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Painting On The iPad Is Easier With A Brush
The iPad is an obvious device for painters to try to use, though it does lack the pressure sensitivity of things like a Wacom tablet. But a finger is just not the same as a brush. A number of companies are now offering brushes for the iPad that you just might find easier to use. Joystickers offer the Flow, a paintbrush that your iPad can work with. Nomad Brush have the Nomad Brush, another paintbrush that works on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Digital Fine Art, iPad
Infographic of the Day: Wayne’s Movements Courtesy of iPhone
As you may have heard, the iPhone tracks your movements continuously and stores this info in a file on the iPhone that gets backed up to your computer by iTunes. It does this using the mobile phone tower triangulation that is used as a backup for and to speed up your GPS system. Below is a non-infographic (non because it really contains no useful info at all) I produced from this data in my iPhone using … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPhone
HP’s MagCloud Self-Publishing Service Can Be Great for Photographers
My latest article on the HP Professional Photography blog covers how photographers can make good use of HP’s MagCloud, a site that prints magazines on demand. The reality is that this site offers huge potential for photographers beyond the obvious, of self-publishing a magazine. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Photography, Print, Uncategorized
Using an iPad to Work With Photoshop on Your Computer
Adobe has release a software development kit to aid developers in producing apps for the iPad that interact with Photoshop. The SDK is supposed to work with other tablets running Android and Blackberry OS’ but the first apps are for the iPad. To work this requires an update to Photoshop to 12.0.4 level, which is coming shortly and is available to developers at this time. Adobe has announced three apps for the iPad that will use the SDK to interact with a computer running Photoshop provided they are running on the same wireless network. This looks to be a huge but obvious development for Photoshop and one can only assume will also roll out for their other applications as well, Premier being an obvious one. At the very least this lets you get … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPad, Photography, Photoshop
Phase One Mono Back For BW and Infrared Photography
While I haven’t had a chance to test one yet I found a review on the ProPhoto website of the Phase One P45 Achromatic+ back. While the review has some problems, it does cover the features of this back which might appeal to well healed mono and IR photographers. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, Infrared, Photography
Integrating Other Passions with Your Photography Makes Sense
My latest post on the HP Professional Photography blog is on finding ways to integrate the other passions you have in your life with your photography. Doing so adds many benefits. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Photography
Experimental Digital Photography Book Review
Experimental Digital Photography By Rick Doble Lark Photography Books, 2010 ISBN 978-1-60059-517-2 Rick Doble’s Experimental Digital Photography is a timely and excellent book for loosening people up and helping them to break out. The book focuses on the more expressive and creative forms of photography, from using slow shutter speeds and creating extreme blur to night and low light photography. Organised into nine chapters, it covers: Getting Started: the technical side of experimental photography Shooting at slow shutter speeds Movement Light and white balance Night … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Photography
Shoot For Your Workflow
My latest post on the HP professional Photography blog is on shooting to suit your workflow. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography
Great article on using tablets as design tools
I came across this great article on Smashing Magazine on using tablets as a design tool, for sketching ideas and working with clients. It includes a great review of the pens available to use with the iPad. It could be quite relevant to photographers as well. After all, we have ideas too sometimes, don’t we? Good article, worth a read. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Design, iPad, Photography
Google’s Art Project
Google has launched its Art Project, an ambitious project to bring the art works of the world’s galleries and museums onto the web in deep zoomable, detailed form. Currently Art Project has work from the following institutions on show: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin – Germany Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC – USA The Frick Collection, NYC – USA Gemäldegalerie, Berlin – Germany The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC – USA MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC – USA Museo Reina Sofia, … Read entire article »
iPhone Photography: Reinvigorating Some Photographers
As I look around the web I see so many photographers, including serious, well-respected professional photographers, getting all excited about photography with their iPhones. What’s going on? Well, in the spirit of scientific investigation I have downloaded a bunch of photography apps for my iPhone and will start shooting with them and see for myself. What I think is going on is a combination of nostalgia for a simpler time in photography, a reappraisal of just how “perfect” an image needs to be effective and a wish to reconnect with personal photography in what are often busy professional shooting lives. Nostalgia in photography with a widespread thing. We see that in the passion for old photographic processes whose look can frankly be recreated far more easily and often in a more environmentally friendly … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, Creativity, iPhone, Photography
It Is Time for a Camera with Apps
My latest post on the HP Professional Photography blog (http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Professional-Photography/It-Is-Time-for-a-Camera-with-Apps/ba-p/89041) discusses the potential benefits from camera manufacturers enabling the development of apps on their cameras using published APIs (application programming interface). … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cameras, iPhone, Photography
Infrared Photography Webinar
I will be doing a 1.5 hour webinar on how to do digital infrared photography on Wednesday March 9 at 1pm CST time in the US. This is 6am Thursday 10th of March Australian Eastern Summer Time. The webinar covers what you need to do infrared with a digital camera, tricks of exposure and how to process the resulting images. The cost is US$47 for the one webinar or there are packages to do more than one webinar, as this is part of a Digital Art Summit with many webinars. Details are on this web page http://www.digital-art-summit.com/membership/artists/wayne-cosshall/. Recordings of the webinar are also available for purchase. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Education, Infrared, Photography
Corel® Launches International Design Contest to Celebrate CorelDRAW® Talent From Around the World With More than $75,000 in Prizes to Be Won!
