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Starting A Drone Photography and Video Business In The UK

360 Photography Miscellaneous Photography Video Production Virtual Tours

14th June 2025

Starting A Drone Photography and Video Business In The UK

Simcoemedia offers aerial video and photography (see examples and an overview of the service on the Simcoemedia drone page). Whilst drones are becoming widely available and increasingly sophisticated, there are rules and regulations restricting how these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)…

Peter Simcoe

360 Photography AI Graphic Design Video Production Virtual Tours

14th May 2025

AI Tutorials For Photographers, Designers And Video Producers

Simcoemedia shop has been selling 360 images, tutorials, books and t-shirts since summer 2024 proving an outlet for the graphic design, AI video experimentation, generative AI 360 image generation. Simcoemedia remains committed to the exploration, experimentation and analysis of AI…

Peter Simcoe

Graphic Design Miscellaneous Photography Video Production

2nd March 2025

AI And The Future Of Media Production

The US Government has recently announced an investment of 500 billion dollars toward the development of AI technologies. Flanked by some of techs top shakers and movers including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump announced it…

Peter Simcoe

360 Photography Video Production Virtual Reality Virtual Tours

28th October 2024

Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions

I recently had a conversation with a client regarding the use of immersive digital media in engineering and design. We discussed how it can enhance research, product development and training and increase the overall impact. Over the last 8 years…

Peter Simcoe

360 Photography AI Photography Virtual Reality

25th April 2024

Creating AI Generated Immersive 360 Images – AI School

AI School I've recently been exploring the use of Midjourney and Magnific.ai to create highly detailed 12K 360 images such as the example shown above (note this example has been enhanced with audio and lens flare using Pano2VR). After working…

Peter Simcoe

3D Models Video Production Virtual Reality Virtual Tours

10th December 2023

Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2

Google kindly gave me access to their Google Earth Studio platform a few months back. I recently used it to create a variety of videos including a 2D 360 interactive video tour of my home city of Chester in England…

Peter Simcoe

Free software for designers and content creators

Business Development Graphic Design Photography Video Production

28th September 2023

Free Creative Software for Content Creators and Designers

If you are in the early stages of exploring different types of content creation or just looking to save a little money before investing in professional software such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud (which will cost around £50 / month for…

Peter Simcoe

Photography Virtual Reality Virtual Tours

28th August 2023

Insta360 HDR Photography Of Stockholm in Sweden

360 photography is a great way to immerse the viewer within a scene on a desktop PC, smart phone, tablet and VR headset such as a Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest 3. I recently visited Stockholm in Sweden and…

Peter Simcoe

Video Production Virtual Tours

7th August 2023

Google Earth Studio Experiments Using Chrome

Below are two videos in 4K 2D 360 format created with Google Earth Studio on a Google Chrome browser. I was given early access to test this browser based app and decided to experiment with the immersive VR video capability…

Peter Simcoe

Triumph car shining in the sun after cleaning and repair at Brothers Custom

Photography

18th October 2022

Custom Brothers Car Photography In Chinon

I recently visited Chinon in France as part of my summer travels this year. Chinon is located in the Loire Valley, famous for its wine, old Châteauxes and great weather. During my stay I visited Brothers Custom, a car customisation…

Peter Simcoe

Business Development Graphic Design Photography

4th October 2022

Freelancer’s Handbook Book Launch

Simcoemedia has just published Freelancer’s Handbook: A Survive And Thrive Guide For Beginners In Creative Industries, a 130 page full colour paperback written and designed by Peter Simcoe. It is available on the Amazon bookstore website at http://mybook.to/freelance. The book…

Peter Simcoe

Vision of a futuristic city created with Midjourney.com

AI Graphic Design Photography

7th September 2022

A Journey Into Midjourney AI Art

I've recently been experimenting with Midjourney, an online app designed to create images from text descriptions provided by the user. According to their home page "Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative…

Peter Simcoe

Graphic Design Photography Video Production

28th June 2022

Design Inspiration On The Web

Raising Your Ambition In the early days of my design, video and photography career, I used to consider the standard or "bar" set for my own design to be the activity of those companies or individuals around me in my…

Peter Simcoe

360 Photography Graphic Design Photography Video Production Virtual Reality Virtual Tours

25th May 2022

360 Video Handbook 5th Year Anniversary

Motivation It is 5 years since I began writing my book, the 360 Video Handbook. The book was written over a period of 8 months alongside my freelance project work. Here are several reasons for undertaking such a large project:…

Peter Simcoe

360 Photography Photography

20th February 2022

Google Maps Photography Portfolio

I have previously published 360 photography examples on this website's blog, but as I recently visited Sweden where I used my high resolution XPhase Pro S2 camera to capture scenes from the capital, Stockholm, I thought it might be worth…

Peter Simcoe

Photography Video Production

5th November 2021

Greenbarnes Signage Product Promotion Videos

https://youtu.be/B2ZGk3-_L2k Simcoemedia has recently been developing some product promo videos for a signage and noticeboard manufacturer in Brackley, UK. This included video production, graphic design, photography and voiceover. The client, Greenbarnes Ltd, required a series of videos that outlined and…

Peter Simcoe

Starting A Drone Photography and Video Business In The UK

AI Tutorials For Photographers, Designers And Video Producers

AI And The Future Of Media Production

Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions

Creating AI Generated Immersive 360 Images – AI School

Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2

Free Creative Software for Content Creators and Designers

Insta360 HDR Photography Of Stockholm in Sweden

Google Earth Studio Experiments Using Chrome

Custom Brothers Car Photography In Chinon

Freelancer’s Handbook Book Launch

A Journey Into Midjourney AI Art

Design Inspiration On The Web

360 Video Handbook 5th Year Anniversary

Google Maps Photography Portfolio

Greenbarnes Signage Product Promotion Videos

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