Recently awarded ‘UK Environmental Portrait Photographer of the Year’, Uzair Kharawala will demonstrate how you can run a profitable and flourishing ‘Home Studio’ business. Using minimal equipment and shooting on-location, you will learn how to produce images in a variety of lighting conditions including indoors and outdoors. Creating simple yet appealing images which will sell, you will learn all you need to begin marketing yourself to your target audience. This workshop will deal with all aspects of ‘Lifestyle’ Portraiture’. You will learn how to use diffusers, reflectors, available ambient light, artificial lighting and off-camera flash photography. You will shoot using your own camera indoors and at a chosen nearby external location. Returning to the classroom, you will learn how to edit the images and how to best make them ready to present to clients. Oz will introduce you to some software tips & tricks and discuss designing albums that appeal to a wide range of customers.To view Oz’s portfolio, visit www.sfdigital.co.uk
Nikon celebrates the 75th Anniversary of its Nikkor lenses with a new global website: Nikkor.com. The new site showcases the best work from Nikon professionals across the globe through photographer profiles covering everything from weddings, sports, travel, photojournalism and more.
Thanks to Nikon trainer Mike Hagen of Out There Images for uploading this clip demonstrating the D3’s amazing frame rate capabilities. It’s made from a series of 168 photographs taken in Continuous High (CH) at 11 frames per second (fps). The D3 will take 130 frames in a row until it stops and then you have to let your finger up and press down on the shutter release
to take another 130 photos. The total duration of the sequences is approximately 15 seconds long.
Adobe has announced the launch of a beta version of Photoshop Express, its new online photo storage and manipulation tool/service accesible for free via any modern web browser. Here’s a description of Photoshop Express from Adobe’s press release:
“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook. “Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known,” said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. “Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road.”
Nikon just announced some new products to coincide with PMA in Las Vegas:
D60 SLR - with 10.2 megapixels and remarkable compactness, the D60 offers incredible picture quality, extensive built-in dust reduction technologies and a comprehensive set of creative options. Read the official Nikon Press Release for more info. DPReview also has a brief side-by-side comparison with the D40.
A limited number of Sigma lenses when used with the new Nikon D3 digital SLR camera will not support the “Auto DX crop” function. To overcome this problem Sigma will be supplying a free upgrade to existing customers.
List of lenses requiring update for D3 camera
DC lenses (digital SLR cameras/APS-C image sensor)
Nikon Instruments has partnered with the Curie Institute and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) to open a New cellular imaging centre in Paris. The Nikon Imaging Centre (NIMCE), which was officially opened last month by Valerie Pecresse, French Research Minister, will allow cancer researchers across France to monitor live cell activity using cutting edge light microscopy and imaging equipment provided by Nikon.
“The centre will make an important contribution to the development of cellular imaging techniques. We were pleased to partner with Nikon, who have collaborated with other leading organisations to launch several similar centres in the past,” said Daniel Louvard, Director of the Curie Institute.
The Nikon D3 Digitutor is now online. Nikon Digitutor is a Flash-based site dedicated to helping users get up to speed with their cameras. The D3 Digitutor includes instructional video clips, sample photos and a close look at the D3’s menu system.
