This year, the theme of Nikon Photo Contest International will be the brand statement, ” At the heart of image” .

The contest has two categories:

1. free category in wich you may submit your work that reflect yout unique perspective and creativity.
2. “My planet” - this category is for images that express your feelings about your world. They may portray the environment, scenes from your daily life, or things and people you feel pasionate about.

The Nikon Photo Contest International is open to all photographers, professional or amateur, from any part of the world.

Entries are accepted from September 1st to November 30th, 2008.
 Entries by conventional mail should arrive at the nearest Entry Collection Point stated in this pamphlet either on or before November 30th, 2008.
 Entries received via the Internet will be accepted until 24:00 November 30th, 2008, Japan time.

Print dimensions: 19 x 24cm (8 x 10 inches) to 28 x 36cm (11 x 14 inches)
Please provide the information listed in the box on the right on the back of each print in block capitals.
One person can submit up to 2 entries for each category (a total of 4 prints). Please fill out the entry form attached to this pamphlet with the photograph(s), then send them by conventional mail to the nearest Entry Collection Point stated later in this pamphlet.

The winners will be announced in Nikon site by the end of July 2009.

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Enter our photo contest and you could be headed for a dream vacation on the island of Maui.

The trip, including airfare for two from a North American gateway in the continental U.S., and a rental car to explore black- or white-sand beaches, take the drive to Hana, whale-watch on the Expedition Ferry, climb Haleakala Mountain and/or visit the nearby islands of Lana’i and Moloka’i, could be yours if you win Pop Photo’s Maui: How Bad Do You Want It? Photo Contest.

To enter, send us a picture showing how much you want to go to Maui. It must have a tropical, Hawaiian theme. Your entire house decorated in palm fronds. A pineapple relaxing on the beach. A photo of you surfing in the snow. Anything goes! You can use real photos, image-editing software… whatever you want.

No purchase required. Entries will be accepted from February 1, 2008 through April 1, 2008. You must be at least 21 years of age and a legal resident of the continental United States.

Cotest rules:PopPhoto.com

Do you work magic with image-editing software?

Think you can spin photographic dross into pure gold using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Picture It!, or other programs? Here’s your chance to put your creativity to the test with Pop Photo’s 2008 Digital Wizard Contest.

You could win the $1,000 grand prize and have your work published in the magazine — and there are cash prizes for runners-up, too! But hurry up — the contest ends March 31!

Download the 12 photos and then prove your wizardry. You must use elements from at least 4 of the shots. You can’t add any other images, but you can apply any filters or plug-ins your software can handle.

The deadline for entries is midnight (ET), March 31, 2008. The winners will be published in the July 2008 issue and on PopPhoto.com.

Cotest rules: PopPhoto.com

Travel portraits!

Do you have the soul of a traveler, are you really keen on photography and do you like challenges?If so take part in a great photo competition organize by pikeo.com and Photo

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On Saturday, the 26th of May 2007 the eleventh WestLicht Photographica Auction was ended with a sensation.
An 1839 daguerreotype camera, ancestor of modern photography, was sold at auction in Vienna Saturday for nearly 600,000 euros making it the world’s oldest and most expensive commercial photographic apparatus.
The daguerreotype, named after the French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre, is an early type of photograph in which the image is exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapour.

Numerous bidders from all over the world took part in the camera auction including some from Korea, Japan, USA and various parts of Europe. The most recent auction was able to out-shine the high standards of previous auctions both in total turnover as well as the percentage of sold lots. 90 % of the total of 815 lots were auctioned for a total of more than 1.7 million Euros.
The opening price was 100,000 euros for the wooden box structure, which is in its original state and had been lying forgotten in a loft in Munich since the year 1940 until the present owner of the premises accidentally came across it.
Michel Auer, a Swiss photographer and photographic historian, carried out an expertise on the device and concluded that it was the only remaining known example made by a French firm, the Susse Brothers.
Before it resurfaced, the oldest known and most expensive daguerreotype apparatus in the world had been one also dating from 1839 but made by Alphonse Giroux, brother-in-law of the inventor Daguerre.
Only 12 remaining original Giroux daguerreotype cameras are known to be preserved in various collections around the world.

