CanoScan 8800 f- appealing to the avid photographer or SOHO user

The classy two-tone silver black body of the new Canoscan 8800 f looks beautiful, and if you have a silver or black computer then this is certainly going to increase it's charm. Canon has integrated both a flatbed and a film scanner into it – something that will appeal to the avid photographer or SOHO user.

It works as expected to scan a sheet of paper, but the lid can also come off to accommodate thicker books or magazines. For scanning film or slides, special holders are provided (both medium format and small format) and the lid itself provides the backlight.

It took just 18 seconds to scan a full A4 photograph at 600 DPI, while it took 14 seconds for a grayscale scan of the same image. Film scanning was fast too; taking 1 minute 20 seconds for a 35mm slide at a resolution of 2400 DPI.


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Marvin E. Newman at Silverstein

Photographers have to earn a living, and one of the tests of their commitment to their art is how far they will stray from their ideals to pay the rent. "Marvin E. Newman: The Color Series," at Silverstein Photography through May 24, presents the work of an artist who was fortunate to have studied early on with some of the great photographers of the mid-century, who absorbed their aesthetic and social ideals, and who has drawn on their teachings throughout a long and successful career. Silverstein's second exhibition of Mr. Newman's work is mostly concerned with his color photography, much of it from the 1950s, when color was still pretty much a novelty.

Mr. Newman was born in New York in 1927, and first studied photography as an undergraduate at Brooklyn College in the mid-1940s.


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Photographer goes digital and achieves new heights

The last time Harris Stanton Gallery exhibited Robert Glenn Ketchum's photographs was in 1999, according to co-owner Meg Harris' records.

In that show, there were several images from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, or the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area as it was called in 1987-1989, when Ketchum did his now-famous series there, commissioned by the Akron Art Museum.

In the exhibit that opened this weekend at the gallery, the only Cuyahoga Valley image in the show is a framed poster image from the series, hung demurely at the back of the gallery above one of Barbara Krans Jenkins' intriguing carved, stained and wood-burned gourds.

Jenkins is widely known as a highly precise artist whose medium of choice is colored pencils, often combined with watercolors and/or pastels.


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Bohannan Huston Awarded Extensive Denver Region Aerial Photography Project

Professional engineering and mapping services firm Bohannan Huston, Inc. (BHI) has been selected by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) to produce high-quality digital aerial photography for the Denver Regional Aerial Photography Project (DRAPP). BHI will conduct multifaceted aerial photography of approximately 7,000 square miles of the Denver metropolitan area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Gilpin and Jefferson counties, and parts of Weld, Grand and Park counties. The resulting aerial imagery will be used for regional planning, evaluating and mitigating natural hazards, transportation and land use planning, natural resource management, and water resource planning.

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Having my photograph taken has always been like having extensive root-canal work done on my soul. I hate it with an unbridled passion. A photograph of me serves as a permanent reminder of the simple fact that I am just a stomach and a very large chin with a small piece of wire wool growing out of the top.

Unfortunately these days everyone has a camera phone, so everyone has become an amateur paparazzo. And that means I have my photograph taken about four hundred million times a day.

I understand why, of course. If you could get a snap of Cliff Richard mowing his lawn, then – ker-ching! – I bet it’d be worth a grand. If you could get a Formula One boss having his hair checked for lice by a girl dressed up as a Belsen inmate, you might even be able to afford a new car.


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Iconic photo of Che subject of new film

It's probably the most famous portrait ever taken, considered by many to be the "Mona Lisa of photography."

Chances are you see a version of it at least once a week. But very few people, even the picture's most passionate fans, really understand what it means.

"Chevolution," a documentary about Alberto "Korda" Diaz's iconic portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez's entertaining film describes in detail the taking of the legendary photo and how, since 1968, the mass-marketing of the image has separated the icon from Guevara the man.

Diaz took the photo on March 5, 1960, at a funeral for Cuban workers killed in an explosion. Diaz was able to get off two snapshots before Guevara disappeared from view.


