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Travel Photographer of the Year 2011: Winning Images

A former professor at the University of California, Louis Montrose of the USA, has become the overall winner of the 2011 international  Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) awards, with two striking, and very different, portfolios; one documenting life in a painted village in Burkina Faso and the other depicting the Dia de los Muertos [...]

Surabaya Workshop: Simple Things to Captivating Fashion Photography

There are many people doing fashion photography nowadays and a lot of great works created. To be creative and distinguished become our “survival kits” in this kind of photography business which is growing more and more competitive.
A Jakarta-based professional fashion photographer, Darius Manihuruk, described it in a workshop held at the Grand City, Surabaya, yesterday [...]

Exotic Reog Ponorogo & Groovy Atmosphere in Surabaya Gathering

The atmosphere in the gathering of photography enthusiasts in Surabaya was so unique that the previous gatherings did not have. Taking place at Hallo Surabaya yesterday (11/19), the event went on rousingly and groovily from afternoon to evening.
As the last gathering in a string of Canon & Fotografer.net (FN) Gathering Series 2011, it was opened [...]

New Canon Digital Cinema Camera for High-Resolution Motion Picture Production

Canon Inc. and Canon U.S.A. Inc. has just raised the curtain on an all-new interchangeable-lens digital cinema camera that combines exceptional imaging performance with outstanding mobility and expandability, to meet the demanding production needs of today’s motion picture industry.
The camera, which features a newly developed Super 35 mm-equivalent approximately 8.29-megapixel CMOS sensor, will be available [...]

A 12-year-old Boy Awarded Prestigious Honour by the Royal Photographic Society

Fellows of the world’s oldest photographic society – the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) – were shocked to discover Sam Kaye’s age after they judged his work anonymously and awarded him the honour.
Reported by Daily Mail, Sam, from Radlett, Hertfordshire, started taking photos when he was six and beat hundreds of photographers from all over the [...]

New Schneider’s iPro Lenses for iPhone

Lens-maker Schneider Optics Inc. has launched its iPro Lens System, purpose-built to enable professional quality photographic and video imagery with the iPhone 4 and 4S. As reported by PMA Newsline, it allows iPhone 4/4S owners to enhance the camera integrated into their phone by adding the benefits of interchangeable Wide Angle and Fisheye lenses to [...]

A T-shirt of Rp 1 Million, 150 Photography Enthusiasts in Medan Gathering

In an atmosphere of friendliness and a touch of tropical air, more than 150 photography enthusiasts gathered  in Medan on Sunday (10/23). Running from around noon to late afternoon, the gathering was enlivened with such sessions as photo sharing, autographed-T-shirt auction and model shooting.
Taking place at Kenanga Indonesia Restaurant, the event is a string of [...]

Medan Workshop: From Travel Photo Techniques to Business Opportunity

Travel photography is not just dealing with techniques but also with etiquette. Moreover, its business opportunity is still widely open if we know how to explore and how to do it creatively.
That is more or less the quintessence of a photography workshop held at Atyaduta Hotel, Medan, today (10/22) from morning till afternoon. Themed “A-Z [...]

First Consumer Light Field Camera, Available in Early 2012

Lytro, Inc. has unveiled the first Lytro consumer light field camera, introducing a new way to take and experience pictures. Unlike conventional cameras, the Lytro light field camera captures all the rays of light in a scene, providing new capabilities never before possible, such as the ability to focus a picture after it’s taken.
The pocket-sized [...]

Canon EOS 1D X Coming on March 2012

Canon Inc. and Canon Marketing Japan Inc. has just announced today the achievement of two major manufacturing milestones: combined production of film and digital EOS-series single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras surpassed the 50-million mark in September this year, and the EF series of interchangeable lenses is expected to reach the 70-million-unit milestone later this month.
Besides, what [...]