Our site sponsor, NEC Display Solutions, is inviting people along to their event at Stationer's Hall, London, UK on the 19th November 2010 to see the latest in high-end monitors. And there's a chance to win the new 24-inch SpectraView Reference 241 worth £1325 in a free draw. For more details, including registration, please follow the link here.
Put your camera on manual and join renowned British photographer Karl Taylor for an exotic trip around the world as he shares secrets that will take your photography skills to new levels. Whether you are a seasoned professional looking to expand your business or a budding novice just starting out with your new Digital SLR, Karl’s Masterclass series will give you the skills you need for full creative control.
Based on the highly successful Karl Taylor Masterclass DVDs, Photography enthusiasts and professionals around the world will now have "ready-to-go" instruction for every aspect of professional photography. Each application is packed with secret techniques and knowledge used by top professional photographers. All this knowledge is clearly explained in chapters for you to watch anywhere.
Application Features:
- iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch compatible
- On the go video. No WIFI required after initial install for playback in the field
- Subject Search
- Photo Note Pad
Masterclass Series Subjects:
- Creative Composition
- Understanding Light
- Apertures & Shutter Speeds
- How Cameras Work
- Landscape Photography
- Capturing Action
- Optics, Lenses & Focus
- Depth of Field
- Using Your Camera in Manual
- ISO and Resolution
Price: $49.99/Download
Masterclass Series Subjects:
- Painting with Light
- Macro and Extreme Close Up
- Capturing Action
- Nightscapes and Light Trails
- Flash in the Day
- A Fashion Shoot with Models
- The Essential Pro Equipment
- Remote Capture Techniques
- Outdoor Natural Portraits
Price: $49.99/Download
Masterclass Series Subjects:
- Cityscapes
- Neutral Density Graduated Filters
- Planning your Images
- Waiting for the Right Light
- Night Cityscapes
- Landscape Photography
- Polarizing Filters
- Long Exposures
- Photojournalistic Style
- Gallery Critique
Price: $49.99/Download
Pro Masterclass Series Subjects:
- Beauty Studio Lighting
- Soft Light on Location
- Lighting Panels
- Soft Dish Techniques
- Fashion Lighting
- Mixed Lighting Sources for Drama
- Fashion Lighting on Location
- Beauty Dish and Backgrounds
- High resolution end result photographs and detailed lighting layouts help the user in the studio get the best results
Price: $129.99/Download
Pro Masterclass Series Subjects:
- Perfect Skin Techniques
- Retaining Skin Texture
- Light Shaping and Enhancement
- Retouching Fine Detail
- Contrast and Sharpening
- Image Impact
- Burn and Dodge Layers
- Healing and Cloning
- Airbrush
- Liquefy and Warp
- Before and after photographs help the user understand the results of retouching techniques
Price: $129.99/Download
CFast is the next specification for CF cards, but with a different pin arrangement these cards are not compatible with the existing specification or cameras.
Transcend Ships Next-generation CFast Memory Card
November 1, 2010
Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a worldwide leader in memory and storage products, today released a brand new Flash Card product line, CFast cards. The revolutionary new CFast cards integrate the rapid, more robust SATA interface into the existing CF card form factor, offering improved performance and convenience for a variety of industrial applications.
As with the SD card and its enhanced versions, SDHC and SDXC, CFast is the latest specification for CF cards, developed by CompactFlash Association (CFA) as a removable high-speed storage solution for industrial use. Compared to current CF cards based on the slower ATA/IDE interface, Transcend’s CFast cards use the more modern SATA interface, delivering incredible transfer rates of up to 108MB/s. With the CFast card installed, users of industrial PCs or SATA 3Gb/s compatible devices will be able to store and access information at faster rates as a result of the enhanced communication between the card and its host device.
Measuring 42.8mm x 36.4mm x 3.3mm, Transcend’s CFast cards have the same physical dimensions as traditional CF cards. Featuring a combination of enhanced speed and portability, the CFast cards are designed to perform like solid state drives, and as such are extremely capable when used as bootable drives. Thanks to built-in StaticDataRefresh and EarlyRetirement technologies, the CFast cards are able to correct data errors, ensure data reliability, and extend the lifespan of their flash memory cells.
Now offered in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities, Transcend’s CFast cards are the perfect storage choice for users looking to obtain the desirable features of speed, compact size and reliability.