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Mini-course Day at CCMS

Charles City Middle School students experienced a variety of indoor and outdoor activities on Wednesday for Mini-course Day. Students learned about digital photography, archery, golf, caligraphy, bowling and many other activities.Ashley Schlader styles Rebecca Rivera's hair. The eighth-graders took part in a hair and make-up mini course. Seventh-grader Shaley Landt paddles across a lake as she and other students learn to kayak with the help of staff from Crawdaddy Outdoors Waverly.

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While perusing the pages of this newspaper on a daily basis, one cannot fail to notice Rob Fountain's credit line as staff photographer.

He started his photojournalist journey at age 22 when he purchased a 35mm Olympus OM-10 and walked into the Saranac Lake offices of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

"I was friends with the sports editor there, Jim Stowell," Fountain said. "He said if I was interested, I could take high-school football photos for him, so he didn't have to. I started being their sports photographer on Saturdays. I did that for some time. Then their photographer quit, and they asked me to take over."

FINE-ARTS ASPECT

When Fountain first started, he knew little, formally, about photojournalism.

"The publisher, Cathy Moore, told me to fill up the frame and come up with a single photo that best tells the story of the whole situation.


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Photo: Bryan Adams Unveils Hear the World Ambassadors Photo Exhibit

Bryan Adams, famed musician and official photographer of the Hear the World initiative, today introduced his photography collection of Hear the World Ambassadors to the public in an interactive exhibit. Last night's opening was timed to celebrate the beginning of Better Hearing and Speech Month.

Hear the World is a global initiative raising awareness about the importance of good hearing and the impact of hearing loss. For the Hear the World exhibit, Adams has photographed several notable musicians including Mick Jagger, Amy Winehouse, Placido Domingo, Joss Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Annie Lennox, Michael Buble and many others. Each image features a celebrity ambassador in a conscious pose of "hearing."

Because music is a universal language that goes beyond geographical, social and linguistic boundaries, it is the chosen medium to spread the message of Hear the World.


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Thursday, May 1, 2008

We all know that a pictures speak a thousand words and the people were allowed to witness this statement as C R Sathyanarayana, award winning photographer put up an exhibit of all his collections at Chitrakala Parishat Art Complex from April 24 to 28. .


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Photography.Book.Now Announces Distinguished Panel of Jurors for Photography Book Competition

The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium has announced a distinguished panel of jurors for its photography book competition. Head Judge Darius Himes, co-Founder of Radius Books, will lead the following panel of internationally renowned editors, publishers, curators, and photographers in judging the most innovative and finest self-published photography books:

"Any photographer would kill to have their work reviewed by this prestigious group," said Eileen Gittins, Blurb's founder and CEO. "Our jurors are all excited to see the range and creativity of books that will be submitted, now that it is so simple and affordable to compose a book of great beauty and quality."

Members of the jury will help select the winning photography books including the recipient of the grand prize award: $25,000 towards the photography project of the winner's choice.


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What's On: Galleries

The Contact Photography Festival, running today to May 31, looks "Between Memory & History" with the works of hundreds of artists on display at various venues around the city. Some of the exhibits are listed here, marked with CF. A public launch for the Festival is Fri. 7 p.m. at Brassaii Bistro, 461 King St. W. Full festival info at www.contactphoto.com

Africa's Children — Africa's Future Office (588 Richmond St. W. 416-203-3715): AC-AF exhibits the Digital AIDS Quilt, today to May 31. CF

Angell Gallery (890 Queen St. W. 416-530-0444): Tim Roda's exhibit "Family Album" is on display Sat. (reception 1 p.m.) to May 31. CF

Art Trax (133 Queen St. E. 905-274-3400, Port Credit): Open house and Sunday evening of art, Fri.-Sun.

Bau-Xi (340 Dundas St.


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Walking tour mixes modern with historic

Looking for a way to honor Isaac Wetherby, Marybeth Slonneger came up with the idea of a photography walking tour.

Not only would the tour showcase historic photos, but it also would include contemporary photos.

Through the month of May, several downtown Iowa City venues are hosting photography exhibits, two historic and 25 modern.

