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NIKON PHOTO CONTEST 2016-2017: CALL FOR ENTRIES |
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Announced his week 24th August - Neville Brody
inaugurated as Lead Judge, and two new categories - Nikon 100th Anniversary
Award and Next Generation Award - established
Nikon
Corporation is pleased to announce that entries for the Nikon Photo Contest
2016-2017 will be accepted between October 17, 2016 and 1:00pm (JST) on January
27, 2017.
 The Nikon Photo Contest has been one of the world's
largest global photo contests since it was first held in 1969. The objective
behind the Contest is to nurture an aspirational community that supports
photographers and filmmakers who wish to share important stories and influence
the way people think through images.
The Nikon 100th Anniversary Award has been added to
commemorate Nikon's celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2017. The Next
Generation Award, open to those under the  age of 30, has been added in response
to the fact that roughly half of the entries in the previous Contest were
captured or recorded by those under the age of 30. We hope that this new
category will help to further extract and encourage the talent of the next
generation. In addition, world-renowned
graphic designer and art director, Neville Brody, is to be welcomed as the Lead
Judge for this Contest. With his appointment as Lead Judge, Brody also
redesigned the Nikon Photo Contest logo. He had the following to say about his
role as Lead Judge.
 Nikon Photo Contest 2016-2017 Overview - The contest is open to all, professional and amateur, regardless of age,
gender, or nationality. All categories will accept entries captured with any
digital device, including smartphones, except for the Nikon 100th Anniversary
Award.
Entry categories
-Nikon 100th
Anniversary Award - Theme: "Celebration" | Entry format: single
photo | Limited to Nikon equipment | No age restriction.
 -Next
Generation Award - Theme: "Future" | Entry
format: single photo, photo story (two to five images), video | Any equipment can be used | Entrants
must be under the age of 30 (29 and younger)
-The Open Award
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Theme: "Future" | Entry
format: single photo, photo story (two to five images), video | Any equipment can be used | No age
restriction.
Entry period - October 17, 2016 to January 27, 2017 (closes at 1:00pm
JST)
How to enter - Enter the contest by providing the required information
in the entry form on the Nikon Photo Contest 2016-2017 website
(http://www.nikon-photocontest.com/). This form will be available from 1:00pm
(JST) on October 17, 2016.
Nikon Photo Contest, one of the world's largest global
photo contests - The Nikon Photo Contest (NPC) is one
of the world's most prestigious global photo contests. Held since 1969, the
goal behind the Contest is to provide an opportunity for photographers around
the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture for professionals
and amateurs alike. A total of 21,100 photographers from 164 countries and
regions submitted 88,737 works in the previous (35th) Contest, marking a new
record for the Contest in terms of the number of countries and regions from
which entries were submitted.
See the Nikon
Photo Contest website below for further details regarding contest
eligibility, submission rules, judging & AWARDS & PRIZES.
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- Award
Archive Excellent!
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– IPN Article Image Credits – ‘The Family’ by Rere Garrebekke from
West Germany in 1979-1980 | ‘Happy Day’
by Veikko Wallstrusm from Finland 1990-1991 – Both Awarded First’s.
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OBF INSURANCE GROUP ANNOUNCE THEIR PRESENCE AT PHOTOVISION |
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We will be attending
the Photovision Roadshow in Croke Park on the 6th Sept 2016
 Formally
known as O’Brien Finlay Insurance Associates Ltd who have been taking care of
Photographers Insurance and financial needs for over 40 years, are privileged
to be trusted by more than 10,000 clients countrywide, are delighted to have
arranged a specific Photographers package with AXA Insurance. As you would
expect we are insurance and financial planning experts but what sets us apart
is that we put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
We
look forward to seeing you at the Photovision
Roadshow in Croke Park on the 6th Sept 2016 and our purpose is to listen,
understand your needs and use our experience to find the right solution for
you, so please feel free to visit our stand and discuss your individual
requirements.
For
the Photographer:-
-We
can provide All risks cover on your photographic equipment and studio
contents.
-Theft
from unattended vehicles.
-Cover
for camera equipment on approval from recognised equipment suppliers.
-Cover
applies on a worldwide basis (excluding war zones) for specified photographic
equipment.
 -Cost
of hiring equipment as a result of an admitted claim.
-Business
Interruption.
-Employers
Liability.
-Public
and Products Liability.
