JON GRAY WORKSHOP AT PHOTOMART SUMMER SHOW!

• Jon Gray To Present Workshop at Photomart Summer show! – Successful fashion and advertising photographer, Jon Gray (who teaches photography at the American University in London), has been confirmed for the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London (on June 18, 2008). This has kindly been enabled by sponsorship from BOWENS. Jon will present one of his popular lighting workshops, using his experience – and extensive knowledge of equipment – to teach you techniques from fashion and advertising that you can apply in your own portrait and wedding business. [expand story >>>]

Jon Gray's career in photography already spans more than three decades. His client list includes, amongst others, Gucci and Saatchi & Saatchi. He's the author of a number of books and DVDs, and now teaches Fashion & Advertising Photography at the American University in London.

Jon will kick off his workshop by introducing himself and showing a presentation from his portfolio. This will illustrate some of the lighting techniques he's going to demonstrate, and will be followed by Q&A. Then, using a top professional model, in a studio with a rail system and wind machines, Jon will workshop a number of lighting setups – High Fashion with ring flash (Jon will use the latest new ring flash from BOWENS); and Beauty Portrait on a white background (including pointers on how to avoid hot spots).

Jon promises a highly interactive, hands-on workshop, where each individual photographer will get the opportunity to work the model. YOU MUST BRING A CAMERA FOR THIS WORKSHOP!



These workshops are excellent for learning practical techniques you can take away and apply straight away. The Beauty Portrait workshop, for instance, teaches you how to do most of the work in the lighting setup – once that's right, all you have to do is shoot, it's like magic! You also learn more about studio equipment, including some inexpensive and highly effective items – like beauty dishes and tri-flectors – that can make all the difference.

Jon will give two presentations of High Fashion & Beauty Portrait at the London studios of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just type SUMMER08 in the www.photomart.co.uk Search Box. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free. Book Now!

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MODELS SPEAK ON BBC!

• Models Speak On BBC! – BBC Television has been showing a couple of series lately about the working world of photographic glamour models. BBC Three's Glamour Girls has been described, cleverly but unfairly, as "a yawn in a D-cup" while their related Page Three Teens series was similarly dismissed. Both documentaries though manage an authentic and not especially dumbed-down representation of a part of the world of professional photography, and give a voice to the models themselves.

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EPSON SUPPLIES TO GO UP!

• EPSON Supplies To Go Up! – Epson is the latest manufacturer to give advance notice of UK price increases forced by the weakness of the pound against the Euro. From the beginning of June the cost of many Epson inks – including Ultrachrome K3 – will go up, by as much as 15 Per Cent in some cases![add comment]

BIPP APPOINTS EX-FUJI MAN HONOURARY PREZ!

• BIPP Appoints Ex-Fuji Man Honourary prez! –
The BIPP has appointed Graham Rutherford, retired director of Fujifilm Professional, as Honourary President. Mr. Rutherford will take over from the departing Paul Dyer. PhotoWeek! understands that the BIPP Honourary Presidency is an active role similar to that of a non-executive company director. [expand story >>>]

Graham Rutherford is widely credited with the very effective work that Fujifilm did in the UK to establish their brand with professional photographers here, a heritage the corporation still benefits from to this day. During his time at Fujifilm he did a lot of work with the BIPP. He is the father of both the Fujifilm Student Awards and the Fujifilm Wedding and Portrait Awards. Statements reported by the BJP suggest that as BIPP President, Mr. Rutherford will put emphasis on the regions, and on the organization's role in photographer training.
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EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY - PART 2

• Event Photography (Part 2) –
Last week in Part 1 of this series we looked at the origins of modern event photography, and how photographers found printers they could use at events – by adapting the heavy-duty commercial dye sublimation printers designed for photo kiosks.

This week, PhotoWeek! continues by examining what it is about these printers that makes them so suited for event photography. [expand story >>>]

Event photographers found that heavy-duty commercial photo printers were just what they needed for printing at events. These dye subs are roll fed, so they can print continuously, very quickly, and will rarely jam. They take high-capacity media rolls, and don't need frequent reloading. Their printing technology is dye sub, not inkjet. This means they make prints that look and feel like proper photos, on media robust enough to tolerate handling at an event. The prints don't tear or crease easily, and the images won't smudge or run in the rain.

