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Magnum and LensCulture announce inaugural Photography Award winners

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Harrodsburg © Dougie Wallace / Institute. Street Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

The winners of Magnum’s first photography competition have been announced, honoring a total of 44 photographers from around the globe. Twelve photographers took top honors for series and single image entries in Street, Portrait, Photojournalism, Fine Art, Documentary and Open categories. The competition was open to anyone over 18, and submissions came in from 127 different countries. See above for a look at some of the winning entries and visit LensCulture for more.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Six Degrees of Copenhagen © Jens Juul. Portrait Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Kajol with a customer. She thinks she is 17 years but does not know her exact age. She was married at 9 years old. Her aunt sold her to the Kandapara brothel. © Sandra Hoyn, Photojournalism Series Winner, Magnum Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

C.E.N.S.U.R.A. © Julián Barón, Open Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Dad & Josephine © Aaron Hardin. Fine Art Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Horgos, Serbia, August 30, 2015. At dusk, Roujin Sheikho, on the left, carries her daughter Widad followed by her son Nabih, on the right. This group walks among other refugees from Syria, who are allowed to cross the barbed wire in the dark into Hungary, on their long road to Sweden. © Mauricio Lima. Documentary Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Passover preparations, Mea Shearim. Passover is a holiday in which the Jewish people commemorate their liberation, by God, from slavery in Egypt as well as their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. Passover preparations are very chaotic. There are large centers, scattered in different locations across the neighborhood, where each group of residents burn their old bread to make room for something new. This type of bread is made especially for Passover and is named “Matza.”

I took a large amount of pictures that day and I was exhausted from the weather and heat from the bonfires. The picture presented here is the last picture I took that day, after climbing a small hill to get my shot. © Ofir Barak. Street Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

This photo was shot in a dying coal-mining town, St Charles, which is situated in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains behind the fog. © Hannah Modigh. Portrait Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Civilians escape from a fire at a house destroyed by an air attack in Donbass, a village in Luhanskaya, eastern Ukraine, on July 2, 2014. © Valery Melnikov. Photojournalism Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Ahmad, a young man in his early twenties, is a member of ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). In February 2015, Kurdish YPG militia arrested him after he was seen and revealed in their territory in the northeastern part of Syria. © Asger Ladefoged. Open Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Palm Wine Collector, Kunene Region, Namibia. 2015. © Kyle Weeks. Fine Art Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas during a demonstration against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin. © Cris Toala Olivares. Documentary Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 16, 2016
DPReview is partnering with USA Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016

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USA Landscape Photographer of the Year was founded in 2013 by Charlie Waite, one of the world’s most respected landscape photographers, and this year, the competition is bigger than ever. With a top prize of $ 15,000, the contest spans five main categories, ‘Environmental Value’, ‘My USA’, ‘Black & White’, ‘Classic View’, and ‘Urban’.

In addition to these five categories, DPReview is partnering with the competition to create a new award – ‘Life in the Landscape’, which will be judged by DPReview’s editors and writers. An additional special award, ‘Wild Landscape’ is sponsored by Future Publishing.

The competition is divided into two main classes – the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Award and the Young USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Award. To enter Young USA Landscape Photographer of the Year, you must be 18 or under on the closing date of September 15, 2016. There are 7 categories within each of the two classes and up to 20 images may be entered across some or all of these categories, and photographers can enter the same image in more than one category and / or special award.

To enter a single image costs $ 10, while $ 30 allows you to enter up to 5 images, and $ 45 allows you to enter up to 20 images. Entrants for the Young USA Photographer of the Year Award pay a flat fee of $ 10 for up to 20 images.

For more information about the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Award, visit www.usapoty.com.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 16, 2016
Apple planning to open imaging research lab in France

It seems Apple is determined to stay at the forefront of smartphone imaging. According to French newspaper Dauphiné Libéré, the iPhone-maker is planning to open a dedicated imaging research laboratory in Grenoble, France. The focus of the new facility will be on image sensors and technology for iOS devices.