"It just seemed like the year to honor Wetherby, who this year has been more in the news more than in a long time," Slonneger said. "I wanted to highlight not just historical photography, but contemporary photography as well."

Wetherby (1819-1904) left a legacy as an painter and photographer.

He took early views of Iowa City and took the first known photograph of Old Capitol, Slonneger said.


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Beyond photography

"What's photography?" is not the question any more. The question now has to be, "What's not photography?"

Answers can be found at Contact 2008, the month-long photography festival opening today. With some 600 artists showing in more than 200 venues, you get a range, from Alice Lipczak's show of images of the Toronto club scene in the 1980s being held at Michelle's Beach House (1955 Queen St. E., to May 31) to Aron Portnoy's "A Journey to Ethiopia" at St. Michael's Hospital (to May 18).

"Between Memory and History: from the Epic to the Everyday," the 12th annual festival's grandiose theme, is also the title of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA, 952 Queen St. W., today to June 1). But big ideas can't exist without a big essay attached, in this instance written by MOCCA's David Liss and festival director Bonnie Rubenstein for the festival handbook.


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The Natchez Democrat

NATCHEZ — On May 2, two young friends, and co-workers, will make their art show debut at the Natchez Coffee Co.

Payton Trim, 20, and Nathanael Gassett, 17, will be displaying their photography in the coffee shop as part of the First Friday festivities.

Trim and Gassett both work at the coffee shop and both said they are looking forward to their first showing.

While neither of the friends has a wealth of experience, their art speaks differently.

Trim and Gassett said they occasionally collaborate on projects but have different photographic philosophies.

Trim said one of his favorite things about photography, especially digital, is the photographer's ability to change images.

“You can edit, change the color, change the texture and make it new," he said.


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Cultural Council features northwest photographers

The St. Johns Cultural Council is featuring two northwest St. Johns County photographers in a show opening tonight at the Art Advocate on San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine.

Riverscape: Images of the St. Johns River will highlight the work of Cher and Terry Brown and five other photographers including Nease High School student Will Livingston. The opening reception will be from 5 - 9 p.m. and coincides with St. Augustine's monthly Uptown Saturday Night festivities. The public is invited to attend and meet the artists.

The Browns are a husband and wife team who have spent much of their marriage photographing scenes along the St. Johns River and coastal areas throughout the South. They live in northwest St. Johns County. Cher Brown spent most of her life shooting photos with an instamatic camera but after meeting her husband switched to a Nikon digital camera and has since developed a sizeable portfolio of work focused on the flora and fauna found along the banks of the St.


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Arts haven

On a Saturday, mid-afternoon, in the University Galleries at Illinois State University, a single person was taking in the latest exhibit, a group show by teachers from the College of Fine Arts.The main gallery was filled with examples of paintings, prints, sculptures, photography, books, drawings, glass work, ceramics, film -- the sum total of the art program, with two dozen contributing artists, at the disposal of the solitary viewer.Down the street, a much different scene unfolded that day.At the McLean County Arts Center in downtown Bloomington, a single-event attendance record was set, with hundreds of people coming to the reception featuring Jessica Benjamin, a Bloomington native and ISU graduate who is painting representational portraits of Americans from her studio in Long Island.Benjamin's paintings occupied the Armstrong Gallery, the smaller of the two at the arts center, and consisted of 12 portraits and an impressionistic portrayal of a parade.Extending from her "The American Series" exhibit -- through the hallway, down stairs and into the arts center's basement classroom space -- were 150 amateur portraits and murals produced by students, from kindergarten to high school.She and the arts center's education coordinator, Tony Preston-Schreck, had spent the preceding week leading workshops in the basement, in schools and at the Boys and Girls Club of McLean County.


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Alum Creek woman makes living through photography

"Look this way, say smar-tee, say smar-tee," says Susanne Shrewsbury as her camera snaps and whirrs, each click recording another pose. She walks over, and stacks some schoolbooks beside of her model. After all, Lake Isacsson, 5, of Winfield is nearly a preschool graduate. He laughs out loud. Dressed in a tiny graduation cap and gown, he appears to take direction well. Lake is graduating May 20, from the Winfield Preschool at the Winfield United Methodist Church. Son of Christine and P.J. Isacsson of Winfield, he is also making a return visit to Timeless Photography.

