Mobile art pioneers from around the world will show off their latest creations at the LA Mobile Arts Festival. The event will be Santa Monica Art Studios’ first-ever mobile arts exhibition showcasing nine days of mobile artistry from the heart of the West Coast’s contemporary art scene. Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) May 30, 2012 Mobile [...]
The Grip and Shoot is an advanced and easy to use camera rig for shooting photos and video with your iPhone 4S. The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Grip works wirelessly with the Grip and Shoot Camera App to give you the ability to zoom in/out and capture photos/video all with one hand! Homer Glen, IL [...]
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Opens for entries 1 June 2012 www.worldphoto.org 01 June 2012: The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, organised by the World Photography Organisation (WPO), are now open for entries. Each year the Sony World Photography Awards uncover and celebrate the very best in international contemporary photography. To date, over 430,000 photographs from 178 countries have been [...]
Optimized for Inspiration, Shutterstock Instant provides a groundbreaking new way to explore millions of beautiful images at lightening-fast speed.NEW YORK, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Shutterstock Images LLC, a global marketplace for digital imagery, today announced a new image discovery tool: Shutterstock Instant. The interface re-imagines the traditional keyword search experience, and combines speed and simplicity to deliver a visual experience [...]
VUE 10.5 ADDS MORE POWER TO YOUR DIGITAL NATURE May 21, 2012. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, maker of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, announced today the immediate availability of Vue 10.5 xStream and Infinite, the latest production- driven version of its professional solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments. New [...]
Sport photographer Adam Pretty has been named overall winner at the 36th Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards (or ‘Canon AIPP APPAs’) Monday 28 May, 2012 – The photographic industry’s most anticipated accolade has been awarded to Sydney photographer Adam Pretty last night by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) at a special gala dinner [...]
Canon has announced in Australia the opening of the Canon Academy to offer workshops and courses on photography. They have done this by partnering with an existing workshop organisation, URCreative. I have to say that I think this is a really bad idea, and let me explain why. There is an active community already of [...]
Almost 1,500 Images Submitted by World’s Top Child Photographers ATLANTA, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The National Association of Professional Child Photographers (NAPCP) recently announced the results of its fourth international image competition and revealed its 2011 Child Photographer of the Year, Stephanie Buckman of Stephanie Robin Photography. With interest and participation growing each year, this latest NAPCP competition [...]
Registrations now open – Asia’s world-class photography conference Intensive workshops 16-18th July The conference 18-20th July Register online at creativeasia.com The 2012 Creative Asia Conference consists of 5 days of intensive workshops, lectures, keynotes and activities with over 15 regional and international speakers, including world leaders in photography. The conference presents a unique opportunity to [...]
B&H Photo Video is excited to announce the launch of the new and much anticipated K30 DSLR Camera from Pentax. NYC, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2012 B&H Photo Video is excited to share with photo hobbyists the launch of the new and much anticipatedK30 DSLR Camera from Pentax. The Pentax K-30 camera is ergonomically designed to be as [...]
Printer With an Expanded Choice of Seven Different 3D Printing Materials High Temperature Materials Objet Ltd , the innovation leader in 3D printing for rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing, has today launched the new Objet30 Pro - the most versatile professional in-house desktop 3D printer available on the market. Unveiled at RAPID, the new desktop 3D printer offers 7 different materials, including, [...]
Sigma’s 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM honored as Best Entry Level DSLR Lens; 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM lauded as Best Expert DSLR Lens Ronkonkoma, NY, April 16, 2012 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world’s most impressive lines of lenses,cameras and flashes, is pleased to [...]
New NEX series camera from Sony APS-C size 16.1 megapixel Exmor™ APS HD CMOS sensor Auto Portrait Framing for easy, top-quality portraits 180° tilting LCD screen for self-portraits Built-in flash for low-light shooting Sydney, 17 May, 2012: Sony Australia today launched the latest Compact System Camera, the NEX-F3, packing DSLR- features into a small [...]
Prestigious award adds to 2012 medal tally in 25th anniversary year of the Canon EOS SLR camera system Sydney 15 May 2012: Canon Australia has today announced that the EF8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM interchangeable lens has been honoured in Japan with the prestigious Camera Grand Prix 2012 “Lens of the Year Award.” The accolade marks the [...]
A new forum on the Phoozl website allows you to post an image and get a critique of it by a leading professional photographer (I’m one of them involved). The direct link to the forum is http://www.phoozl.com/phorums/phorums/critique-my-photo-please-2/ Feedback is a very important part of developing as a photographer and this is good way of getting [...]
Photography education and entertainment site PhoozL announces the relaunch of its flagship website: www.phoozl.com. The new PhoozL is a global destination for photographers and photo enthusiasts (amateur to pro) who want to be challenged and have “phun” while learning more about photography and stretching their creative wings. Photo contests, photo assignments, photo critiques, photo learning, [...]
The TouchType case is currently up on Kickstarter. It is a leather or polyurethane case for the iPad that also has a pocket to hold an Apple Wireless Keyboard. This is a great solution because the Apple keyboard is a decent size and really nice to type on. I already use one with my iPad, [...]
Alioscopy enables millions of Adobe Photoshop digital imaging artists to generate Alioscopy-ready “no-glasses” 3D content. With Alioscopy’s patented technology integrated into Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, millions of artists in the global Photoshop community will benefit from a streamlined, all-inclusive workflow to generate “no-glasses” 3D content—one of today’s fastest growing trends in digital signage, trade show [...]
The Golden Foundation, linked with the Golden people who produce the most wonderful acrylic-based artist materials, now has their residency program in place. Details are on their website at http://www.goldenfoundation.org/. Basically they have a four-week residency program where the selected artists explore materials, etc. The location is in central New York state.
Highest-ever TIPA award tally acknowledges Canon’s strength of innovation across the digital imaging categories SYDNEY, 18 April, 2012: Canon has been awarded with six prestigious “Best Product 2012” awards by the highly respected Technical Image Press Association (TIPA), representing 29 photography and imaging magazines across 14 European countries. The six award-winning products are: the EF8-15mm [...]
With an impressive DxOMark Score of 95, the Nikon D800 illustrates the continuous improvement in DSLR image quality achieved over the years March 27, 2012 – DxOMark, the reference web site for camera image quality testing, has released its in-depth analysis of the new Nikon D800, as of now the best camera ever tested by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
David Hockney, who has always widely experimented with different mediums for making art is exhibiting his latest work. The exhibition is at London’s Royal Academy of Art and runs till April 9th, 2012. Here’s the link to the Huffington Post piece on the exhibition.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
