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New Entry Level Canon
Written by Nick Rains   
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 00:28
Here's a new camera from Canon, the new 550D model - hot off the press as it were, the embargo only expired a few minutes ago.

 

 

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Exhibit your photos at the Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne.
Written by Nick Rains   
Thursday, 04 February 2010 16:52
 
Genius Printing are putting on an interesting competition for all photographers - the winning 50 entrants will have a canvas made from their images which will be displayed at the Brunswick Street Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne for two weeks from April 23rd. There will be some familiar names amongst the judges, including Peter Eastway, David Evans and Yours Truly.
 
Click here for full details : Image Essentials Competition. 

 
 
National Geographic Legend Frans Lanting in Australia
Written by Nick Rains   
Thursday, 21 January 2010 11:46

 

 

Master wildlife photographer Frans Lanting is visiting Australia as part of a project involving Ken Duncan's 'Walk a While' Project for aboriginal children. He will be conducting two seminars in March, tickets are still available for this unique opportunity.

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Panorama Competition
Written by Nick Rains   
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 13:08

 

David Evans has launched a new competition sponsored by Epson:

 The Epson International Photographic Pano Awards 

 This will run until 30th April 2010 and has US$13000 in prizes to be won so get thinking about your entries.

Click Here for full details. 

 
Seminars in Perth
Written by Nick Rains   
Saturday, 16 January 2010 09:42

Whilst I'm in Perth for a workshop  I will also be speaking at the Visible Light conference  on Feb 6-7 and presenting two seminars on Monday Feb 8 in conjunction with Iconic Images International.

Places are still available at this afternoon series of 4 talks, two by myself and two by Iconic Images principal and all round legendary photography, Nick Melidonis. Here's the press release:

Iconic Images International Seminar

Iconic Images International SeminarThis seminar, presented by Iconic Images International, features two of Australia's top photographers and image creation exponents, Nick Rains & Nick Melidonis.
Nick Rains upholds the defining tradition of excellence at Australian Geographic, to showcase details of living interest beautifully illustrated by photographs.

Nick Melidonis loves to see the spark of inspiration in his students' eyes.
It is always a privilege to witness the ability of fine photographers, recognised as masters of their craft, who share a passion for fine art education, and who use the very latest image making software.

Iconic Images International invite you to spend an afternoon at Notre Dame University Australia (NDA), in the NDA Santa Maria Lecture Theatre, Foley Hall, Mouat Street, Fremantle, on Monday 8th February 2101.

Registration commences at 1.00pm and the seminar will conclude around 4.30pm.

Seminar Content

Seminar Content Nick Rains will provide step-by-step information on:

• His privately developed techniques for maximizing the use of digital data in RAW captures before taking images into Photoshop or other image making software.
• Up-sizing in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) combined with in-camera image capture sharpening.
• Using Lightroom to create split toned colour images.
• Edge masks sharpening for optimum print output.
• Seamless blending of multiple exposures using Smart Objects.
• His personal workflow in configuring Photoshop to take full advantage of your creative process.
Nick Melidonis will also provide step-by-step information to encourage you to look, explore, create, take risks and listen to what inspires you. His session will:

• Take you through his most recently developed workflow for producing high quality image files. This workflow was used and refined during his 2009 assignment for Singapore Airlines. The workflow does not use Photoshop enhancement, yet produces high quality images ready for publishing and printing.
• The avant-garde treatment, used by professional commercial and fine art photographers, to produce the ‘High Detail Illustrative Look'; this ‘signature' look is in vogue with photography competition judges nationally and internationally.
• Demonstrate the award winning NIK software programs, Colour Effex Pro 3 filters, Silver Effex Pro, the all-new Viveza 2, Define 2 and Sharpener Pro.

The most recent advances to the NIK suite of software programs are so powerful that they are being used by distinguished photographers, here and overseas, as an alternative to Photoshop. You will be amazed at their ease of use and ability to create award winning and fine art images.

How To Enrol

How To Enrol Date: Monday 8th Feb 2010, registrations commencing at 1.00pm

Venue: Santa Maria Lecture, Notre Dame University, Foley Hall, Mouat Street, Fremantle.

Fee: $59.00

How to Enrol: Please follow this direct link : iconicimagesinternational.com/events/photo-inspirations/

Please note that due to the smaller size of the lecture theatre being used for this seminar, the number of attendees will be limited. Attendees will be accepted on a "first enrolled" basis. Upon enrolling via the above link, Iconic Images International will automatically and immediately issue to you a tax invoice, confirming your acceptance.
Nick Rains is the editor of ‘Better Digital Camera'. A number of issues of the magazine will be made available, free of cost, to attendees.

Nik Melidonis has recently been appointed as a licensed NIK demonstrator.

There will be a number of free NIK programs presented as ‘door prizes'.

Also, a special Iconic Images International discount price for each of the NIK software programs will be available, during the seminar.

Seminar Sponsored by NIK Software and CANON Aust

Seminar Sponsored by NIK Software and CANON AustIconic Images International thank both NIK Software and Canon Australia for their ongoing support and sponsorship for this seminar.

 
Penguins Galore
Written by Nick Rains   
Thursday, 07 January 2010 08:45
 
I have just finished looking through the video footage I shot whilst on the Orion's trip down to the Sub Antarctic Islands and put this little sequence together. I used a Canon 7D and 5D Mk2 with my various lenses but mostly the 16-35 and the 300f2.8.
 
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Issue 36 Out Soon
Written by Nick Rains   
Monday, 04 January 2010 11:03

 
Issue 36 will be in the shops next month. It has a Video theme this time, and it's packed with over 100 pages of articles about making videos with DSLRs, new gear, software reviews etc. 
 

 
Kata Raincapes
Written by Nick Rains   
Friday, 18 December 2009 14:28
 
I recently went down to the Sub Antarctic Islands, in this case Enderby Island, part of the Auckland Island group. Being a long way south the weather was likely to be very poor so I took along one of Kata's range of camera capes to try out...
 
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New Concept - the Ricoh GXR
Written by Nick Rains   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 09:29
 
The new Ricoh GXR has the image sensor built in to the lens not the camera body - a revolutionary concept. We should have a detailed look at this camera in the next issue.
 
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Issue 35 - Out Now
Written by Nick Rains   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 09:27
Issue 35 is now out on the news stands, over 100 pages of articles making it the best value around.
 
Adobe Lightroom 3
Written by Nick Rains   
Friday, 23 October 2009 00:52

 

I've had Adobe Lightroom since it came out and have been a regular LR user since it became useful in version 2. Now Adobe has followed its usual strategy of releasing a new version as a free beta which will expire when the final release version comes out next year. In the meantime we can all play with the new version and comment on the Adobe forums.

Visit http://labs.adobe.com/downloads where you can get the new version.

New features are listed here: Ian Lyons Website

 
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