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08 Sep

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RIP Final Cut Pro 7: The video editor won’t even open on macOS High Sierra

29 Aug

Photo by Jakob Owens

Apple has revealed that its aging-but-beloved video editing program, Final Cut Pro 7, will not be supported by macOS High Sierra. If they update Apple’s upcoming operating system, existing Final Cut Pro 7 users who want to continue using Final Cut for video editing will be forced to transition to Final Cut Pro X.

This puts video editors who use FCP 7 in a rough spot. If you don’t update to the latest macOS, you might expose yourself to security risks; if you do, you’ll be forced to adapt your workflow to Final Cut Pro X, which many professionals are less fond of. According to cinema5D, Apple has started to notify Final Cut users about the change in an email that informs users that they’ll need to upgrade to newer versions like Final Cut Pro X, Compressor 4 and Motion 5 ASAP.

“Older versions of Apple pro video applications — including applications in Final Cut Studio — will not launch on a computer running macOS High Sierra,” reads the email. “New versions of Apple pro video applications — including Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 — are compatible with macOS High Sierra. You can purchase these applications on the Mac App Store.”

Final Cut Pro 7 users who are interested in making the transition to the newer version are being directed to this page. Apple has also published a 22-page whitepaper for Final Cut Pro 7 users who are switching to X.

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Hasselblad to open first own branded retail store

28 Jun

Camera manufacturer Hasselblad will be opening its first own retail store on 30th June. The store will be located at the Fotografiska center for contemporary photography in Stockhom, Sweden and carry the full range of Hasselblad cameras, lenses and accessories, encouraging visitors to explore the Hasselblad brand. Hasselblad and Fotografiska will also partner to host photography workshops for both amateur and professional photographers.

Johan Åhlén, Chief Marketing Officer of Hasselblad, said: “Our cameras were born from a love of photography and we are excited to partner with Fotografiska to spread our passion and inspire a more conscious world through the power of photography. Our new store and workshops represent our commitment to Hasselblad users and our desire to enhance the future of photography.”

Per Broman, founder of Fotografiska, said: “We are honoured to collaborate with an iconic Swedish camera brand like Hasselblad on the opening of its first store. We share the same values and devotion for photography and together with Hasselblad’s renowned technical excellence and creative vision, we aim to welcome photography enthusiasts around the world. It is a perfect match for our 535 000 guests who visit us every year for inspiration via the very inclusive art form of photography.”

The shop’s location at the entrance of Fotografiska looks like a perfect choice for Hasselblad. The center has an exhibition space of 2,500 square meters and features four major and between 15 and 20 minor exhibitions per year. Past highlights include exhibitions of the works of such renowned photo artists as Annie Leibovitz, David LaChapelle, Anton Corbijn as well as Hasselblad ambassador’s Erik Johansson, Hans Strand and Cooper & Gorfer.

Press Release:

2017-06-27

Hasselblad partners with Fotografiska in Stockholm to open its first Hasselblad branded store

On 30th June Hasselblad will be opening its first own retail store. The store will be located at Fotografiska in Stockholm, a centre for contemporary photography. The Hasselblad store will be home to a full range of Hasselblad cameras, lenses and products, while encouraging visitors to explore the Hasselblad brand.

Hasselblad and Fotografiska represent and showcase the world’s best photography. The collaboration will enable Hasselblad and Fotografiska to provide access to a full range of Hasselblad cameras, while also sharing their joint knowledge on the expertise and art of photography. The two companies will also partner to host inspirational photography workshops to help develop both amateur and professional photographers’ skills.

The shop will be located at the entrance of Fotografiska, an international meeting place where everything revolves around photography. The museum has an exhibition space of 2,500 square meters, and features four major exhibitions per year and approximately 15-20 minor exhibitions. Past exhibitions have showcased the work of Annie Leibovitz, David LaChapelle, Anton Corbijn as well as Hasselblad ambassador’s Erik Johansson, Hans Strand and Cooper & Gorfer.

To discover more about the collaboration, visit fotografiska.eu/Hasselblad.

