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Sunday, October 31, 2010

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A2Z Keywording launches Keyword Perfect 2.0 software

A2Z Keywording has announced the Keyword Perfect 2.0 Image Tagging Studio automated image tagging software. It enables photographers to keyword each image for stock or archival purposes by selecting a number of pre-defined or user-generated tags, thus promising better access to potential buyers. The software is available for an introductory launch price of $199.

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Independent Photographers Now Have an Efficient, Intuitive Tool that Generates Dozens of Accurate, Searchable Tags; Casts the Widest Possible Sales Net for Stock Houses and Image Buyers

Tivoli, NY – Oct. 18, 2010 – A2Z Keywording, specialists in the practice of professional image keywording, today announced the launch of Keyword Perfect? 2.0, a highly efficient sales tool that enables photographers, stock photo agencies, archivists and other imaging professionals to tag their photo libraries using a comprehensive dictionary of searchable keywords, ensuring that their images are as accessible as possible to potential buyers.? First developed as the in-house engine around A2Z Keywording’s successful keywording service, Keyword Perfect is now available to pro photographers as a means to quickly input relevant tags and, with a minimum of keystrokes, generate dozens of associated keywords that make their work more likely to be identified by image buyers and stock agencies.

Attendees of the PhotoPlus Expo (Oct. 28-30, 2010, New York) are invited to visit the A2K Keywording booth (#177) to view demonstrations of Keyword Perfect and obtain trial versions of the software.

With an easily mastered user interface running on top of a powerful platform that includes A2Z Keywording’s proprietary keyword dictionary and thesaurus, Keyword Perfect imports digital images into its workspace and displays them in a convenient filmstrip pane. Users can then keyword each image by selecting any number of pre-defined and/or user-generated tags, representing not only the image’s physical contents, but also its less tangible elements such as time of day, photo style, concept, emotion and activity.? The keyword engine then reads each assigned tag and adds a number of logically associated keywords, eliminating significant input time while ensuring that the images are thoroughly and accurately identifiable to discerning image buyers.?

“After all the time, effort, and emotion that goes into creating great images, properly editing them and preparing them for the market, photographers still need to ensure that their images will be seen by potential buyers, regardless of how broad or specific a search those buyers might conduct,” said Alexander Zane, president of A2Z Keywording.? “The only way to ensure maximum success is to tag each image comprehensively, but no photographer wants to spend precious hours manually keywording or fumbling with a dictionary and thesaurus.? With Keyword Perfect, we took the system we used to produce accurate keyword matrices for as many as 200,000 images per year and made it available to everyone.? We’re confident that the results will be a true revelation to both veteran photographers and those new to image tagging.”??? ??

As more photographers make their work available to image buyers and additional content floods the marketplace, it is absolutely vital to properly keyword images to ensure they are searchable by the most appropriate audience.? To increase the accuracy of Keyword Perfect, A2Z Keywording developed a powerful set of automated checks that guide users through a structured review of their work to catch oversights or inconsistencies.? This feature, comprising more than 300 individual checks, helps avoid the human errors that are common in manual keywording.? And since Keyword Perfect manages keywords in a central dictionary and reviews all work in a structured process, it delivers an unsurpassed level of consistency.

“A2Z Keywording has long provided a critical service to stock houses like ours by keywording large batches of images quickly and accurately, and I admit that I’ve been somewhat envious of their capabilities in the past,” said Monika Mosch, managing director of the stock agency goZOOMA.? “With Keyword Perfect, anyone who relies on high keyword quality can achieve professional results in less than half the time it would take to input manually.? The software is powerful, yet easy to work with; clearly A2Z Keywording has honed this product to meet the specific requirements of both photographers and image consumers who search through large volumes of stock images.”

Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
Starting today, Keyword Perfect is available for purchase at www.keywordperfect.com at a list price of $249.00. A special introductory launch price of $199.00 is available through Dec. 31, 2010 and a free trial version is available.


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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Quotes and snippets and Soupcons

Snippets, quote, Soupcons

Voice of the snippet and Soupcons

By James Scarlett

"Only I hope one day is just all right. Instead of sticking labels give yourself that women have won the opinion, smart and well informed men and just called, is ". Teresa Heinz Kerry

Written and I hope my suffering increases, and I cry while crying tired mind feeds, I laugh laughter not touch my soul, and who saw my passion, fear of my eyes, and hear what all my fresh pain; And thus I cry and laugh, and hoping to write and hear me I see the fear. Thought to be caused by Machiavelli

It is never going to be famous. My name is on the list of things someone writ large. I do nothing. It is not a single one. Biting my nails for a longer not I also. Dorothy Parker

My bad guy is no reason why carry a clock? [Street, man should have been surprised under the weight of the grandfather clock] and Sir Herbert and Beerbohm Tree

You don't believe in when mirror and newspapers. John Osborn on Amsterdam Act 1 Hotel]

Some Bon MOTS G.K.CHESTERETON

Mark.the center of the essential art of all it is easy, may carry out no matter how the complex. Funny feet

Something should be performed, which she suddenly to become if a terrible danger tell women always. Father Brown's secret

Isn't it cannot see the solution is Then, you can't see the point pin problem in.

He seriously, what should be set to at least describe. The literature of the entire business, and hoe to is hard line. In the literary critique,

Could today to have our "progress", superlative payment comparison only.

The interesting subject of such things. The only thing that exists can be is not interested.

Ordinary people speak public opinion and public opinion, your opinion means a negative public opinion.

Is the disease afflicting the amateur artist temperament.

Reason itself is a problem of faith. Is an act of faith we desire real relationships all that insists on.

To all who feel they must and a great guy. Is a great feeling all of them will be a really great guy, man.

Someone, I say, we in the future remembers.
Sappho 640, b.c.

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As if to teach boys to teach the same subjects and send little girls to school is usually learn fully understanding the subtleties of all the art and science.
Christine de Pisa quote de-Lady 1405
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Flemish painting in particular noblemen with sense of real monks and nuns and especially the very old and very young women to appeal. Paint the dense and external in Flanders. stuffs, Mason, green turf field, they and the scenery of the bridge.
Michelangelo 1548 caused by Francisco da Hollanda,

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The history of all times especially thinking about their own forgot to be left women forget that and today?
Louise Otto Peters, 1849

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Women were the voice of the principles of management and Director and conductor of the 18th century. She is Alliance and political systems, and peace and was held in the revolutionary war, literature, art, 18th-century fashion and the fate of her gown.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1862
(18Th century considered as France absolutism of the era is called also why a woman age era. Salonniers, Madame Geoffrin, Madame de La Fayette, Madame de Stael night conversation conducted philosophers, writers, artists, scientists and cultural leaders, attended like a hosted by women)

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A result of political strife and women easily moderate success settlement is: not dare high goals are to her. To prepare the surface without going into her profession, she soon limit is set to the ambition of her. It often her enough if she is her own life earns it seems.
In this way, art toys and characters in women's Army Corps is very some patience; who pass the first obstacle is very many cases, narcissism and the inferiority to continue. Forget me not, than those that weigh in other career women often defective. Is the essential purpose of their own success, formal positive satisfaction abstract if they do not give to the contemplation of their own world: they are art, can recreate ないだり let.
Gender of Simone de Beauvoir, 2, 1949

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Write if all blank blood form on your forehead … The quietly sitting until the drop is easy.
Genes and Fowler

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Bank dinner together and the art, controversial artist dinner together when the money... To the discussion.
Oscar Wilde

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Also, indeed, I venture to guess the signed women. Is the anonymous wrote numerous poems,
-Virginia Woolf 1929 one himself, room
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"... I real huge discrepancies and struggle: the motherhood and the image between my house to changes in the heart of my love and enchanting paths between travel needs. The impermanence of the lesson, despair and occasionally so tenuously anchored, Goddess, all access and needs me I restore deep for me, dig utility spiritual: location for my love, man great green left, my kids and friends and spring pulse ".
Sally Mann


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Photography Posing Secrets

Model is the resource of posing for the camera. That attitude to never stuck again.


