work in practice, as well as reviewing many new cameras and dig backs as a result of his travels to trade shows all over the world. His website is at http://www.epi-centre.com/ & may be worth a visit.
Dear James
And on the subject of the leading edge advise, keeping us digital shooters at the forefront of our profession, we ACTUALLY got a piece about monitor calibration and profiling this year ...WOW!
That to me partially explains why in over 100 years, so few photographers are members and the buying public as far as I can see, still have no idea that there is such a thing as the BIPP and their qualifications structure or how it could benefit them. It simply has not been relevant or focussed enough. So apart from setting own achievement goals, meeting other pros and perhaps potentially most important of all, supporting an organisation that could speak for photographers in the UK....that's your lot folks! Yes I am a fully paid up member, with many reservations, having joined for all the right reasons in 1975.
Yes Steve, if I can respond to your posting, I believe you are right on the distribution of handbooks. I made a song and dance about this and other matters years ago when Eric Dawson Strange was president. I got a reply back from him to say he thought that the directory was really no more than an expensive exercise, that made some members feel good and then resigned to the bookshelf. He felt that with more promotional effort the directory had a useful role to play. But nothing much seems to have changed and that was in 1995!
Since receiving Eric's reply, I take my last year's copy down to the local library just in case it does some good there...I suggest others consider doing the same. It may make a few people realize that however wonderful digital capture and all the rest of it is, what's really important is the guy or gal using it, and it is not just a matter of pressing a button! Rant over now, back to work!
Cheers
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