Manfrotto revamps its tutorial website

Manfrotto has updated its tutorial website with additional features and improvements. ‘The Manfrotto School of Excellence’ now includes features such as live chat, news updates and photo-features in addition to free tutorials from established photographers, most of which have an understandable three-legged slant to them. The website also promotes products from other brands from the Vitec Group including Gitzo, Lastolite, Elinchrom and Kata.

Manfrotto revamps its tutorial website

New e-zine

Ultimate Photo Tips has launched “Worth a Thousand Words” — a free monthly e-zine full of photography-related articles and information that you won’t find anywhere else. We’ll bring you short articles on creativity, interviews with experts in photography, highlights of what’s new on Ultimate Photo Tips each month, tips to improve your photography, photographic exercises to stimulate your creativity, and much more!  You can subscribe from our homepage: http://ultimate-photo-tips.com

Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010

Dear Ms Nettie Warncke,

It’s nearly that time again – only a few weeks left before we close the Environmental Photographer of the Year for another year.

As always, we appreciate the enormous help you provide through telling your contacts, friends and colleagues about the competition, so would really appreciate you reminding them that the deadline for entries is 31st July 2010.

The categories are:

Changing Climates

The Natural World

Quality of Life

Innovation in the Environment (New for 2010)

The Underwater World (New for 2010)

A View From the Western World (New for 2010)

Young Environmental Photographer of the Year (Under 16 & Under 21)

Winners share a prize fund of £5,000, and all winning and highly commended entries are displayed in the free Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition – to be launched on 25th October in Mayfair, London. Copyright is retained by the photographer.

For all the details on entering, go to www.epoty.org. You can also keep up to date with any new developments by joining our Facebook group.

Thank you again for your help and I look forward to announcing the winners in September.

Emily Doyle  /  Press and Marketing Officer

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM),15 John Street, London, WC1N 2EB. Tel: 020 7831 3110. Website: www.ciwem.org.  Registered Charity No. 1043409

CIWEM is an independent professional body and a registered charity, advancing the science and practice of water and environmental management for a clean, green and sustainable world.

HPS Evaluation Meeting Wed. 9th June 2010

Despite the cold weather, some 40 members and guests arrived for the meeting.  Bernard had asked Sean Wilson – a professional photographer – to come and speak to us about his commercial and private work, and we were very happy to interact with him about his concepts and method of work. We thank him for being prepared to come out from Cape Town, and also for his sharing of different ideas with us.

A number of prints were evaluated by Sean, Rosie (the first-timer) and Antenie – they are thanked for giving reasons for their various comments … this is the only way that we can experience another angle on our photographs. 

Paddy gave a short report on the outing to De Doorns, which apparently was looking its best.  At next month’s meeting Steve will show the Rally pictures, and Kobus Barnard will be ‘Getting his Feet Wet’.  That will be on July 14th – see you there!

Please keep a check on our program under the Tabs at the top of the webpage.

RAW vs JPEG: An End to the War

In every photography conversation that takes place anywhere in the World, the subject will eventually come up. Someone will innocently ask: Do you shoot RAW or JPEG? And a friendly conversation turns into an ugly bloodbath, ending with photographers spinning their cameras over their heads held by the strap, as modern-day photographic flails, mouths frothing, shrieks of hate filling the air as they attack one another in defence of their chosen file format. It’s not coincidence that ‘RAW’ is ‘WAR’ spelled backwards.

It needn’t be this way. I believe photographers of all races, colours, creed and shooting format can coexist and live together, in peace. Seriously, I do.

RAW vs JPEG: An End to the War

OpEd: 10 Oeuvres Aspiring Photographers Should Ignore

The other day while reading the internet I came across “The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers.” I wondered whether there could be a list for photographers as well.  I thought about it and then sent my list to Blake Andrews to see if he wanted to contribute and have some fun with it.

Here are Blake’s five.

OpEd: 10 Oeuvres Aspiring Photographers Should Ignore

Competition Meeting Wed. 12th May

Some 50 members and guests arrived for the Competition Meeting, the set subject being ‘Go Graphic’. There was a good selection of both prints and projected images, in the set subject, as well as in the open one.  Lanz von Horsten spoke afterwards on two particular images he was impressed with – a portrait by Marthinus and a landscape by Marietjie.  It was very interesting to receive feedback from an experienced photographer such as Lanz.  After tea Roger gave a talk on converting your slides to digital images using a slide projector and your camera (instead of scanning slides with a scanner).  He has an engaging way of explaining things, and we were highly entertained at the possibility of using ‘his’ method.  Thanks Roger! Before we all left for home, Steve showed a few instructional audio-visuals on various aspects of Photoshop … you learn something every time!