
Get Your Photography Published in W Magazine W Magazine is seeking America’s most talented young photographers in its first-ever photography contest, “W: The Art Project.” Entrants must capture the theme of “obsession” (ours might be “pantslessness,” for instance), and may submit their work online starting this Thursday through December 1. A panel of six judges [...]

Magazine: W, March 2009 Editorial: ‘Blame It On Rio’ Celebrity / Model: Madonna, Jesus Luz Photographer: Steven Klein – Aside from the Steven Klein / Madonna wow factor, there really isn’t anything special here. Decent images, but lacking the gold. As a side, this ed. was shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Hotel [...]
APPLIED ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2009 CALL FOR ENTRY. DEADLINE: JANUARY 30, 2009 You do great work, but how do you get that buzz going? How do you get your name recognized across the country and abroad by potential clients, senior creative people and your peers? One of the biggest bangs for your potential [...]
Aside from the holiday cheer of too much roasted goose and eggnog, Thanksgiving’s endless day of football matches, and crashing as many office parties as one can handle, the late Autumn/Winter season offers a good range of photo contests to mark on your calendar. THE MAGENTA FOUNDATIONS FLASH FORWARD 2009 Submissions Deadline: December 31, 2008 [...]

Brazilian models were hot a few years ago. Then there was the Russian invasion. Who’s next? Indian beauties. Besides Padma Lakshmi and Ujwalla Raut, there’s Lakshmi Menon, who just snagged the Givenchy and Hermïs campaigns. Menon also posed for Mario Testino in Paris Vogue. “There’s a new girl, though, who might be the country’s next [...]

Sinar announces – in a somewhat peculiar manner at The Luminous-Landscape forum – a new medium format integrated camera system and a camera with a digital back. Thierry Hagenauer from Sinar AG Switzerland has posted here the specifications of the Sinar Hy6-65, the Sinar Hy6-s65r, and the Sinarback eSprit 65. Sinar does not (yet?) enter [...]

STYLE.COM, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPhone application this week designed to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week next month on their phones, within hours of the last model’s exit from the catwalk. Just imagine all the editors watching the Marc Jacobs show from [...]

‘Straight Shooter’ Juergen Teller has little patience for most fashion photography. It’s done “by gay people finding women sexy.” He’d rather make out with Charlotte Rampling. Vater and Sohn, Bubenreuth, Germany, 2005. (Teller with his son, Ed.) (Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York ) By …
Photographers often allow others to use their photos without charge. They usually require a photo credit for marketing purposes or other restrictions. But if the user doesn’t abide by those requirements, is it copyright infringement? Such was the issue in the recent case of Jacobsen v. Katzer. There, Jacobsen had developed copyrighted software code for [...]

This year’s Olympics should well be the turning point where the sidelines of sporting events are – to pay homage to AC/DC – Back in Black. Nikon’s flagship D3 – even with a smaller chip than it’s competition the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III (and even it’s predecessor the 1Ds Mark II) has painted the [...]

Ready for this? Olympus and Panasonic just announced a new mirrorless format and lens mount based on the venerable Four Thirds standard. Dubbed Micro Four Thirds System, the enhanced standard uses the same 18 x 13.5-mm sensor but promises 50% slimmer cameras due to the removal of the mirror box. We’re also looking at smaller [...]

Vice blogTO Photo Contest In keeping with our current Photo Issue and all, we’ve teamed up with blogTO for a summer photo contest, and to make it all the more enticing, we’ve partnered with Henry’s Camera and Pikto to award some killer prizes to two lucky winners. Key Dates – The contest is effective immediately [...]

Tamron announced the development of a unique ultra high power zoom lens—the Tamron AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF) MACRO (Model B003), the first digital SLR lens in the world that delivers a remarkable zoom ratio of 15X (28-419mm equivalent) and is equipped with a highly effective Vibration Compensation (VC) mechanism. Designed exclusively [...]
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