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One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Robert Capa was born in Budapest, on October 22, 1913, as Endre Ernő Friedmann. He started to work as a photographer in the 1930s, first as a correspondent of Dephot, a Berlin-based agency. In 1933 he moved to Paris, where he befriended André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour (Chim), and met with the great love of his life, Gerda Taro, also a photographer. He changed his name to Robert Capa in 1935, and his pictures of the 1936-1937 Spanish civil war were already published under this nom de plume. He immigrated to the US in 1939. Between 1941 and 1945, he worked on the European scenes of the war for Life magazine. He was one of the founders of the Magnum Photos agency. He died in May 1954, when he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam.
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Wildlife Conservation Society Photographer to Share Photo Tips and Experiences in Free Bogen Imaging Webinar

WCS Staff Photographer Julie Maher Will Share Tips and Tricks for Better Wildlife Photography

Ramsey, N.J. (June 2, 2009)—Bogen Imaging, a leading distributor of top quality photographic support products and accessories in North America, announces a free webinar titled “A Budget Safari – Wildlife Photography at Your Local Zoo: Roundtable with Julie Larsen Maher.” Part of the company’s Bogen Café series of free instructional webinars, the seminar will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT, on Friday, June 19th. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Staff Photographer Julie Larsen Maher, and David Fisher, Bogen Imaging’s Gitzo, Metz, Gossen and Litepanels Product Manager, will discuss the best practices, gear, and times to visit when shooting wildlife at a local zoo.
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PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 16th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online​. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online is a leading resource in the future of free information distribution, offering readers: Digital Photography tips and techniques, DSLR camera function training, and image post processing tutorials in Adobe® Photoshop™, and RAW processing in Photoshop Lightroom™.

The May 2009 edition is packed with helpful tips for beginners to intermediate level digital photographers. This month the magazine explores positive ways to engage law enforcement officials, preparing your gear for rainy day photography, and a brand new “readers questions” column. Additionally there are Photoshop™ and Lightroom™ tutorials for photographers to get the most out of their post processing techniques.
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The 2010 Sony World Photography Awards are open for entries from today, Monday 1 June 2009.

With categories for both professional and amateur photographers, the Sony World Photography Awards is one of the world’s largest photographic events. The awards are a platform for both established and emerging photographers and in 2009 the competition attracted over 60,000 entrants from 139 different countries.

The competition for professional photographers incorporates 12 categories across three genres – commercial, fine art and photojournalism/documentary. The overall winner will take the coveted L’Iris D’Or title together with $25,000 (USD) along with Sony camera equipment. The 36 category finalists will then be exhibited in galleries across the world as part of the Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour throughout 2010 and 2011.
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New Creative Alliance Tour: Seven Leading Companies Join Forces to Enhance Professional Photographers’ Entire Digital Experience

28 May 2009 – Seven of the industry’s most influential technology suppliers have joined together to bring cutting-edge, digital workflow solutions to professional photographers across Europe. Adobe Systems, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Nikon, Nik Software, Wacom and X-Rite have joined forces for a unique, nine-city Creative Alliance Tour. The tour has been set up to provide creative professionals with a comprehensive insight into a complete digital workflow. A full-day seminar will take place at each city stop, hosted by renowned photo professionals and evangelists - Robin Preston, Boudewijn Krijger and Guy Gowan, among others. These influential master photographers will demonstrate live shoots, and talk about why colour profile and calibration is key to getting the best end product.
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Jalbum, the popular photo sharing service and personal web album creator software connects to the bloggers around the world by introducing a brand new tool called Jalbum Blog badge. Any blogger can now conveniently display their photo album news in the sidebar of their blog. The blog badge is automatically updated and shared when an album is published with Jalbum. Photo albums can be published anywhere, to a free Jalbum account or the bloggers own site.

“We have received a lot of questions from our users on how to share albums in blogs. We are very excited to be able to provide a powerful tool for bloggers to integrate personalised photo albums with their blogs. Jalbums flexible photo albums are a great fit with the bloggers desire for self-expression. The Blog badge will connect Jalbum to a huge creative audience, people we are eager to meet”, says Carl Manneh, CEO of Jalbum.

