Happy (and a very photographic) New Year!!

Want to set yourself a challenge .....

or a resolution for 2011 ....

want to improve your photography???

Then try a 365 project - simply take a photograph every day for the year.

It's a great way to try photographing different things and to provide a record of your life for one year.

For inspiration see Phil Gould's website - www.365photographydays.com

Subscribe to a website to keep you motivated and get tips - such as- http://365project.org/

Using an iPhone??

Then search for the Project365 app at the iTunes store.

iPhone app showing best photo sites in Cambridge

An ARU student has produced an app available via iTunes.

For the full story in Cambridge Evening News - click here.

Full version is £1.79 - the lite version is free.

Download from iTunes.

Look what you can do with an iPhone ....

"Does it really matter what camera Damon Winter used to make these beautifully composed images? I don't think so. It's the images that are important." James Estrin

Click here for the story.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 16

Exposure Triangle

British Heart Foundation Photography Competition





Red for Heart (all you have to do is incorporate the colour red into your image)





Fantastic prizes in the student category including:

• Canon EOS 60D Digital SLR Camera (worth £1,199)


• Once in a lifetime opportunity for a one-day shoot shadowing an award winning Getty photographer

Winning entries are also published in the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

Closing date: 9th January 2011
Entry fee applies (but all proceeds go to Red for Heart fundraising campaign)

For more details click here

Another Christmas Competition!!!

Theme: Modern Christmas

Winning entry to be published in the Cambridge Evening News

Must be aged between 13-26 to enter

Closing date: 13th December 2010

For more info - click on link www.facebook.com/cambridgefolkmuseum

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 15

Panning

"The matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining observation full and felt."

Walker Evans
Image by Walker Evans

Long Road Photography

Christmas Card Competition

Take an image suitable the 2011 Long Road Christmas Card and win a prize worth £10!!!!!

The image needs to be related to Christmas – holly, snow, ice, robin, decorations ……. AND link to Long Road.

Place you entries on the C15 Memory Stick in the “Christmas Card Image” folder.

Make sure your entry has your name on it.

Closing date: End of Term

Prize-winner to be announced in the New Year.

For tips on taking images in snow - view this recent blog post.

Nikon D60 for sale

Kit includes:
D60 Body
AF-S DX VR 18-200mm lens
All with original boxes and instructions.

Offers around £600
If you are interested, please see Andrea who can put you in touch with the seller.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 14

Aperture Values

It's snowing ........

If you want to go and take images of the snow here are a few tips to get you started.

• Make sure your batteries are FULLY charged - the cold will deplete them much much faster.

• Consider taking a poly bag with you - you may wish to crouch down low and won't want to get all soggy!

• Digital cameras - if you are shooting JPEG - check your white balance - snow can easily appear too blue or too orange depending on the lighting conditions.
  

• If you are shooting RAW you will not need to worry about white balance as you can adjust this in RAW conversion.
  

• WATCH your exposure. Your camera will have a tendancy to produce images that are too dark if the snow is really bright.

• On digital cameras you may have a 'snow' mode so try that. If you have a histogram feature on your camera to view your exposure, check to see if your highlights are getting blown out (reduce exposure if they are). For more on using a histogram see video below:

• If you are shooting black and white film you should OVER EXPOSE by one stop (make sure that needle is heading towards the + symbol).

For more tips and some great ideas for images - watch the video below:

"Learn from the best; the second-raters have nothing to offer."
David Hurn

Image by David Hurn

"Vintage Watson"

Albert Watson at Hamiltons Gallery, London

26th November 2010 - 21st January 2011

For more info - click here.
Image by Alvert Watson

Smash His Camera - Ron Galella

Paparazzi Photographer

This was on BBC1 last night- you can watch online on BBC iPlayer until 28th December.

Information on programme

Widely considered to be the world's first paparazzi photographer, the controversial American photojournalist Ron Galella was sued by Jackie Kennedy and had his jaw broken by Marlon Brando. Throughout a career spanning more than 40 years, Galella's stalking tactics have attracted criticism, hostility and lawsuits. But his relentless pursuit of the famous has enabled him to amass an archive of 3 million photographs that represent a unique record of modern American celebrity culture.

In this film, the award-winning programme-maker Leon Gast follows Galella as he revisits some of his old haunts and recalls his encounters with the stars who have tried - and usually failed - to evade his lens.

Click here to watch on BBC iPlayer.

For more info on Ron Galella click here.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 13

This episode is on white balance.

Image by Andrea Norrington
Autumn is a great time for sunrise and sunset photography

This article is full of good tips.
Click here to read.

The strange allure of train station steps and other urban scenes of beauty

Examples of urban images from a recent competition by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Click here to view.

"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."

Richard Avedon

Image by Richard Avedon

A2 Photography

Student Photographic Competition

“The Journey is the Destination”

The winner of the competition is Arron Voice. His shot contrasts the bustle of Oxford Street with the relative calm of Ramillies Street where we visited the Photographers’ Gallery.

Although the Gallery is now closed until Autumn 2011 you can still participate in their Street Photography project online by visiting www.photonet.org.uk

Image by Aaron Voice