Where:  Art Central, 100 7th Avenue SW, Downtown Calgary
When:  Thursday February 5th from 11 AM -8 PM
              Friday February 6th from 11 AM-5 PM
              Saturday February 7th  from 12 PM-4 PM

Join us in welcoming our Gold Sponsor Hewlett-Packard for the 2009 Exposure Calgary/Banff Photography Festival. We will be at Art Central demonstrating the new HP Printer line up including the new large format HP Design Jet Z3200.

Donate to the Exposure Calgary/Banff Photography Festival and we'll make a free print from your high-res digital file. 
 

The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be celebrating its 30th year in 2009. On the occasion of this special jubilee, Leica Camera AG has revised the entry conditions and included numerous changes.

Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award/Newcomers Award 2009 will be accepted as online submissions between 15 January and 1 March 2009.

A Newcomers Award will be incorporated in the competition for the first time. The competition for this award is open to all (prospective) photographers who are aged 25 years and under.

An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of up to 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive.

The winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will receive 5,000 euros or, alternatively, Leica camera equipment to the same value. The winner of the Newcomer Award will be awarded 2,500 euros. The prizes will be presented in the course of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photographic festival held in Arles, France.

All photo series submitted will be displayed in a special online gallery section of the Leica website for a period of time, ending with the request for entries for the new competition. All photographers have the possibility to be displayed in the online gallery under a “nickname”.

To Take Part

All entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2009 must be made via the online  » Application Form  between 15th January and 1st March, 2009.

The “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” competition is open to all professional photographers. To take part, participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2008 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2008.

The “Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award” competition is open to any (prospective) professional photographer under 25 years of age at the time of entering. To take part, participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2008 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2008.

The digital images prepared for uploading must be no larger than 1920 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high, but have to have at least one of these two maximum dimensions.

So an image with a height of 1200px may have any width less than or equal to 1920px and an image with a width of 1920px may have any height less than or equal to 1200px.

Click here to apply.

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About Traditional Darkrooms
Educational Workshop
Sunday, February 22, 2009
11 AM–4 PM

In this one-day seminar, instructor Julian Ferreira from The Camera Store will teach participants how to set up a traditional wet black and white darkroom. Printing demonstrations will show how to interpret a film or digital negative and how to get more out of an image; Julian will demonstrate advantages and disadvantages of various paper and print making techniques, and demystify the myths and realities relating to archiving your precious works of art.

$35.00/participant
Room 455. Alberta College of Art and Design,
1407-14 Avenue N.W., Calgary, AB.

To purchase tickets click here.

Learn all the tricks on how to take winter landscapes and environmental portraits, from Canadian Geographic photographer Todd Korol. Bring your photography gear, along with your mitts and toques to the Rockies and discover how to interpret a winter scene and incorporate lighting into your outdoor shots.

See Todd's work at www.toddkorol.com

$75/participant

 

Visit www.exposurecalgarybanff.com in February for start time and meeting location. Dress for the weather!

This workshop will go from 10AM-4PM on February 21st, 2009 and will take place in Kananaskis Country. (Exact meeting place to be announced.) Dress twice as warm as you think you should and bring your lunch!

If you can remember, way back in the last millenium, people used film to capture images. One of the film choices available was a film able to record the infrared spectrum. It was sensitive to heat and more specifically, living things including grass, trees, people, animal life, etc. Those areas of the image were more exposed and whiter. Rocks, sky, etc. with no living matter, were less exposed and recorded grey to black. If you’ve seen these images, they would certainly leave an impression. I believe the main reason for the existence of this film was for aerial surveillance. The air force could pinpoint enemy force with the film’s ability to detect warm bodies. They now use satellite surveillance to do the same thing so they don’t need the film either.

The drawback to this film was, because it was sensitive to heat, even when it was still in the package, it could still be fogged by surrounding heat. It had to be stored in the freezer. You had to be very careful when you loaded the film into the camera. You had to be careful not to heat up the camera in the sun or with body heat.  Another characteristic of the infrared wavelength is that it focuses at a different point than the visible light spectrum. So you had to focus the camera and then apply an adjustment to the focus the sharpen it up. You couldn’t see the correction but it had to be done.

Anyhow, with the digital revolution, comes the simplified version of infrared photography without these stumbling blocks.   When you upgrade your older digital SLR camera body or even a point and shoot camera, recycle it and give it a new life. There is now a company in the U.S. called www.LifePixel.com that can convert that old camera to be a dedicated infrared digital camera. Digital cameras normally have a filter built in to filter out all the infrared light. LifePixel removes the filter and resets the focus to record sharp infrared images. The problems with storing and handling infrared film are now in the past. Just the fun of creating fantastic infrared images remains and being able to review them instantly.