-Computer
Breakdown Cover where Studio Contents cover applies, including reinstatement of
data up to a limit of €10,000 (Note
Laptops – must be covered under photographic equipment).
-Goods
in Transit.
-Money
cover.
 -Glass.
-Legal
Expenses.
-Easy
Payment options.
Optional
extra’s:-
-Professional
Indemnity.
-Buildings.
Subject to the usual terms exceptions and
conditions of the AXA photographers policy.
Contact us at 01-6601033
Email: loretto.murphy@obf.ie or conor.mcnally@obf.ie
For more information and to see all of our other available services go to our
website below:-
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- http://www.forwardevents.co.uk/
- Full details of the Photovision Trade Event
Here!
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BARKER PHOTOGRAPHIC HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THEY WILL BE EXHIBITING AT PHOTOVISION THIS YEAR |
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Visit our stand at Croke
Park Dublin on Tuesday 6th of September
 Brexit
has brought some good news for customers (at least in the short term) and
Barker Photographic are bringing the benefits to their customers with some very
special deals across a wide range of products.
There
will be extra special offers on the day on Elinchrom Lighting, PermaJet papers
& Canvases, Interfit lights and accessories, Manfrotto Tripods & Bags,
Epson Printers, Lastolite, Lee Filters, Sigma Lenses etc. etc.
Due
to space constraints, it won’t be possible to have everything on show, but any
order of €150 will be shipped Free of charge and will save customers from
having to carry purchases around all day.
 Barker
Photographic already have “Brexit
Discounts” of 10% on the entire Interfit, Strobies and PermaJet product
ranges. To avail of these discounts just mention when ordering or use
codes: “ BrexInter ” for Interfit / Strobies and code “ PermaBrex
” for PermaJet if ordering online at http://www.barkerphotographic.ie/
In addition - Barker Photographic
are proud to be Supporting Speaker PAUL
CALLAGHAN for his ‘A Visual Adventure in Wedding Photography’ Seminar at
Croke Park – catch him at 10am!
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- Full details of the Photovision Trade Event
Here!
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PHOTOSTORIE ARE DELIGHTED TO BE EXHIBITING AT THIS YEARS PHOTOVISION |
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Photostorie
offers Professional Photographers an unrivalled range of album and book
variations to cover an extremely wide range of requirements.
Every product you order is bespoke as it is made
entirely to your choices of cover materials, page thickness, page finish,
colour selections, packaging and of course your own page design creations.
All of these choices are crafted together by artisans with generations of
experience to rely on.
We only supply the very highest quality albums and books and we support this
with our unique LIFETIME GUARANTEE. You can therefore be sure that when
you use our products you can supply them to your customers with confidence.
 Lifetime Guarantee - the Photostorie Lifetime Guarantee is a unique
commitment to all our customers that we will fully support our products no
matter what age they may be. Our
products are built to last and therefore if any problem develops with them we
are prepared to provide a repair or suitable replacement completely free of
charge if it can be shown that the problem was caused by a manufacturing fault. Even if an error has been made by one of our
customers in laying out a spread we generally are able to replace the spread in
the album and reconstruct the album at an affordable price.
Please
visit our stand on Tuesday 6th September at Croke Park Dublin!
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- Full details of the Photovision Trade Event
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IMAGE CREATION SUPPLIES ANNOUNCE THEIR PRESENCE AT PHOTOVISION
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Image Creation Supplies
is an Irish owned sales and service company which has been delivering
photographic products and services for generations.
 When: Tuesday
6th September 2016
Where: Croke
Park Stadium, Hogan Suite, Jones's Road, Dublin 3
What Time: Trade
show 11.00am - 5.00pm - Seminars Start 10.00am
We
supply event systems to professional photographers and photo kiosks and ID
passport options to the retail sector.
Our portfolio includes Mitsubishi and Citizen Event printers and media, Canon
cameras, Multiblitz studio lighting, wireless devices, wedding albums, frames,
USB presentation kits and laptops. We also supply Photobooths, Magic Mirrors
and a range of instant gifts and mounts for your event.
Drop in your Mitsubishi event printer for yearly upgrades and service as we are
Authorised Reseller and Service for Mitsubishi Photo Systems in Ireland. Our
help desk is open 9am to 5 if you need assistance.
 Notice
in addition - Have you had your yearly service and upgrades on your Mitsubishi
Printer? | Phone 01 4013643 now to schedule updates and maintenance.