In January, through encouragement of friends and family, Shrewsbury went from taking portraits for those two groups to a business that encompasses many more people.

"Everyone kept saying, 'Why don't you start your own business?' "

"I went out and invested in some equipment," she said.



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Uncool Britannia

Do artists see the world the rest of us see? Or are their works purely self-expression, with no tangible connection to historical reality? These questions might seem crude, the implied distinctions dubious. Clearly Vermeer, for example, captured something of 17th-century Dutch life, both the people and their houses. And although Italian Renaissance painters took classical and Christian mythology as their subject, an impression of their own time (clothes, faces, decor) does seep through in their work. Still, we would be unwise to deduce from a comparison of Corot and Courbet with Renoir and Monet that French life became more colourful - literally - over the 19th century. And if we want to know what the bombing of Guernica looked like, we are better off studying photos and newsreels than consulting Picasso's famous painting.


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Photographic memories

You don't have to be Miley Cyrus (or her Vanity Fair-pic-controversy comrade Annie Leibovitz) to know that photos still have power in our image-flooded world. That power will be in full force today as the Contact Photography Festival kicks off with over 200 exhibitions. Toronto's fest is the largest worldwide. Here, Contact director Bonnie Rubenstein frames art celebs and photo philosophy for Leah Sandals.

Q The theme for this year's Contact is "Between Memory and History." What does that mean? A Well, memory is something that's in our minds, whereas history is a documented fact. One can say a photograph is both: It represents things that we store in our minds and it represents history -- events outside of our minds -- simultaneously.

Q How does this year's primary exhibition, From the Epic to the Everyday, reflect that?

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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Dec 2007 05:38 UTC

A few weeks ago I published an editorial on the new school of videographers that has recently started to emerge as profoundly as digital art photography did a few years ago. (OS) News are slow during holiday seasons, so I thought I put together an article with a small collection of some of the best examples of amateur cinematography for your viewing pleasure, as found on the popular with the movement site, Vimeo.com. Leave a comment with what you think of these clips, or even download them in order to watch them in full HD quality through your AppleTV, XboX360 or PS3. .


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MEMORIES: Reference readers love to bag a bargain . . . that’s a fact

BOOKWORMS love a bargain, and heaven help any poor reader who got in the way of an eagle-eyed buyer at the annual Mitchell Library book sale in today's photograph, taken in 1982.

The event, a chance for the Charing Cross library - the largest public reference collection in Europe - to refresh its shelves, is quite clearly not for the fainthearted.

Everyone seemed to be elbowing each other aside in their attempt to get first dibs on books which would otherwise be destined for the dumper.

Come closing time, you can guarantee that all that was left were a few dog-eared maths books and some out-of-date science textbooks.

• Do these pictures bring back any memories, or have you any old photos you'd like to share with our readers? Write to Evening Times, 200 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3qb or e-mail letters@eveningtimes.co.uk, marking your subject field 'Memories' •Send your photos to Your Pics, Evening Times, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB, or email them to yourpics@eveningtimes.co.uk

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Biz briefs, April 29

Polly Pyle was the recent winner in a photo contest for favorite "Secrets of Australia" held by Swain Tours, a travel company specializing in Australia and celebrating its 20th anniversary. Pyle submitted a photograph of Wineglass Bay in Tasmania, Australia, which was taken by her from a small flight-seeing plane. Pyle resides in North Andover, where she is a vacation travel consultant, specializing in travel to Australia among other destinations.

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Creative Memories, a company represented by Amanda LaFlamme, a local independent sales consultant based in Methuen, had a hand in making the new home featured in a recent airing of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," a dream come true for Ju-Juanna Latif, a single mother of four living in Wilmington, Del.

Creative Memories donated $10,000 worth of its scrapbooking and memory-celebration products so that Latif could keep a visual record of the family's transition from its old house to its new home.


