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 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.
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
Here is a list (with links) of some of the most widely used photographic apps for iPhone. I have used these extensively and found them to work really well, either as standalone apps, or in combination with others. These are not in any particular order of importance or significance.
Ever wondered why so many photographers take the time to shoot in RAW format, here is an interesting and informative infographic that puts it in simple terms.
At long last the issues with Aperture have settled down and the app is behaving normally. I read periodically on forums that users are still unsure of the viability of installing 3.1. The only caution I would mention is just be aware that once your libraries are updated you cannot revert to a previos version of Aperture, it’s a one way street, and if you get stuck, heaven help you. Having said that the 3.1.1 update has it’s merits and is worth the effort. Although in the interim when Aperture was down I discovered that Lightroom is no lightweight and is a serious contender. Apple beware, Adobe are doing their homework.
The update solution and now obviously the crash solution are posted here for reference.
The following actually works in terms of allowing an install of the 3.1.1 update for Aperture, where the update is downloaded from Aperture support.
Then run the update installer package,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
Have yet to find a solution for Aperture crashing on opening…..have done everything possible.
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