Call us on 00353 1401 3643 or visit our online store below:-
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THE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IRELAND EXHIBIT WORKS ON CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM AUSTRIA |
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Titled: - ‘The Body Politic’
Dates – Opening this
week Thursday 25 August – Running until Wednesday 28 September 2016
 The
Body Politic highlights
the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Austria. The work
reflects the concerns of five established and emerging photographic talents: Karin Fisslthaler uses ‘found’ images
to explore rituals and social conventions manifested in film and photography.
In her various works series the hands, skin, and faces of movie stars are
distorted and concealed to reveal the structural complexities of media
representations. Ulrike Lienbacher
interrogates the notion of the body as subject or object. In her series Pin
Up Exercises figures dressed in ordinary outdoor clothes subvert
stereotypical postures or poses.
 The
resurgent genre of street photography is reflected in Christopher Mavric’s
live and unstaged colour portraits of ordinary Austrians living in Vienna and
Graz. In her series Young Gods Stefanie
Moshammer worked closely with disaffected young men to capture their
experience of transitioning from adolescence into adulthood.
Erwin
Polanc
“8820 +/” captures the artist’s experience of growing up in a small
village in Austria. Composed of architectural studies and portraits Polanc’s
perspective presents a wonderful balance between empathy, bleakness and the
comedy of daily life.
The
Body Politic exhibition also includes a special focus on the state of the art
of photobook publishing, with a curated selection of recent and classic photo
books from Austria’s leading publishers.
Culture
Night projection:
Special curated projection of work from The Body Politic exhibition and
contemporary Irish photography from the Solas Ireland exhibition.
Panel
Discussion:
A panel discussion with artists and curators from FOTOHOF Galerie,
Salzburg will take place at 5pm on Thursday 22nd of September.
Booking is advised.
Exhibition
is curated by FOTOHOF Galerie in Partnership with Gallery of Photography
Ireland.
This
cultural exchange programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
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Polanc
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LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL 2016 SWEDEN: PRESENT PHOTOGRAPHY FROM IRELAND |
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Running this week - More
than 150 photographers are represented in 20 odd exhibitions in Landskrona
19–28 August 2016.
Ten days of exhibitions, photobooks, seminars,
portfolio reviews, artist talks and more. Since the start four years ago
Landskrona Foto Festival has established its position as an international
meeting place for photographers and those with an interest in photography.
Renowned artists are exhibited alongside new, promising names and much of
the work on display have never been shown in Sweden or Scandinavia before. We
take photography seriously.
 Landskrona Foto: View
Ireland -
Showing at Landskrona museum – Running until 25 September 2016
In
the last two summers, Landskrona Foto has presented the photography and
photographers of another country. The series started with Turkey, followed by
the Czech Republic, and now in 2016 it is Ireland’s turn – not just the
Republic of Ireland but the whole island, including Northern Ireland. The
exhibition opens on 30 June and closes one month after the end of Landskrona
Foto Festival. Landskrona Foto: View Ireland will be shown in Landskrona
Museum.
In
this exhibition of photographic history we relate to the visual cliche of
Ireland. The image that has stuck on picturesque postcards and in newspaper
features, and probably also in many people’s minds.
How
have Irish photographers actually viewed their homeland through history, and
how do they view their own country today? Which photographers have related to
The Image of Ireland? What pictures were never taken?
 As
far as we know, there is no photographic documentation of one of the greatest
disasters the country has experienced. When The Great Famine broke out in 1845,
the camera had been known in Ireland for several years, but no one photographed
the great famine. A decade later, however, when the county was still suffering
the after-effects of the famine, photography was established in a completely
different sphere. In the shelter of The Big Houses, upper-class ladies
frequently used the new technique.
Over
a hundred years later the newspapers were filled with ink from a different
trauma. Northern Ireland in the time of the troubles has been depicted by many
people, but the media narratives about it have often looked very different. We
find a more personal narrative in Patrick McCoy’s series The People’s Taxis
(1998). Here we see very close-up portraits of passengers travelling in the
black taxis on the Falls Road. The claustrophobic back seat becomes a
reflection of the social strains of life in the midst of the conflict.
The
exhibition also presents works by: Sean Hillen, Jan McCullogh, Mary Countess of
Rosse, Lady Louisa Tenison, Dennis Dinneen, Paul Seawright, Anthony Haughey,
Trish Morrissey, Eamonn Doyle, Grace Weir, Laurence McKeown, Arthur Fields,
Patrick Hogan, Broomberg & Chanarin, Bertien van Manen and others.