The reports say that an Apple team has been working on imaging at the Minatec European research center in Grenoble for over a year, but now the company wants to establish its own lab and has recently signed a lease for a building that offers 800 square meters of floor space. This will provide space for a team of approximately 30 engineers and the equipment needed for sensor development.

The Dauphiné Libéré article also says that work on iPhone and iPad sensors will be undertaken in collaboration with STMicroelectronics, which previously has been an Apple supplier. It’s good to see smartphone manufacturers investing in imaging, and we may find that the upcoming iPhone 7 generation will come with some technology that has been, at least partially, developed in France.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 16, 2016
Samyang teases ‘summer blockbuster’ lens announcements

Korean lens manufacturer Samyang has announced that it intends to enjoy a summer of new lenses in what it is calling a ‘Samyang Blockbuster’, starting on Monday 18th July and running until 15th August.

The ‘5 NEW Samyang Lenses will be released on every Monday for the next five weeks’ promotion was placed on the company Facebook page with no clues about what those lenses will be. There is some ambiguity, too, around whether Samyang intends to release five lenses a week for five weeks – making 25 in total – or (probably more likely given the accompanying graphic, above) one lens per week, for five weeks.

Samyang makes lenses for still and movie photographers, with a relatively new ‘Xeen’ range of dedicated large-scale cine lenses. Autofocus is also quite new for Samyang lenses, with only one lens (AF 50/1.4 FE) available and one more in the pipeline (AF 14/2.8 FE) – both of which are designed for the Sony fully frame FE mount.

For more information see the Samyang website, and the promotion on the company’s Facebook page.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 16, 2016
Sony 35mm FE lens firmware update improves manual focus reliability

Sony has issued firmware updates for its 35mm full-frame primes which claim to improve focus point reliability when using manual focus for long periods of time. The new firmware is offered for the FE 35mm F1.4 ZA and FE 35mm F2.8 ZA Zeiss-branded lenses.

Download firmware 2.00 for the Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm F1.4 ZA

Download firmware 2.00 for the Sony FE 35mm F2.8 ZA Carl Zeiss Sonnar T*

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 15, 2016
Concept To Creation: Editorial Versus Campaign
Editorial vs. Campaign

Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers.

Thanks for joining us on our “Concept to Creation” series where we walk you through the process of taking an idea into an image. If you were here with us last time, we investigated examples of how working fashion photographers in the industry turn their inspirations into a concepts.

Concept – crucial to binding your images together. You’ll find that any high end magazine only published editorials that has a concept holding the story together so today we are going discuss the difference between editorial and campaign images and how these can affect the concept for your shoots.

There’s a bit of a formula to it all. A set of rules that can, and are, broken.. But for the most part hold true to all editorials and campaigns you see.

Campaigns

Typical, successful campaigns do a few things. Obviously, they showcase the clothing. If you can’t see the clothing, you’re not getting paid. In fashion, clothing is king. It comes before all else.

You’ll notice that campaigns shot on location tend to stick to one area. If you’re on a sofa in a house- you’re on that sofa, in that house, for all of the images. A lot of campaign images tend to look the same. That’s a job well done! It’s this repetition that makes you remember “Oh, the girl on the blue couch with a million men is that Brian Atwood campaign.” So every time you see a girl on a blue couch with a million men, what do you think? That’s right! Subconsciously you recall Brian Atwood’s name!

Brian Atwood’s Fall 2012 Campaign by Mert & Marcus:

Notice all the images have the same general perspective, are in the same place, and are essentially the same image (with variations).

Louis Vuitton Spring 2012 by Steven Meisel

Notice a pattern?

EDITORIALS

With an editorial, you have more freedom! You’re not glued to one location, you can play with lighting (it should be relatively consistent but doesn’t necessarily have to be exactly the same in every shot), you can play with angles, etc.