Go to their website and see the infrared samples on display. If you weren’t sure what an infrared image looked like, I’m sure you’ll recognize the effect once you see it.

Until next month………

Peter Gold MPA
The Camera Store
403.234.9935
 

The 2009 ILFORD Photo Competition

2009 is the 130th anniversary of the founding of ILFORD Photo by Alfred Hugh Harman in 1879. ILFORD will produce a
special commemorative 20" x 16" pack of MULTIGRADE FB. This will be a LIMITED EDITION of 10,000 10‐sheet
envelopes.

Your photograph could be on this limited edition package!

For the first time ever, ILFORD will reproduce 4 images on the front of one of the envelopes.

If your photograph is chosen you will be credited as the photographer under the image, you will also receive a certificate
signed by the Board of HARMAN technology Limited attesting to your image being one the four images being used to
celebrate the 130th anniversary of the founding of the original ILFORD Photo Company. You will also receive printers’
proofs of the finished envelope design and a goody bag of ILFORD Products.

The rules:
• By entering into the competition you give ILFORD the right to use the image for reproduction on the
commemorative envelope, the ILFORD Photo website and
any publication that reproduces the image from the press releases that will be issued.
• You must be a member of APUG (The Analog Photography Users Group ‐ www.apug.org).
• The photograph must be shot on ILFORD film of any type.
• The photograph must be sent to us printed on any ILFORD or KENTMERE silver gelatin paper.
• You must NOT send the negative.
• Timescale : The photograph must be taken between Wednesday 7th January 2009 and Tuesday March 31st
2009.
• Format : ILFORD will reproduce all images on envelopes ( and boxes ) as square format.
• Subject : The subject can be anything you wish.
• Print : The print can be submitted to us on any of our papers either RC or FB, it can be any size between 4" x 4"
and up to 16" x 16" it can be toned, but if it wins, it will be reproduced for publication as a neutral print from a
scan of the original negative. The print must be sent unmounted. No prints submitted can be returned to the
sender.
• The print must have written on the back, or attached to the back :
o The full name of the sender.
o The full contact address, including telephone number and e.mail.
The date the photograph was taken, where the photograph was taken, the type of film, the format eg
35mm, 120, sheet film and the type of paper it was printed on.
• Important : The image submitted cannot contain any recognizable image of a person who is not willing to have
their image reproduced in the manner stated and will ( and is able to ) sign a model release to that effect.
• You can send as many entries as you wish. Every entry must have the details as above on the back of every
entry.
• The print entry must arrive at the address below no later than Monday April 6th 2009.
No person entering can have more than one image reproduced, therefore there will be four winners.

Dr.Tim Rudman has agreed to judge the entries and choose the winners of this competition.

The judge’s decision is final.

The winners will be notified by mail. The winners will be announced before the end of April on the APUG Forum .

The estimated date of the worldwide release of the limited edition product will be MAY, 2009.

Send your entries to:

HARMAN technology Limited
Ilford Way,
Mobberley,
Knutsford.
CHESHIRE
WA16 7JL
ENGLAND

Please mark the envelope: “130th Anniversary / APUG Photo Competition”

ILFORD will endeavour to scan and put on their website the final judges cut of the 100 best entries.


Harman and ILFORD PHOTO products are distributed in Canada by Amplis Foto Inc.

About Amplis
Amplis Foto Inc., established in 1983, is a marketing and distribution company dedicated to serving the advanced amateur and professional photography markets as well as the motion picture/television industry. Located in Markham, Ontario, Amplis Foto has sales representation across Canada to support over 600 stocking dealers with exclusive distribution rights for over 20 product lines including: Broncolor, Gitzo, Hahnemühle, Kata, Manfrotto, Photoflex, Tamrac and Tamron to name a few.

For additional information, please contact Amplis at: info@amplis.com

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Joe Englander's Black and White and colour prints from the Buddhist Himalayan countries of Bhutan, Tibet, and Ladakh.

Opening Reception: Thursday February 5, 2009 5:30-9PM

Art Central, 14 100 7th Ave SW
Calgary, AB

For a preview of Joe Englander's exhibiton visit his web site.

 

Joe Englander will also be having a talk at the ACAD theatre on February 6th, 2009. 