For more information, please visit here.
Halloween is not just for us, afterall animals need to eat too! Take a look at these scrumptious Animal pumpkin photos from zoos around the world.
A male orangutan named Tuan gets his teeth into a pumpkin at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg
Picture: EPA
Hippos at the at the Bioparco zoo in Rome get ready for their Halloween pumpkins
Picture: EPA
A squirrel munches a pumpkin in the garden of Molly Sanderson at Drayton, near Portsmouth. Molly always puts out a pumpkin to celebrate Halloween but this year she found it wrecked after just one day, so she bought a replacement. When she put it out in the garden she discovered the culprit, a grey squirrel.
Picture: MIKE WALKER
Squirrel monkeys investigate a pumpkin as a Halloween treat at Bristol Zoo Gardens
Picture: PA
A Northern Plains Grey Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) investigates a carved Halloween pumpkin full of treats at Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Hungary.
Picture: EPA
Northern China leopards (Panthera pardus japonensis) also investigate Halloween pumpkin treats at the zoo in Hungary.
Picture: EPA
Divers Gareth Calvert and Jamie Oliver [not the TV chef] pose with pumpkins after a race to carve them underwater in the Ocean Reef display at the London Aquarium
Picture: PA
A young female orangutan named Zora plays with a pumpkin, in which other food was hidden, at the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany
Picture: AFP/GETTY
Meerkats investigate a pumpkin at Bristol Zoo Gardens
Picture: PA
Jimmy Chin is argubly the world's greatest adventure photographer, he has travelled the world with highly-skilled mountain climbers, scaling huge peaks and even skiing down the face of Mount Everest. Jimmy has built up a portfolio that documents his work in some of the most inaccessible and extreme situations imaginable. Jimmy is the go-to man for adventurers and publications such as National Geographic and Outside Magazine, take a look at some of his images below.
Conrad Anker traverses an alpine ridge deep in the Waddington Range on Mount Combatant, Coastal Range in British Columbia, Canada
Picture: JIMMY CHIN / BARCROFT USA
Jimmy Chin climbs Mount Meru in Garwahl Himalaya, India
Picture: JIMMY CHIN / BARCROFT USA
Conrad Anker reaches for his next gear placement, 2,500 feet off the ground on the Pacific Ocean Wall of El Capitain, Yosemite National Park, California
Picture: JIMMY CHIN / BARCROFT USA
To see more of Jimmy's incredible images go here
Picture: JIMMY CHIN / BARCROFT USA
Eye-Fi Inc. (www.eye.fi), best known as makers of the world's first wireless memory card, today launched Eye-Fi View, giving consumers a new way to access their photos and videos from virtually any computer or mobile device. Along with Eye-Fi View, Eye-Fi also introduced a new email-sharing feature, allowing direct, private sharing of full-resolution images without clogging inboxes or requiring viewers to login.
It is simple to use, just log in to the Eye-Fi site and view your uploaded images. From there you can share photos or albums. It is free to use within a seven day window of photos uploaded to the site but beyond that you will need to upload to the premium service and that will cost you $4.99 per month or $50 a year.
"When we released the first Eye-Fi card three years ago, we solved the fundamental problem of getting pictures off the camera and onto computers and online sharing sites. As we enter the biggest photo-sharing season of the year – Halloween to Christmas – we're delivering an even easier way for people to view and share photos from any device, with more control than ever," said Jef Holove, President and CEO of Eye-Fi. "Photos and videos of the kids trick-or-treating can be easily emailed to grandma and shown off on dad's iPad"
"There are many sites on which pictures and videos can be shared. But even in this age of social media, email remains the most popular method of sharing among consumers," added Holove. "With our unique approach to email sharing, Eye-Fi is extending its ease of use capabilities to customers who want to email their photos. Because, put simply, photos are created to view."
With Eye-Fi's email feature, users select contacts from their own address book, and recipients – whether Eye-Fi users or not – can easily download full-resolution images through a single link, without worrying about overwhelming their inbox.
Eye-Fi products are now available at Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Wal-Mart is the latest national retailer to feature Eye-Fi, following the addition of Target earlier this year. Availability beyond electronics and photography outlets underscores the expanding consumer demand for Eye-Fi's unique solution. Additionally, Eye-Fi's international users can now subscribe to all Eye-Fi services including Eye-Fi Premium. For more information, visit www.eye.fi.
