Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, endlich ist es soweit. Nach Monaten intensiver Vorbereitungen präsentieren wir Euch den kwerfeldein Award. Was der Award ist, um was es dabei geht und wie Ihr teilnehmen könnt, erklären wir Euch in den folgenden Zeilen.
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The winners of the 2014 Terry O’Neil Award have been announced, with Italian photographer Giorgio Bianchi collecting the first prize with a documentary series covering the crisis in Ukraine. Behind Kiev’s Barricades won Giorgio £3000 and a commission for the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Take a look at some of the winning images. See gallery
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The World Photography Organization has announced that American photographer Mary Ellen Mark is the recipient of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Photography. She has published eighteen books, with her nineteenth available this spring. Mark is known for becoming deeply ingrained in the lives of her subjects, providing a unique view of their lives without making those on the edges of society look inhuman. Learn more
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Leica has announced the 2014 Leica Oskar Barnack Award international photography competition will be open for entries starting December 15, 2013. The winner of the main category of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will win a cash prize of €10,000 (~ $ 13,500) in addition to a Leica M camera and lens, valued at an additional €10,000. Learn more
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Der erste Felix Schoeller Award hat seine Nominierten bekanntgegeben. Ein guter Zeitpunkt also, sich den großen neuen Fotowettbewerb einmal genauer anzusehen.
25 Nominierte wurden für die fünf Kategorien und weitere fünf Nominierte für den Nachwuchsförderpreis ausgewählt. Bewerben konnten sich nur professionelle Fotografen und Fotografen in der Ausbildung oder im Studium. Insgesamt sind die Gewinnerarbeiten in fast jeder Kategorie sehr dokumentarisch.
Für die beste Nachwuchsarbeit nominiert ist zum Beispiel die Fotografin Marlene Sattler mit ihrer Serie „In der Zwischenzeit“. Mit ihren Bildern gibt sie einen Einblick in die Arbeit rechtsmedizinischer Institute.
Die Kernfrage war, wie die Mitarbeiter eines Rechtsmedizinischen Institutes mit der täglichen Konfrontation mit dem Tod umgehen. Ausschnitte sind sehr bewusst gewählt und spiegeln den Respekt wider, den die Mitarbeiter den Verstorbenen entgegen bringen. Die Arbeit in der Rechtsmedizin und der Umgang mit dem Tod wird alltäglich, bleibt aber zu jedem Zeitpunkt respekt- und würdevoll.
In der Kategorie Fotojournalismus ist Christian Werner nominiert, der mit seiner Serie „Depleted Uranium – The silent Genocide?“ aufzeigt, dass selbst nach einem Krieg noch Menschen und insbesondere Kinder an den Folgen der Nutzung von Uranmunition sterben.
Das ganze entsetzliche Ausmaß dessen, was Uranmunition anrichtet, wird jetzt erst langsam verstanden. Berichte, Dokumentationen und breit angelegte Studien fehlen aber bis heute – und wären doch so dringend nötig, um über diesen Wahnsinn aufzuklären. Die betroffenen Menschen brauchen Hilfe.
Nick Franks Serie „Erinnerung“ in der Kategorie Freie / konzeptionelle Fotografie hebt sich schon durch die intensive Farbgebung von den anderen Nominierten ab.
Wir sehen nicht das, was ist, sondern das, was sein soll: Nick Franks Serie „Erinnerung“ ist eine Hommage an Traditionen im Wandel der Zeit. Bunt, lebendig, melancholisch, gefühlvoll, heimatverbunden – und ein charmantes Spiel mit der eigenen Fantasie. Was zählt, sind die Bilder in unseren Herzen, unsere Vorstellungskraft und unsere Erinnerungen. Lebenslust, die im eigenen Kopf, aus dem persönlichen Gefühl heraus entsteht.
Alle Nominiertem sind in einer Galerie auf www.felix-schoeller-photoaward.com zu sehen.
Am 13. Oktober 2013 findet die Preisverleihung im Kulturgeschichtlichen Museum Osnabrück statt. Direkt im Anschluss daran eröffnet die Ausstellung mit dem Titel „Winners & Nominees 2013 – Felix Schoeller Photo Award“. Rund vier Wochen lang, bis zum 10. November 2013, sind die Werke der 30 Foto-Künstler im Format 120 x 100 cm bzw. 70 x 100 cm zu sehen.
kwerfeldein – Fotografie Magazin
Last weekend one of my photos was selected as a category winner in the national night sky photography competition, the David Malin Awards. The category was “People and Sky”, and Darren asked if I could write a post describing how the photo was created.
