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New Photography Exhibition: Sample 13

Sample 13: a celebration of stunning photography from 2012, opens at Theprintspace gallery at 74 Kingsland Road in London tomorrow (Thursday 4 April 2013), 7pm – 9:30pm with drinks provided.

The exhibition then continues from Friday 5 April – Friday 29 April 2013 and admission is free.

The show, now in its sixth year, celebrates the recent work of a range of talented artists and photographers from around the world (including Kyler Zeleny’s Canadian landscapes from his travelogue ‘Out West’). The work spans illustration, black and white, reportage, and fine art photography.

For more details visit www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/sample-13/

New eBook – Growing the VisionMonger

Growing the VisionMonger 2 is the follow-up to Corwin Hiebert’s first Craft & Vision title. It’s a business management and marketing eBook for photographers of all levels and at any stage of growing their business.

This eBook is focused on 20 business topics that can help you make better decisions about your photography business. Each section includes a “Take Action” task — a jumpstart to change your thinking, get you out of a rut, or get you moving in the right direction.

In 68 spreads (19,000 words), Corwin addresses a range of topics: from creativity and business skills to networking, marketing, branding, and revenue streams—to name a few. In partnership with Wonderful Machine, he’s included 12 Q+As with working photographers, including featured photographs from their portfolios, and some weekend warriors too! This is a candid and no-holds-barred eBook about the reality of business ownership and self-promotion.

Get both Growing the VisionMonger titles for $8 USD. That’s 20% off (no discount code required). This series is for photographers who are looking for answers to their business and marketing questions. If you want to make a living doing what you love, you’ll really enjoy these eBooks. It’s not always sexy stuff — it’s day-to-day, make-your-business-run-better kind of stuff. This new bundle will provide you with two eBooks to inspire you and help you better manage and promote your photography business.

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with their song still in them.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Fascinating Photography Challenge Finalists

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED – WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

The winning images will first be announced in our newsletter and then posted on this site shortly afterwards.

In alphabetical order here are the 22 finalists of the Fascinating Photography Challenge (as voted by the photographers who entered the competition). Now it’s open to a public vote. Voting will close in 7-days time (Sunday, 20 January 2013). The top 3 images will be announced shortly afterwards.

There will be a small prize for the winner (Annual membership of Photography Update worth £30.00). The top three photographers will also receive our new set of e-books “The Photographer’s Success Kit”, which will be published shortly.

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1. Copyright (c) Ajay Kumar

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2. Copyright (c) Alan Dufty

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3. Copyright (c) Andrei Grosu

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4. Copyright (c) Andy Brown

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5. Copyright (c) Bruno Mottola

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6. Copyright (c) Charles Binns

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7. Copyright (c) Chloe Holl

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8. Copyright (c) Chris Hollingworth

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9. Copyright (c) Chris Squires

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10. Copyright (c) Danny Charge

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11. Copyright (c) Francesca Shearcroft

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12. Copyright (c) Hollie Woodward

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13. Copyright (c) Jordan Young

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14. Copyright (c) Krishnendu Pramanik

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15. Copyright (c) Marcus Crocker

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16. Copyright (c) Mark Kendrick

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17. Copyright (c) Martin Brown

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18. Copyright (c) Matthew Lloyd

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19. Copyright (c) Matthew Phipps

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20. Copyright (c) Milan Jovanovic

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21. Copyright (c) Rebecca Viveash

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22. Copyright (c) Shane Jamieson-Franks

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New eBook – Lightroom 4 UnMasked

This is a complete guide to Adobe Lightroom 4 by Piet Van den Eynde. At 312 pages this PDF is full of high-resolution screen-shots, step-by-step instructions, and the tips, tricks and ideas that make digital darkroom work productive and more enjoyable. If you’re looking to learn Lightroom 4 and need a resource to help you do that quickly, or you’ve just upgraded and need to get up to speed, this is great value.

SPECIAL OFFER
The retail price of this BigBook is USD $20. But use the promotional code  LR4FIVE  when you checkout and pay only $15. This code expires at 11:59pm (PST) 27 November 2012.

BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL
Visit Craft & Vision before Friday, 23 November at 11:59pm (PST) and you’ll find every eBook marked down by 50%. No discount codes required – they’ve already done it for you. Happy reading! Exclusions: BigBooks and Magazines are not discounted.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

SLOW: The Magic of Long-Exposure Photography

Buy Andrew S. Gibson’s latest eBook SLOW: The Magic of Long-Exposure Photography for $4.