The Jalbum Blog Badge was launched as Beta in March 2009. Since then, thousands of bloggers have already added the Blog badge to their sites. The blogs are distributed all over the world: from Andrea, a casual blogger in Brazil (andreabrava.blogspot.com), and Jon Perkins running a Karp fishing camp in France (lescroix.blogspot.com) to a real estate blog in Dallas (dallasurbanblog.blogspot.com). More examples here: http://jalbum.net/blog/entry/blog-badge-in-action/.

WordPress and Blogger integration
In addition to a general code to copy-and-paste into blogs, the Blog badge also comes as plug-ins for leading blog services Wordpress and Blogger. The tool is very flexible when it comes to customization of the presentation. Any creative blogger can easily adjust the presentation of the Blog badge in terms of colors, fonts and more, to fit the site it is used on.

About Jalbum
Jalbum consists of freeware web album creator software, free hosting and a creative photo sharing community. With Jalbum you easily create and share your own photo album site, publish it anywhere and share it on http://www.jalbum.net. The first version of Jalbum software was released as a hobby project by founder David Ekholm in 2002 and has been granted numerous awards from respectable companies like Softpedia, About.com, Download.com and Tucows.

For high-resolution pictures and additional info, please contact Carl Manneh:
Mobile: +46 735 24 45 80 | 
E-mail: carl@jalbum.net | Skype: carlmanneh

New medium-format Phase One P65+ beats all other cameras for overall dxomark sensor performance.
RAW performance data for Hasselblad H3DII 50 also now available on dxomark.com

Paris, France – May 14, 2009 –DxO Labs announces today the publication of detailed RAW-based image quality data and DxOMark Sensor rankings on its popular http://www.dxomark.com website for two additional medium-format cameras, the Phase One P65+ and the Hasselblad H3DII 50.
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Condé Nast Traveler’s annual Dream Trip contest is in full swing.  Just upload a photo from a trip and describe what made it a great travel moment for a chance to win a $25,000 Dream Trip to anywhere on earth!  But that’s not all!  The Condé Nast Traveler staff, including consumer news editor Wendy Perrin, will work with the winner to craft a truly unforgettable and flawless journey.
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Tamron USA, Inc. announced the re-launch of its website designed to make the navigation of its wealth of learning materials and access to product information easier for new and returning visitors. The revamped site, designed by Skylar Designs, Inc. and managed by an internal webmaster, was launched April 30th. Tamron’s current website was launched approximately 18 months ago and has consistently seen over 100,000 unique visitors a month and has a low bounce rate and a healthy percentage of new versus returning visitors. The new design will surely make the bounce rate even lower and realize significant growth as returning visitors come back on a regular basis to seek out new posts.
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EC Display Solutions is expanding its NEC SpectraView® series with a hardware calibratable widescreen 24” model on the one hand, the NEC SpectraView® 2490, and with the two wide-gamut 2690 and 3090 reference LCD displays on the other hand: new benchmark standards in colour management. The IPS panel for the 2490 satisfies the requirements of top quality professional image processing, as do the H-IPS (horizontal in-plane switching) panels of the 2690 and 3090 models, since IPS panel technology is the best for colour-critical applications. The high 1920 x 1200 and 2560 x 1600 resolutions at 60 Hz (Reference 3090), an AdobeRGB colour-space coverage of up to 107 percent, and very wide and stable viewing angles of 178 degrees allow razor sharp pictures and brilliant colours without any chromatic distortions (colour shifting) whatsoever. In addition, top quality picture reproduction is also supported by the programmable 12-bit LUT (look-up table) for each RGB signal (so enabling 36-bit colour control), gamma correction, and also the X-Light® Pro feature. Whether deployed for media reproduction, digital image processing or in print-workflow, NEC Display Solutions has succeeded in combining into these models outstanding technical performance with excellent economy.
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Within the next three years, 20 percent of all printed images will be in the form of photobooks or other formats(1). Consumers have a strong desire to tell their stories, share their memories and have them printed, which has resulted in significant growth opportunities in revenue and volume for photo professionals. While only two or three copies of a traditional wedding album were usually produced, digital technology now enables different versions to be printed and personalised for each guest.

Therefore, transitioning to digital printing will enable fine art and professional photographers in portrait, nature and school segments as well as print service providers (PSP), to expand their businesses and create new services using HP Indigo presses.
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