7PM

Stanford Perrott Theatre ACAD

Alberta College of Art + Design
1407-14 Ave NW
Calgary, AB Canada
T2N 4R3

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Firmware v1.0.7 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II,

Firmware Update Version 1.0.7 improves and mitigates the following two types of image quality phenomena that occur under certain shooting conditions.

1. "Black dot" phenomenon (the right side of point light sources become black)
2. Vertical banding noise

The information accompanying the new firmware recommends that users of Canon's Digital Photo Professional (DPP) and Picture Style Editor, who shoot on either sRAW1 or sRAW2, should update these applications as well. Canon EOS 5D Mark II photos taken on either sRAW setting with firmware v1.0.7 loaded, and then viewed in DPP or Picture Style Editor, will apparently show a magenta shift in darker areas.

The new software versions - DPP 3.5.2 and Picture Style Editor 1.4.2 for Mac and Windows - correct this, and are available here (follow the link, and then choose your operating system from the pulldown menu). Third party applications that support the EOS 5D Mark II's sRAW formats may also need to be revised if they show the same magenta shift with firmware v1.0.7.

 

What has changed in Firmware Version 1.0.7? It improves and mitigates the following image quality phenomena. "Black dot" phenomenon (the right side of point light sources becomes black) When shooting night scenes, the right side of point light sources (such as lights from building windows) may become black. The phenomenon may become visible if the images are enlarged to 100% or greater on a monitor or if extremely large prints of the images are made. This firmware improves and mitigates this phenomenon. Vertical banding noise If the recording format is set to sRAW1, vertical banding noise may become visible depending on the camera settings, subject, and background. The firmware improves and mitigates this phenomenon. Why is it required to update the Digital Photo Professional and Picture Style Editor software? If the existing software applications are used to display sRAW1 and sRAW2 images that were captured by a camera with Firmware Version 1.0.7, dark, low-contrast areas in the images may appear slightly magenta. If the updated software applications are used to display sRAW1 and sRAW2 images, the color of the images will appear normal, regardless of the camera firmware version.

ACAD 4th Year Photography "New Blood" - January 15th thru February 3rd, 2009

Opening reception Thursday January 15th, 2009 5:30PM-8:30PM

The Alberta College of Art has graduated some of Canada's top photographers and the gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of the 4th Year Students. Please join us at the opening next Thursday at Art Central at the Gallery of Photograpic Arts.

ACAD 4TH YEAR PHOTOGRAPHY
“New Blood”

Fearless students with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men and women-- who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in their bare hands, and who, disguised as mild mannered graduates of the Alberta College of
Art and Design, lead a never ending fight for truth, justice and the Canadian way! The Alberta College of Art and Design program nurtures many passionate photographers and the gallery is proud to place their work on display as part of the “New Blood” exhibition.

Featuring:

Luke Moilliet, Alyas Mawani, Taegeun Kim, Andrea Walker, Alicia Hoogveld, Inger Marthe Skyberg, Laura Ramsey, Joshua Mcveity, Riley Stewart, Scott Witcher, Nicholas Wong, Robyn Nowoczin, Jessica Bobyn, Tiffany Connell, Geoffrey Fehr, Rachel Mackay, David Fenton

 

 

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Focus On The Rockies - Winterscapes

The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise's Focus On The Rockies - Winterscapes experience gives you time to experience the splendor of our great outdoors, and learn some new photographic techniques.

Learn how to "Paint with Time" using your camera - show movement and colour in nature that our eyes cannot record! Make your photos look moody and emotional just by choosing the right shutter speed.

World renowned photographers, including Darwin Wiggett, Mark and Leslie Degner, Kelly Funk & Mike Grandmaison share their best tips on everything about photography.... from lighting techniques, to making money with your digital camera. Our pros will take you out into the field and guide you through the processes of taking outstanding pictures.  Seminars are targeted towards novice and intermediate levels of photography experience.

Presenters: Mike Grandmaison, Kelly Funk, Darwin Wiggett, Mark and Leslie Degner
Sponsors/Partners: Outdoor Photography Canada, Nikon

Package Included

• Accommodations
• Welcome Gift (photo Frame)
• Friday Night Reception
• Saturday Gala Dinner (3 Course Meal andWine)
• Saturday Breakfast
• Saturday Boxed Lunch
• Sunday Brunch
• Photography Lectures, seminars and Workshops
• Professional Guided field instruction

Availability

January 30 – February 1, 2009

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