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College Photographer of the Year Call for Entries

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 19, 2012

It's time to pull together the best of your images for entry in the annual College Photographer of the Year competition. There are important changes in the portfolio and multimedia categories this year as well as the addition of two new interpretive categories. Entry fee: Free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. Deadline: Oct. 7, 2012, 11:59 pm CST Apply: entry.cpoy.org This year's awards include a Nikon Digital SLR camera set, an internship at National Geographic Magazine, National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships, and post-production collaboration with MediaStorm, among others. Judging will be Nov. 8-15 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. You are invited to attend, or, watch the judging sessions via either screencast on the CPOY website or on iTunes starting Nov. 8th. Fore more information email info@cpoy.org. Learn more and apply at entry.cpoy.org.

Rick Robinson speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

TimeWarpers: Evoking an Emotional Response, Last Session of Luminance

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 14, 2012

Rick Robinson, division vice president of marketing for Vision Research opened the last session of the conference with a stunning video by Variable shot using high speed imagery. He said there is an "undeniable appeal of high speed imagery." The high-speed cameras that Vision Research makes can shoot up to 1.4 million frames per second. Earlier this year they released a small 2500 fps camera for about $40,000. Up until that time their cameras cost a minimum of $125,000. High speed photography is often used in science and engineering, functioning like a "time microscope." But high speed photography has an important place in photography as an art as well. He pointed out the emotional response that people have to images played back in slow motion. "When you see it in slow motion you see it again for the very first time," he said. Check out some other stunning videos that use high…

Tyler Shields speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

The Instigators, Luminance Session Seven

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 14, 2012

Gary Morgan, CEO and co-founder of Splash News--which was bought by Corbis last year--opened "the instigators" session on day two of Luminance. He spoke about the change that celebrities have brought to news photography. News used to be about issues, it's now firmly about people, he said. He used the recent photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas as an example. He pointed out that the photos that were sold to TMZ, then later sold to Splash are awful photos, in that they are shot poorly with a phone camera. But the photos made the top headlines and were well paid for because they were the first images to break news. It doesn't matter what kind of camera you have, it matters if you have a picture and you get it out first and fast. This is what is driving the entertainment news market now, he said. The democratization of media creates…

Peter Yang speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

Luminance Session Four: The Light Tamers

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 12, 2012

The first day of Luminance ended with presentations from three very different photographers. Their presentations were accompanied by strong visuals from their portfolios. We've included links to their work below, we highly recommend taking a look. Barbara Davidson opened the session showing her Pulitzer Prize winning work "Caught in the Crossfire." This body of work, shot over three years, shows the perils of gang violence in Los Angeles. Just because it wasn't a traditional breaking news story, she thought it was an important story to cover and she decided to take it on as a long-term documentary project. Davidson believes gang violence is one of the social ills affecting the inner cities of our country. "We don't only have to go to Afghanistan and Iraq to cover injustices," she says. These injustices are happening here in our backyards, she says. "It's easy for us to ignore it in our own country because…

Alan Taylor speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

Luminance Session Three: Packaging Media

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 12, 2012

Eileen Gittins, CEO and founder of Blurb, a digital book publisher, spoke about the 21st century book: what is it now and what might it become? She spoke about how print provides a different experience than digital. Books have physical mass and this may make people feel that they matter more, she says. When she makes the decision between a physical or a digital book she thinks about whether it is something she wants to keep or something she wants to consume. But that's not to say she doesn't see the value in digital. What we used to think of as a book is changing before our very eyes, she says. To help explain this phenomenon, she used an analogy: before there was TV there was radio and when TV first came out it was a lot like radio on TV. Over time TV developed into a new medium entirely. This is…