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This Week In Photography 18th March 2012
Here’s what caught my eye on the net this past week: iPad 3: Retina Display review for photographers http://www.richardpeters.co.uk/blog/2012/03/16/ipad-3-retina-display-review-for-photographers/ Photographs Captured Over Years with an Open Camera Shutter http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/16/photographs-captured-over-years-with-an-open-camera-shutter/ 10 of Art History’s Most Controversial Photographers [NSFW] http://flavorwire.com/268992/controversial-photographers?all=1 Answers about the new iPad and Color http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/answers-about-the-new-ipad-and-color/ Segment 9, Photo Review Series: Line, Light, and Color with David Saffir and Sally Wiener Grotta http://davidsaffir.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/segment-9-photo-review-series-line-light-and-color-with-david-saffir-and-sally-wiener-grotta/ … Read entire article »
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This Week in Photography 11th March 2012
Below are some online articles that caught my eye over the last week: 25 Wonderful Black and White Countryside Landscapes http://www.lightstalking.com/25-wonderful-black-and-white-countryside-landscapes 40+ Amazing Free and Premium Mac Apps for Photography http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2012/03/mac-apps-for-photographers.html Chernokids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay73ezX7HKc My attention was elsewhere this week, like the next issue of DIMi magazine, and so the list is short … Read entire article »
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New Street Photography Competition for Australians
Australians encouraged to capture the energy of the street in the G-Street Photography Contest Sydney, Australia – March 6, 2012 – G-Technology by Hitachi, which offers a range of premium external storage solutions perfect for the creative community, today announced the launch of the G-Street Photography Contest, giving budding street photographers the chance to be exhibited in an exclusive event and gallery exhibition. The contest has two sections, including digital/film and mobile photography, encouraging everyone to participate no matter what type of street photography they’re into. Two of Australia’s top street photographers, Michael ‘Misho’ Baranovic and Tamara Voninski, have signed on to judge the competition, but people can also vote for their favourite entry to win the people’s choice award in each category. Michael ‘Misho’ Baranovic, who is judging the mobile section, said “I’m … Read entire article »
Filed under: Competitions, Photography
This Week in Photography 4th March 2012 and reflections on the 5D Mark III
A roundup of some of the things about photography on the Internet that I found interesting this week. I guess the most interesting thing to occur this week was the announcement of the new Canon 5D Mark III with only a minor change in resolution compared to the previously announced Nikon D800′s massive jump in resolution. As you would imagine the debate has been furious on various discussion forums and blogs. My personal take on this is that there is a place for both cameras and it would be a really good idea for Canon to bring out an additional model that ups the resolution massively. The 5D Mark III provides plenty of resolution for many situations. However, and this is a big however, there are many situations when a much higher … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, Canon, Photography, Uncategorized
FAST CAMERA 3.0 App Makes Capturing Action on the iPhone Lightning Quick
FAST CAMERA 3.0 just got a major update, a complete redesign that makes the app quicker, easier, and more refined. Boasting that, “You’ll never miss a beat of the action!” FAST CAMERA 3.0 delivers on that promise. PHOENIX, Arizona (PRWEB) March 01, 2012 FAST CAMERA 3.0, the popular photography app from developer i4software, just got a major update, a complete redesign that makes the app quicker, easier, and more refined. Boasting that, “You’ll never miss a beat of the action!” FAST CAMERA 3.0 delivers on that promise. A simple, yet powerful concept drives FAST CAMERA 3.0. The app starts snapping high-speed photos as soon as it opens, and continues until you hit stop. Review the photos and save only the ones you love so you don’t waste valuable memory. “I spend less time shooting and more … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, iPhone, Photography
The Week in Photography 27 February 2012
Our new weekly roundup of interesting material from the web over the previous week to do with photography. In this series I’ll point you at the content on the web that has caught my eye that is relevant to photography in some way: Like a Kickstarter for photojournalism, Emphas.is helps finance visual storytelling http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/02/26/like-a-kickstarter-for-photojournalism-emphas-is-helps-finance-visual-storytelling/?awesm=tnw.to_1DSlx A Brief History of Children’s Picture Books and the Art of Visual Storytelling http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/24/childrens-picturebooks/ 5 Awesome Light Meter Apps for iPhone http://www.iphoneness.com/iphone-apps/light-meter-apps-for-iphone/ 20 HDR Photographers Worth Watching http://speckyboy.com/2012/02/26/20-hdr-photographers-worth-watching/ Comments on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, Photography
LoFi Gallery in London Call for Submissions For Their Opening Exhibition
LFG call for submissions Are you a LoFi Fool? A brand new London gallery is looking for the best and most interesting images taken with LoFi cameras – that’s Holga, Lomo, Polaroid, Diana and iPhone – to display in their inaugural exhibition in August. It doesn’t matter if you’re amateur or professional, young or old. If you have a catalogue of work or a single great image. We care about good pictures. Any selected photos will be featured … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art, Digital Fine Art, Fine Art Photography, Photography
LoFi Gallery, London Is a New Gallery for LoFo Photography
