Photographers can pick up the latest industry tips at the Autumn Calumet Encounter More Open Days event.

Date + Time – Next week Thursday 13th October  | 10am to 4pm

Experts from leading brands will be on hand at the open day on Thursday, October 13, to answer any questions professional and amateur photographers may have and try the latest kit from manufacturers such as Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and Sony.

Angus Bicker, manager of the Calumet store in Boucher Road, Belfast, said: “We are passionate about supporting both amateur and professional photographers. Our open days provide customers with an amazing opportunity to learn more about the industry and improve their knowledge. Customer service is the key for us and our open days give photographers – at all levels – the chance to try out new equipment and meet industry experts. We also provide exclusive in-store discounts on all the big brands which we know our customers find helpful.”

Staff will be offering complimentary sensor cleaning for all DSLR cameras in return for a donation to help raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Visitors will be able to try out the new Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, which is available to pre-order from Calumet, and talk to Canon experts about the cameras new specs and features.

All attendees will be able to enter a prize draw to win a Fujifilm X70 camera, worth 499GBP, by registering their details on the iPads at the store entrance.

SEE ALL THE LATEST FROM - Canon, Nikon and Fuji, also the Hasselblad X1D, the Profoto D2 and PRO-10, Sigma Art lenses, Fuji X-T2, Bowens Generation X lights, Wacom products and Broncolor lights.

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The Encounter More Open Day will take place on Thursday, October 13 from 10am to 4pm.

Calumet Photographic is a leading photography equipment retailer supporting amateurs and professionals.  It also provides rentals, runs workshops, offers a student membership scheme, and has studio spaces available for shoots.

For more information visit our website below:-

W -  https://www.calphoto.co.uk/open-days  

W - https://calumetrental.co.uk/store-finder - for Google Map

L -  Calumet Belfast – Boucher Plaza Unit 2 | 4-6 Boucher Road | Belfast BT12-6HR

October 2016 – Kodak Alaris have recently extended their Net to Retail concept to the Irish photo retail market.

The solution enables customers to create personalised photo products for collection at their local retailer in as little as an hour through the Kodak Moments App.

The App is available free of charge to iPhone as well as Android users and can be downloaded to smartphones and tablets. After installing the Kodak Moments App on their device, users choose where to print their photos based on their shopping behaviour.

Depending on the customer’s location at the time of ordering there are three options. When using the App in-store at a photo retail business supporting the Net to Retail solution, the customer can directly connect to a kiosk for instant printing. While this option was previously available to the Irish market, the Kodak Moments App is now accessible in its full extension for Irish customers. In addition to the in-store service, products can be ordered for Pick-Up Instore or for Delivery to Home, both of these options can be chosen from any location within the UK and Ireland. After selecting their preferred option of collection, customers create their photo product directly on their device, choosing from a wide range of prints, photobooks and other photo gifting products.

Signing up for Net to Retail as a retailer comes at no cost while Kodak Alaris automatically receive a share of each order placed through the Kodak Moments App.

With over 20 million global downloads since its launch, the Kodak Moments App has not only given existing customers of high-street stores a new interface to place their orders but also brought new customers into existing stores. Considering the average order placed through Net to Retail has an order value of €8, this new option generates 46% higher revenue than orders entirely processed in store.

To support stores with promoting the Kodak Moments App, Kodak Alaris runs a variety of marketing activities throughout the year such as promotions available exclusively on the app as well as instore marketing assets.

Businesses offering professional Kodak photo products can easily join Net to Retail by emailing Kodak Alaris through net2retail@kodakalaris.com or contacting Tetenal through marketing@tetenal.uk.com as they manage the Kodak Express network in the UK and Ireland and offer support to stores joining Net to Retail.

App - Also an online form where retailers can Register for the App: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LYYLWQL

W - http://www.tetenaluk.com

Dates:  Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd October 2016 Dublin

Titled: ‘Weekend Portrait Photography Masterclass’

Venue: South William Studios – 46 South William Street | Dublin 2

Fee: €379 – Includes Lunch Both Days + Coffee & Refreshments

Working with professional agency models with amazing bone structure, professional makeup artists, and Rory Lewis leading the workshop, this course is a MUST for beginner and intermediate portrait photographers. 

Ideal for Beginners & Intermediate Photographers who wish to learn and develop their studio & location Photography, and those interested in creating Model, Wedding, Beauty, Actors, Talent & Corporate Portraiture.

Course Schedule - “Both Days are practical tuition sessions – learning hands-on-skills and enabling you to work with professional models on the day to capture amazing photographs for your portfolio. You will walk away from this course with the skills to develop and improve your photography techniques, learn studio flash lighting, develop your understanding of studio & location technique and test this using professional models.”

Day One

-10:00am Rory Lewis Talk on the Medium of Portraiture

-10.45am Coffee & Refreshments (Provided)

-11.00am Power & Portraiture, working with our First model, Rory will teach beginners low key lighting, posing and direction to create an epic portrait.

-12:30pm Lunch (Provided)

-13:15pm Beauty Portraiture, working with our Second Model and Award Winning Makeup Artist Rory will teach high key lighting & beauty portraiture.