I assist friend and colleague Phil Hart with regular night sky photography workshops under the beautiful dark skies of country Victoria (Australia). Knowing my love of fisheye photography, Phil had an idea for a photo to help promote the course: A group photo under the stars by fisheye lens.
I immediately had a vision in my head of the photo and knew it would look cool, so I set myself to working out how to achieve the difficult task of composition and balancing light. Once night fell and we made sure the students were all confident with their new skills and happily taking photos of the night sky, I put my Sigma 8mm f4 circular fisheye on my full-frame Canon 5D MkIII. To achieve this effect you will need a circular fisheye lens and a full-frame camera, or a fisheye lens designed to give a circular image on a cropped sensor. A diagonal fisheye will not capture the whole hemispherical field of view needed to image the whole sky.
Testing the setup and lighting.
From experience shooting the night sky with this lens, I knew that I would be shooting at the widest aperture of f4 and the full 30 seconds shutter speed. Balancing noise and sufficient exposure I chose an ISO of 8000. These settings give me a good exposure of the night sky and particularly the milky way, which would feature in the shot. This is incredibly faint! My main problem was how to light the faces of the students to approximately the same brightness of the Milky Way.
At first I considered using a flash, but even at the lowest setting, even with significant diffusion, the exposure was too difficult to control. The other problem is that I’d need the light to be omnidirectional so that all of the people in the shot would be evenly lit. Ultimately the solution I came up with was to use my LED video light, dialed down to its lowest power setting and laid face down on the ground on a piece of white paper. Only a little bit of light leaked out from around the edges, but it was even and spread out in all directions. Due to the relatively warm white balance of the Milky Way I adjusted the light’s white balance to be warm to match.
A recreation (in my office) of the setup I used. The video light is pointing straight down into the paper.
I took a few test shots to make sure the exposure, focus, white balance and everything else was working just right, and when the galaxy had risen to it’s highest point and was nearly directly overhead we called everyone together. We formed a circle and put our arms over each others’ shoulders to ensure even spacing, and tried to keep where the camera would be in the centre. Linking arms also helped us all to stand as still as possible for the 30 seconds of the exposure. Once we were all ready, I set the camera to 10 second self timer mode and placed it on the ground pointing directly up.
There were a couple of confused comments as people tried to work out how it would look, and jokes about how we all must have looked to anybody watching us from the outside. But once we got a look on the back of the screen, everyone was convinced. This was a truly unique group photo.
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How I Took This Award Winning Night Sky Group Photo
Have you ever won a photography competition? The answer, for most of us, is no. As with the lottery, we always enter with hope, but the reality is that the winners’ circle is a pretty exclusive club. Why do we enter? Because we want to have our work seen by a wider audience. (Cash prizes and opportunities for exhibition are Continue Reading
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The Smithsonian Magazine is calling on readers to vote in its 10th annual Reader’s Choice Award. Voters can select their favorite photo from among 50 finalists. This year’s contest received 37,600 entries from 112 countries. The Magazine’s editors will also select winners for five additional categories – Altered Images, American Experience, Natural World, People and Travel. Voting is open through March 29, 2013. Click through for the link and to view some of the finalist’s images.
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Last October, Portuguese freelance photojournalist Daniel Rodrigues was forced to sell off all his camera gear to pay the bills. Only a few months later, however, one of his images took first prize in the Daily Life category from the prestigious World Press Photo foundation. As a result of the ensuing attention, Rodrigues has been able to acquire new gear and resume his career in photojournalism. (via New York Times Lens blog)
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Leica has announced the Oskar Barnack Award 2013 international photo competition will open for entries from January 15th, with a first prize worth €15,000 (~ $ 19,400). The 2013 winner will receive a Leica M digital rangefinder and lens in addition to a €5000 (~ $ 6500) cash prize. To enter, participants need to submit a portfolio of up to twelve images expressing ‘the interaction between man and the environment.’ In addition, the Newcomer award, open to photographers under 25 years of age, offers a Leica rangefinder camera and lens as the prize. Submissions are open until 1st March 2013.
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