If you’re looking to explore the creative possibilities behind the slow end of the shutter dial, looking for some new ideas, or wanting a primer on intentional camera motion, panning, long exposure techniques, and the equipment to help you get there, SLOW is an excellent place to begin.

Use the promotional code  SLOW4  when you checkout and pay only $4 (instead of $5) OR use the code  SLOW20  to get 20% off when you buy 5+ PDF eBooks from Craft & Vision. These codes expire at 11:59pm (PST) 18 November 2012.

Click here for more details.

PHOTOGRAPH – A New Digital Magazine for Creative Photographers

PHOTOGRAPH is a new digital quarterly magazine for creative photographers. It’s an ad-free magazine full of wonderful photographs from great photographers, and articles from photographers and authors like Chris Orwig, John Paul Caponigro, Martin Bailey, and Piet Van den Eynde.

Photographers who understand that this is not only a technical pursuit but an artistic one and write as much from the heart as they do from their expertise. They have columns about printing, composition, post-processing, inspiration, editing, and even gear.

Issue One is their inaugural issue and includes featured portfolios and interviews with Art Wolfe, Bruce Percy, and Nate Parker.

You can purchase Issue One of PHOTOGRAPH for USD $8. They also offer a one-year subscription for $USD 24 – that’s four issues for the price of three. And because they’d rather you have a chance to do this risk free, you can buy Issue One for $8 and, for a limited time, buy the rest of the subscription ($16) once you’ve had a chance to read Issue One. They’ll send a short email to everyone who purchases Issue One, and you’ll have until the end of November 2012 to opt-in to the rest of the one-year subscription.

Download the table of contents.

Click here for more details and to see more sample spreads.

Essential Development Review – 20 Great Techniques for Lightroom 4


Want to take your Lightroom workflow to a new level? Essential Development, 20 Great Techniques for Lightroom 4, by Sean McCormack, is a great resource for any photographer who wants to get the most out of Lightroom’s Develop Module without all the guesswork.

Lightroom keeps changing, and most of us don’t have time to dig around under the hood to learn it all. Essential Development is a no-holds-barred guidebook that can help you explore, modify, and dig deep into the Lightroom 4 tools you need to make your post-processing efforts more productive and produce the final images your portfolio deserves.

The eBook is divided into 20 chapters, focused entirely on the Develop module, covering topics such as: Understanding The Histogram, Making White White, Beauty Retouching, Dodge & Burn for Beauty, Cross Processing, Achieving a Filmic Look, Image Toning, Tilt Shift, Effective Sharpening, and Correcting Lens Issues.

Sean McCormack is a consummate professional, and an industry leader in Lightroom education, and he’s delivered a large, concisely-written eBook full of clear and large screenshots that will feel more like a workbook than an eBook.

Special Offer on Essential Development Package

The retail price on this package is just USD $7, but for the next five days, use the promotional code DEVELOP6 when you check out so you can have the Essential Development Package (incl. the Toolbox of 85 Lightroom presets) for just $6 OR use the code DEVELOP20 to get 20% off when you buy 5+ PDF eBooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST Tuesday – 23 October 2012.

PDF Only: If you want to keep it simple, you can purchase the PDF only for just $5 – visit the standard product page at Craft & Vision.

“Having a camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter.”

- Claude Adams

Sony World Photo Awards 2013 – Open Contest

Are you an amateur photographer or a photography enthusiast? If so, then this is the competition for you! Whatever your photographic passion may be, enter the Open Competition for your chance to win $5,000 and a trip to London to pick up your prize at the Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Gala Ceremony!

Entries close: 4 January 2013.

For more details: www.worldphoto.org/competitions/sony-world-photography-awards-2013-open-competition/

“We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.”

- Ode, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, 1874

New eBook on iPhone Photography + Your Chance to Win an iPhone 5

Fantastic new eBook on iPhone photography by one of the world’s leading mobile photographers – Misho Baranovic. A 106 page guide on how to take creative control of your iPhone. Shoot, edit and share great photographs on the camera you always have with you.

Buy it before 2 October 2012 and you’ll receive a 25% discount and go into the draw to win a brand new iPhone 5! The competition is open to anyone internationally. 25% off – normally $19.99 they’re launching this for $14.99.

This iPhone Photography eBook is fully compatible with the new iPhone 5 (also the 3GS, 4, and 4s).

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS