6 images from my photographic series “The Witch Hunt”, were shown last night, Monday 18th/06 between 8:15 and 8:45 pm on the big screens on Broadway between 42nd and 44th streets as part of the Art Takes Times Square Exhibition. So if were there, I hope you saw them.
The winners of the 5th Annual iPhone Phoptography Awards were announced today.
A big congratulations to Jimmy Mazur who won the Photographer of the Year with this image of two young boys playing in an old VW.
image courtesy of IPPA
Congratulations to all the category winners and photographers receiving honorable mentions. Although not as lucky as 2011 (Winner in ‘Nature’ and ‘Others’), I was fortunate enough to be included amongst the photographers whose works were selected for honorable mentions in the “Landscape” and “People” categories. You can see my entries here, here and here.
This is an international contest with thousands of entries from over 20 countries. It’s nice to have the work acknowledged in this manner.
A big thanks to the organizers who made it possible.
The AddOn Exhibition closes tomorrow and I can say without a doubt that it was a great pleasure to have work hanging alongside some of the exceptional talent in that show. A big thank you to Charles McKean for the invite to submit work. The curatorial for the show was managed by Charles McKean and Moshe Rosenzveig. Hats off for a beautiful journey through 122 photographic works. Mention also must be made of the stunning book of the works in the show produced by Momento Books. Last years AddOn 2011 book received a Silver Award at the Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards. That should give you some idea of the quality I’m talking about.
I didn’t start taking shots of the show until the huge crowd began thinning out. Here’s a little from the show.
The awards have not been announced yet but it was nice to have an image included in the gallery banner for the home page. The banner/slideshow featured a selection of works form this years submissions. By the look of things it’s going to be another great year for the IPPA. Thanks to all concerned for the inclusion.
Submissions are open for the 6th annual awards (2013). Visit the IPPA website here
So how good is Photoshop Touch? I put it through its paces doing the hard yards of converting an image to black and white against Nik SilverEffex Pro 2. In Photoshop Touch I converted the image to B&W, duplicated the layer, blended the layers using Overlay mode @ 62%, flattened the layers and finalized the image with a shadow / highlights adjustment. Some ‘add structure’ capability as opposed to ‘sharpening’ would certainly lift the game for Photoshop Touch. But, keep in mind that PS Touch is designed to be a pre-processing app that allows you to make some early editing decisions on the go, and then finalize them later; as Adobe says “Work with images on your tablet, and then take them further on your PC or Mac in Photoshop” @http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-touch.html.
I have to admit that in hindsight I probably could have done a levels / curves adjustment in PS Touch to pull up the mid tone contrast, (would love to see Adobe include an eyedropper/info tool with these) but there you go, can’t catch all the fish at once.
Well, pretty good results for a tablet app.
Check it out.
Here’s a slide-show with the original unprocessed image directly off the phone (using 6×7 app) followed by the B&W conversions.
image courtesy of Petapixel
It was a long wait but worth it. Whilst Android users have had access to this for some time, Photoshop Touch has remained painfully out of reach for IOS users, the logic of which defied me completely, given the sheer volume of the market share for iPads as opposed to Android tablets. However it’s here and comes with an impressive arsenal. The only weak area for me is the 1600px output, but who am I to complain. The rest is more than you could want from a first release. I’ve spent some time this morning putting it through it’s paces and it was certainly better than I had expected, no glitches and some very pleasant surprises. Good job Adobe.
You can get the blurb material here, here and here
And my run through here
This is a guest article for Planet 5D, written by Phil Arntz ( talented young filmmaker from England) on how to make a time-lapse on a minimal budget.
The full story is very extensive and gives a rounded insight into the making of the time-lapse, plus you get the added bonus of some very detailed process information.
Read here
Just in case I ever forget why thousands of people took a stand.
As a musician/songwriter, artist and photographer I can understand that there is a legitimate need for measures to protect property rights. However SOPA and PIPA legislations that are currently on the table, appear to be far to broad in their terms of reference to be free from abuse. It’s a basic human failing; hence, ‘give an inch, take a mile’. Sometimes it appears that lawmakers and legislators just don’t get it. Where they, (in most cases) appear to see an issue that needs some kind of action; instead of weighing all arguments carefully and devising an approach that is even handed, effective and free of gray areas that are far to interpretive, they fly in with a napalm mentality that takes out everything in it’s path, including the innocent. This is what bothers me about the current situation. There’s a lot of valid talk about inhibiting genuine development and innovation in many of area of enterprise on the web and these concerns need to be taken seriously, however the bigger players, whom the legislations are purportedly designed to snare will probably just bunker in behind more sophisticated defenses and some kid who didn’t read the fine print or even know about it will do something innocuous, thoughtless or risky and spend years behind bars for it and we’ll be expected to read that as a measure of the incredible success of the law.
I think that Forbes covered most of the issues quite succinctly here
Canon EOS + HDR + Silver Effex
I simply had to re post this after viewing it on Planet 5D.
Some stunning time lapse photography here and best of all a very concise overview of the process by the man himself. Read it here
Art + Photography + AI 