The NEW CyberSync™ 2.4GHz trigger-transmitter and companion CyberSync™ Trigger-receiver are the first of a series of advanced remote control components designed by Paul C. Buff and made in America.
Announcing a new program that will award 100 photographers worldwide a Westcott accreditation of being named Top 100 Westcott Endorsed Pros.
Be recognized as the professional that you are.
Winners will be accredited and may attach the official logo to their name, work, print materials and web site for a period of one year. All winner‘s will have a page dedicated to them in our online gallery, which includes their images, seminar dates, workshops and educational materials. Winners’ images may potentially be used for promotional pieces such as full-page advertisements and posters. In addition, winners will receive free tickets to seminars, trade shows, workshops and be eligible for product discounts!
To enter the contest, put together your best work and head over to:
http://www.fjwestcott.com/contests.htm
If you are a photographer, you are eligible to enter Think Tank Photo’s drawing for free round-trip airfare, hotel, spending money, and exhibition passes to photokina, the world’s leading photo and imaging trade fair. Join over 160,000 visitors from 156 countries in exploring 1,600 exhibitors of cutting edge imaging products from almost 50 countries. And, you get to hang around Cologne with the gang from Think Tank Photo (what could be better!). Go to www.thinktankphoto.com/photokina to enter!
Adobe’s Rick Miller, my personal Lightroom Guru, is doing an online seminar this Friday at 1pm PST. These are normally invitation-only events but they have opened it up to all Camera Dojo readers as well. If you want to see some really cool new features in Lightroom 2.0 then you should find a way to attend it. I will certainly be there as I never miss an opportunity to see Rick showing how to do cool things with my favorite tool
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2.0 eSeminar
Friday, May 30, 2008 1 PM PST
To View the Online Session, visit:
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a500201843/lightroomrickmiller
To Access the Audio Portion dial into: 1-866-705-2554 User ID: 797570
Our good friends over at DIYPhotography.net have launched a new photo contest called At My Home. Not only do we think this is a great idea for a photo contest but yours truly here is one of the judges! From the DIYPhotography site: “
At My Home contest is about the most important place in your life: home. The emotions of home: the distinctive rituals, the intimate moments, and all the myriad ways in which you work, play, learn, conduct your life, and interact with friends, family members (and pets!) as you transform your dwelling into your home.”
Please head over and check out the rules and information at:
http://www.diyphotography.net/at-my-home-photo-contest
Adobe has rolled out some cool new features into the online Photoshop Express product. Here are a few of the key items:
Flickr integration
Photoshop Express is now officially hooked up with Flickr. Now you can pull photos from Flickr into Photoshop Express, amp them up, then upload them back into Flickr to show them off to your vast and adoring fan base.
Embeddable player
Take your photo slideshows to the wider webified world with the embeddable player, which lets you post your slideshows to Facebook, MySpace, and other sites where your audience awaits.
Save as
Go version crazy with the new Save As feature. With Save As, you can keep the original shot of your best friend alongside all the ones where you gave him a tragically oversized head. (Your work is genius—why not save it all for posterity?)
Source: Photoshop Express
CameraPorn.net is a gret photography blog in it’s own right and they just put up a list of 60 photography sites that you should most certainly have bookmarked. Included at #8 is (our former name) L7Foto.com. Thanks guys for giving us a shout-out and keep up the great work on your own site.
Source: CameraPorn.net
L7Foto.com has been growing by leaps and bounds but the problem is that when you tell someone L7Foto.com they remember L7Photo.com which belongs to someone else. To make it easier to find and tell people the URL we have changed the name to CameraDojo.com. This new name is reflective of our style of providing news, information, tutorials, and tips in a central location. We have lots of new things planned for CameraDojo.com so stay tuned and thanks for coming!
If you are into using gels or have wanted to experiment with it, one of the problems is finding good quality and affordable gel sets. While you can always try to get a free sample kit, the gels are small and have a hold in them. What would be almost perfect would be some pre-cut sheets with velcro straps attached. What a brilliant idea if someone did something like that right? Well wait no longer. HonlPhoto has created a killer gel kit that contains all of the common gels you would normally want. Priced at $24.95, this is the ultimate gel starting kit. More information is after the break.
Adobe has unleashed a beta version of Lightroom 2.0. If you are doing any amount of photo work then you should be using Lightroom. This new version adds some long await tools such as a painting tool that allows you to paint exposure, brightness, clarity, tint, and saturation. A highly anticipated post-crop vignette tool is also a very welcome touch.
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