IPG/Terry O’Neill award 2009

May 21, 2009

Submissions are now invited for the third IPG/ Terry O’Neill Award.

This year’s awards exhibition will be held at at Getty Images in September.
And for the first time entry is open to International Photographers.
Judges include:
TERRY O’NEILL – photographer
ROBIN MORGAN – editor Sunday Times mag
BRETT ROGERS – director Photographer’s Gallery London
IAN BERRY – photographer Magnum
MELISSA DEWITT – editor Hotshoe

Prizes of £3,000 (1st), £ 1,000 (2nd)  and £500 (3rd).
A selection of the top ten photogrsaphers work will be featured in the Sundat Times and Hotshoe magazines.

link: www.ipgbattle.com/oneillaward/

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Open Eye: On The Waterfront

May 20, 2009

Some of the first work I did after leaving college was to teach photography classes at Open Eye Gallery. At that time it was housed in what had been a rambling old pub in the centre of Liverpool.

Since then its moved several times  and now its on the move again. This time to swanky custom designed premises in the new waterfront development, adjacent to the Liver Building, where Liverpool’s latest museum is being built.

Construction and fit-out of the new space begins in early 2010. It’s part of a bigger mixed-use development on Mann Island – a group of three new blocks between the Port of Liverpool building (on the Pierhead) and the Albert Dock. Architects RCKa have been asked to design the new space for Open Eye Gallery. The total area will be 400m², more than twice the size of the current premises on Wood Street, including a mezzanine level of about 125m² and up to 150m² of exhibition space.

It’s an ambitious bid to create a more vibrant and popular gallery and play a bigger role in the city’s cultural life.

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Improving CS4 performance

May 19, 2009

Has Adobe Photoshop CS4 caused your system to slow down?

Here are some tips to help…

1. Install the 11.0.1 update.

2. Go to the Nvidia website and download the latest driver for your card.

3. Turn off “Enable GPU Drawing” in the performance panel of Photoshop
Preferences.

There’s a more extensive article at:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439.html

via: Russell Williams

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Nikon tether: free

May 19, 2009

Stefan Hafeneger has a Nikon Tether app. Soforbild is for Mac OS X

There is currently no support for Nikon D50, D70, D100, D1 and D2 in Sofortbild as Nikon does not provide camera drivers for third-party developers for these models.

link: Soforbild

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Innovative web portfolio

May 15, 2009

Here’s a #FollowFriday link… we thought this Dutch photographer’s web presentation style was worth a mention…

link: Advlemmix.com

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Video: Move Lightroom Cat to External HD

May 13, 2009

Here’s a short movie showing how to off-load your Lightroom catalogue from your main drive to an external one.

link: David marx on The LightroomLab.com

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178 people 20 days

May 12, 2009

Simon Hoegsberg photographed 178 people on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin over 20 days. They are presented in one continuous photograph.

link: Simon Hoegsberg We’re All Gonna Die

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DAM Book 2nd edition

May 12, 2009

The DAM Book (digital asset management) by Peter Krogh is now available.

link: The DAM Book blog

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Chocolate and Noah Kalina

May 11, 2009

Are paper based publications dead? probably not, they have such a great feel and look. But Woa! there’s one heck of a lot of online magazines cropping up, or at least coming to the fore, like they never have before.

‘Too Much Chocolate’ is today’s find – courtesy of Flakphoto – and in particular an interview withBrooklyn based photographer Noah Kalina.

link: Interview: Noah Kalina

photo: self portrait Noah Kalina

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Free-Range graduate show

May 11, 2009

The 9th annual Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery, London, is Europe’s largest graduate art and design show… 28 May until 20 July

11 – 22 June are some of the main dates for photography shows, but check the web site timetable for other times too.

Opening Nights: Thursdays 6pm-10pm

Show Days: Fridays to Mondays 10am-7pm

Venue: The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

link: Free Range

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Legal: Photography in Public Places

May 10, 2009

We’ve featured a link to PhotoAttorney in our sidebar for a while. But now there’s a UK source of legal information specifically for photographers too…

Three guys… Darren Hector (photographer) James Barisic (solicitor) Phill Price photo social networker)… combine to present the PhotoLegal blog.

Currently they have two Podcasts available, with the second episode specifically including the topic of Photography in Public Places.

link: PhotoLegal podcast 2

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Photos: Jason Hawkes

May 10, 2009

Aerial photography seems to have become a bit of a trending topic of late… and here’s another one – Jason Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans. Via The Big Picture he is sharing with us 26 of his favorite photos from above France, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, the UK and more – with links to Google maps where available.

link: Jason Hawkes via The Big Picture

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Burning Jharia coal fields on 5D Mark II

May 9, 2009

For almost a century Jharia coal fields have been on fire in the Indian state of Jharkhand, due to poor mining techniques.

Many of the people who live on the burning fields survive by collecting coal illegally. The coal is burned and then transported to nearby markets for very little money.

A resettlement plan has been put in place, but the area’s residents are reluctant to move to safer grounds because the coal earns them their livelihood…

This story has been shot entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II by Poul Madsen and Brent Foster from Bombay Flying Club – bombayfc.com

Journalist: Line Wolf Nielsen

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World Press Photo 09

May 9, 2009

Foto8 has a report by Paul Lowe on the World Press Photo Awards. Held in Amsterdam this year it took on a poigniant air, coming as it did on the day after the murderous events of Queens Day in the Netherlands.

Paul’s report includes video responses to the awards by Anthony Suau, Claudia Hinterseer, Pep Bonet, and Brenda Anne Keanally.

link: Foto8 Paul Loweon

Paul Lowe is Course Director for the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication

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