OpenWeb (and event photography)

Event photographers are like parasites. They get in your peripheral vision with their flashes and their barging and have a habit of inflicting a bit of annoyance on at least one attendee of any event they're at. Gig photography, you can get away with to a certain extent; there are generally lights and noise and more than one bargy individual so you can blend a bit.

Tonight, however, I am a hypocrite. I wanted to play with my new flash stuff, so I threw self respect to the wind and took my camera. As a side note, it's just my luck (and maybe an omen) that my camera battery began to die when I took it out of my bag! Nonetheless, it reaffirmed my suspicion that you can't take artistically viable photos of someone talking in a room where there are flipboards on the walls! My shyness resulting from disdain at flashing cameras at events like this have not helped at all, but for what they are they're ok. With that in mind, here are some blokes talking about some stuff, maybe even pointing at a screen. Enjoy.

Dan Griffey, the organiser of OpenWeb

Kev Wilson, talking about the iPhone app development cycle. Turns out it's pretty similar to any development cycle, but with the added loveliness of the App Store.

Jof Arnold telling people not to write iPhone apps for profit unless you've got an ass-load of money to plough into it, you're doing it for a client who has an ass-load of money to plough into it, or you're doing it for anyone who's prepared to make no money from it!

Paul Boag, pointing out the obvious. With crazy eyes.