A brand new gallery celebrating the art of LoFi photography. Jump Photo Arts, the team behind the phenomenally successful Starsnappers Project, is now launching a brand new art gallery in London dedicated to LoFi photography. The Starsnappers project began in 2003 when digital technology had already taken hold of the photographic industry. Starsnappers developed its portrait workshops with the aim of allowing children to use state of the art digital camera equipment under the supervision of professional … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Fine Art, Fine Art Photography, Photography
New International Photo Competition Announced by Wind Industry
A chance to show wind energy as it has never been seen before Winner to get €1,000 Amazon voucher and winning photo to become part of professional photography archive; five runners up get €250 Winning photos to be announced by Global Wind Day, 15 June 2012 A wind energy photo competition, open to all, was launched today. In the run-up to Global Wind Day on 15 June – the annual day promoting the power of the wind around the … Read entire article »
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DIMi Magazine Gets a Writeup
Eileen Fritsch has posted a nice article about the production of Digital ImageMaker international as a magazine over on the Great Output blog. Great Output is an excellent blog on printing and related topics to do with imaging and art. Definitely worth a read. … Read entire article »
Filed under: DIMI News, Photography, Print
A Hermetic View of What Makes An Image or Work of Art Great
Yesterday I was in a conversation with my closest friend, Steve Danzig, about how art affects us. I put forward to him what makes a work of art or a photograph great and it got me really thinking about it. So in this post I want to explore that. For those who don’t know, Hermeticism is a philosophical system that has greatly influenced Western esoteric thought. For the last few weeks I have been totally absorbed, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Photography
Art Wolfe Doing Talks and Workshops in Australia in March
The outstanding photographer and educator, Art Wolfe, will be doing talks and workshops in Australia throughout March 2012 in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. You can find details on this website. … Read entire article »
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Corel Releases AfterShot Pro
In an interesting development Corel has announced a new software solution for photographers, especially those using a RAW workflow. This is good news for photographers as Photoshop is both too expensive and over loaded with features that photographers do not need for many people. I have a copy coming and will offer a review as soon as I have spent enough time with it. Below is the press release. Sydney, Australia — Media OutReach — January 10, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography, Software
The Photographic Seeing Exercise
In truth, photography is nothing to do with the gear you use, your mastery of exposure and any fancy post-processing. Photography is about seeing, pure and simple. There are an infinite number of images surrounding you at this very moment, if you can see them. Improving your ability to see images is key to developing as a photographer. In fact it is this photographic seeing that is a large contributor to a photographer’s style: what you … Read entire article »
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Epson International Panorama Awards 2012 Competition Now Open for Entries
Professional and amateur photographers around the world are invited to enter The EPSON International Pano Awards to compete for over $25,000 in cash and prizes. Early-bird entries are open from December 2011 until Friday 20th of April 2012. The third Epson International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. Advances in digital photography and software such as PTGui and Adobe Photoshop has resulted in an explosion in image stitching, especially in the panoramic format. Panoramic film photography also remains alive and well. The Epson International Pano Awards showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest and most important competition for panoramic photography. The 2011 competition saw 3,586 images submitted from 985 photographers in 62 countries. The 2012 competition is now open for all professional and amateur photographers with an … Read entire article »
Filed under: Competitions, Panoramas, Photography
ioShutter Lets You Trigger a Camera From your iPhone
ioShutter, made by Enlight Photo, is a combination free App for iPhone and a special cable that connects the iPhone to the shutter control port on a camera. The free app gives you the following features: 20 and 60 second timers Bulb offers 60, 90 and 120 second exposures Timelapse offers three options for timelapse shooting You can use shake or sound to activate any of the above functions The US$9.99 PRO version of the app offers full programability for exposure … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, Equipment, iPad, iPhone, Photography
The International Loupe Awards WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
The 4th Annual International Loupe Awards consists of 8 open categories, 3 amateur categories and the exciting introduction of the world’s first Medium Format Fine Art Prize (winners to be announced early 2012). It is one of the world’s richest photographic competitions, and this year attracted over 4500 entries from around the world. The 2011 International Loupe Awards Open Image if the Year, ‘Darter (Anhinga Melanogaster)’ is by Sydney professional photographer Jackie Dean , who receives US$20,000 in cash and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Award, Competitions, Photography, Uncategorized
iPhoneography and MagCloud For Photographers
As you might know, I blog for HP on their Professional Photography blog. My two recent posts have been: MagCloud and Publishing for Photographers covering my experience using MagCloud to produce the DIMi print edition and Why Apple’s iPhone Can Be a Fun, Useful Camera for Photography Pros covering my ideas on why we should embrace the iPhone even when we have far more sophisticated gear. Both articles are worth a read and I’d encourage you to read the other articles on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, iPhone, Photography
Experiments with the Jux Blogging Platform