The print sizes go up to 6"x8" or 6"x9" inch sizes – in the UK, these sizes are considered the "sweet point" at which the eventer can make the most money.

The prints from these printers are edge-to-edge (no whiteborders) and are cut and trimmed by the printer - no extra work to do at the event. The printers are built to last - any machine engineered to sit in a kiosk churning out print after print nonstop should have acceptable life in eventing. Media for them is always available and affordable, because it's the same media that is produced in volume to supply photo kiosks globally.

And the machines can load with enough media for several hundred prints at a time. This minimizes reloading, which reduces the amount of time you would waste at an event, and the amount of dust you will get on your print head. When you do reload, many of these printers are front-loading, which makes it easier to use them in confined spaces, or while operating them in a flight case.

Next week, in Part 3, we look at Event Systems, or what happened when some eventers realized they didn't have to chop the printer out of the kiosk!

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SEVEN PRINTS A MINUTE!

• Trainor DOES 7 Prints a Minute at Cannes! – Keith Trainor gave an impressive demonstration of the capability of modern event photography at the SONY World Photography Awards gala VIP ceremony at Cannes on April 24. In just 90 minutes, he and his crew shot and printed 625 live 6"x8" event photos – an average of almost seven a minute! [expand story >>>]

Keith used the new SONY Alpha a700 camera to take the photographs, they were displayed via ExpressDigital DARKROOM on SONY Bravia widescreen TVs, and printed on a bank of four SONY UP-DR150 fast event printers. You can see Keith's Event Portraits team in action at Cannes in the YouTube video below:



Keith used simple borders in ExpressDigital Darkroom to put a black keyline and border on the images, and to include the logos of the SWPA and SONY.

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PHOTOGRAPHER RIDES FOR CHARITY!

• Photographer Rides for Charity! – Lincolnshire-based photographer Pete Norton welcomes sponsorship and support for his charity Humber-to-Severn solo cycle ride. It's in aid of kids charity, When You Wish Upon a Star. Pete will ride 230 miles for the kids, from the Hull side of the Humber Bridge to the Bristol end of the Severn Bridge. [expand story >>>]

When You Wish Upon a Star is a charity that fulfills wishes for under-16s with life-threatening or terminal illness. Pete became aware of the charity when he volunteered his services as photographer at one of the wish-fulfillment events, a snooker demonstration, where two children were taken to meet Jimmy White and John Virgo. Children's photography is a specialty of Pete's. One of the ways he markets himself is as "Little Devils", a kids photography service.

Joanne Kernon of When You Wish Upon a Star told us, "Pete's fundraising efforts will help to bring about some magic to a very special and brave child. For our children, many of whom have suffered more pain and harsh treatments than we could ever imagine, the need to make a dream come true is of the utmost importance. We are very grateful to Pete and Norton Photography for helping us with our ambition of never having to say 'no' to a deserving child."

Pete pedals off on 19 May, and stays in the saddle till 22 May. Watch out for him along the route!
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ENDLESS SUMMER!

• "ENDLESS SUMMER" – travel & tourism photography workshop! –

British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley, is to present "Endless Summer", his workshop on speculative travel & tourism photography, as part of the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London on 18 June. "Endless Summer" will teach delegates how to finance their travel through photography, as a way of life! [expand story >>>]

Ian Brierley started making money out of photography as soon as he got his first camera at the age of 15. Since then he's travelled wherever he's wanted to, whenever he's wanted to, paying his way through (often speculative) photography. He's photographed Her Majesty the Queen in Ghana, Miss Universe in Trinidad and Tobago and Miss Ghana in Accra, as well as doing an extraordinary range of other interesting and enjoyable work. His photography has illustrated a number of books.

At "Endless Summer" he'll be telling photographers how to do travel and tourism photography as working holidays – how to get airlines to sponsor flights, tourist boards and hoteliers to cover accommodation, and how to sell postcard designs and present other propositions, such as aerial photography, to potential buyers.