-14.30pm The Culture Portrait, working with our Third Model of the Day and Award Winning Makeup Artist Rory will teach you how to light low key portraits with Gels & Kickers.

-16:00pm  Rory Lewis Will Sum up the Day & Prepare you for Day Two

Day Two

-11:00am Rory Lewis Talk on Location Portraiture

-11:45am Coffee & Refreshments (Provided)

-12:00pm Location Portraiture Lighting with our First Model and Award Winning Makeup Artist

-13:30pm Lunch (Provided)

-14.15pm Low Key Portrait Lighting Mastered with our Second Model of the Day, Rory will teach intermediate Low Key lighting, posing and direction.

-16:00pm Rory Lewis will Sum up the Two Day Workshop

C – IPN Article Image Credits – Sir Patrick Stewart Portrait Sitting & Actress Natalie Dormer Portrait Sitting

W - http://rorylewisphotography.com/weekend-portrait-photography-workshops/

In 2016 Hasselblad is celebrating its 75th anniversary

The leading medium format camera manufacturer has always stood for outstanding imaging experience, a love of photography, technical excellence, and creative vision, all in sync with the brand promise, ‘Create to inspire’. The Hasselblad Masters is one of the world’s most prestigious professional photographic competitions and gives acclaimed professionals, as well as aspiring newcomers, the chance to make their mark in the world of high-end photography. This years’ competition encouraged over 10,000 entries and the 10 winners were selected by a combination of an expert jury and an online public vote.

The Hasselblad Masters Awards 2016 winners:-

-Swee Oh (USA) Architecture

-Roy Rossovich (Sweden) Fashion/Beauty

-Katerina Belkina (Germany) Fine art

-Lars Van De Goor (Netherlands) Landscape

-Natalia Evelyn Bencicova (Slovakia) Portrait

-Georgio Cravero (Italy) Product

-Jake Reeder (Australia) Project//21

-Ali Rajabi (Iran) Street/Urban

-John Paul Evans (UK) Wedding

-David Peskens (Netherlands) Wildlife

The selection criteria encompassed ambition, imagination and photographic skill. Each winner and newly crowned ‘Hasselblad Master’ is then given the task of shooting for the book in line with the theme of ‘Inspire’. In addition to the established categories such as architecture, fashion, and portraiture, street/urban photography was included in the competition for the first time.

Perry Oosting, Hasselblad CEO: “At Hasselblad we’re incredibly proud to give established and emerging photographers a platform to showcase their work. This year we were overwhelmed with not only the number of entries but also the quality of those received. Hasselblad Masters Volume 5 really captures the raw talent and creativity of our chosen Masters and is testament to the flourishing photographic industry worldwide.”

W - http://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/masters/masters-2016-inspire

W – http://www.DML.ie – DML Dublin – Irish Distributors of Hasselblad

The Elements team is excited to announce the release of Photoshop Elements 15 & Premiere Elements 15

Over the years, the Elements products have emphasized easy photo and video organization, editing, creation, and sharing. Elements combines powerful behind-the-scenes technology magic adapted from our professional apps with a user friendly UI and modes for every level of user to deliver an ideal mix of power and ease-of-use for creating and sharing your special moments.

For this release we focused on further automating the organization and editing process so that Elements does the heavy lifting and you can focus on creating and sharing. We’ve also expanded our selection of Guided Edits so it is even easier to get started and continue to bridge the gap between photo and video editing by bringing familiar photo features and terminology to life in Premiere Elements  As you’ll see, there are a number of exciting new features and enhancements to make your photos as amazing as your memories.

See what’s new:-  HERE!

W - http://www.adobe.com/ie/ 

W - http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/photoshop-elements.html

4 day Bootcamp

20 – 23 October 2016

Ashford, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

This unique 4 Day Workshop on Professional and Entrepreneurial Skills for creatives of all genres will take place in rural Wicklow.

Organised and run by the Centre for Creative Practices, the Creative Entrepreneur Boot Camp programme is geared towards creatives at all stages of their careers who want a unique opportunity for individualised focus on the professional and business side of their practice, and who are interested in sustainability and economic growth.

We especially recommend this programme to creatives who run their own business, plan to set up one or are torn between freelancing and working for an employer.

W - http://cfcp.ie/creative-artistic-entrepreneurs-bootcamp/

Belfast Open Studios 2016 kicks off this week on Thursday 6 October with a Studio Fair from 1pm – 4 pm at The Black Box

Whether you’re an artist, a student or recent graduate, an aspiring collector, or if you simply want to find out more about the visual arts in Belfast, this is a chance to meet studio groups, artists and arts organisations and pick up a copy of the new Belfast Art Map to point you in the right direction.  We’re following the Studio Fair with Late Night Art Belfast, where over a dozen galleries open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for an evening celebration of the vibrant visual arts scene in Belfast. There is plenty more in store throughout October, with a Visual Artists Cafe: Preparing For Studio Visits workshop on Thursday 13 October and a Public Open Day on Saturday 22 October. In November, we will be holding a Speed Curating event where ten curators from across Ireland will come together to hear your ten minute pitches. We’ll outline soon how to go about securing your place at this event, but in the meantime please visit

Calling all artists! - If you’re an independent visual artist or creative who is not a part of a collective or organised studio group, we would still like to involve you! We will be updating the Belfast Open Studios website to include a list of independent artists based in the Belfast area. The public and any invited curators / galleries for the festival will be encouraged to view the site before any visits for the Belfast Open Studios. We’d also like to feature information about your practice and projects at the Studio Fair on 6 October, so if you have business cards, flyers or programmes please do drop them at our Northern Ireland Office, 109 – 113 Royal Avenue before the fair.