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Thursday, October 28, 2010

E-zinc PixiPort photo art

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Conceptual Photography Ami Vitale

There are rare moments when one is able to capture a vision of the past and a look into the future. I have been fortunate enough to glimpse a group from the nomadic Fulani tribe after they settled, became farmers and now struggle to adapt to a world that has thrust itself onto them in uncompromising ways in the West African country of Guinea Bissau.

The Fulani, who once crisscrossed the continent of Africa tending the precious herds of cattle, was a civilization whose renowned physical characteristic was its constant movement. The movement that they were accustomed to spun the threads of a rich social fabric of traditions and rituals, many of which continue to endure today.

This is the story of one Fulani family?s life; the age-old rites that persist and those that die in an Africa that few can ever imagine. Among the things that sets them apart from most other ethnic tribes in Guinea Bissau is that they are Muslim. Islamic traditions such as female and male circumcision, five prayer times a day, the Islamic calendar and multiple wives are just a few of the traditions that make up the structure of life in the village. Local beliefs and traditions have come together to produce a brand of Islam that is unique to its area and it?s people. From the belief of tree spirits to the use of traditional medicine or "voodoo", the mixing of cultures that took place centuries earlier have produced a society that blends a unique spiritual universe with the often brutal day to day existence of the physical world.

To an outsider the village may appear to be a place where people live simply and are struggling to survive. While part of this may be true, the social hierarchy and politics among members of the tribe are far more complex than any modern western society. The village is a place where people?s lives are caught up in a rigorous power struggle that is influenced by the past, the present, and the promise of the future. It is a place where the dead and unborn play powerful roles in the fate of the living.

In 2001, with the help of the Alexia foundation I was fortunate to witness this culture working from a calendar far different from our own. It was my hope to present a meaningful look into their lives to show the dignity and humor that exists in their struggle to provide for their children in a place that can be unforgiving to the human body and soul.

The Himalayan region of Kashmir, nestled between India and Pakistan has been called "a paradise on earth" ever since the 16th century when Mughal emperors discovered its pristine beauty and made it their summer capital. Indians took their annual pilgrimages to escape the heat of the oppressive, dusty plains and British colonizers found their way around a law that prohibited outsiders from owning land by building floating houseboats on the idyllic lakes. Today Kashmir is more famous for being the axis of relations between India and Pakistan, a ?nuclear flashpoint? that could spark an unthinkable war in South Asia.

The conflict has eroded much that once defined Kashmir. Hindus and Muslims once shared neighborhoods, schools, and close friendships, but nearly all the Hindus fled Indian-governed Kashmir after being threatened by Muslim militants, and are now scattered across India. Sufism, which exerted a gentle influence on Kashmiri Islam for more than a dozen generations, has been gradually pushed aside by the fanatical Sunni Islam practiced by militants from Pakistan. For centuries, Kashmir?s Mughal gardens and wooden houseboats offered diversions to weary rulers. But leisure has vanished from Kashmir. No one visits, and fear has tainted the lives of those who make their homes amid its apple and apricot orchards, in its meadows and in the creases of its mountains.

I wandered briefly into the poetry of Kashmir in November of 2001 and could not let go. Whether trudging through the perfectly etched landscape that included rice fields cascading into the valleys like delicately carved staircases, sipping saffron tea in the warmth of a Kashmiri home or being cradled in the tranquility of a wooden shikara, a gondola style boat, on Dal Lake, this place filled me with affection. I wanted to understand Kashmir and delve below the glassy reflections in its still lakes. The mountains were mirrored perfectly until the oar hit the water, a crack rippled through the reflection and one began to sense that all is not what it seemed. Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir once bustled with life and laughter. Now it lies neglected and pockmarked with craters. Hotels have been turned into barracks, guns peek out behind broken glass windows and netting protects the bleary eyes soldiers from the frequent grenade attacks. The surrounding mountains, once lush and dotted with delightful Alpine cottages sit quietly as structures deteriorate and collapse. The poetry of this magnificent culture has degenerated into the language of mourning and everyone here is held hostage to the suffering. The gaping hole of years of conflict have been filled with the corpses of young men and those spaces that remain free lie waiting to devour still more.

These photographs are dedicated to all those who have died and to those that are living in the shadows of those deaths. It is my desire to give justice to the beauty, strength and suffering of Kashmir?s people and to the unique richness of their history and culture. I hope to inspire in others the feelings that Kashmir has given rise to myself, particularly the simultaneous apprehension of beauty and terror. I believe that all the inherent beauty will survive despite humanity?s ongoing attempts to control and destroy it. Because in this intricate place, where truth and fiction are sometimes inseparable, politics and poetry overlap, the pain is sometimes too great to bear, yet joy is still possible.

In February 2002 the city of Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, once famous as the adopted home of Mahatma Gandhi, was the scene of some of the worst communal violence that India has seen in a decade. In retaliation for a gruesome attack by Muslims on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims that left 59 dead, it sparked an orgy of violence that threatened the secular credentials of India. Mobs swarmed into Muslim communities and killed hundreds, perhaps thousands of men, women and children. The city burned as thousands fled their homes and the official death toll was over 1000, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher. The wounds from this man made tragedy will take a long time to heal as the bloodbath still continues on a smaller scale.

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PixiPort, a "Portal To The Arts" is THE online venue for the marketing of fine art photography and its photo artists, showcasing their Fine art photography art works. PixiPort offers educational and informational opportunities in art photography to the public.
This "Portal To The Arts" is facilitated through the web site, www.pixiport.com with the cooperation of many leading professional photo artists under the marketing and direction of Helyn Davenport, an award winning, INPA Honorary Fellow, photographic artist, who's work is a mainstay on the site. Each month different international photographers are showcased.

A very popular and informative portal is "The Quill in Focus" Included in this portal is our poetry section with various poets"CloseUp with Carol Tipping" a very popular feature, offering one on one interviews with the various photographers featured on PixiPort. "The Voice Behind The Lens", which is the very creative written contribution of photographer Michael Dubiner expressing how photography plays a role in our daily lives. This series is updated regularily featuring topics relative to the art of photography.Ken Windsor is the editor of our Pixiporter newsletter. Call to Artists Listings for Art Photographers, events, exhibitons, grants, juried exhibits, opportunities for artists.GLIMPSING AN INSIGHT photo artists Interviewed by Scarlet James. Our weekly photo art gallery has new photos by photo artists which is is updated each week.Be sure to bookmark this photography gallery. Each month we select a photograph as the Fine Art Photography Artist Of The Month 20th Century Art History Art the history of art terms defined. Art Words,Art Terms and Definitions of Art Words where you can learn more about art words and their meanings.
Our site is available in twenty different languages, offering true international access. surreal art Photography
Lou Oats Selected Recent Exhibitions, Competitions, Publications, and Collections

2004
Completed photo essay of the Copper Basin Railroad, Hayden, AZ. Completing photo essay of the Magma Hotel, Superior, AZ.
Summer shooting in Chicago: viaducts, street scenes, and creating a series of whimsical digital composites, "Family".

2003
Preparation of two large portfolios for gallery display: Jim's 76 and The Old School.
Creation of this web site for the direct sale of photographs.

2002 (Competition)
Best of Show & Viewer's First Choice--"Superior Mountain Festival Art Show".
First Place, Photography--"Southwest" Art Exhibition, Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. Globe, AZ.

2002 (Juried Exhibition)
"Identity" Exhibition Step Gallery, ASU campus, Tempe, AZ. Composite Digital Images.
"All Digital" Exhibition Harry Wood Gallery ASU, Tempe, AZ. Composite Digital Image.
"Third Annual Photography Show", Quintessence Gallery, Chandler, AZ. Three images.

2001-02 (Solo Shows)
"The Road to Globe" Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Black and white images from 1999-2001 plus several composite digital images taken on or near Arizona Route 60 from Phoenix to Globe, including Superior and Miami, AZ.
"Images of Superior". Community First Bank, Superior, AZ. Black and white images of historic landmark buildings including images from Superior vicinity.
Twenty four images featured at Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, Globe, AZ.

2000 (Competition and Touring Exhibit)
"A Chandler View: Photography within our City's Borders". Chandler Arts Commission. Two photographs chosen for touring exhibit and purchase for public collection.

2000 (Competition)
"Dia de Colores" Festival, Superior, AZ. First Place, photography

Public Commissions
Superior Chamber of Commerce. Historic Buildings photography project for brochure to attract film producers to Superior, AZ.
Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum, Mesa, AZ. Photographs featured on museum web site.
Pinal County Historical Museum. Photography of unique exhibits for postcard sales.

Publications 2001-02 (Books & Magazines)
Book:"Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun". Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. Three color photographs featured.
Book: "Tucson to Tombstone and Beyond ". Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. Six color photographs featured.
Magazine: Photographic, "Shooting Stunning Cityscapes", Nov. 2002 Featured color photograph.

Public Collection
Chandler Arts Commission, Chandler, AZ

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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965 surreal black and white photograph


GLIMPSING AN INSIGHT INTO THE WORK OF DOMINIC ROUSE by Scarlet James -

A few weeks ago Helyn sent me an email which read "scarlet here is our Featured Artist, I would like you to interview him; his work will INSPIRE you." After I had looked at Dominic Rouse`s `Angeline` I emailed back; It Won`t; I give up. And that was before I`d looked, with eyes wide open and full of envy, at his outstanding, enormously A Mazing body of work; some of which can now be seen on pixiport. So with a blend of trepidation and great admiration I asked Dominic if he would risk a chat; he kindly said yes.

Scarlet: Hi Dominic, nice to meet you, your work is truly beautiful and extremely well crafted, you are a master, an artist.

Dominic: Thank you, but I would never have considered myself an artist until recently. I am a little uncomfortable being called an artist. 'Photographer' still feels more appropriate. Some viewers don't think that what I produce is photography and that's fine too. I simply enjoy making images. What a beautiful way to spend one's time. How I do them is only of interest to trainspotters, copyists and policemen. Why should I care which brushes Leonardo used, I only care that he painted at all. The idea is king and craft its servant.

Scarlet: Brilliant! ! Beautifully put .. I have never thought of myself as a trainspotter, but I would love to know how, see; and watch you making your visions appear. I liken you to a magician who has trained and studiedly practiced his skill to a fine tune then skillfully produces intricate works of art and magic; seamlessly and effortlessly to perfection. But why and how were you attracted to a box with a hole in it?

Dominic: By default. For reasons best known to the gods my career choice was journalism. I did not possess the 'A Levels' needed for the NCTJ Journalism course but I did have the 'O Levels' needed to join their Press Photography course. So I did.

Scarlet: And when and where did your visions and aspirations start, and where were they coming from?

Dominic: I always start with a title which is why great writers are so helpful. A page of Nietzsche could keep me going for years. A love of poetry helps. It is so succinct. The closest art to photography is poetry and all good art is poetic. You may know Freud's observation, 'Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.' Exasperatingly true I'm afraid.

Scarlet: Yes, and I saw from your bio you`ve read the `Dark Ones` Kafka, Neitzshe with a shade of light entertainment from Mr Larkin.

Dominic: I must say I find it difficult to describe Larkin's work as light reading.

Far from the exchange of love to lie
Unreachable inside a room
The traffic parts to let go by
Brings closer what is left to come,
And dulls to distance all we are."
Perhaps I have misinterpreted him.

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David Mendelsohn Black and White Photo GalleryBlack White Photography

Interview by "Zen Within The Frame"
Ken Brody Professional Photographer
and
Christopher Robinson Managing Editor

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www.pcphotomag.com David Mendelsohn's work has a life of its own. It catches? your? eye, grabs hold of your soul, and pulls you deep into? its framework, so that ultimately you? feel as the image. You become aware if the rain splattering off your back as? you strain to read the headlines on a taxi driver's? newspaper. You can smell the characteristic aroma of the? burning cigar, held perfectly poised in the wrinkled hand of? a green-clad man with a white mustache. You marvel at? how much this man resembles the stark white skull on the? wall beside him. Or, perhaps, how much they differ. No? matter, certainly they belong together. Well known for his highly graphic, award-winning commercial photography, Mendelsohn did not start his professional career behind a camera. " I came to photography through a rather indirect path," he recalls. "I always had some interest in the medium after my dad gave me his old Argus C3, around my 12th birthday, I toyed with the camera and a makeshift dark room to some degree, but it was simply another one of my interests." Mendelsohn's first dream was to be a forest ranger. He pictured himself "living in the Rockies, riding horseback along the Continental Divide, hunting down rogue bear." In fact, Mendelsohn had gone as far as transferring to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where he planned to attend forestry school. Until that is, the department head "put his arm around my shoulder and gently pointed me toward reality. Seems that 20 years form graduation, I would still be planting pine trees." With his dreams temporarily dashed, Mendelsohn found work at the university photo labs, and eventually began to make a name foe himself in publications like, Communications Arts and Print Magazine. During his tenure at UNH Mendelsohn received a National Education Association grant entitled "Route 40," which allowed him to drive across the southern interstate for a month, photographing his impressions. "I found that I enjoyed being behind the camera a lot more than a straight edge, and that I would rather shoot than assign photography. After contemplating my next move, I sent what I considered to be a portfolio to the president of Magnum, Bert Glinn. About two weeks later, I received a call form China informing me that he was sponsoring me for membership." This was Mendelsohn's chance to join one of the most elite photographic agencies in the world and to have his name associated with the likes of Henri-Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour. But he would have to move his wife and child to New York. " For reasons involving business, politics, and quality of life," said Mendelsohn, "I respectfully declined." Instead, he took out a second mortgage on his house, resigned his position at UNH, and hit the streets with a camera. Living in New Hampshire countryside has not hindered Mendelsohn's career. He relies on electronic media to stay in touch with his customers, tow representatives to promote his work, and the local airport to kick off his location shoots in cities all over the world. Among his client list are many prestigious members of the Fortune 200 list, including Lockheed Martin, International Paper, Boeing, IBM, and Amtrak. Mendelsohn could be accurately described as a "driven" artist. "I am driven by fear of personal failure," said Mendelsohn. "Historically, all artists are. I tend to totally ignore the size of a budget or the complexity of a production. From experience, I know that one way or another, I will pull off the shoot. Rather, any anxiety I experience comes form self demand." The comfort of knowing that the client is pleased with the results, your estimate was within 10 percent, you didn't fall out of the chopper, and your rep has you booked for another job are not to be discounted in an artist's drive for success," he continued. "More important, however, I am haunted by the question of whether or not I was able to build past this personal plateau. Did I create something more original that the last image? Did I manage to push a combination of perception and technique a little further than my last outing?" The Art of Expression Mendelsohn's acute sense of graphic design and his use of color and balance are what makes work so intriguing. Although his commercial work is primarily color, he also has a love for Black and White. "When one shoots color and black-and-white, two distinct mindset are required," he observed. "Black and White is about pure form and tonality, and quite beautiful in its simplicity. To appreciate a black-and-white image, you are forced to remove yourself from this world and transport your perceptions to another. It borders on the surreal. As most of us see in color, you are compelled as both the viewer and the artist to see things in a different way. Color, on the other hand, is all around us. There is color in foggy and monotone conditions. There is color underwater. There are significant variations of color in the same subject form dusk to dawn. "I used to avoid shooting until the "ideal" conditions were met. I no longer feel that way. I now feel that there is no perfect color. Rather, it evolves as we watch it and it is simply a matter of opportunities." "It is an easy 'out' to shoot color for color's sake. Our profession has been gelled to death; to overpower an image without consideration of the colors' relationships is to simply point and shoot," he observed. "I am not inclined toward magenta pigs. Rather, if I am to use color as an element of the final design, I want to think about how that shade of yellow on that particular object is going to influence the final 'feel' of the image. "Sure, gelling is important, be it over the flash heads or over the lens. I am however, more comfortable in choosing the light and then modifying it subtly. At that point, I have a palette or canvas I can work with. I might paint something with a car headlight gaffer taped to a stick. I might paint something with spray can. I might even shoot a paintball at it. In addition to paintball guns, Mendelsohn has been known to shoot Nikons, Hasselblads, Linhofs and Toyos. However, the majority of his commercial work is created with 35mm on Fujichrome film and Kodak T-Max. No matter what his approach to photography, Mendelsohn feeds his passion with the art and creativity. "It is an Eastern experience when I shoot," he said, "an attempt at Zen within the frame." Interview by Christoper Robinson What kind of gear do you use (both photo gear and computer/scanner/printer gear)? My hardware consists of Nikons and Hassleblads. Although I have 4x5 and 8x10 formats, they are rapidly disappearing under a pile of dust. I recently acquired a Nikon D1, which amazes me. I tend to bracket both compositions and exposures alot, enough to actually be annoying as the light wanes. Now I have to find a way to use this camera as well. Utilizing the highest settings, the images are sharper than I ever expected, and combining the final TIFFS with Genuine Fractals has resulted in beauitiful prints. My in-house scanner is an LS2000 and, when used correctly, yields very nice results. Once again, given a combination of Genuine Fractals and PS, I've had my output service folks provide film and proofs, which resulted in very nice offset images up to decent sized posters. As things go, the right desktop scanners will be close to to drum scans in the not to distant future. We have two G3 Macs w/12 gig internal drives and about 400 megs of RAM (give or take). We have a a nine gig LACIE external disk, but must upgrade as we are now out of space. Can't wait for some of my client's to cut a check. Our CD Recorder is a Yamaha, Read/Write/ Rewritable (sp ?) which has proved to be very reliable. Everything is backed up with DDS3 tapes, and not often enough. We also have A G4 Laptop with a beefed up hard drive and substantial memory. That always comes on location with us, especially when we know that we'll be shooting with the Nikon D1. We also have another LACIE CD burner dedicated to that machine. I understand that there are very reliable, very small high capacity Hard Drives that I could have put in that particular chain but I still like to commit the days images to CD's once in the hotel room. I am still using an Epson Stylus Photo for portfolio work and will be purchasing a 7500/9500 once they get their archival inks straight, as I like my artwork to reproduce in the 20 by 24 inch area. Those are currently being outsourced and printed to IRIS by a very knowledgeable group in Kennebunkport, Maine called Hunter Editions. As far as medium goes, I have fallen in love with Somerset Photo Enhanced, Radiant White available through Legion Paper in NYC. I tend to print on watercolor, rag papers and I have been very pleased with the results. What is interesting however, is that Epson has recently introduced their 2000P. This machine is using special, encapsulated pigmented inks, which actually have the color gamut of their dye-based mediums with the advantage of archival stability in the claimed area of 200 years. It will be only a short while before they adapt these inks to their larger format machines, so I am watching the newsgroups, tapping my fingers and buying lottery tickets. 2, If you could offer 2 tips of advice to the average PCPhoto reader as far as how to achieve the rich colors and striking compositions that you achieve, what would they be? (Okay I recognize that's a loaded question--mostly I'd just love a couple of quick tips for novice/amateur types--maybe a scanning tip, an image processing tip, a printing tip, a shooting tip--could be anything.) I consider color and light as part of the composition. It is just as important as subject matter. I am intrigued with content, but content actually changes according to the mood you either observe or create with light. If I shot something at the same camera angle at dawn or high noon, in color or black and white, I would consider them to be four very distinct images. Regarding composition............. Beyond the "rule of thirds" or making sure that trees aren't growing out of people's heads, I have no true formula for composition. I guess I try and just hone things down to their essence and float them in space until it feels right. Everyone has a way of seeing things a bit differently. Instinctually, you'll know when it feels good to you. At that point the journey begins. Your own vision is something to nutured, and consistently improved and your own voice something to be heard. Regarding the richness in my colors....... Start w/observing light , both natural and artificial. Look hard at both their colors, their angles and their qualities. All light is different and will definitely add or detract from the intensity of your palette. Additionally, don't be afraid with what you have available to you. I no longer consider sodium vapor something that has to be corrected. Rather I look at it as a color of light that, if anything, can be enhanced. Don't be afraid to paint something either with light or latex enamel. Sometimes I'll use the bright beams on my car as tungsten fill on daylight balanced stock. Sometimes I just might go to my vast arsenal of spray paint. Have fun and mix it up. Additionally, film choice is obvioulsy important. I tend to prefer the saturation of Fuji's Velvia or Provia, but have recently been shooting alot of Kodak's VS and SW. Great stuff as far as resolution and saturation. And finally, there is always Photoshop. I don't hesitate to enhance an area a bit if I feel it could benefit. 3, You seem to do a lot with--for lack of a better term--ordinary/mundane object (the radiator, the broom et al). And yet for as drab as these things are, you make them into striking, vivid and dynamic images. Can you comment on that? Are you especially drawn to making the ordinary into something extraordinary? In the end, I think that we spend too much time being taught what things "do" as opposed to what things "are". I believe that everything can and does have an intrinsic beauty. If it is three dimensional, then by essence, it is sculpture and worth a second look as far as subject matter. Sometimes, I simple take a visit to my local hardware store, Walmarts or Home Depot. It's amazing what you can find as far as props that may kick a concept into a different direction, or simply become the subject matter in and of itself. An open mind leads all to ideas. "How and where can I use this ?" is often a question I ask myself.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Panasonic AG-AF100 Pricing Confirmed