The workshop will include an outdoor model shoot with an exotic model, pointers on how to find models overseas, and how to shoot for their complexion in local light. Ian will also demonstrate his own technique for creating "photo paintings" from his images, and will get one of these printed to canvas during the workshop.

When he travels by van, Ian follows horse boxes, and sells event photos at equestrian shows. He'll demonstrate event photography using the ICI Olmec OP1000 PrintBox, and will show his van, fitted with a mobile digital editing suite.

Ian will give two presentations of "Endless Summer" at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just type SUMMER08 in the www.photomart.co.uk Search Box. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.

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EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY (PART 1)

• Event Photography (Part 1) –
Event photography is news, but it's not new. It has a long history. Photographers have been doing event photography almost since photography was invented. The famous society photographer Lafayette established the vogue at the 1897 Devonshire House Ball, where he shot high-society and royalty in fancy dress.

This week, PhotoWeek! starts a short series of weekly articles explaining the basic concepts of event photography. [expand story >>>]

Late in the century following the 1897 Devonshire House ball – nearly a hundred years later, in fact – photographers realized they could sell more prints, at a higher price, if they could actually show them at the event. By then we had minilabs capable of developing and printing in less than an hour. Event photographers began whizzing film round to local labs during their events, and whizzing prints back to sell to their customers. Not everybody did this, because it wasn't easy, but it was a way to make more money.

Then along came instant digital photo printing, using heavy-duty commercial dye sub printers, and event photography boomed. Instant digital photo printing enabled more eventers to make their prints at the events. It's immediate. You can shoot a group of revelers at a ball, and less than a minute later sell them their photograph. This immediacy makes them far more likely to buy, and willing to pay more for the prints. It can make a big difference to your takings.

The heavy-duty commercial photo printers that event photographers make their instant digital prints on have their origins in photo kiosks. Essentially, they're chopped down kiosks. Although they are also marketed as stand-alone printers, they were all originally designed for kiosks.

Next week, in Part 2, we look at the features of these printers that make them, rather than any other kind of printer, the ideal event machines.
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SONY WORLD PHOTO AWARDS!

• SONY World Photo Awards! – The UK's Vanessa Winship has won the SONY World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year, in the professional category, for her portrait of two little Eastern Turkish girls, "Sweet Nothings – rural schoolgirls from Eastern Anatolia, Turkey". The award was presented last Thursday evening at the SWPA VIP gala ceremonies in Cannes, France.

Vanessa Winship has been working in the Balkans since 1999 and currently lives in Istanbul. She graduated with a BA in Film, Video and Photographic Arts from Central London Poly in 1987 and did her postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 1998 she won a World Press Photo first prize (Arts stories). [expand story >>>]

The 2008 Sony World Photography Awards are the inaugural SWPA awards. The prize for the World Photographer of the Year is $25,000. The judges include Nan Goldin, Bruce Davidson, Tom Stoddart, Elliott Erwitt and Martine Franck.

James Kennedy, General Manager Marketing Communications, Sony Digital Imaging Europe said, “The Awards really are a showcase for the photographic industry at its highest level. It has been wonderful to be part of an event that brings together such phenomenal talent.”

Founder of World Photography Awards Scott Gray added, “This event is the culmination of what has been a fantastic first year for the Sony World Photography Awards. We thank everyone who entered and look forward to the second year already.”

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SUMMER SHOW!

• Summer Show! – www. photo mart .co.uk have announced the line-up for their 2008 Summer Show. The bumper day of photo workshops at their London studios on June 18 will feature presentations from photographers Keith Trainor, Jon Gray and Ian Brierley, as well as software training from ExpressDigital, and a wide format and canvas printing demonstration from Fujifilm. Equipment from SONY, BOWENS, ICI ImageData, and Fujifilm will feature prominently on the day, which will include a number of model shoots, in-studio and outdoors. [expand story >>>]

The format of the Summer Show is that all workshops are presented twice, first in the morning, then repeated in the afternoon. Delegates buy just one ticket, and are then entitled to attend any two workshops.