There's plenty of spooky things happening in the App store this week and not least some pretty scary halloween photography apps, take a look at these, I'm sure you'll find something to get your teeth into...
Create your own vampire poster/e-cards! Pick from 60 vampire templates and insert your picture from library (iPhone/iPod/iPad) or camera (iPhone only). It’s that simple! Handwrite your own message on the poster/e-card you created. Save and email to your friends and family!
All pictures are professional designed. Definitely for the avid vampire fans!
Price: $0.99/Download
Transform an ordinary snapshot into a great halloween photo by posing with the undead! Insert-A-Zombie for iPhone & iPod Touch lets you easily insert a Zombie into any photo, or into one you are about to take. Choose from 45 zombies - move them into position, make them the size you need and save. Once they're saved, they're yours to share! See how creative you can get, then show your friends!
Insert-A-Zombie features professional models that were photographed and preprocessed to match most photos taken on the iPhone, creating a more realistic Zombie photo. Insert-A-Zombie's graphics support the Retina display and iPhone 4's superior camera. Plus, you can create photos in both portrait and landscape modes.
Price: $0.99/Download
f you want to take photos in which ghosts appear then “MyXfile:Ghosts” is the application you need !
“MyXfile:Ghosts” is an easy to use image-processing software in which you can take pictures from your photo library or with your camera and insert perfectly pictures of ghosts for an amazing realistic result.
Price: $0.99/Download
Photo Effects-Halloween adds Halloween related photos and artwork to your photograph projects. Artwork categories include backgrounds, bones, borders, cemetery, creatures, hair, hats, masks, objects, pumpkins, scenery, signs, silhouettes, and more.
FEATURES:
* Over 740 images included! See samples on our website.
* Works with iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
* Add your library photos and image art to your photo projects
* Resize, rotate, and position images anywhere on your photos
* Resize, rotate, and position your photos
* Add multiple photos and images to a single project
* Illustrated and photo realistic images included
* Fast and easy image palette
* Undo and redo
* Opacity and snap tools
* Save your photo creation to your library
* Saves multiple sessions so you can work on your project at your own pace
* Share with your network of friends
Price: $1.99/Download
Funniest Halloween Contest: Check out the photo contest rules!
★ NEW: $50 prize Contest for Halloween!
★ NEW: Halloween Edition - Cool stamps for great Halloween collages!
★ NEW: French language added!
★ NEW: Lock function for the background
★ Pimpy was featured by Apple as "New & Noteworthy" in Photography
★ More then 40 000 downloads and growing!
Price: $1.99/Download
You really are too beautiful to celebrate Halloween! With Halloween Reface you can become truly scary.
With it, you can release your monstrous side and frighten all your friends.
Price: $0.99/Download
Use the Photo Captions Premium app to add photo effects, text captions, shapes, stickers and frames to your photos or of your facebook friends. Create customized photo collages and greeting cards instantly, post them to facebook or email them.
Price: $2.99/Download
Transform your friend's pictures into Zombies!! Add scary eyes, bloody mouths, wounds and lots of scary elements!
Really easy to use, you can choose from an existing picture in your phone or take a new one.
Click on the + button in order to select a category of elements and then add the desired element to your picture.
With simple finger gestures you can scale and rotate all the objects added to the picture.
You can save the Zombie version of your picture to your phone camera roll and download to your computer to print it, or send it by email.
Price: $1.99/Download
Pumpkinize yourself and create a high quality personal greeting card to get your friends and family into the Halloween Spirit!
Put your face on a pumpkin using a photo from your album or take one with the camera.
Price: $0.99/Download
Turn photos of you and your friends into TERRIFYING CLOWNS. So REALISTIC you can give you friends NIGHTMARES!
Price: $0.99/Download
Add a Halloween mask to any image for free! This app allows you to place a variety of Halloween masks onto images and save them to share with family and friends!
Features:
- loads/saves directly to your device
- re-size and move masks anywhere on the photo
- new rotate bar allows you to angle mask
- 10 different masks to choose from
- FREE/Download
Halloween ~ Postage is the perfect app to dress up your photos for the Halloween season. Turn your loved ones into green monsters, add a little spooky flare to your favorite photo or simply send a haunted message to your friends.