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Kodak posts narrower Q1 loss, sales edge up

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday its loss narrowed to $115 million in the first quarter as it chased a bigger stake in digital photography.

The photography products maker said it earned the equivalent of 40 cents a share in the quarter, compared with a loss of $151 million, or 53 cents a share, a year earlier.

Its sales rose one per cent to $2.093 million from $2.08 billion.

Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected, on average, a loss of three cents per share on $2.037 billion in revenue.

Digital sales rose 10 per cent year over year to $1.366 billion from $1.245 billion, while traditional film-based revenue slumped 13 per cent to $724 million from $830 million.

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Taiwan Semiconductor profit falls nearly 19 percent

A photographer takes a photograph beside a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) logo during a quarterly report meeting in Taipei in 2007. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Tuesday its net profit in the first quarter to March fell 18.4 percent to 28.14 billion dollars (1.07 billion US) compared with the same period a year ago. .


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Agency starts contest for outdoor photography

Photo enthusiasts have an opportunity to see their work displayed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on its Web site.

The theme of the Passport Photo Contest for May is �Awakening.�

Contests running through December will have different themes.

Photos will be judged based on interpretation of the theme, originality, creativity, use of the state park or state historic site, storytelling and quality of the photograph, according to DNR.

One monthly winner and four honorable mentions will be chosen and displayed on the photo contest web page. Each photographer can submit up to two photos each month. Digital photographs are preferred but print photographs will be accepted.

Photographers submitting five or more entries overall will receive a Missouri state parks keepsake photo album.



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Lackawanna Station Gallery

Among the venues open for art and entertainment, part of the old Lackawanna Railroad Station on Lewis Street, new home of Van Zandbergen Photography.You can listen to the music of Old Friends, and peruse the photos that line the walls. Kirk VanZandbergen "Leslie, my wife and I make a living doing commercial photography, and the photography that we show on First Friday we call fine art photography and it's the kind of things that we'd like to do that, the pretty pictures, the landscapes, the animals, nature, that sort of thing." .


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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Having my photograph taken has always been like having extensive root-canal work done on my soul. I hate it with an unbridled passion. A photograph of me serves as a permanent reminder of the simple fact that I am just a stomach and a very large chin with a small piece of wire wool growing out of the top.

Unfortunately these days everyone has a camera phone, so everyone has become an amateur paparazzo. And that means I have my photograph taken about four hundred million times a day.

I understand why, of course. If you could get a snap of Cliff Richard mowing his lawn, then – ker-ching! – I bet it’d be worth a grand. If you could get a Formula One boss having his hair checked for lice by a girl dressed up as a Belsen inmate, you might even be able to afford a new car.


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NEW YORK - A primitive image believed to have been made decades before the dawn of photography has been pulled from an upcoming auction to allow further research into its origins, Sotheby's auction house said Wednesday.The image of a leaf was scheduled to be sold next Monday and was listed in the auction catalogue as "Photographer Unknown."But Sotheby's said research by a leading photo expert suggested that several early photo experimenters could have made the image, including Thomas Wedgwood, James Watt and Humphry Davy, who worked in the medium decades before what is believed to be the birth of photography in 1839.Sotheby's said it decided to pull the lot because the upcoming auction had generated "a spirited and lively dialogue" among photo scholars "about the possible origins for the 'Leaf."'"This conversation has revealed new areas of research, which will be explored in the coming months," the auctioneer said."Leaf" is a photogenic drawing - a cameraless process in which an object is placed on silver nitrate-coated paper or leather to form a negative image.It had previously been attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot, considered the father of photography along with Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre."Leaf" was among six similar anonymous works that were sold individually at Sotheby's London in 1984.


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AccentSoft Team Releases SnapTouch, 2.60

AccentSoft Team announces the release of new version of SnapTouch 2.60 - the most popular photo editing solution for those fond of digital photography. Apart from being very user-friendly SnapTouch includes a wide variety of image editing tools you can use to create, edit, and touch-up your digital images. Use tools such as red-eye reduction, batch-mode processing, semiautomatic lossless crop with adjustable proportions, stamp date and time properties. .



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