The Sweeney Art Gallery and the Culver Center of Arts, CA, are exhibiting a 44’-2″ feet high by 79’-6″ feet deep by 161’-6″ feet wide traditional gelatin-silver black and white image registered in the Guinness World Records and estimated $65,000! Created in 2006 by artists Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh… Continue reading »
Jul
14
Denny Introduces Solid Freedom Cloth Backdrops
Denny Manufacturing (800/844-5616, www.dennymfg.com) is offering the new Solid Freedom Cloth Backdrops. Manufactured in Mobile, AL, the new backdrops are wrinkle-resistant, machine washable, dryer safe and colorfast. They are available in Medium Gray, Medium Blue, Brilliant Red, Light Gray, Beige, Cocoa Brown White and Black, in six sizes ranging from 5 x 8 feet to 10 x 24 feet.… Continue reading »
Jul
13
Canon Announces Shipping Dates and Prices for 2011 EF Lenses
Canon U.S.A. (Lake Success, NY, www.canonusa.com) recently updated the expected 2011 shipping dates and estimated retail prices for five of its new EF lenses. They are the Canon EF 8–15mm f/4L Fisheye USM (late July 2011, $1399), Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM (late August, $6599), Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM (late… Continue reading »
Jul
12
Adobe Ships Creative Suite 5.5
Adobe Systems (San Jose, CA, www.adobe.com) is now shipping the Creative Suite 5.5 product family, which includes Photoshop 5.5. The updated applications include important advances in HTML5 and Flash authoring, which enable Web site designers and developers to create compelling content and applications. Creative Suite 5.5 products also feature significant innovation in the areas of… Continue reading »
Jul
11
Titanic Museum Offers Photographers the World’s Most Unique Backdrop
The Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, TN, 865/584-0550, www.titanicpigeonforge.com) is offering photographers the opportunity to include the museum’s extensive displays as backdrops/sets. Among the museum’s full-size, exact recreations are third class cabins, third-class hallways, the Captain’s bridge, the promenade deck, first class suites and the Titanic’s Grand Staircase. All areas of the museum are available for… Continue reading »
Jul
08
Tamron Entry-Level Lens Wins TIPA Award
The Tamron (Commack, NY, www.tamron.com) SP 70–300mm f/45.6 Di VC USD zoom lens was named the Best Entry Level Lens at the April 9, 2011 TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) Awards in Istanbul, Turkey. While supporting both full-frame and APS-C format digital SLR cameras, the new lens features Tamron’s first application of an Ultrasonic Silent… Continue reading »
Jul
07
French Festival Celebrates Photojournalism
Visa pour l’Image, the premier International Festival of Photojournalism will take place August 27 through September 11, 2011 in Perpignan, France. The annual festival will feature screenings of news stories from the previous year, allowing opportunities for professional photojournalists to meet their peers, and with numerous exhibitions. It will also include seminars, symposiums and a… Continue reading »
Jul
06
FLASH TIPS & TRICKS by TriCoast Photography
FLASH TIPS & TRICKS provides photographers with detailed “secrets” of TriCoast’s knowledge of TTL Wireless Flash Technique. Within this 2 disk DVD set watch TriCoast along with their good friends show you how they create amazing images using nothing but a speedlite and TTL Metering. A nice balance of technique examples as well as in-depth… Continue reading »
Jul
06
Larkin Wins Arnold Newman Award for New Direction in Photographic Portraiture
The PDN PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo (New York, NY) has named British documentary photographer, Jason Larkin, the 2011 Arnold Newman Award winner for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. His winning image series, “Past Perfect,” was chosen because of how it examines the museums of Egypt using different styles of curation to present exhibits depicting… Continue reading »