Mike McNamee is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with 25 years experience in industry. He was formerly Technology Director of an international research team and also guided the corporate identity, reporting and presentation facilities of the company. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and the British Professional Photographers Assoc. He has won a number of National and International awards and his photography is used all over the World in encyclopaedias, text books, CD covers, scientific journals, calendars, magazines and newspapers. Mike has been involved with digital imaging technology since its early days, winning the Struers International Award for work on digital image analysis. He has lectured in both Europe and America on specialised photographic techniques as well as authoring countless numbers of reports, books, scientific papers and patents.
He served for 15 years on the British Standards Committee for Engineering Ceramics as an Imaging Specialist. This experience has been built into the MousePushers courses provided by Pixelmix Digital Training, which were developed over a period of two years and encompass all aspects of digital imaging technology and its use in the workplace. The courses now evolve continuously as hardware develops and software is upgraded. Mike teaches photography and digital imaging at Priestley College, Warrington, was the Editor of Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging, and is currently Editor of Professional ImageMaker, the magazine of The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP). He has recently been developing methods for using colour management techniques in digital workflows.