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Panasonic has unveiled the MSRP and availability of the Panasonic AG-AF100 interchangeable-lens digital video camera. Accepting all Micro Four Thirds lenses, the Panasonic AG-AF100 offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, dual card slots and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media. The camera incorporates a large Four Thirds type,16:9 MOS imager that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates low pass filters for elimination of aliasing and moiré. High-end features include color-on peaking and a focus bar; two sets of adjustable zebras; a waveform monitor and vectorscope for more accurate monitoring of broadcast safe levels. The Panasonic AG-AF100 digital video camera will start shipping on 27th December at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $4,995.


Panasonic Press Release


Panasonic Announces December Delivery, Pricing For AG-AF100 4/3” Professional High-Definition Camcorder


Best-in-Class 4/3” Sensor Delivers Depth of Field and Field of View Similar to that of 35mm Movie Camera; Camcorder Uses Low-Cost Still Camera and Film-Style Lenses


SECAUCUS, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Panasonic Solutions Company today announced that the AG-AF100, the industry’s first professional micro 4/3-inch video camcorder optimized for high-definition video recording, will start shipping on December 27th at a suggested list price of $4,995. Highly anticipated since its introduction at NAB earlier this year, the AF100 is poised to set new benchmarks in digital cinematography.


Targeted at the video and film production communities, the AF100 delivers the shallow depth of field and wider field of view of a large imager, with the flexibility and cost advantages of a growing line of professional quality, industry-standard micro 4/3-inch lenses, filters, and adapters. The full HD 1080 and 720 production camera offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media.


“The design of the AF100’s best-in-class 4/3-inch sensor affords depth of field and field of view similar to that of 35mm movie cameras in a more affordable camera body,” said Jan Crittenden Livingston, Product Line Business Manager, Panasonic Solutions Company. “What’s more, Panasonic engineering ingenuity has resolved the aliasing and moiré that has haunted the DSLR shooter. Indeed, the proof of concept of the AF100 was based on what we heard from and saw customers doing: purchasing DSLR cameras because they liked the look of the image, but then agonized over all of the workarounds required to come out with an acceptable high definition recording.”


The AF100 incorporates a large 4/3-inch,16:9 MOS imager that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates low pass filters for elimination of aliasing and moiré. Additionally, it has a built-in optical ND filter. The camcorder records 1080 at 60i, 50i, 30P, 25P (Native) and 24P (Native), and 720 at 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p and 24p native,in AVCHD’s highest-quality PH mode (maximum 24Mbps). The AF100 also records in AVCCAM’s HA (17 Mbps) and HE (6Mbps) modes, 1080i only. Ready for global production standards, the camcorder is 60Hz and 50Hz switchable. Equipped with an interchangeable micro 4/3-inch lens mount, the AF100 can utilize an array of low-cost, widely-available still camera lenses as well as film-style lenses with fixed focal lengths and primes.


Variable frame rates are available in 1080p, selectable in 20 steps from 12p to 60p at 60Hz and 20 steps from 12p to 50p at 50Hz. Standard professional interfaces include uncompressed 4:2:2, 8 Bit HD-SDI out; HDMI out; and USB 2.0. It records SMPTE timecode and is able to perform timecode synchronizing via the video output seeing timecode in. It has a built-in stereo microphone and features two mic/line, switchable XLR inputs with +48V Phantom Power capability. The camera can record 48-kHz/16-bit two-channel digital audio recording (in PH mode only) and supports LPCM/Dolby-AC3 in any of the modes.