As long as all the images are tied together via concept, have some fun with it. Editorials do showcase clothing however you can be a bit more liberal and artistic with how it’s shown. And one day, if you have enough power in the fashion world like Steven Meisel or Steven Klein, you can sometimes get away with having the dress you’re supposed to feature laying on the floor or hardly showing. (This only applies to the big players in the fashion photography industry.. don’t get any ideas!)

Steven Klein for Interview Magazine

Observe that there is a definite concept. However, unlike a campaign, there is more variation between the shots.

Tim Walker (& Tim Burton!) for Harper’s Bazaar

I hope you all enjoyed discovering the difference between editorial and campaign images. It’s definitely something you want to keep in mind when you’re translating your inspirations into concepts. With a better understanding of the concept to creation process, you’ll be able to turn your shoot ideas into reality.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to shoot over an email!

Alana

IMAGE SOURCE:

Feature image & images 1-3: Mert & Marcus for Brian Atwood’s Fall 2012 Campaign

Images 4 & 5: Steven Meisel for Louis Vuitton Spring 2012 by Steven Meisel

Images 6-9: Steven Klein for Interview Magazine

Images 10-13: Tim Walker (& Tim Burton!) for Harper’s Bazaar
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Concept To Creation: How Professional Photographers Do It
Examples of Concept to Creation from Working Fashion Photographers

Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers.

Thanks for joining us on our “Concept to Creation” series where we walk you through the process of taking an idea into an image. If you were with us last time, we discussed how to turn your inspiration into a concept. Today, we’re going to dive a little further. I’ll help you out with some examples of how working fashion editorial photographers pull their inspiration and translating them into concepts.

Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia:

Sure, there is a concept in the styling: spring time flowy dresses. There’s continuity between the images because of the bold use of color. But anyone that knows Miles Aldridge’s work knows that’s his style. What ties all these images together? Cats! Without the cats, none of the images would appear to be from the same editorial.

Mert & Marcus for W Magazine:

All the images are shot in the same room. A room that has been flooded. Bingo! There’s your concept.

Knowing that these guys often pull inspiration from artwork, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were inspired by Pre-Raphaeliate “Ophelia” paintings. I especially wouldn’t be surprised if a big piece of their inspiration came from photographer Gregory Crewdson’s interpretation of these Ophelia images.

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Ophelia by Gregory Crewdson

Granted, these examples are more on the extreme end of the spectrum. However, I think it drives the idea across. These images aren’t united because of what the model is wearing. They’re not united because of a dominant color (although, it helps). They’re united because of an idea which brings them together. It takes them out of the real world and brings them into a fantasy land.

This is extremely hard to do on a limited budget. That’s okay! No one is expecting someone with no budget to pull off a shoot like the ones pictured above. Just because you don’t have funds doesn’t mean you cant create a concept on a low/no budget that ties everything together.

Melissa Rodwell for Kurv Magazine:

Not something that would require an extravagant budget like the images pictured above. However, they’re all united in their lighting, clothing, hair, makeup, location and way in which they’re shot. Melissa brings you into this whimsical, etherial world with a simple concept. White.

I know, I know, I’ve said it shouldn’t just be a color that holds your images together. But In these images, it works! Melissa brings you beyond the color white and creates a fantasy world out of it.

Concept – crucial to binding your images together. You’ll find that any high end magazine only published editorials that has a concept holding the story together.

Hope you all enjoyed the examples of working fashion photographers and their thought processes behind turning inspiration into concepts. Stay tuned because next time, we’ll be discussing the difference between editorial and campaign shoots and how these relate to your shoot concepts.

Until then –

Alana

IMAGE SOURCE:

Feature image: Mert & Marcus for W Magazine

Images 1-3: Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia

Images 4 & 5: Mert & Marcus for W Magazine

Image 6: John Everett Millais

Image 7: Gregory Crewdson

Images 8-10: Melissa Rodwell for Kurv Magazine
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Concept To Creation: Finding Inspiration
Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers.

