Air Travel Just Got Worse for Photographers: Scott Kelby has discovered that as of the start of August in the US, all dSLR’s have to be stored in the hold of an aeroplane, rather than carried on as hand luggage taken out of bags before being scanned. [Photoshop Insider]
PictureSync to Begin Testing for Windows Version: The photo uploader of choice for many Mac users is soon to be available for Windows. Alpha testing will begin next week, with open beta testing to follow. Lightroom and MediaPro, along with Flickr, Webshots, and Photobucket will be available in the alpha version. Fotki, Smugmug and Picasa Web Albums will follow pretty quickly after that. [Holocore]
Picnik Now Officially Released: Online photo editor, Picnic, has left beta and has now been initially launched, along with a slew of new features. You are able to edit your photographs from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, and now Photobucket. There is both a free and premium version of Picnik. [Mashable]
QlipBoard Lets You Make Movies from Your Photos: QlipBoard is a welcome free online tool that let you makes videos from still images. Also available are tools to narrate and annotate your slideshow. Once again, this is available in a free and paid version. [Download Squad]
October Challenge: Shoot in Black & White: Trevor Carpeter has suggested that we spend October getting our B&W skills honed. He is going to take all his shots over the following month in B&W, and suggests we do the same. I’m going to join in too, posting my shots to Zooomr. [TrevorCarpenter.com]
An Ode to Great Photographers: Robert Scoble’s thank-you note to photographers who have taught him how to capture photographs. Scoble is advocating spending time with other photographers, and that it is the very best way to improve your own photography skills. [Scobleizer]
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thanks for the links, however in the future perhaps it would help to read the post you are linking to. In Scott Kelby’s post “Air Travel Just Got Worse for Photographers” you mention that it states dslr’s must be checked into the hold. Nowhere did his article say that. It said they required him to take his camera out of the bag and place it on the belt, quite a bit of difference and much less of a “problem” than you made it out to be. I enjoy your site but not these kinds of inaccuracies.
Fair point Frank. When I read the story this morning, I thought it was the belt to put the luggage in the hold. Now I re-read it I see i was wrong.
I promise I wasn’t trying to over dramatise the story, simply reflect Scott’s post.
The removal of DSLR’s at TSA check points is not the policy of the TSA. What travelers often face is the on the spot decision making of TSA screeners. TSA screeners are often ill informed of TSA policy and many cannot differentiate between a full size DSLR, such as the Canon 1D and a full-size video camera such as the Canon XL-2. Sounds silly? It’s not.
The TSA policy for electronics removal includes the following
Full size DVD players, laptops, CPAP breathing machines, video cameras that use video cassettes and full size video game consoles.
You can read the official TSA policy here: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/sop/index.shtm
Keep in mind that the TSA has a high turn over in personnel. This turn over often creates gaps in training procedures. Additionally, the TSA was formed by the Department of Homeland Security to make a more uniform system of airport travel procedures. In the past few years the TSA has begun to outsource the security screening at certain airports to third party private security firms. This outsourcing is officially called the “Screening Partnership Program.” By outsourcing the TSA screening to private companies you get an even more inconsistent screening experience when traveling. What this also causes is a completely non-uniform security procedure, much like the private security issues that airports had prior to the formation of the TSA…….except all screeners now wear a very similar uniform to work (you’ll notice at some airports, such as SFO, the screeners do not wear a standard TSA patch on their uniform and they have a unique “branding” stitched to the back of their white uniform shirt).
You can read more on the current climate of travel, learn how to travel more effectively and get quite a bit of travel tid-bits and tips at my blog which is set up for photographers who travel for business and pleasure at: http://www.flyingwithfish.com
Happy Flying
-Fish