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The Monte L. Bean Museum of Life Science, at the Brigham Young University in Utah, has opened its Nature Photography Exhibition, featuring selected entries for the competition from amateur and professional photographers. The photos all display natural outdoor settings with categories including landscape, animal wildlife, nature, man and nature, sunrises and sunsets and water. Aside …
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Photographers around the world are invited to take a picture with a pinhole camera on Sunday, April 29, and upload it to www.pinholeday.org in celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD). The event is open to all photographers, hobbyists and enthusiasts of the no-lens photography technique throughout the world. Pinhole photos are taken without any …
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Konica Minolta came out of retirement briefly Saturday to issue a service advisory for their Maxxum Dynax 5D and 7D models. The company said that some of its digital cameras may show an error message after not being used for a long time. The word “Err” is displayed in the view finder and the image …
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Corel Corp. is now selling the Windows Vista version of its CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, offering the page layout program CorelDRAW X3, the bitmap-to-vector software PowerTRACE, and the photo editing program PHOTO-PAINT X3 that includes a new color adjustment lab. The new CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 collection adds new features and retails for $379 for …
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ReaSoft Development is offering a free download of its $50 ReaConverter 4.0, an image converter that supports over 340 image formats and processes RAW files from any digital camera. Intended for designers, digital artists and photographers, the program can convert virtually all known image file formats and RAW files (CRW, CR2, DNG, DCR, NEF, RAW, …
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The Humboldt Arts Council has announced a call for entries for the 6th annual Northwest Eye Regional Fine Art Photography Competition & Exhibition at Eureka’s Morris Graves Museum of Art. The photo contest is open to all photographers residing in the Pacific Northwest: Northern California (from Monterey Bay north), Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon Territory …
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MyBook Photo Book Kit is a photo album you make yourself, no uploading of photos, no waiting. The basic kit includes the book with a window cut, two end sheets and a photo book layout software, all for under $20. You add more sheets for more photos and then you assemble it yourself. A consumer …
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Toronto Star reports that its own photographer Peter Power garnered the top prize in the Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association photographer of the year awards, with three others in the Top Ten and 9 in the Top 20. The ECNPA awards are determined on the basis of a portfolio of pictures, rather than just one …
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Kodak is offering image editing plug-ins you can use for free; these are professional quality plug-ins that deal with the most common problems associated with digital photos. The Digital Gem plug-in automatically reduces image noise/grain without sacrificing image detail or excessive softening, which also offers soft-focus effects, and image sharpening. The Airbrush plug-in allows users …
The Yale University Library has an extraordinary collection of 200 postcards made from photographs taken by Casimir Zagourski in Africa between 1924 and 1941. Zagourski – a fascinating story himself – was a Ukrainian who served in the Russian army and later in the Polish army. He settled in what was then Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) …