This time around, we’re going to look at something a bit more conceptual. I can give advice and guide you, but ultimately it’s your job to really dig in and put it all together. That being said.. This post we’re going to briefly explore “Concept to Creation.” How to take an idea and turn it into an editorial or, if you’re lucky enough, an advertising campaign. Granted this post (hell- this whole blog) is geared more toward fashion photography, but the same principles apply for all walks of photography.

One of the biggest things I didn’t understand when first starting out was what an editorial really is. Sure, it’s a “story.” It’s a group of images that go together. Easy enough. So what was I doing wrong that I couldn’t get any of my “stories” published? They were good pictures but I lacked concept and intrigue.

When planning a shoot, there is no precise way to tell you how to get from initial inspiration to final image. However, we can look at developing an idea and the unwritten rules behind the images we see.

Inspiration

Let’s start at the beginning. First off, find some inspiration.

Many people ask where to find inspiration. There’s no right or wrong answer. For some people it’s reading a book, watching a movie or going to a museum. For others it’s found walking around town or listening to new music. Everyone gets inspired differently. The hardest part is finding out how you’re inspired and taking it from there. Are you stimulated visually? Auditorily?

The best piece of advice I could give you is to NOT look at fashion photographers work when trying to get inspired. Sounds silly, I know. Look at fashion photographers work all the time! Knock yourself out. But when it comes to initially conceiving an idea and you’re looking at the work of other fashion photographers, you’ll run into a few problems.

1) You’re most likely going to steal a bit of their idea/image subconsciously

2) If you’re looking at the work of masters such as Guy Bourdin or Steven Meisel, you’ll drive yourself mad! There is no way your work can stack up against these guys.

Let your ideas come organically. Bounce ideas off friends. Watch a movie. Go to the Met. (Can’t get to NYC? No sweat! The Met has their collections catalogued online, so does the MoMA.

Browsing online and see something you like? Create an inspiration folder on your desktop to keep images for later reference.

Francis Bacon’s work often focuses on how the face distorts as one screams. I used this as inspiration for some personal images I shot.

Image I shot studying how the face can be manipulated through distortion and lighting. As you can see, Bacon’s work was a big inspiration for this set of images.

We’ll dive a little further into turning inspiration into concept next time.

Until then –

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IMAGE SOURCE:

Image 1: Francis Bacon

Image 2: Alana Tyler Slutsky
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Concept To Creation: Turn Inspiration Into Concept
Turning Inspiration Into A Concept

Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers.

Thanks for joining us on our Concept to Creation series where we walk you through the process of taking an idea into an image. If you were with us last time, we talked about talked about how to find inspiration for your shoots. On today’s we’re going to jump into discussing how to turn your inspiration into a concept.

Now, this right here is the most important step. You have an idea, great. How do you turn that idea into a set of images? Can it be turned into a picture narrative/story? Now that you have your base idea, it’s time to do some research! Doing an editorial based on the color red? What does the color red evoke? How have people pulled off red editorials in the past? While researching, plan your shoot. Is it in studio? Is it on location? One model or two? Blonde, brunette or redhead? Take this laundry list of ideas and findings and start turning it into a picture in your head.

For some people, it helps to sketch things out. For others, it helps to collage. I tend to collect images while I sit on an idea and then go straight into creating a moodboard.

Look at an editorial or a campaign, you’ll see that there is one main thing that binds all the images together – a concept. When flipping through the pages of a magazine, you can determine when one story ends and another beings purely based on the concept behind the images. You won’t find an editorial that consists of different girls wearing different types of clothing in locations that aren’t relevant to each other. That’s just not how it works.

A concept is what will bind your story together. And the way in which you handle it shows a bit of your voice. A concept goes further than “my model is wearing red in all the images”. That’s purely a way of styling the model. Put some imagination into it.