There’s a new blogging site in town, jux.com, and it is worth a look. Jux provides an interesting, new approach to blogging. I’ve started experimenting with it and you can see the results at digitalimagemaker.jux.com. What makes Jux interesting for photographers is the approach with images. The idea is to make them full screen or full window, so putting your images front and centre. My first post was to take some images of butterflies I had short in infrared … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Photography, Publishing
Photography Wisdom Now Available As Five eBooks, a Print Book and an App for iPad
My Photography Wisdom book, containing 50 great chapters on improving your photography and digital art through a better understanding of the process, is now available in multiple forms. Photography Wisdom itself is available as: A print book from Amazon An ebook for Kindle from Amazon An ebook for Kindle and all other ebook readers, plus computer based reading programs from Smashwords An ebook from Apple An App for Ipad from the Apple App Store containing videos and soon to be updated … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, DIMI News, Photography, Special News, Uncategorized
DIMi Is Now A Magazine
Yes, it is here. digital imageMaker international is now out as a magazine featuring profiles and interviews with leading photographers and digital artists of our time. digital imageMaker international 01 brings you some of the world’s best photography and digital art in book form. This volume in an ongoing series brings you portrait photography by Nadia Salameh, art by Bonny Lhotka and David J. Bookbinder, insect photography by Jane Davenport, generative art by Don Relyea and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, DIMI News, Photography, Special News, Uncategorized
New Photo IQ App Makes It Fun To Learn About Photography
PhoozL IQ: A Photo IQ Quiz is an App for the iPhone that makes learning photography fun. There is a free version that has 50 questions that are randomised into ten question quizzes and a Pro version with 100 questions and the ability to add more through in game purchase. The game is really fun. You have a time element to deal with as well as solving the questions. It works with Game Center for sharing … Read entire article »
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Blurb Brings Photobooks to iPad
Blurb has today announced that they will be providing a publishing option to iPad. In the first iteration photographers who have used Blurb’s Bookify and BookSmart software will be able to publish in a way that maintains the formatting of the print version. Emails go out next month with the details and support for photographers who upload a PDF rather than using the Blurb software will come later. It is unclear at the moment about whether this … Read entire article »
Filed under: eBooks, iPad, Photography
iPhone 4S – The Photographer’s Camera
Photographers need to take pictures. It’s a practice thing. Like every skill, you need to practice. But that means having a camera with you all the time. The one thing pretty well everyone has with them all the time now is their mobile phone. The iPhone is a great platform for photography. Not only have the cameras been decent, by phone standards, but the app architecture nicely supports enhancements to your photography. The camera that you … Read entire article »
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Impressions of Light Book Review
Impressions of Light Photographs by William Neill Impressions of Light was published in 2008 in book form. I found it recently as an eBook from William’s website and bought it. The ebook comes as two PDFs, one that preserves the spread design of the paper book, the other as individual pages. It is the latter that is easier to use when reading electronically, but it is great having both so you can see how the book was designed, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fine Art Photography, Photography
Photoshelter Have a Great Little Free eBook on Promoting Yourself with Photobooks
Photoshelter have a variety of educational material to assist photographers. One is a little 23-page PDF eBook on Marketing Yourself With Photo Books that is well worth giving them an email address to receive. This is a fruitful area for photographers (and other creatives) and this book is well worth the read. Photoshelter’s other free guides can be found here. … Read entire article »
Filed under: eBooks, Education, Photography, Portfolio
Cinemagraphs
A great website came to my attention cinemagraphs.com. The work of Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck, the site shows their moving still images. These are animated GIF files that have one element moving within what is basically a still image. If you think of the moving photographs in Harry Potter newspapers you will have the right idea. In the example above the man reading the newspaper is the only element that moves. While they say little about … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography, Video
Painting With Light Book Review
Painting With Light: Light Art Performance Photography By JanLeonardo Woellert and Joerg Miedza Rocky Nook, Santa Barbara ISBN: 978-1-933952-74-1 The Painting With Light book is a documentation of a body of work and a process of creation that is interesting and extending of the bounds of photography. This is not a how to book. Rather the bulk of the book documents the work of these two performance artists, because that is how I see them. The stunning images that illustrate … Read entire article »
Filed under: Landscape Photography, Photography
The Epson R3000 Printer Review
Epson have a lot of the headspace of printers for photographers, and so any new photo printer from them gets noticed. Here we review the R3000, an A3+ nine-colour printer. The R3000 prints up to 13″x19″ on sheet or 13″ x 129″ (that’s 3.2m long) on roll media, making it great for panorama photographers. It uses nine inks, Photo Black or Matte Black, Light Black, Light Light Black, Cyan, Vivid Magenta, Yellow, Light Cyan and Light … Read entire article »
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Photography Competitions Are Good For More Than Prizes
My latest article on the HP Professional Photography blog covers the real reasons why photography competitions are worth entering. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Photography
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