The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards are now open for entries, and include categories for 3D and filmmakers. The competition has categories for both amateur and professional photographers and prizes that include both cash and Sony photographic equipment. Submissions must be received before January 4th 2013, with the professional category closing on January 9th. The student competition provides the chance to win 40,000 worth of Sony equipment for the winner’s university.
Facebook has announced a free app called Camera that focuses on viewing and sharing photos. Instead of showing what your friends are doing and thinking, it just dives straight to their photo galleries. The app also allows you to share multiple photos at a time, including descriptions and tagging. There are also tools for cropping and applying filters to your images. The app allows Facebook to be used in a much more Instagram-like manner (and it seems too soon for this to be a product of the Facebook buyout). Updated with first impressions.
Don’t immediately delete digital camera photos if an unwanted element or person got in your picture – here’s why.
This tip is geared towards beginners. While reviewing vacation or other pictures, if you find images where an undesired subject moved barely into your digital camera’s viewfinder, don’t fret – these photos might not be a total loss!
Most of today’s digital cameras take photos containing more than enough megapixels needed for high-quality printouts. Depending on the image subject and location of the unwanted element, you can crop (digitally cut) out what you don’t need and still have a great image. This is done by creating a selection rectangle inside your photo; everything outside of this rectangle gets removed….
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This video highlights a recent photo restoration project. Watch as artist Matt Puchalski from Masterpiece Framing transforms an old photo back to its original state. Three hours of digital retouching are condensed into three minutes. Masterpiece Framing is Chicagoland’s premier custom frame gallery and design boutique. We frame pictures, restore photos, print images and place art. Visit www.mframing.com to learn more.
Steve Neidorf demonstrates how to whiten teeth and brighten eyes when retouching a portrait in photoshop. An Ultimate PhotoGuide (UPG) original video.
Just as Instagram looked to expand its ambitions as a mobile photo sharing network, it has been bought by Facebook for $ 1bn. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company ‘need[s] to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features, rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.’ He stresses the importance of growing the service independently of Facebook and voices support for Instagram’s recent expansion to easily share images from other Apps, such as Hipstamatic and Camera Awesome.
A great video on some basic ways you can take better photos, and take your photography to the next level. Brought to you by Digital Days – a nationwide series of digital photography workshops presented by Popular Photography magazine. We are coming to a city near you! Check www.digitaldaysphoto.com for our schedule, ADDITIONAL VIDEOS, and more information!
Learn how to turn a photo into a hand drawn pencil sketch. This method can be easily followed by beginners. I am using photoshop cs5 to create the effect in this tutorial, but this can be done with any version really. Photo credit: www.sxc.hu
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Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the World Press Photo 2011 award. The prize comes for his image of a woman holding a relative wounded during protests against Yemen’s President Saleh. The World Press Photo Contest 2012 also awarded prizes in 18 other categories ranging from Arts and Entertainment to Portraits. Some of these images may be familiar from news coverage throughout the year but they make a compelling and inspiring reminder of the breadth of photography, even within the confines of press usage.