As usual, www.photomart.co.uk have secured the cream of presenters for this show. SONY are providing Europe's leading evangelist for event photography, Keith Trainor, to present his popular "Techniques for Profit" workshop, which gives you the business know-how, tips and tricks to make money from eventing. You'll see SONY's latest fast event printers in action here. The workshop also includes an excellent (and good fun!) practical demonstration of shooting against backgrounds – both Keith's trade-mark white-out, and the ever more popular greenscreen. It's highly enjoyable, as well as inspirational and informative.

Jon Gray, the successful fashion & advertising photographer who teaches Photography at the American University in London, will be presenting, courtesy of BOWENS, a studio lighting workshop using the excellent photographic model, Jade. BRING YOUR CAMERAS TO THIS ONE! This will also be a chance to see some of BOWENS' latest kit, such as their new ring flash.



Off the beaten track we find Ian Brierley, one of the original travelling event photographers, who do it as a way of life. Thanks to support from ICI ImageData, Ian will be delivering "Endless Summer", his workshop on how to pay for your travel through speculative travel & tourism photography. He'll tell you how to target Tourist Boards, Airlines and Hotel Chains – and how to get them to give you sales and commissions, free flights and accomodation! He'll also show a purpose-fitted event photography van, and the workshop will include an outdoor model shoot. BRING CAMERAS! Event printing will be demonstrated on the machine favoured by this type of photographer, the ICI Olmec OP1000 PrintBox.

ExpressDigital are providing the UK expert on their DARKROOM software, Bryan Osborne, to deliver a three-hour tutorial on what has become the event software of choice in the UK. YOU NEED TO BRING LAPTOPS AND SAMPLE IMAGES TO THIS ONE! Bryan will give you a flavour of what this software is all about – getting from image capture to print sale in the quickest and most profitable ways!

Fujifilm will be on hand with a presentation on wide format and canvas printing with their GreenBox solution, a combination of HP or Epson printers with Fujifilm management and productivity software. (Details are still to be confirmed.)

The Summer Show is one of the best value, and best fun!, events that www.photomart.co.uk mount. It's VERY friendly, it's an EXCELLENT social opportunity, the workshops are SUPERB, the models are THE BEST, and the food is GREAT! PhotoWeek! will be there, and we look forward to seeing you all!
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IAN BRIERLEY EXHIBITION!

• Ian Brierley Exhibition! –
by Parinita Salian

British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley, is to have an exhibition of his photo-art at the Guyana High Commission in London on 14 May, 2008. Ian has made more than three thousand images of Guyana, and selected forty to include in this exhibition at the Commission. [expand story >>>]

Ian said that the purpose of this Photo/Art exhibition is to create awareness for travel and tourism purposes, showcasing the raw beauty of Guyana, focusing on its people, architecture, culture, history and breath taking landscapes of the coastal and inland areas, including the mighty Kaieteur Falls deep in the rainforest (the world's largest single drop water fall).

For this Photo-Art exhibit he has edited and printed all the photographs on canvas to display his work as paintings, which blends his love for Art and Travel Photography.

The Guyana High Commission London will be inviting the Guyanese diaspora here in the UK, plus a V.I.P audience personally selected from the High Commission's database, to attend the exhibit.

[Ian has also been confirmed as one of the presenters for www.photomart.co.uk's Summer Show, a bumper day of photo workshops on June 18, which will include Ian's workshop "Endless Summer - speculative travel & tourism photography"]

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ALAMY FEATURED ON PHOTOGRAPHY TV!

• Alamy Featured On Photography TV! –
UK-based picture agency, Alamy, features on the latest episode of PhotographyTV. Part three of episode two of this new magazine-style web TV show is based in Alamy, and includes a walk around with Alamy Chief Executive, James West. West talks openly with presenter Sian Welby about the challenges facing stock photography. Sian also interviews Alamy Head of Content, Alan Capel, about the agency's picture submission process. [add comment]

THE APPRENTICE TRIES PHOTOGRAPHY!