This newest Panasonic AVCCAM camcorder is the first to enjoy the benefits of advanced SDXC media card compatibility in addition to existing SDHC card support. SDXC is the newest SD memory card specification that supports memory capacities above 32GB and up to 2TB. With two SD slots for continuous recording, the AF100 can record up to 12 hours on two 64GB SDXC cards in PH mode, with automatic clip spanning across the two cards.


Weighing only 3.5 pounds (without lens or battery), the AF100 is packed with high-end features including Dynamic Range Stretch in all modes and frame rates; six built-in, customizable scene files that are exchangeable for quick and easy matching between multiple cameras; seven built-in gamma curves with four selectable color matrices; Syncro-scan shutter; and a high-resolution LCD and viewfinder.


It also offers a focus assist that can be used while recording, which is color-on peaking and a focus bar; two sets of adjustable zebras; two manual black and white balance choices, and preset White Balance at 3200K, 5600K or variable; a waveform monitor and vectorscope for more accurate monitoring of broadcast safe levels. Other essential features include pre-record; an intervalometer function that can be set for up to 24 hours, programmable User Buttons; a Smart Battery interface for recording up to four hours with a 5400mA battery; metadata recording; and a wireless infrared remote controller.


Panasonic will support the AF100 with a three-year limited warranty (one year plus two extra years upon registration).


About Panasonic Solutions Company


Panasonic Solutions Company empowers people whose jobs depend on reliable technology. The company delivers collaboration, information-sharing and decision-support solutions for customers in government, healthcare, education and a wide variety of commercial enterprises. Products and services within the company’s portfolio include Panasonic Toughbook? mobile computing solutions, projectors, professional displays (including both plasma and LCD), and HD and 3D video acquisition and production solutions. As a result of its commitment to R&D, manufacturing and quality control, Panasonic is known for the reliability and longevity of its products. Panasonic Solutions Company is a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, which is the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC).


All brand and company/product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies. All specifications are subject to change without notice. Information on Panasonic Solutions Company’s full line of products can be obtained by calling 877-803-8492 or at http://www.panasonic.com/broadcast.



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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM Now Available in the US

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The Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM lens is now available for purchase in the US. This fast medium telephoto lens is optimised for 35mm full-frame digital and film SLR cameras, although it can of course also be used on cropped-sensor digital camera bodies as well. The Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM contains one Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass element and a glass mold element, and comes with a Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) for quiet focussing.? The lens has a round, nine-blade diaphragm for attractive bokeh, and comes bundled with a petal-type hood. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) is $1,400.

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Sigma Corporation of America announces US pricing, availability of 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM lens

October 14, 2010

Sigma Corporation of America announces US pricing, availability of 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM lens Prime lens can be used on full-frame or APS-C cameras for portrait and low-light photography

Ronkonkoma, NY, Oct. 14, 2010 – 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 announce that the company’s 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM lens is now available for purchase in the United States for the MSRP of $1,400 and the estimated street price of $899.

This large aperture, medium telephoto lens is optimized for use with full-frame, DSLR cameras and is especially ideal for portrait and low light photography. When used on digital cameras with an APS-C size image sensor, it effectively becomes a 127.5mm F1.4 lens.

“This lens is an excellent addition to our prime lens line-up and is a great performer for a variety of photographers. For the sports or photojournalist photographer, the Hyper Sonic Motor will keep up with fast-paced action sequences; the 1.4 maximum aperture provides the ability to work at high shutter speeds under low existing light conditions,” said Mark Amir-Hamzeh, general manager of Sigma Corporation of America. “That same high-speed aperture is great for a portrait photographer who is looking to isolate details in their subject, with a pleasant, out-of-focus background. One-touch, full-time manual focus is perfect for the critical, professional photographer.”

The 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM also contains one Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass element and a glass mold element to offer excellent correction for all types of aberrations and to ensure superior optical performance. This lens is equipped with a rear focus system that minimizes fluctuation of aberration caused by focusing.

The Super Multi-Layer Coating reduces flare and ghost, even in backlight photography. The lens has a round, nine-blade diaphragm, which creates an attractive blur to the out-of-focus images, and comes with a petal-type hood to block out extraneous light. For digital cameras with an APS-C size image sensor, Sigma provides a dedicated hood adapter to expand the length of the lens hood and to block out extraneous light more effectively.

To locate an authorized Sigma dealer near you, visit our Where to Buy. To use Sigma’s Lens Finder Tool to find the best lens to suit your needs, visit Lens Finder. For information about Sigma Corporation of America, visit http://www.sigmaphoto.com.

About Sigma Corporation
For nearly 50 years, Sigma Corporation’s expertise and innovation has driven the company’s core philosophy of “knowledge, plus experience, plus imagination,” with an emphasis on producing high-quality, high-performance photographic technology at moderate prices. This family-owned organization is the largest, independent SLR lens manufacturer in the world, producing more than 50 lenses that are compatible with most manufacturers, including Sigma, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax. Sigma Corporation also produces digital SLR cameras and high-definition digital compact cameras. The company is headquartered in Japan, with offices strategically located throughout Europe, Asia and North America. For information, please visit http://www.sigmaphoto.com.



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Friday, October 22, 2010

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Olympus to ship E-5 digital SLR from October 29

Olympus has announced that its E-5 digital SLR will start shipping from October 29 at a suggested retail price of $1700. Announced at Photokina 2010, the weather-sealed camera offers a 12MP Live MOS sensor, 920k dot 3.0" articulated LCD, Live View with Contrast AF, HD video recording and shutter speeds of up to 1/8000th sec. In addition, the company will start shipping its ?M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm 1:4.0-5.6 Micro Four Thirds zoom lens from October 29 as well at a suggested retail price of ?¥47500 (~ $580).

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Environmental Photographer of the year exhibition

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The environmental photographer of the year 2010 exhibition opens on October 25, just one month before the climate change conference in Cancun. The big winner of the contest 2010 is an aerial photograph, entitled "Flight of rays" by Florian Schulz, which shows that a congregation of Devil rays de monk in Baja California Sur. Bulgarian Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov won the title of the young photographer of the year with its environmental macro photography of a fly. Bence Máté of Hungary was announced winner of world-class natural for your image, "Fly to Eye" (see above). The winning images will be exposed in The Air Gallery, Dover Street, Mayfair, W1S 4NE in 25-30 October 2010.Admission is free. a book of photographs blurb the winning images of competition 2010 is available for purchase.

Site:Environmental Photographer of the year 2010

Press release CIWEM

THIS EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY CAN CHANGE THE THINK POLITICIANS?

Photographs deal with some of the most important issues of our time will be on display October 25. and with only one month to go before the climate summit in Cancun, CIWEM's hoping the environmental photographer of the year exhibition will convince politicians to take urgent and decisive measures needed to combat climate change.

The environmental photographer of the year is an international showcase for the best in environmental photography, honoring amateur and professional photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. organised by the Chartered Institution of water and environmental management (CIWEM), the environmental photographer of the year exceeded all expectations, receiving more than 4500 entries of photographers in 97 countries in just its fourth year this is an increase of record-breaking entrances of 93% from 2009, with this year coming first entries from countries such as Tajikistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mongolia, Swaziland, Palestine, Latvia and Bolivia.

Free exhibition features the most notable collection of environmental, social and natural photographs in the world, with more than 50 winners and highly praised images of amateur and professional photographers.

International League of Conservation Photographer Florian Schulz won the overall title of the environmental photographer of the year with his image of a congregation's unprecedented de monk Devil Rays in Baja California Sur, while 20 years old Bulgarian Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov won the title of the young photographer of the year with its environmental macro photography of a fly.

The collection appears in The Air Gallery, Dover Street, London, 25-30 October.For more information about the exhibition, please go to http://www.epoty.org.

Judge Nick Reeves, Executive Director of CIWEM said:

"CIWEM has its finger on the zeitgeist, with thousands of people who demonstrate their appreciation and concern for our world through environmental photographer of the year. Unfortunately this passion doesn't seem to be shared by our leaders and our progress on the priorities of the environment has not compatible with the magnitude of the threat posed by climate change. unless we reduce our carbon emissions and invest in measures of adaptation, we face a desperate struggle for survival."