A scary cat, haunted house, Jack-o'-lantern and a witch's bubbling cauldron are just a few of the high resolution postcard designs you can customize with your own photos and messages. When you are done with your creation, share it by email, Facebook or save it for use in other applications.
Postage is ready for iPhone 4 with high resolution graphics and multitasking support. Your postcard designs will look fantastic on a Retina display.
Price: $0.99/Download
Check out these free Halloween masks! Just take a picture and pick from 10 different masks to add some Halloween spirit to it. Make awesome photos on the spot or spook up older family photos!
Features:
- Loads from/saves to your device
- 10 different realistic Halloween masks
- Resize, move, and rotate the masks to fit your face
- Completely free!!!
This app generates the most authentic ghost images in your photos, allowing you to set the exact position of a ghost by dragging, change its size by pinch/pull gestures, or modify its opacity to compensate for pictures of different brightness. And all these adjustments are done in real time.
To make the pictures even more realistic, you can erase unwanted parts of the ghost to create the illusion of standing behind a person or object.
Price: $0.99/Download
Celebrate Halloween with ghoulish, scary, eye-popping Mut8shuns! With a new character set with ghoulish features, you feel like a mad scientist as you transform family and friends into demons, zombies, werewolves and other creations by mixing and matching various elements from each character!
iMut8r is a creative application that allows you to transform photos into terrifying portraits of macabre! The combinations are endless! With the ability to switch between genres, you can cross-morph your characters into wicked hybrids of horror!
Price: $0.99/Download
With Ghost Capture, you can manipulate any photo from your iPhone photo album. After choosing an image, (or taking a new photo directly through Ghost Capture) select a ghost to superimpose onto the photo. Choose from creepy Victorian children, faceless torsos, Civil War soldiers, ghostly orbs, and more. After placing the ghost, slip the horizontal, adjust the size, rotation, and transparency to achieve the optimum effect. Don't like the way your ghost is turning out? Hit the reset button to put it back in the center of the screen for you to start over or even select a different ghost! Save and email your creation to your friends, and let them judge for themselves!
Price: $0.99/Download
HauntedFace turns your face to a range of scary ghosts, moving and screaming in 3D.
Touching the screen makes ghosts transform to another shapes and masks.
Shaking toggles the face between normal picture and 3D ghosts.
Price: $0.99/Download
Brraaaaaaiiiinnnss.
That's what your friends will say when they realize you've made them join the ranks of the walking dead. Use iAmZombie to zombify anyone around, your friend, your girlfriend, your dog or even yourself.
Just don't get carried away and forget that this is just for fun. THIS APP WILL NOT TURN YOU INTO A ZOMBIE! We take no responsibility for your actions should you believe that you have become undead.
Price: $0.99/Download
Create your own horror posters! Great for Halloween, pranks, or simply giving your friends a surprise! Pick from 60 horror templates and insert your picture. It’s that simple! Handwrite your own bloody, horror message on the poster you created. Save and share with your friends to scare the heck out of them!
All horror themes are extremely terrifying (most of them cannot be shown here on the App Store due to Adult Rating). Definitely not for the faint of heart!
Price: $1.99/Download
Ricoh has announced a second firmware update that brings a number of enhanced functions and are briefly listed below (further information is detailed in the press release):
1) Addition of `Screen Magnification Position Movement` when shooting
2) Addition of 3 handy magnification ratios for the focus check function
3) Addition of `spot AF, macro AF area selection`
4) Addition of `ADJ key and Fn key registration function` when changing the aspect ratio
5) Addition of `key custom setting initialization` function
6) Addition of `My Setting delete ` function
7) Addition of `Sutter half-press confirm` function in the DIRECT screen
8) Exif 2.3 support
9) Addition of `Noise Reduction AUTO`
10) Macro AF Distance Limitation
11) AF Ac
The firmware update will be available shortly (October 27th, 2010) from the support area of the Ricoh of website.
Tokyo, Japan, October 26, 2010—Ricoh Co., Ltd. (President and CEO: Shiro Kondo) released the second function-enhancing firmware update on October 27th, 2010 for its GXR range of high-performance compact digital cameras which were initially released in December 2009.
With the GXR system, the lens, image sensor, and image processing engine are all mounted within the camera unit instead of the body, creating a ground-breaking interchangeable unit system that utilizes a slide mechanism for attachment and removal.