Hope you all enjoyed this dive into the thought process behind translating an inspiration into a concept. To help explain the points raised in this post further, the next article I’m posting, we’ll dive a little further by showing you some examples of how working fashion editorial photographers pull their inspiration and translating them into concepts.

Until then –

Alana

IMAGE SOURCE:

Feature image & image 1: Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia
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Globell launches Kickstarter campaign for new screen calibration device

Globell, a software distributor and the company behind Meyer-Optik Gorlitz lenses, has announced it plans to introduce a new screen calibration device if it gets enough support from the Kickstarter campaign it has just begun. The company claims its proposed globellColorMeter can calibrate almost any computer monitor in three steps that take less than five minutes, and that the device will remain accurate for years.

The meter uses a lens developed with Meyer-Optik and a glass cover that won’t dis-color, according to Globell. Designed and built in Germany, the company says its device offers an alternative to calibration systems that are ‘technically ambitious but complicated and expensive to use‘ or ‘easy to use and affordable, but unable to function at a sufficiently high standard‘. Globell describes the globellColor, which comes with software for PC and Mac, as ‘affordable‘ and ‘the most precise, easy-to-use product in its price range‘.

The company expects the product to retail at $ 250, but is offering early-bird deals from $ 99. For more information see the Kickstarter page.

Press release:

globellColor: Color management on Kickstarter

Color management made in Germany: leading color management company Globell is launching a Kickstarter project for its new globellColor product range at www.globell.com/kickstarter.

Tegelen, July 2016 – Natural colors on all monitors and in printed photos: the globellColor product range makes color management simpler, better and faster. In order to get the word out to an international audience, Globell has started a worldwide Kickstarter campaign at www.globell.com/kickstarter.

This Globell solution is 100% made in Germany and delivers accurate calibration for all major monitor types and other display devices for both Mac and Windows. This benefits private users, photographers, design agencies and gamers.

True colors on all display devices
globellColor is affordable for everyone, easy to use and delivers professional quality calibration. To ensure this, the company developed its own colorimeter based on the latest technology and drew on expert knowledge and the optical expertise of lens specialists Meyer-Optik-Görlitz. The durable glass filter of the globellColorMeter will always provide accurate and consistently correct calibration and profiling – even after several years of use. The solution also includes powerful and user-friendly software for both Windows and Mac.

“We combine modern sensor technology and durability with sophisticated software to create an ideal tool for any professional or amateur photographer,” explains Thomas Kuligowski, globellColor Product Manager. “As a long-standing innovation partner for digital image processing, we are pleased to launch globellColor, a complete color management solution that is made in Germany. On completion of the successful Kickstarter project, we will expand the globellColor product range further to include more products.”

The Kickstarter campaign launches today (July 13, 2016) and ends on August 14, 2016. Supporters have the unique opportunity to acquire the innovative globellColor technology at an exceptionally low price starting at $ 99, with the RRP expected to be $ 249. After the products are delivered to campaign supporters this fall, they will be launched on the market.

globellColor features
– Fast and accurate calibration and profiling
– Easy to use: no experience required
– Can be used immediately: predefined calibration settings
– Also for professionals: customizable calibration settings
– Ability to examine results: before/after comparison
– Can be used with almost all monitor technologies
– Measure multiple monitors in a workplace
– High-quality glass lenses powered by Meyer-Optik-Görlitz
– Non-ageing glass filter
– View of the representable color space as a 3D model
– Many hardware-calibratable monitors supported
– Software also supports some third-party sensors
– Compatible with Windows and Mac

Technical requirements
Minimum RAM: 512MB, min. 150MB of free hard disk space, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit): XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8.X, Win 10, Pentium or AMD K7; Mac OS: Mac 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, Intel Hardware, Mac processors: Intel only. PowerPC not supported, USB connection

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

July 15, 2016