In about three weeks the photographic industry will converge on Cologne, Germany for the bi-annual photo technology-fest. Some of the biggest industry announcements are always made around Photokina, and this year is no exception. This year Canon has put out exciting number of glass and magnesium… Mostly updates, but nonetheless we can observe significant advancement [...]
Eye-Fi has launched its Summer Sweepstakes with prizes including a Sony NEX-3, an iPad and various Eye-Fi memory cards. To participate, simply join Eye-Fi’s Facebook community, “like” it and enter your information. Plus if you invite friends to join the sweepstakes, you also have another chance to win: if your friend wins a prize, so [...]
Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) is introducing a new award this year. TPOTY has teamed up with the Young Photographers Alliance to offer a new Young Photographer Alliance Award in order to help people passionate about photography to get a good grounding which will enable them to pursue photography as a career. TPOTY is [...]
California painter Rick Norsigian caused a stir in the art world after a stack of never-before-seen Ansel Adams negatives he bought at a garage sale in Fresno, California, were authenticated on Tuesday. Norsigian said he found the photographs more than 10 years ago, and paid less than $70 for the negatives, suspecting they were Adams [...]
Lexar has announced a Facebook based sweepstake with a chance to win either a Canon 7D or Nikon D300S DSLR kit with Lexar memory cards and reader. To enter the ‘Take the Next Shot’ sweepstake participants need to submit a ‘favourite’ photograph along with a 15 word caption and click on the ‘Like’ button in [...]
Photography is all about Light! Well, it’s obvious right? … or maybe not. In my opinion quality of light is single most overlooked variable in photography. Amateur photographers constantly try to get new gear, upgrade lens or camera, they pump photography with money and muscles — but not many of them realize that, it’s the [...]
