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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 »
Filed under: iPhone, Photography
Win Big at the Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition 2011
One of the largest and richest contests in Asia with prizes totalling more than US$40,000 Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition 2011. Now in its third year and with entries from over 11 countries in the 2010 Competition, the Corel Asia Pacific Digital Art Competition is one of the largest in Asia with prizes totaling over $40,000 USD. The competition runs from September 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 and is open to entrants from the Asia Pacific region. Winners will be announced March 15, 2012. The competition includes Open and Student categories and is open to entrants from Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Winning entries … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art, Award, Competitions, Digital Fine Art
What The Fuck Is Wrong With HP (and Everyone Else)
HP is a company I have always loved, whose products are well engineered and who have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. So just what has got into HP and all the other computer makers, except Apple? The recent news that HP has dropped the TouchPad a month after the US release and four days after the Australian one, the effective dropping of WebOS and the plans to follow IBM into a software and service future by offloading their PC business has amazed so many, me included. If you believe the commentary going on, part of the blame is that companies like HP have very low profit margins on PC gear, whereas Apple does much better. And this might be the reason, but, if it is, no one has learned … Read entire article »
Filed under: Apple Mac, Business, Communications, Computer, Consumer, Creativity, Design, iPad, iPhone
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 »
Filed under: Photography, Print
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
How To Win Photo Competitions – An eBook Review
How To Win Photo Competitions is an eBook it was about time somebody wrote, and who better that Peter Eastway, who has not only won many competitions at the highest levels but has also judged so many competitions himself. How To Win Photo Competitions By Peter Eastway eBook, 2011 A$49.95 The ninety page eBook not only covers details of the judging process and tips on winning photos, but also on how to take and process a winning photo in the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Award, Competitions, Digital Fine Art, Photography
The Dilemmas of Digital Image Making
I must admit to being deeply conflicted as a digital image maker. I love the image making. But, and this is a big but, I really hate the physical stuff necessary to present my work, like printing and framing. Truly and profoundly hate it. Photographers and digital artists come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, for sure. Some like the chemical darkroom, some like the alternative processes, some adore the perfect lab print and others … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography, Print
e-on software announces the “3D Environment Competition 2011”!
2 MONTHS TO GET NOTICED AND WIN OVER $11,000 IN PRIZES! e-on software, the leader in 3D sky, light and nature technologies, in association with Maxon, Google SketchUp, Pixologic, 3D Total, Ballistic Publishing, 3D World Magazine, CG Society, and Cornucopia3D , today announced the sixth edition of the “3D Environment Competition”, designed to showcase the capabilities of 3D technology for CG environments. Any version of Vue – including Pioneer and the Personal Learning Edition (PLE) which are … Read entire article »
Filed under: 3D, Competitions
Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X
Apple Revolutionises Video Editing With Final Cut Pro X Apple® today announced Final Cut Pro® X, a revolutionary new version of the world’s most popular Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets you edit on a flexible, trackless canvas; Content Auto-Analysis that categorises your content upon import by shot type, media and people; and background rendering that allows you to work without interruption. Built on a modern … Read entire article »
Filed under: Video
Keeping Organised, Part 2
Part 2 of the Keeping Organised article is now up on the HP Professional Photography Blog. This part concentrates on the hardware side for photographers: storage, servers and backup and looks at some the the equipment HP offers in this area. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Photography, Storage, Techhead
Keeping Organised
My latest post on the HP Professional Photography blog is entitled ‘How Photography Pros Stay Organised in a Multimedia World, Part 1‘ and covers the software side of finding images. Part 2 will look at local server solutions and more to look after the hardware side. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Photography
Sony World Photography Awards 2012 Now Open For Entries
Entries open now · New categories for the Professional and Open Competitions · Moving Image Awards expand following success of its inaugural award · New Youth competition for under 20s The World Photography Organisation (WPO) has now opened entries for the Sony World Photography Awards 2012. The Sony World Photography Awards is the world’s most comprehensive photography competition. It includes a Professional competition, which invites entries from the world’s leading photographers and ‘serious enthusiasts’, and an Open competition for everyone with an interest in photography. Each competition has been refreshed with new categories for 2012. A ‘Nature & Wildlife’ category has been introduced to the Professional competition and three new categories in the Open competition include ‘Enhanced’, ‘Split Second’ and ‘Low- light’. For a full list of categories, please see notes to editors. A new Youth … Read entire article »
Filed under: Award, Competitions, Photography
Wayne Cosshall Photography and Digital Imaging app for IPad Now Out
The first volume in the Digital ImageMaker Interactive Portfolio series, Wayne J. Cosshall Photography and Digital Imaging, is now available as an app for iPad from the App Store. It sells for US$9.99 or AUD$12.99. “The iPad is such a wonderful platform to bring the depth of photographers’ and digital artists’ work to a wider audience that we decided to start this series”, said Wayne Cosshall, Publisher of the series and subject of the first volume. … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPad, Photography, Special News
How Generational Change Is Affecting Photography
My latest post on the HP Professional Photography blog concerns my observations about how changing attitudes across generations is having a more profound effect on photography than technological change is. … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPhone, Photography
New Wacom Bamboo Stylus for iPad
Following on from talking about brushes for the iPad, Wacom has just announced a Bamboo Stylus for use with the iPad. It has a 6mm diameter tip, 25% smaller than the 8mm used on some other stylus designs. This should make for a more precise use. It weighs 20 grams and is claimed to be finely balanced. It will be available in May for US$29.99. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, iPad
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