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Sony World Photography Awards Open categories and National winners announced

29 Mar

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The winners of the ten Open categories of the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced alongside National Award winners from 66 countries. The Open competition consists of ten themed categories so there are ten winners in total, each receiving a Sony a7 II kit, who will go on to compete for the overall prize of $ 5000 and a trip to the awards ceremony in London next month.

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Once the 105,000 entries to the Open section had been judged in their themed categories the total entry was re-judged according to nationality so the best images from each of 66 countries could be found. The names of the photographers in the best three from those countries have also been announced today. Winners from these awards will be displayed alongside the Open winners and the winners of the Professional categories at an exhibition to be held in London’s Somerset House from the 21st April to 7th May.

The winners of the Professional categories, and the overall winner of the Open section, will be revealed on April 20th at the awards ceremony. Martin Parr will be presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize at the event and will be exhibiting a collection of images in the main exhibition.

For more information and to see all the National Awards winners visit the Sony World Photography Awards website.

Press release

The world’s best single photographs revealed by 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

World’s largest photography competition announces winners of its Open categories and National Awards programme
Open category winners competing to win trip to London and $ 5,000 (USD) cash prize

28th March, 2017: Ten extraordinary photographs from across the globe are today revealed as the winners of the Open categories of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s largest photography competition.

The winners were selected from more than 105,000 entries to the Awards’ Open competition, with the expert panel of judges looking for the best single photographs across ten categories.

The ten Open category winners are:
* Architecture – Tim Cornbill (UK)
* Culture – Jianguo Gong (China)
* Enhanced – Lise Johansson (Denmark)
* Motion – Camilo Diaz (Colombia)
* Nature – Hiroshi Tanita (Japan)
* Portraits – Alexander Vinogradov (Russia)
* Still Life – Sergey Dibtsev (Russia)
* Street Photography – Constantinos Sofikitis (Greece)
* Travel – Ralph Gräf (Germany)
* Wildlife – Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland)

Each of the ten winning photographs display huge photographic talent and creativity, from a stunning wildlife shot of flamingos in Walvis Bay, Namibia (Alessandra Meniconzi) to the ice blue and white of winter (Hiroshi Tanita) and a beautifully simple portrait (Alexander Vinogradov). Scale is used to stunning effect to capture more than 1300 people practicing Tai-Chi in China (Jianguo Gong) and architecture in Berlin (Tim Cornbill) while a crucial goal-scoring moment in an underwater rugby match is photographed by Camilo Diaz. A subtle palette of color is used in both the Enhanced (Lise Johansson) and Travel (Ralph Gräf) category winners while black and white photography is the choice for the Street Photography winner (Constantinos Sofikitis).

Each winning photographer receives a Sony ?7 II with lens kit and will now compete to win the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards’ Open Photographer of the Year title, a trip to the winners’ awards ceremony in London in April and $ 5,000 US dollars in cash prizes. The overall winner will be announced on the 20th April alongside the winners of the Professional competition (judged on a body of work).

Chair of the Open competition, journalist and photographer Damien Demolder, said of the winning Open images: “It has been a pleasure and an inspiration to be exposed to such a volume of great work, and a privilege too that I could share in the personal moments, the joys, tears, life and losses of photographers from all around the globe who recorded their experiences through their pictures.”

National Awards
The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards National Awards, a global program to find the best single photographs taken by local photographers in 66 countries, were also announced today.

Now in its fourth year, the National Awards is unique in both scope and reach and opened up to photographers from Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates for the first time this year.

Winners and runners-ups across all 66 National Awards were announced today, and can be viewed here.

Exhibition
The winners of the Open categories and the National Awards will all be shown at the Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr – 2017 Exhibition at Somerset House, London which opens on the 21st April and runs until the 7th May.

The exhibition will include all the winning, shortlisted (top 10) and commended (top 50) photographs drawn from more than 227,000 entries from 183 countries to the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. It will also feature a special dedication to British photographer Martin Parr, recipient of the Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize.