Corel® Launches International Design Contest to Celebrate CorelDRAW® Talent From Around the World With More than $75,000 in Prizes to Be Won! March 4, 2011C Announced today, the 2011 CorelDRAW® International Design Contest is now open to all CorelDRAW® and Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ users across the globe. Whether you use CorelDRAW or Corel PHOTO-PAINT for work or for play, now’s your chance to create with confidence and show off your skills in the second CorelDRAW International Design Contest. Between now and June 30, 2011, submit your best original designs for your chance to win valuable prizes in one of six categories. “With over $75,000 in prizes up for grabs, now is the perfect time to shine the spotlight on our CorelDRAW community as we celebrate the diversity and talent of our CorelDRAW users … Read entire article »
Filed under: Competitions, Design, Photography
Epson Stylus® Photo R3000 – Epson’s most creative A3+ printer yet
Epson Stylus® Photo R3000 – Epson’s most creative A3+ printer yet Sydney, 02 March 2011: Epson has released its most creative A3+ printer yet for advanced amateur, semi-professional and professional photographers, the Epson Stylus® Photo R3000. With nine high capacity cartridges of Epson UltraChrome K3® with Vivid Magenta pigment ink, networking and wireless connectivity, and advanced front-in front-out fine art media handling, the R3000 produces gallery-quality black-and-white prints, plus vivid colour prints with breathtaking blues and violets. Combining … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fine Art Photography, Hardware, Photography, Print
Why Grungy Photos Are Back in Fashion
My latest post on the HP Professional Photography blog addresses the issues of why it is now fashionable to get down and dirty with your images. View the article by following this link or use this link http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Professional-Photography/Why-Grungy-Photos-Are-Back-in-Fashion/ba-p/87365 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography
Phoozl on Facebook a Photo Challenge
Phoozl Launches Unique “Alphabetography Photo Challenge” on Facebook Photo games site Phoozl.com has announced the launch of its new, seasonal “Alphabetography Photo Challenge: the Four Seasons” contest as a Facebook Application. The first “Winter” challenge or contest has just begun after the start of the Winter 2010/11 season (in the Northern Hemisphere), and it runs for approximately 45 days to its conclusion in early March. A Unique Alphabet Photo Concept During each season’s contest (using “Winter” as the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Competitions, Creativity, Photography
Infrared Photography Webinar
Wayne is doing an IR photography webinar on Thursday 20th at 6PM US Central Standard Time, which is 11am Friday 21st Australian Eastern Summer Time. The webinar runs for 1.5 hours and covers IR photography and how to get going on it. More details and booking are on this website. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Infrared, Photography
Passionate Photography
My latest article on the HP Professional Photography blog is on passion, what it is, why it matters and how to find it. Passionate Photography article … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Creativity, Photography
2010 Considered
2010 was a mixed back year for me. Personally there were a lot of distractions associated with caring for my mother-in-law who sadly died on New Year’s Eve at 11:05pm. Her cancer caused much pain and other issues that often made life difficult for everyone in the house, and since I work from home it also affected my business life. But there were also great times and great laughter in caring for her and she was a wonderful woman who I loved dearly. Creatively, 2010 was a good year. I started my new series Time & Space and really feel like these images form a good, strong direction for me moving forward into 2011. I picked up a couple of minor awards, which was nice. I also published two books, an iPhone app … Read entire article »
Filed under: DIMI News, iPad, iPhone, Photography
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