• The Apprentice Tries Photography! – Last Wednesday BBC One TV's The Apprentice set its contestants the task of running a portrait photography business in one of the biggest shopping centres in the UK, the Bluewater. The teams had to set up stands, get customers to pose for portraits, and then sell them the resulting prints.

The teams were introduced to the concept of photo gifts, and taught that they could print photos onto a wide variety of products, such as mugs, mouse mats and jigsaw puzzles. [expand story >>>]

The programme showed how difficult it is for new entrants with no background to get this type of photography right. It's not easy to learn how to do it by just making it up yourself from scratch! Experienced event and snapshot photographers must have groaned repeatedly as they watched the show. In particular, it was taking the teams more than twenty minutes to get from capture to print, instead of the much shorter times most eventers practice .However they did manage some good displays of showmanship, and put together some sensible packages to sell.

Well known portrait photographer Terry O'Neil sat on the panel of the follow up program, The Apprentice: You're Fired.

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FREE TICKETS!

• FREE TICKETS! – www. photo mart .co.uk in association with Fujifilm has 20 tickets to the HP Magnum Printing Masterclass, worth £50 each, to give away FREE! to PhotoWeek! readers. John Grayston of Fujifilm tells us all you have to do to claim your tickets is call www.photomart.co.uk on 0870 011 5761 and ask for a no-obligation quotation for a Fujifilm HP GreenBox wide format solution. Photomart will include a 3% discount on the quotation, and will send you tickets to the Masterclass. [expand story >>>]

The HP/Magnum Photography and Printing Masterclass will be held on May Day in the BFI (British Film Institute) on London's South Bank. It will feature well known Magnum photographers Donovan Wylie (featured in The Genius of Photography) and Chris Steele-Perkins (author of The Teds photo book).



Fujifilm HP GreenBox wide format solutions are bundles based on HP printers, combined with a Fujifilm RIP, training CD, colour management tools and media. They're everything you need to implement in-house wide format enlargements and canvas printing in your business, without having to make it all up yourself!

Booking a no-obligation quotation with www.photomart.co.uk will help you to decide which GreenBox solution might be right for you, and will secure you a 3% discount valid for as long as the quote is valid – as well as get you your free tickets! Offer closes April 30, 2008.
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KEITH TRAINOR CONFIRMED FOR CANNES!

• Keith Trainor Confirmed For Cannes! – SONY have chosen a UK photographer to be the official tog at their SONY World Photography Awards in Cannes on April 24! Keith Trainor, one of the UK's best known event photographers, has been confirmed in the role. This event is going to be one of the most prestigious in photography. The award for the World Photograph of the Year, the l'Iris d'Or, will come with a $25,000 cash prize. [expand story >>>]

Keith has a great deal of experience of shooting black tie events, including the annual Master Photographers Association Awards here in the UK, where his photos raise thousands of pounds for charity. (He is ably assisted at these gatherings variously by his Event Portraits team, his photographer/partner Beverly, and the couple's daughter.) Keith is well known for giving lectures, seminars and workshops on Event Photography throughout Europe and the U.S.A.

Event Portraits bought most of their event equipment – including SONY 6"x8" printers which they will use at the Awards ceremony, and the flight cases these will travel in – from leading eventing specialists www.photomart.co.uk.

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PHOTO LABS TAKE TO QUICK PRINTING!

• Photo Labs Take To Quick Printing! –
Independent photo labs have always been good at having more than one string to their bow. Now some are adding quick printing to the mix of services they offer. KAZ Photo in East London (UK) trialled the EXENUX photo book printer from www.photomart.co.uk. But when PhotoWeek! sent a reporter there to see how they were getting on, we found they had put the EXENUX to work as a digital press instead! You can watch the interview we recorded on YouTube! [expand story >>>]

The manager of KAZ realised her Photoshop people also knew how to do design for print (in Quark XPress and Adobe InDesign). She started selling this service to local businesses, and to her photo customers. She claims she's seen a seventy percent increase in this side of her business since the EXENUX was installed.



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