Fujifilm has launched a digital magazine for owners of its X series cameras. Available in six languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian), it’s available from the Apple Newsstand or Google Play store, or alternatively can be viewed using a web browser. Click through for full details.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
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After an intensive month-long residency in America’s biggest city with daily updates, street artist Banksy is leaving behind a strangely mixed legacy of his trip. Here are some of his last works from the stay, from a thrift store painting hacked and re-donated and an unpublished op-ed piece to a free t-shirt to anyone who wishes to download and print it.
‘The banality of the banality of evil’ is a second-hand shop art conversion purchased, adapted and given back to a local store on 23rd street. It features a World War II Nazi officer added to the otherwise bland landscape, easy to overlook in the serene scenery.
Meanwhile, in Greenpoint, a kind of meta-tag (not in the internet sense, though certainly a reference to webpages) speaks to already-covered graffiti painted over below it.
His controversial message aimed to be published in the local press (submitted to the New York Times but rejected) gives his stance on One World Trade Center, which he sees as an insufficiently bold tribute to the falls towers of the city.
Other odds and ends from his final days in town include: a cheetah lounging on the side of Yankee Stadium, a robot spray-painting a bar code on a brick wall in Coney Island, a gentleman waiting for a date outside the Hustler Club and the Grim Reaper riding a bumper car in Bowery.
Before spray-painting his name in simple bubble letters on a wall in Queens to end his October run, Banksy reminded New Yorkers to ‘save Five Points’ and added his iconic bandaged heart to the iconic white I Heart NYC t-shirt. The latter he offers for ‘free’ as a download, complete with an ironic registered trademark symbol and graffiti-style lettering. Given the controversy caused by some of his projects and their aftermath, some will no doubt be sad and others glad to see him go from the Five Boroughs.
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The folks behind CreativeLive, an online resource for photographers co-founded by Chase Jarvis, have kicked off Photo Week: six days of educational workshops streamed live online for free. Workshops will be broadcast over three channels with topics including wedding, family and portrait photography. It begins today – click through for more details.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Here at dPS we are all about helping people of all experience levels to improve their photography.
This week we’re excited to see our friends at CreativeLIVE putting on a free online event that will help you do just that – it is called Photo Week and we think you’ll really love what is on offer.
Starting today and over the next 6 days CreativeLIVE have 50 amazing photographers coming into their studios to run full days of live workshop training on many many aspects of photography.
They’ve arranged the training into 3 tracks:
The quality of trainers and training will be amazing – I hardly know where to begin with the lineup they’ve got. Here’s a quick screen shot of the instructors!
The best thing about Photo Week is it is all shown on the CreativeLIVE site for free throughout the week.
You can pay to get recordings if you can’t make all of the sessions you want to see or would like to play them back over and over again – but if there’s just a few sessions you want you can tune in when they are on and grab them completely for free.
See the full 6 day schedule and RSVP for Photoweek here.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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Thomas Knoll is the co-inventor of Photoshop. We have just placed on-line a free 47 minute long streaming video interview between Thomas, Michael and Kevin.
In it Thomas talks about the origins of Photoshop, the concerns that people have had with moving to "the cloud", and the new solution for photographers which Adobe has just announced.
This is both an informative and timely discussion.
"Having been to Antarctica with Michael and Kevin, I would say after having traveled the world and shot nearly my entire life as an exhibiting photographer, it was one of my highlights in my life and I talk about it, all the time. The images and experience of seeing something visionary and nearly extinct from the world, to see and experience the wildlife and scenery that does not fear humans is amazing. The images I shot there won me two Smithsonian awards and nearly 18 other international awards". – Tim Wolcott
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What’s it like to be aboard a photographic expedition to Antarctica? Find out by watching our new free 23- minute-long HD streaming video.
Fuji has updated the firmware for the X-Pro 1 and several lenses to allow for improved autofocus as well as adding focus peaking during manual focus, along with other enhancements.
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Over on our sister site – SnapnDeals – we have a great offer running right now – it gets you 30% off of an incredible collection of Lightroom presets by DPS contributor James Brandon. You’ll also receive a free copy of his newest ebook “10 Tips For Improving Your Photography Today.”
This collection includes 80 presets in 7 different groups and will take your images to a whole new level! Presets are a great way to speed up your workflow in Lightroom and discover new looks and effects for your photos.
James has been stockpiling and optimizing these presets for years, and narrowed them down to just the best. Each collection is targeted towards a specific genre of photography or a specific photo processing need. Highlights of this bundle include the JamesB Filter Pouch; a collection of presets that mimic the filters landscape and travel photographers use out in the field. The JamesB Travel Presets; a collection that will work great for those vacation and adventure images. And the brand new JamesB Family Lifestyle Presets; a collection that James has created specifically for pictures of his family and friends.
His ebook 10 Tips For Improving Your Photography Today is included free with this purchase and will be a great companion for any photographer looking for quick, useful tips that will give your creativity and photography a boost.
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After – Using ‘Rome’ in the JamesB Travel Preset collection
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After – Using ‘Day at the Zoo’ in the JamesB Family Lifestyle collection
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After – Using ‘Sweet Pea Vintage’ in the JamesB Nostalgia Film collection
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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One of the things that I’ve liked about being able to pay Yahoo and Flickr $ 24.95 per year, is that it comes with an advertising free experience. The deal between Yahoo and Pro accounts is simple, and can be summed up in Flickr’s own words: “No ads in your browsing experience.”
While new Flickr Pro accounts are no longer available, all existing Pro accounts were given an opportunity to grandfather in their Pro accounts and continue them ad free. If users want an ad free experience now, they have to pay double the price as the old Pro account, but it’s still an option.
In the past, when paid accounts on Flickr have complained about advertisements, Flickr pointed them to a toolbar that a user likely installed: “If you are pro, we don’t show you ads on Flickr, but you may have unintentionally installed a browser toolbar, extension or add-on that is serving them.”
I’ve always respected Flickr for offering this ad-free option, it’s a refreshing departure from Facebook, where we are bombarded with ads at every turn.
Unfortunately, today Flickr has reneged on their advertising free account by forcing a new Yahoo tool bar on all Flickr users, both those with free ad supported accounts and those of us with paid ad-free versions. It’s an ugly intrusion to an otherwise beautiful new Flickr. It also advertises at me on *every* *single* *page* on Flickr — a bunch of Yahoo services that I *do* *not* *want.*
Complete with a Yahoo logo, the forced real estate takeover also offers me Home, Mail, News, Sports, Finance, Weather, Games, Groups, Answers, Flickr, omg!, Shine, Movies, Music, TV, Health, Shopping, Auto, Travels, Home.
There is no way to disable this forced tool bar. Worse it follows you as you scroll down the page. It never goes away. As of right now it is impossible to be on any page on Flickr without having these hyperlinked ads in your face.
I think these advertisements are just awful. I think they are distasteful and I think it’s unfortunate that Yahoo is so greedy that they cannot be satisfied with our simply paying them for an ad-free experience. If Yahoo cannot make enough money off of Flickr, then increase the price, or give us an option to pay more and remove this intrusive forced advertising bar.
Flickr is supposed to be an elegant, paid, ad-free, photo experience — or at least one version of it is. Forcing advertisements like this on ad-free accounts is wrong. Flickr should give all paid accounts an option to x out this ugly marketing based tool bar and make it go away.
There are few things as annoying as having a toolbar forced on you with a bunch of advertising links to things that you do not want. You can follow user reaction to this new forced tool bar in the Flickr Help Forum here.
You can and should do better than this Flickr.
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