"Protect our environment is the most pressing problem that we face and the environmental photographer of the year highlights the challenges facing people on a daily basis, while also allowing in enjoy the wonder and beauty that surrounds us. I urge Ministers to visit the exhibition to help them understand how imperative it is for them to rethink their approach to climate change, ahead of crucial in Cancun Convention in December. the era of procrastination is about".

CIWEM's environmental Photographer of the year 2010 will exhibit at The Air Gallery, Dover Street, Mayfair, W1S 4NE in 25-30 October 2010. for more information, please go to http://www.epoty.org.

Photo credit: Fly eye by Bence Máté
CIWEM environmental photographer of the winner of the category of natural world of the year 2010



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Great sports photography tips

sports photography tips"Jaxx Scott A. Pope (click the image to view the Add Scott A. Pope) capture baseball"

Sports photos of the big topics and defined here it truly can be a broad review.However, the best sports shots to get an overview of how these four handy tips can be found in the newspapers love the camera grabs those shots, how you can get going in some sports, such as preparing for!

I often (single-lens reflex) SLR camera sports photography for find the best. Apparently, the sports photo action shots, that exciting to snap the shot is a good reflection will need to do. What shutter delay or button and the image, press the camera taking the time between shooting camera, often called the experience because the SLR or DSLR camera is recommended. ' Happy snap ' shot, holiday, such as the subject generally fixed shutter lag time or more would stand is not important.However, sports photography, all a quick timing. small shoot camera is typically long shutter delay (1.8s and Nikon Coolpix L3) and rangefinder camera (Leica M9 images 0.08s) is a digital camera of minimal shutter lag. SLR camera shutter delay, however, is not important.

Typically, the large lens focal length will be a wide total. Football and soccer pitches often good lens focus, you can ask for sports photography is from consideration.

Any good sports photography is a look at the background noise reduction. field in the total of the far, the ads are often crowd your gorgeous total can wreck features other distractions. The total value, you cannot use your gun's cannot distinguish from the background. If you have other options, your only choice, but, remember.

sports photo "The World Cup women Lahti, Kirby Wilson (click the image), note the additional in Kirby Wilson captured by Finland"

Face of rules: subject can create the look of total relaxation. Sports photo sales if you plan on many editor emotion athletes can see in the face of-in other words, to play back in the face of a photo player shows in front of the same game in favor of coverage can be passed, keep in mind.A player's face if you cannot get the opportunity to ' head ' of the back, but also the total only option, some of the best photo editor rejected by preparing for.

Rule of thirds: centered around the subject of the photo is often useful to be but a lot of photographers ' rule of thirds, live in ' the decision of the important components of Photo/3 divided by the horizontal and vertical lines of an imaginary intersection between.This technique is the center of the picture for more than the total energy to create claiming the advocate of the rule of thirds.

A budding photographer almost always they minimize the blur in the photo you will be prompted to do so.Non-action photo blur can be a bad thing.Nothing but a photo's title blur due to find the back from the development of worse than pictures. However, the exercise, as shown in the macro photography you can blur, good soccer ball when see. through the air, also a sliding image still eyes so do not capture some of the pictures also. various shutter speed by using the optimal blur get practice the OK or your total relaxation.

how to take sports photos"Barry price (click on the Add image view Barry prices), capture the motorcycle racer"

There you have it: the best sports pictures possible and four handy hints. why cannot get into action and photo capture?

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Julie Spaulding Iran owner-operator development movie, movie, the best of the Web development, the source and the author of the photo is the way of a cash cow: your photos, upcoming 2010 late June 5 secrets to revenue.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Photography in the Raw

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Photography in the Raw is David Noton’s second photography DVD. The sequel to David’s highly successful Chasing the Light DVD, Photography in the Raw is a 90 minute photographic tutorial, shot in full HD, from many locations around the UK and abroad. David said:? ‘Photography in the Raw is as close an experience as possible to being on the road with me, shooting dawn and dusk in a wide variety of locations from a hill top in Snowdonia to the ancient stone circle at Avebury to a pottery in France.” The the DVD is priced £18 + VAT and will be available from early November.

Website: David Noton

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David Noton launches ‘Photography in the Raw’ DVD

Landscape and travel photographer David Noton has announced the release of his long-awaited second photography DVD – Photography in the Raw.

The sequel to David’s highly successful Chasing the Light DVD which has sold worldwide, Photography in the Raw is a 90 minute photographic tutorial, shot in full HD, from many locations around the UK and abroad - including the mystical Avebury stone circle, Snowdonia, Wessex and France.

Photography in the Raw is a photographic journey – to educate and inspire photographers of all levels.? David explores technical skills and planning as well as filming from the field – and show’s what it’s really like to be a landscape photographer setting up by the light of a head torch!

David said:? ‘Photography in the Raw is as close an experience as possible to being on the road with me, shooting dawn and dusk in a wide variety of locations from a hill top in Snowdonia to the ancient stone circle at Avebury to a pottery in France. It’s all about how shoots evolve to produce the best possible picture in challenging circumstances - with behind the scenes?tips and hard kernels of practical?hands on advice?from every shoot.’

Only available from http://www.davidnoton.com the DVD is priced £18 + VAT and will be available from early November – pre orders are being taken now.? The perfect gift for any keen landscape photographer!



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ISO speed digital photography how to work in

ISO camera to manipulate important is one of the set. How ISO works in the digital photos you many difficult in low light situations, you can save this setting is primarily in understanding the purpose.

how iso speed works"Thomas Hawk (click the image to view the add in Thomas Hawk) capture the silhouette music"

The term was widely used ISO since, where a popular film camera. Those days, ISO film speed or how sensitive the film refers to the light.The film is typically variety comes in ISO speed and photo film to get the desired effect to another, you can replace the film speed. However, we have our camera settings menu in just a few clicks, you can adjust the ISO setting, as in the digital world, today, this process has been simplified. Today, now is a digital and most of the camera do the movies, we usually ISO how sensitive image sensor light.

ISO 3200 is 100 or more, you can anywhere is measured as a number.ISO number, the more sensitive image sensor while the smaller the number, the ISO light light image sensor is less important. image sensor's sensitivity is properly exposed pictures to get a combination of your shutter speed, aperture. The camera's ISO number if you change the photos will be exposed correctly so that the camera's light meter. Otherwise, you type enough light and image sensors hit the shutter speed or aperture, so that the changes you can do.

Shooting in high ISO mode if the picture contains more grains and image sensor on the Flash to be more sensitive. sundryThe camera's image sensor is more sensitive, it is an artificial boost sensor signal light hits. clean light is also light, pictures showing unwanted noise in the grain amplified light amplification. taken in high ISO mode is a small aperture or fast shutter speed or use a combination of both. High ISO mode is the camera's image sensor light will be amplified so that the light is more important is the place you need to consider in low light conditions when shooting is commonly used. Even though this noise and grainier figure can be generated, but low light in the scene, check to see if you can capture.

high iso speed photoThis photo for example ISO speed

Low ISO mode when shooting in a rich and better quality.It is less sensitive to subtle grain in the picture is the result of the less noise image sensor will be collected. low ISO mode shooting wide aperture or slow shutter speed, or a combination of both can be taken during the day: If a low ISO number examples. Around enough light, and in this figure, the more noise, the light will make it even more important as the camera's image sensor when there is no need to low ISO number, it is recommended that you use.

low iso speed photoFor example, low ISO pictures, "Jim Sichinolfi (click the image to view the add in Jim Sichinolfi) capture the sunflower farm"

As a rule of thumb, your ISO is a high quality of the pictures can be produced at the lowest possible so that you always must be set on the number.However, in most cases, we have a high number to the appropriate exposure for our ISO, you need to bump.

1) low light areas (for example: concert) to capture moving subjects, when you try to move a topic to freeze fast shutter speed so that you can use the bump your high ISO.

2) many places where Flash can not be taken, along with a tripod, as shown in the Museum., and bring it to the camera is mounted, and, more light exposure for slow shutter speeds, you can use the. However, the tripod is not always convenient, and therefore, we must use our ISO settings.Just to bump your high ISO and hand shaking to reduce the possibility of a fast shutter speed, you can use.