Sony World Photography Awards
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, 2017 sees the 10th anniversary of the Sony World Photography Awards and a decade-long partnership with its headline sponsor, Sony. The Awards recognise and reward the very best contemporary photography captured over the last year, and incorporate four competitions – Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus. The overall winners of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards will be announced on the 20th April.

About World Photography Organisation
The World Photography Organisation is a global platform for photography initiatives. Working across up to 180 countries, our aim is to raise the level of conversation around photography by celebrating the best imagery and photographers on the planet. We pride ourselves on building lasting relationships with both individual photographers and our industry-leading partners around the world. We host a year-round portfolio of events including: the Sony World Photography Awards (the world’s largest photography competition, marking its 10th anniversary in 2017), various local meetups/talks throughout the year, and PHOTOFAIRS, International Art Fairs Dedicated to Photography, with destinations in Shanghai and San Francisco.

About Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, imaging, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $ 72 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/

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Google Guetzli is an open source JPEG encoder that creates 35% smaller files

18 Mar

20×24 pixel zoomed areas from a picture of a cat’s eye. Uncompressed original on the left. Guetzli (on the right) shows less ringing artefacts than libjpeg (middle) without requiring a larger file size. Image and caption via Google

Google has announced the open source release of Guetzli, a new JPEG encoder able to reduce a JPEG’s file size by up to 35%, without any significant loss of quality. Per a study detailing the algorithm, Guetzli ‘aims to produce visually indistinguishable images at a lower bit-rate than other common JPEG encoders,’ including libjpeg. However, the study goes on to caution that the compression tool is ‘currently extremely slow.’

Google announced the new encoder on Thursday, detailing it as a proof-of-concept that can be freely used by webmasters and others to reduce the size of JPEG image files. The algorithm merges ‘advanced psychovisual models with lossy compression techniques,’ according to the study, to produce high-quality compressed images. It’s a different approach than that taken by other Google projects we’ve looked at recently like RAISR. Google expresses a desire to see future compression research that is inspired by Guetzli’s own psychovisual underpinnings.

Though Google largely details Guetzli’s benefits as they pertain to webmasters (namely faster Web page loading), the algorithm is available for anyone to download and use via Github. Instructions for setting up and using the tool are provided on the Github page for multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS and Linux.

Via: Google Blog

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Crash drones over and over again with Microsoft’s open source simulator

17 Feb

Microsoft has released a free, open source simulator to help engineers test drones in a photo-realistic environment. The AirSim, as it’s called, offers a space for developers to run simulated flights again and again, gathering data and seeing how a drone’s onboard perception systems react to a complex environment. Naturally, that’s a lot cheaper and less time-consuming than studying repeated real-world drone crashes.

The cross-platform software supports manual or programmatically controlled flights, and thanks to its open source nature, data gathered from test flights can be easily used to create new algorithms to guide drone operation. There you have it – hundreds of simulated drone crashes aren’t just amusing to watch, they may be actually useful.

The code is available for download via GitHub.

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Comedy Pet Photography Awards open for entries

28 Jan

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Looking to kickstart your pet’s career as an internet sensation? The organizers behind the Comedy Wildlife Awards have a new competition that’s a little closer to home. Entries are now being accepted for the inaugural Comedy Pet Photography Awards, and the winner will be awarded £2000 for their funniest photo of a domestic animal. Photos can be submitted online through May 31st.

The competition is presented with the Animal Welfare Society, and entries will be judged by a panel of nature and wildlife photographers. The terms and conditions lay out all guidelines for qualifying entries, and they’re refreshingly written in plain and simple English.

Press release

COMEDY PET PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION LAUNCHED

Tuesday 24th January

For Immediate Release

Inaugural Comedy Pets Photography Award has been launched following success of Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Launched by renowned nature and wildlife photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, who will be joined on the judging panel by Countryfile’s Kate Humble and TV Vet Emma Milne.
The winner of the funniest pet photo will win a £2,000 cash prize

The team behind the hilarious Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have launched a new competition to find the funniest photos of pets from across the globe. The Comedy Pet Photography Awards are calling on pet-lovers the world over to enter snaps of their comical pets to be in the running to win a £2,000 cash prize, a Think Tank camera bag and £100 gift voucher from Wex Photographic.