The
exhibition is being produced in collaboration with PhotoIreland, Belfast
Exposed, Gallery of Photography Ireland and Culture Ireland.
The curators of the
exhibition are Jenny Lindhe in cooperation with Angel Luis Gonzalez, Trish
Lambe, Tanya Kiang and Ciara Hickey.
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OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: OPENS FOR ENTRIES THIS WEEK |
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25 August - Outdoor
Photography magazine has announced that its competition to find the next
Outdoor Photographer of the Year opens this week
 Open
to amateur and professional photographers from around the world, the
competition covers all genres of outdoor photography – from landscape and
adventure to wildlife and the underwater world – and this year the organisers
have added a brand new category devoted to seeking out images that capture the
spirit of travel.
The
fee to enter each of the eight adult categories is 8GBP. There is also a
free-to-enter category for photographers aged 18 or under.
Closing date 2nd October 2016. Cash prizes. Exhibitions
in Miami, Florida and Southwell, Nottingham.
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SOFTWARE NEWS: MANFROTTO DIGITAL DIRECTOR APP V. 2.1, NEW DIGITAL DIRECTOR IPAD COMPATIBILITY AND NEW ACCESSORIES |
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August 2016 – Manfrotto, the leading
global innovator and manufacturer of premium photo, video and lighting support
products and accessories, announces the launch of Digital Director App V 2.1
 New
Digital Director models compatible with iPad Pro 12,9“ and iPad mini 4 – and
new accessories including a new semi-rigid case, sunhood and frames.
Originally launched in 2015, Digital Director won Videomaker’s Best of NAB 2015
and was recently awarded the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2016.
Digital Director is the only Apple certified (MFi – Made for iPad Certification)
electronic device that connects your camera and iPad for easier, more effective
image making. Just tap the iPad screen to set up and control your camera,
shoot, check, edit, share and manage your pictures.
Digital
Director ensures a reliable USB cabled connection between the camera and iPad,
and its free dedicated App allows shoot monitoring and camera setting control.
It is compatible with select Canon and Nikon DSLRs and iPad Pro 12,9”, iPad Air
2, iPad Air, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 3 and iPad mini 2.
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- https://www.manfrotto.ie/shop-by/collections/digital/digital-director
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SOFTWARE NEWS: AKVIS RETOUCHER 8.0 A NEW PHOTO RETOUCHING MODE AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS |
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August 2016 - AKVIS is pleased to
announce the major update of AKVIS Retoucher for Windows and Mac OS X.
 The
new version offers an innovative image retouching mode for correcting small
defects, the History Brush tool, several new setting options, support for 4k
& 5k displays, and other important changes.
AKVIS
Retoucher is a powerful tool for photo restoration and photo retouching. The
software effectively heals damaged parts of a photo, removes scratches, stains,
and other defects. Now you can easily restore your old family photos and
preserve them for future generations!
The
program has a broad application spectrum. You can use it to enhance the
composition of your photos by getting rid of unnecessary details such as wires,
date stamps, etc. or even remove bigger objects. A wide variety of tools and
options allows finding the best solution for any image.
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SOFTWARE NEWS: COREL HAVE RELEASED PAINTSHOP PRO X9 |
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Introducing a range of
new features and enhancements that promise to help anyone working with images
start (and finish) their personal and professional projects faster than ever.
 The
Interactive Gradient Fill tool allows users to save time creating gradients
with new interactive colour nodes, while the enhanced photo workflow enables
photographers to work faster than ever with a simplified user experience that
streamlines many common tasks.
Extending
its camera support, PaintShop Pro X9 now works with 15 new camera raw profiles.
This update also adds support for Windows Real-Time Stylus, which brings
pressure sensitivity and more to specific touch-enabled 2-in-1 devices like
Microsoft's Surface series. Also introduced today, the PaintShop Pro X9 and
VideoStudio Pro X9 Photo Video Bundle brings together a complete photo, design
and video editing package for creative professionals.
Suggested
retail pricing for PaintShop Pro X9 is €69.99 / 59.99GBP | SRP for PaintShop
Pro X9 Ultimate, which includes PaintShop Pro X9 plus €89.99 / 79.99GBP | The
PaintShop Pro X9 and Video Studio X9 Photo Video Bundle sells for €99.99 / 89.99GBP.
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