The point-and-shoot cameras are great, that is, as long as the subject of the photo is not moving very fast.
The compact digital camera can take so long to react after you snap the shutter release button that the moment has passed and the desired image is never captured.
The problem is called shutter lag.
But avoiding it, or minimizing it in the next camera you buy — well, that is a tricky problem.And the problem is, camera makers do not want to tell consumers too much about that.
It is just that shutter lag is too difficult a concept to communicate in ads or marketing materials in stores;it still is much easier to sell consumers on a camera’s price, style, color, image-stabilization abilities, wireless ability or even its many preset shooting modes like fireworks, underwater or dining.
The first problem is that shutter lag is not really shutter lag at all, but processor lag:when the photographer begins to push down the button to snap the picture, sensors in the camera begin to take a series of measurements.Then the image is captured on the processor and sent into memory.
The specifications surrounding lag are not standardized and can be interpreted in various ways. Indeed, there is not even one standard. For instance, one might measure shutter lag in auto focus and another with manual focus, which will be much less.
The shutter-lag problem is not true of all digital cameras. The digital single-lens-reflex (S.L.R.) cameras do not have a problem with shutter lag.
Photographers offer a few tips on capturing action shots with point-and-shoot cameras:
1.If you can anticipate a shot then push the shutter-release button down halfway. Priming the auto-focus gets the process started early. When you push the button down all the way, the camera can process the information more quickly.
2.Another trick is to point the camera to where the action will occur, push halfway, and when the action occurs, push it all the way. That means you do not follow the subject, you follow the event. In other words, if you are tracking a downhill skier slaloming through a series of flags, aim at the flags, not the skier.
3.Camera makers also suggested using the burst mode, which quick-fires a series of photos. Shoot the first one in advance of the event and then you probably will capture the significant moment.

More information: The New York Times

Digital or film? by TJ Tierney

Having lost count of the number of people who have asked me: “have you gone digital?” I am always left wondering why it’s such a much-asked question. The camera is only a tool in which a photographer creates an image. His personal ability to create a unique image remains the same.

For many forms of photography, digital has long held obvious advantages, but for landscapes the resolution necessary to make larger prints just wasn’t available. But things have changed and digital cameras are fast becoming the tools that most pros use.

Modern digital cameras are perfectly capable of matching the 35 mm film - the format which most landscape photographers begin with. But can they really match the large format film cameras? This is probably the greatest question that all photographers face.

Instant LCD feedback is digitals greatest gift and this enables the photographer to check exposure and composition of their image in the blink of an eye. While this is a big advantage, the hours spent in front of the computer processing the raw images have to be a hindrance. A landscape photographers time is best spent behind a camera not in front of a computer.

The pros and cons of digital photography will remain an issue for some time. At the end of the day a digital camera won’t make a photographers images better. The same values we apply in our photography should remain regardless of which camera we use.

Good photography remains as elusive and as enticing as it ever was; going digital doesn’t change this or make getting good images any easier. It brings technical advantages, and plenty of them, but the majority of photographic techniques never change. Good landscape images come from the photographer’s personal ability, not the ability of a camera. The camera helps, but the creative eye remains the same.

As a landscape photographer I am still hesitant to embrace digital photography and all the qualities that digital has brought to other professionals in different photography fields.

There are a few simple reasons that I still use a film camera:
The authenticity of my images could be questioned if I used a digital camera. It is often assumed that great digital images have been manipulated.
Too much time is spent in front of a computer.
Slide film produce stronger colours than a digital camera.

There are many advantages for changing to digital but I’m going to stick with film; for the time-being that is. With time film cameras will be a thing of the past and all our images will be exchanged for the pixels. But, be wary - believing our work will be superior would be falling into a great trap. For me size matters, the larger I can print an image the better.

So where larger prints are needed, my choice will be to stay with Film, but I’m sure this will change in the near future.

TJ Tierney is an award winning Irish Landscape and nature photographer. For more tips you can visit his photography site. To view his images visit his on-line gallery of flower pictures or see his collection of stock photography

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