3) there when friends and barbecue for low light areas or in a Dim lit dining room and special is collected at the moment I want to capture the scene very suddenly burst. unnatural feeling figure, that would make Flash do not want to spoil. performed without Flash and bump to the ISO fast shutter and high speed, that natural low light mood can be maintained.

ISO to use the camera's image sensor to increase the quality of the sensitivity of the brightness of a picture to help strengthen the. this many low light situation can be a life saver. no noise, dark and bright picture than some noise in the picture is captured will prefer.

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Laurie who wedding, portrait, landscape photography specializing in Malaysia is a freelance photographer.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Night photography tips and tricks

night photography tips"Thomas Hawk (click the image to view the add in Thomas Hawk) capture no time for sleep"

Night photos ever going to shoot the most dramatic part of the photo. City lights, beautiful appearance to the correct aperture settings, you can create. Fireworks photos fun to shoot, but to open a long shutter. Night party photo of your friends during the capture good flash device is required.That night to shoot a photo challenge, but certainly the right equipment and the correct technology is helpful to know: these tips night attempt to improve the picture.

? To use tripod shake blurry photos on the camera, no problem. Pictures taken at night, blurry photos can lead to a slow shutter speed is required.

? If a tripod maintains a steady camera about some tricks you can try. first, the steady at the top of the table or wall screen, set the camera and the camera's self-timer or, use the remote shutter. Second, building or doorframe, your body weight, lean elbows tightly in the body, while shooting himself thereby holds a steadying. third, the total external light enough, shutter speed, you can manually increase and, hopefully, make photo's exposure if you are thinking, select this option.

? Attempt shooting water is around. night display with black water, but some beautiful effects specular lighting, door, and other bright objects, you can create the water.

? With external lighting at night. taking a picture of people trying to do if you're going to powerful need light or Flash subjects turn provide enough light. Some photographers a powerful flashlight, a directional light, such as a photo using to create an artistic look even try.

? Try several different camera settings especially at night, you're learning to shoot properly exposed total, just one topic.A few other scene modes will one out of the picture for the point and shoots, a fully automatic camera, along with a try.Night photography camera manual control feature, you can easily though.

? When shooting at night angle much try.In the night sky in the background, taken up by some interesting look, for example, you can create.

tricks for night photography"Night city-Windsor, United Kingdom" captured ion Paciu (click the image to view the add in ion Paciu) by

? Use blur subjects and behavior that cannot be moved, which focuses on objects to your advantage: a person or vehicle objects move around while they need most of the night time long shutter speed and the final image looks a little blurred. this kind of interesting and different from the other photo.

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Night photography tips and tricks

night photography tips"Thomas Hawk (click the image to view the add in Thomas Hawk) capture no time for sleep"

Night photos ever going to shoot the most dramatic part of the photo. City lights, beautiful appearance to the correct aperture settings, you can create. Fireworks photos fun to shoot, but to open a long shutter. Night party photo of your friends during the capture good flash device is required.That night to shoot a photo challenge, but certainly the right equipment and the correct technology is helpful to know: these tips night attempt to improve the picture.

? To use tripod shake blurry photos on the camera, no problem. Pictures taken at night, blurry photos can lead to a slow shutter speed is required.

? If a tripod maintains a steady camera about some tricks you can try. first, the steady at the top of the table or wall screen, set the camera and the camera's self-timer or, use the remote shutter. Second, building or doorframe, your body weight, lean elbows tightly in the body, while shooting himself thereby holds a steadying. third, the total external light enough, shutter speed, you can manually increase and, hopefully, make photo's exposure if you are thinking, select this option.

? Attempt shooting water is around. night display with black water, but some beautiful effects specular lighting, door, and other bright objects, you can create the water.

? With external lighting at night. taking a picture of people trying to do if you're going to powerful need light or Flash subjects turn provide enough light. Some photographers a powerful flashlight, a directional light, such as a photo using to create an artistic look even try.

? Try several different camera settings especially at night, you're learning to shoot properly exposed total, just one topic.A few other scene modes will one out of the picture for the point and shoots, a fully automatic camera, along with a try.Night photography camera manual control feature, you can easily though.

? When shooting at night angle much try.In the night sky in the background, taken up by some interesting look, for example, you can create.

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? Use blur subjects and behavior that cannot be moved, which focuses on objects to your advantage: a person or vehicle objects move around while they need most of the night time long shutter speed and the final image looks a little blurred. this kind of interesting and different from the other photo.

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Great sports photography tips

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Sports photos of the big topics and defined here it truly can be a broad review.However, the best sports shots to get an overview of how these four handy tips can be found in the newspapers love the camera grabs those shots, how you can get going in some sports, such as preparing for!

I often (single-lens reflex) SLR camera sports photography for find the best. Apparently, the sports photo action shots, that exciting to snap the shot is a good reflection will need to do. What shutter delay or button and the image, press the camera taking the time between shooting camera, often called the experience because the SLR or DSLR camera is recommended. ' Happy snap ' shot, holiday, such as the subject generally fixed shutter lag time or more would stand is not important.However, sports photography, all a quick timing. small shoot camera is typically long shutter delay (1.8s and Nikon Coolpix L3) and rangefinder camera (Leica M9 images 0.08s) is a digital camera of minimal shutter lag. SLR camera shutter delay, however, is not important.

Typically, the large lens focal length will be a wide total. Football and soccer pitches often good lens focus, you can ask for sports photography is from consideration.

Any good sports photography is a look at the background noise reduction. field in the total of the far, the ads are often crowd your gorgeous total can wreck features other distractions. The total value, you cannot use your gun's cannot distinguish from the background. If you have other options, your only choice, but, remember.

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Face of rules: subject can create the look of total relaxation. Sports photo sales if you plan on many editor emotion athletes can see in the face of-in other words, to play back in the face of a photo player shows in front of the same game in favor of coverage can be passed, keep in mind.A player's face if you cannot get the opportunity to ' head ' of the back, but also the total only option, some of the best photo editor rejected by preparing for.

Rule of thirds: centered around the subject of the photo is often useful to be but a lot of photographers ' rule of thirds, live in ' the decision of the important components of Photo/3 divided by the horizontal and vertical lines of an imaginary intersection between.This technique is the center of the picture for more than the total energy to create claiming the advocate of the rule of thirds.

A budding photographer almost always they minimize the blur in the photo you will be prompted to do so.Non-action photo blur can be a bad thing.Nothing but a photo's title blur due to find the back from the development of worse than pictures. However, the exercise, as shown in the macro photography you can blur, good soccer ball when see. through the air, also a sliding image still eyes so do not capture some of the pictures also. various shutter speed by using the optimal blur get practice the OK or your total relaxation.

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There you have it: the best sports pictures possible and four handy hints. why cannot get into action and photo capture?

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Panasonic AG-AF100 Pricing Confirmed

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Panasonic has unveiled the MSRP and availability of the Panasonic AG-AF100 interchangeable-lens digital video camera. Accepting all Micro Four Thirds lenses, the Panasonic AG-AF100 offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, dual card slots and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media. The camera incorporates a large Four Thirds type,16:9 MOS imager that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates low pass filters for elimination of aliasing and moiré. High-end features include color-on peaking and a focus bar; two sets of adjustable zebras; a waveform monitor and vectorscope for more accurate monitoring of broadcast safe levels. The Panasonic AG-AF100 digital video camera will start shipping on 27th December at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $4,995.

Panasonic Press Release

Panasonic Announces December Delivery, Pricing For AG-AF100 4/3” Professional High-Definition Camcorder

Best-in-Class 4/3” Sensor Delivers Depth of Field and Field of View Similar to that of 35mm Movie Camera; Camcorder Uses Low-Cost Still Camera and Film-Style Lenses

SECAUCUS, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Panasonic Solutions Company today announced that the AG-AF100, the industry’s first professional micro 4/3-inch video camcorder optimized for high-definition video recording, will start shipping on December 27th at a suggested list price of $4,995. Highly anticipated since its introduction at NAB earlier this year, the AF100 is poised to set new benchmarks in digital cinematography.