The competition is free and open to people of all ages and nationalities, as well as pets of all shapes and sizes. However, to ensure no pets are harmed or distressed in the quest for the perfect photograph, strict guidelines have been put in place which all entrants must follow.

The competition is being supported by the Animal Welfare Society, a charity directed by vets and vet nurses which uses veterinary knowledge to improve the welfare of all animals.

Entries can be submitted online and the closing date is 31st May. The photographs will then by judged by an illustrious panel which include Countryfile’s Kate Humble, photographic editor Adam Storey and vet extraordinaire Emma Milne.

Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE, wildlife photographer and Co-Founder of the awards, commented:

“Following the immense success of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, we wanted to launch a competition that people at home could take part in too.

“These awards are designed to celebrate those furry friends who play such important roles in our lives. Whether it be dogs, cats, lizards, horses or llamas, we want to see the funniest photos of pets from across the globe.

“Of course, as with all our work, there is a more serious message at the heart of it. Whilst we’re all looking forward to giggling at grinning pooches and guffawing at goofy hamsters, this is also a chance to promote the importance of pet and animal welfare. By raising the profile of pets across the globe, we want to draw attention to the need for proper treatment and care when it comes to our animals.”

All the details about entering the awards can be found at www.comedypetphotos.com. The only question that remains is, who is the world’s funniest pet?

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Open source Lightroom plugin Focus Point Viewer highlights active focus points

05 Jan

Joshua Musselwhite, an underwater photographer and software developer, has launched a free, open source Adobe Lightroom plugin called Focus Point Viewer. With this plugin, Lightroom users can view the active focus point of their photos, a feature similar to the one offered by now-defunct plugin Show Focus Points.

Musselwhite details his new software on Reddit’s photography subreddit, where he explains that Focus Point Viewer was created as a way to easily see whether the focus points in his underwater images were the ones he had intended to use. The software is currently only mapped for his camera, a Nikon D7200, but because it is made freely available anyone can take the time to map the plugin to their own camera.

Explaining how to perform the mapping, Musselwhite said:

You’ll need to map each of the focus points. The best way I knew how to was take 51 photos at each focus point and determine the x,y pixel location for each from the top left using photoshop. I searched and searched for a focus point map for my camera but couldn’t find any … The process is a little time consuming, but it only takes a couple of hours, and is described how in the README file in Github.

The Github README file with the full explanation can be viewed here, and the entire project is available here. Musselwhite has also shared a small gallery showing both the focus points in action and the metadata submenu.

Via: PetaPixel

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Have your say! DPReview Readers’ Choice Awards open for voting

10 Dec

All five initial categories of our 2016 Readers’ Choice Awards are now open for voting. Help decide which cameras and lenses take home the ultimate bragging rights. Vote now

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Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

27 Nov

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ground-stitching-art

Ground Operation is a conceptually simple earthwork: an incision made in a grassy landscape is pealed back then stitched back together, much like an open wound after an injury or surgery.

earthwork-stitching-ground

French artist Estelle Chrétien sliced open the ground then wrapped electrical cables through it like shoelaces, either in the process of being tied or becoming undone (a mystery left for the observer to unravel, as it were). Her use of cabling is also very intentional, meant to raise questions about what we put into the Earth and how we use it — a surfacing of the secret infrastructure that lurks below.

boot-on-tree

Similar techniques, themes and materials can be found in other works by the same artist, who has wrapped hay bales in crocheted covers and put boots on trees.

crocheted-hay-bale

“While in Portugal, I learned how to crochet, and I had this piece of blue agricultural baler twine in a box and the idea of [making a hay bale wrap] came to me,” she says. “When I went back to France, I made it and put it in a field just before farmers stored their bales. I liked working in the middle of a barley field, but most of the work was made at home, so I decided to work outside with my hands more often after that.”