Ricoh’s function enhancing firmware updates are developed in response to opinions and requests received from a large number of customers via surveys submitted at customer registration time and other channels. This second update enables customers who already own a GXR to update their firmware to include the latest functions, thus making it possible for them to enhance the performance and usability of their cameras by adding new function and setting possibilities.
The function-enhancing firmware and instructions for using these functions can be downloaded free of charge from the Ricoh website.
<Enhanced Functions>
(1) Addition of “Screen Magnification Position Movement” when shooting
The magnification position of the shooting screen display can now be moved together with the AF/AE target movement or macro target movement. Supported in both auto focus and manual focus modes. (Macro target movement is only supported on units equipped with macro mode.)
(2) Addition of 3 handy magnification ratios for the focus check function
You can select the magnification ratio from 2:1, 4:1, and 8:1 in the shooting screen. Additionally, you can register the magnification function to the Fn1 or Fn2 key.
(3) Addition of “spot AF, macro AF area selection”
You can choose from normal or pinpoint AF area size when Spot AF is selected or when shooting in macro mode. (Only spot AF is available when GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO or GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5 is used.)
(4) Addition of “ADJ key and Fn key registration function” when changing the aspect ratio
You can now register the aspect ratio change function to the ADJ, Fn1 and Fn2 keys.
(5) Addition of “key custom setting initialization” function
Key custom settings can be returned to their initial values.
(6) Addition of “My Setting delete” function
You can return the registered settings in the My Settings BOX and mode dial to the initial values.
(7) Addition of “Shutter half-press confirm” function in the DIRECT screen
You can confirm setting changes in the DIRECT screen by half-pressing the shutter.
(8) Exif2.3 support
Exif2.3 is now supported.
(9) Addition of “Noise Reduction AUTO”
You can now automatically adjust the noise reduction effects on the camera using the AUTO function.
(10) Macro AF Distance Limitation
When macro shooting using the GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO, you can now select the shooting distance (distance within which the auto focus can focus) from 7-14cm or 12-30cm to provide overlapping distance ranges.
(11) AF Acceleration
The autofocus control drive system has been improved and accelerated. In association with this change, the AF mode (QK-AF and FR-AF selection mode) in the set up menu has been deleted. (When GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO is used)
Further information for UK customers can be found here. I'm not sure if Ricoh cameras are represented in the US or Canada.
From deserted beaches, remote mountains and windswept trees to major cities and industrial works, the ‘Take a view - Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards’ highlight the interaction between people and places that is so important for us all.
Charlie Waite, one of Britain’s best-loved landscape photographers and founder of Take a view, set up the Awards to provide an ongoing platform for capturing images that best symbolise our land and our times, which will stand as a record for the future. The many thousands of entries that are received demonstrate both the beauty and variety of the UK landscape, its universal visual appeal and our ongoing love for exploring and photographing its many faces.
Copyright, Antony Spencer – Corfe Castle, Dorset, England
The subtle colours of a frosty morning at Corfe Castle shape the image that has won top prize in the search to find the ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year’. Dorset photographer, Antony Spencer, becomes the fourth person to win this prestigious title and the £10,000 prize. His picture was chosen, by the judges, from the thousands of entries that showcased the richly diverse landscape of the UK.
To see more winning images from this competition, http://www.take-a-view.co.uk/news.htm
The Awards book, Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 4, by AA Publishing, features over 170 winning & commended entries from this year’s competition and is published on 31st October 2010.
Take a view – Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010 Exhibition In association with Network Rail and Natural England
With over 100 DigigraphieTM prints of stunning landscape images produced on the Epson Stylus Pro 9900, using the latest Epson inkjet technology.
Admission free Dates: 22nd November 2010 – 16th January 2011 (Closed 15th December)
Times: Open Monday to Saturday, 9.30am to 11pm, all year round (except for Bank Holidays) and on a number of Sundays from noon to 6pm (check NT website for dates).
Venue: Lyttelton Foyer, National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX 020 7452 3000
PRIVATE VIEW (by invitation only): Thursday, 25th November 2010 (6.00pm)
Seeing landscape - Awards founder, Charlie Waite, will be giving talks on his approach to landscape photography & tours of the exhibition on November 24th & 26th and December 6th & 7th. (Contact box office or see NT website for times & ticket information)
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