Targeted at the video and film production communities, the AF100 delivers the shallow depth of field and wider field of view of a large imager, with the flexibility and cost advantages of a growing line of professional quality, industry-standard micro 4/3-inch lenses, filters, and adapters. The full HD 1080 and 720 production camera offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media.

“The design of the AF100’s best-in-class 4/3-inch sensor affords depth of field and field of view similar to that of 35mm movie cameras in a more affordable camera body,” said Jan Crittenden Livingston, Product Line Business Manager, Panasonic Solutions Company. “What’s more, Panasonic engineering ingenuity has resolved the aliasing and moiré that has haunted the DSLR shooter. Indeed, the proof of concept of the AF100 was based on what we heard from and saw customers doing: purchasing DSLR cameras because they liked the look of the image, but then agonized over all of the workarounds required to come out with an acceptable high definition recording.”

The AF100 incorporates a large 4/3-inch,16:9 MOS imager that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates low pass filters for elimination of aliasing and moiré. Additionally, it has a built-in optical ND filter. The camcorder records 1080 at 60i, 50i, 30P, 25P (Native) and 24P (Native), and 720 at 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p and 24p native,in AVCHD’s highest-quality PH mode (maximum 24Mbps). The AF100 also records in AVCCAM’s HA (17 Mbps) and HE (6Mbps) modes, 1080i only. Ready for global production standards, the camcorder is 60Hz and 50Hz switchable. Equipped with an interchangeable micro 4/3-inch lens mount, the AF100 can utilize an array of low-cost, widely-available still camera lenses as well as film-style lenses with fixed focal lengths and primes.

Variable frame rates are available in 1080p, selectable in 20 steps from 12p to 60p at 60Hz and 20 steps from 12p to 50p at 50Hz. Standard professional interfaces include uncompressed 4:2:2, 8 Bit HD-SDI out; HDMI out; and USB 2.0. It records SMPTE timecode and is able to perform timecode synchronizing via the video output seeing timecode in. It has a built-in stereo microphone and features two mic/line, switchable XLR inputs with +48V Phantom Power capability. The camera can record 48-kHz/16-bit two-channel digital audio recording (in PH mode only) and supports LPCM/Dolby-AC3 in any of the modes.

This newest Panasonic AVCCAM camcorder is the first to enjoy the benefits of advanced SDXC media card compatibility in addition to existing SDHC card support. SDXC is the newest SD memory card specification that supports memory capacities above 32GB and up to 2TB. With two SD slots for continuous recording, the AF100 can record up to 12 hours on two 64GB SDXC cards in PH mode, with automatic clip spanning across the two cards.

Weighing only 3.5 pounds (without lens or battery), the AF100 is packed with high-end features including Dynamic Range Stretch in all modes and frame rates; six built-in, customizable scene files that are exchangeable for quick and easy matching between multiple cameras; seven built-in gamma curves with four selectable color matrices; Syncro-scan shutter; and a high-resolution LCD and viewfinder.

It also offers a focus assist that can be used while recording, which is color-on peaking and a focus bar; two sets of adjustable zebras; two manual black and white balance choices, and preset White Balance at 3200K, 5600K or variable; a waveform monitor and vectorscope for more accurate monitoring of broadcast safe levels. Other essential features include pre-record; an intervalometer function that can be set for up to 24 hours, programmable User Buttons; a Smart Battery interface for recording up to four hours with a 5400mA battery; metadata recording; and a wireless infrared remote controller.

Panasonic will support the AF100 with a three-year limited warranty (one year plus two extra years upon registration).

About Panasonic Solutions Company

Panasonic Solutions Company empowers people whose jobs depend on reliable technology. The company delivers collaboration, information-sharing and decision-support solutions for customers in government, healthcare, education and a wide variety of commercial enterprises. Products and services within the company’s portfolio include Panasonic Toughbook? mobile computing solutions, projectors, professional displays (including both plasma and LCD), and HD and 3D video acquisition and production solutions. As a result of its commitment to R&D, manufacturing and quality control, Panasonic is known for the reliability and longevity of its products. Panasonic Solutions Company is a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, which is the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC).

All brand and company/product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies. All specifications are subject to change without notice. Information on Panasonic Solutions Company’s full line of products can be obtained by calling 877-803-8492 or at http://www.panasonic.com/broadcast.



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New Digital Photo Frames from AgfaPhoto

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AgfaPhoto has introduced six new digital photo frames ranging from 7 to 10 inches in size. The AgfaPhoto AF5108PS, AF5088PS and AF5078PS are for photos only, whereas the AgfaPhoto AF5108MS, AF5088MS and AF5078MS are multimedia frames that can also play back videos and music. All of these frames feature a 4:3 aspect ratio and SVGA resolution (i.e. 800x600 pixels). All photo frames also have LED backlight LCD screens and use “Crystal Image HD” technology, which applies automatic adjustments to brightness, contrast, hue, colour balance and so on. The recommended retail prices range from €49.99 to €139.99, depending on model.

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AGFAPHOTO LAUNCHES SIX NEW DIGITAL PHOTO FRAMES, INCLUDING TOUCH KEY MODELS

The new AgfaPhoto digital photo frames make it now even easier to view photos and videos.

AgfaPhoto introduces its latest innovative range of digital photo frames, making viewing even more comfortable and joyful. Available in photo versions (AF5108PS, AF5088PS and AF5078PS) and multimedia versions (AF5108MS, AF5088MS, AF5078MS), these 7”, 8” and 10” frames fit into any home thanks to their contemporary and elegant design. With extra thin screens, the various models provide the finesse for all photos or videos.

Magnified/high resolution photos and videos
The new AgfaPhoto models are particularly well suited for perfect display of photos and multimedia content (MS models only) due to a 4/3 aspect ratio and a resolution of 800*600, delivering an exceptional image quality. All photo frames also have LED backlight LCD screens and use Crystal Image HD technology which corrects automatically defects in the photos (brightness/contrast, hue, colour balance, etc.).

Easy to use touch key interface
The navigation interface is truly intuitive and has simplified 3D effect menus. AgfaPhoto also adds a whole new dimension to digital photo frames with its senSee Touch models (AF5088MSHR and AF5018MS) using touch keys on the front to give an enhanced interactive experience.

Ecological and economic
To make the range as environmentally friendly as possible, AgfaPhoto has included ECO functions in these digital photo frames to guarantee low energy use: automatic on-off function, low power consumption, together with recyclable packaging.



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Saturday, October 16, 2010

How to Take Great Autumn Photos

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Autumn's scents, colors and coolness are replacing the heat and humidity of summer, and it's a great opportunity for photographers of all skill levels to get out and capture shots of the changing season. Because the timeframe is so short, you will want to use proper shooting techniques to take full advantage of the season. Here are a few starting points to increase the quality of your photos during autumn.

Since the colors of the changing leaves are so vivid, it's important to accentuate them in different ways. By experimenting with the aperture setting on your camera, you can change the focus of the scenery. A lower f-stop (which is actually the higher number) will put the entire depth of field into focus, while a higher f-stop (lower number) will enable the camera to focus on the subject in the foreground and blur out the rest or vice versa. By choosing to raise your f-stop, your photo will focus on an individual leaf or tree and will create a unique perspective that draws the eye to the intended subject.

How to Take Great Autumn Photos

Sometimes not placing your subject in the center of the frame can also amplify an image. When shooting outdoors, get creative and use the "rule of thirds" to create different looking images that might draw more attention to the surrounding environment. What is the rule of thirds? This is when you put your subject 33 percent off center of your image; not too close to the edge, but also not right in the middle. Instead of drawing attention to the center of your shot, make your viewer scan the through the image and look at the complete scene.

How to Take Great Autumn Photos

Finding contrast in your shot will also highlight the beautiful colors in your photo. Look for orange leaves on green grass or red trees against a blue sky for eye-catching images. This may require moving around to find the optimal angles to incorporate different colors in your image, and sometimes shooting straight down at the leaves or bringing the camera down to ground level will create a unique perspective.? Good photographers always look all around them when they take photos. You may be surprised by what you can capture above, below and all around you.

If flowing water is in your shot, slow down your shutter speed to create a fuzzy effect with the constantly moving fluid. The leaves and wildlife may have sharp, crisp edges, but the water will look like its moving and add softness to the photo.

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