If you would like to feature on the BELFAST open Studio website, please email brian@visualartists-ni.org  with the he subject heading BELFAST OPEN STUDIOS 2016

W – http://www.belfastopenstudios.com

Our architecture and photography enthusiasts will be pleased that we’re running the Open House Dublin (OHD) photography competition again in 2016.

This year the focus of the competition are the buildings that are featured in the OHD 2016 programme. We’re also looking for photos that show how we engage with, are inspired by and interact with buildings.

The Theme - The Presence of the Past - How do buildings tell a story of the development of Dublin, from a social, cultural and political perspective? In this celebratory year of revolution leading to Irish independence, we also want to reflect, remember and reimagine the city through Ireland biggest architecture festival.  The Presence of the Past aims to tell the story through a contemporary lens of how cities are created and developed over time and the people that participate in the construction, design, development and of the built environment. It will also seek to uncover aspects of the past that we can implement in future built environment strategies and policies.

This year’s Open House Dublin will reveal how we plan and build our environment conveys a lot about our priorities at a given time in history, society, politics and culture. Therefore, architecture is more than a physical material that can be measured in centimetres. It is also about experience, memory and aesthetics, both immeasurable qualities, but crucially important in establishing and communicating the value of architecture to an audience.

The Presence of the Past explores the central role of architecture in our society, how it frames and structures the patterns and practices of our collective life, from domestic to civic, from personal to public.

Competition Criteria - Creativity, quality of photograph and relevance to the theme.

Prize Categories - Best overall photograph | 10 Runners-up | Other commendations awarded at discretion of Jury.

Prizes - Cash Prize | 10 Runner up prizes provided by sponsors & partners

To Submit - Upload your images to Open House Dublin's page on Instagram using #openhousedublin - Upload as many as you like over the weekend and up to and until October 21st, 2016

The top photographs will be selected by a panel jury, with the winner announced on Friday 4th November

Closing date for entries: midnight October 21st, 2016.

W - http://openhousedublin.com/index.php/pages/the-open-house-dublin-photo-competition

Welcome to Sky Arts Master of Photography

The competition is open to all adults, regardless of his/her nationality, who lawfully reside in the European Union.

Before completing the form you will be required to submit:-

-A photography portfolio consisting of 5-10 images - For your portfolio you must choose from one of the following styles: portraiture, reportage, landscape, urban, commercial (e.g. food or fashion), conceptual

-A short introductory video - The video must be in English and be a maximum of 2 minutes

W - http://www.masterofphotography.tv/

W - http://www.masterofphotography.tv/extra/ - Highlights from last Series!

The festival takes place in the picturesque town of Killarney, Co. Kerry in the south west of Ireland from the 19th to the 23rd of October 2016

Highlights of the Kerry Film Festival include an international short film competition, a curated programme of features films, a showcase of Kerry talent, live film music events and niche film events in unique venues.

Through our annual Film Festival and year-round programme of events including our Secret Cine Club, Silver Screenings and Summer Open Air Cinema, our goal is to create new and exciting film experiences, create a hub of film creativity and appreciation in Kerry, champion the work of local and national emerging filmmakers and promote the county as a major filmmaking destination.

W - http://www.kerryfilmfestival.com/

The SITTP ‘My Voyage of Discovery’ Photography Competition – Includes an Irish based winning Photographer!

For this competition photographers were asked to submit images from anything on their travels. Entries came from beautiful vistas and stunning cityscapes also traditional village life.

Jewel Chakma from Bangladesh was chosen as the winner from over 530+ images entered in to the competition.

Jewel has won 12 months membership to The Society of International Travel and Tourism Photographers (SITTP) organisation.

Phil Jones, the Societies CEO says, ‘’Another month gone and another month of stunning images entered into September’s competition, Jewel’s image was a deserved winner as it showcases the theme of the competition perfectly.’’

There are 2 runners up Rahul Saha from India and Vytenis Malisauskas from Ireland who both won 6 months membership respectively.

Here are the winners -

1st place - Jewel Chakma http://sittp.com/voy/1st.htm 

2nd place - Rahul Saha http://sittp.com/voy/2nd.htm     

3rd place - Vytenis Malisauskas http://sittp.com/voy/3rd.htm 

C - IPN ARTICLE IMAGE CREDIT - Jewel Chakma’s winning image entitled ‘Towards Nirbana’

W - http://sittp.com/

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