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Good news just coming around for mobile photographers, I mean for those real hardcore mobile photographers this is your chance to win a cool MacBook along with a chance to showcase your best photos among the best. What you need to do is just submit a bunch of cool photos that you shot with ONLY your phone camera (any camera phone brand).

There are 3 categories to enter, People; Places and Things.. and each category winner will receive:
• PDN subscription
• Digital Camera
• Crumpler Photo Bag
• Featured in winners gallery on www.pdnonline.com

I’m so in for this.. I should try start browsing my iPhone LIVE album then, as the deadline is January 31st.

wish me luck! enter the contest details here!

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It’s been a year since my previous post featuring the winners of Photographer of The Year (POTY) 2009 and just recently, Photo Radar has exclusively revealed the overall winner.

Big congrats to Jon Wright from Australia who won himself the main title which brings him £10,000 smiling back home. Jon Wright took this shot with his Canon EOS 40D and is titled Exit Wave. There are total of 30 final winning images in a number of categories winners which you’ll see after the jump. There are also a new category on the line called Portfolio category and the lucky winner for this new category is LJ. Lj receives a Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR camera with 18-135mm EF-S lens along with an invitation to submit a body of work free of charge for a Licentiateship assessment with the Royal Photographic Society. Isn’t that cool..

Those who don’t know, The Photographer of The Year is an annual photography competition opens for professionals, amateur photographers around the globe. You may submit your favorite photos on any categories tahhat suits with your photography skills and techniques. Here are the final winning images..

Fashion category Winners:

1st place, Painting by Joanna Kustra from UK. Taken with Nikon D3

2nd place, White by Joanna Kustra from UK. Taken with Nikon D3

3rd place, Untitled by Yulia Gorodinski from Israel. Taken with Canon 400D/Rebel XTi

Joy category winners:

1st place, Joy Of Nature by Nimai Chandra Ghosh from India. Taken with Nikon CoolPix L16

2nd place, The-getaway by Richard James Taylor from UK. Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II

3rd place, Chair-o-Planes by Andrew Rutherford from UK. Taken with Nikon D300

Landscapes category winners:

1st place, Roker Pier by Jeff Vyse from UK. Taken with Nikon D90

2nd place, The Trees Dance by Pierre Pellegrini from Switzerland. Taken with Phase One P20+

3rd place, Strike by Alisdair Miller from UAE. Taken with Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Portraits category winners:

1st place, Aldonas History by Anna Bodnar from Poland. Taken with FUJI FinePix S5Pro

2nd place, Watchmaker by Enzo Penna from Italy. Taken with Nikon D300

3rd place, Panini Girl by Marek Tkaczyk from Poland. Taken with Nikon D300s

Britain Inspired category winners:

1st palce, Man Utd Twins by Andrew Lever from UK. Taken with Nikon D300

2nd place, Reflecting by Ben Bruce from UK. Taken with Nikon D300

3rd place, 9.20 to London by Graham Love from UK. Taken with Leica M8

Creative License category winners:

1st place, Jump by Wayne Lawes from UK. Taken with Mamiya 645AFD

2nd place, Cyborg Kiss by John Leech from UK. Taken with Nikon D300

3rd place, Wallflower by Carla Broekhuizenh from Netherlands. Taken with Nikon D300

Documentary category winners:

1st place, Scavenger In Jakarta by Joakim Behrman from UK. Taken with Nikon D300

2nd place, Superman In Cardiff by Maciej Dakowicz from UK. Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II

3rd place, Market Town by James Mortram from UK. Taken with Nikon D200

Wildlife winners:

1st place, Ci Luk Baaaa by Andiyan Lutfi from Malaysia. Taken with Canon EOS 40D

2nd place, Movement Of Life by Buchachon Petthanya from Thailand.

3rd place, The Polar Bear by Tilly Meijer from Netherlands. Taken with Nikon D300

Travel winners:

1st place, Journey Of Ocean Life by Kamarulzaman Russali from Malaysia.Taken with Canon EOS 7D

2nd place, Somewhere In Hungary by Zoltan Balogh from Hungary.

3rd place, Bathroom Landscape by Slawek Kozdrashy from UK. Taken with Panasonic DMC-FX01

Adrenaline winners:

1st place, Exit Wave by Jon Wright from Australia. Taken with Canon EOS 40D

2nd place, Fire Fighter by Buchachon Petthanya from Thailand. Taken with Canon EOS 40D

3rd place, Football Fans In The Club by Maciej Dakowicz from UK. Taken with Canon EOS 5D

Portfolio category winners:

Congratulations to all winners! Same contest opens next year, I bet some of you would love to try their luck then.. if you didn’t win, still its okay, at least you’re among other professionals and amateur around the globe who join the fun. In case you didn’t know, there is also a competition for Young Photographer of The Year, head over to browse the final winners of The Young Photographer of The Year2010.

Have fun viewing!

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iPhone users should have not missed this super cool apps especially when they are the photographers or even designers in profession.

Adobe Photoshop Express (formerly known as Mobile.Photoshop.com) has come to a new name just recently following to its latest updates to Version 1.3.2. With the latest version, the Adobe Photoshop Express is now initially support for iPad, updates UI, bug fixes and performance improvements.

As for the iPad users, Adobe Photoshop Express support for portrait and landscape orientations,ability to redesigned while online, edit and upload workflows, also users will have the ability to work on multiple photos in sequence from within a single workflow, and ability to upload photoshop.com and Facebook simultaneously.. isn’t that cool!

For newbies to the iPhone or iPad and still looking for the best apps for their photo gallery workflow, I strongly recommend Adobe Photoshop Express, get your FREE download here!

Enjoy!

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Canon has announce its new DSLR playa to the market with their new mid-level model the EOS 60D. The newly EOS 60D powered with DIGIC 4 processor and comes with 18MP CMOS sensor and combines the 9 cross-type AF points system from the EOS 50D. Plus, it gains the super cool 7D’s 1080p HD video recording with manual controls. What’s interesting I find that the EOS 60D equipt with in-camera creative filters for instant post-processing that includes the Grainy B/W, Soft Focus, Toy Camera Effect and Miniature Effect which provide photographers to get more creative feel with their images. Not forget to mention that the new EOS 60D is the first Canon DSLR to gain an articulated LCD screen.

Sensor : 18 million effective pixels
Image Size :
Still - 5184 x 3456(L) / 3456 x 2304(M) / 2592 x 1728(S) *jpeg
Movie - 1920 x 1080 / 1280 x 720 / 640 x 480
Sensitivity : ISO 100 - 3200 (expandable to ISO 12,800)
Shutter : 30 - 1/8000 sec
AF point: 9 (cross type)
Shooting modes : Continuous 5.3 fps
Metering modes: Partial, Center-weighted, Evaluative, Spot
LCD Monitor : 3.0″ TFT LCD at 1040,000 dots with 100% coverage
Storage : SD, SDHC, SDXC cards
Dimensions : 145 x 106 x 79 mm
Weight : 755 g with battery

I bet those EOS 50D owners will sure sweep to one of this cool EOS 60D pretty soon.

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Photoshop has no longer been a part of every designer’s life, now Photoshop has been everybody’s favorite, photographers, retoucher, web designers and maybe your grand children. Today, Photoshop turns twenty and here are some amazing back-to-the future stories I would like to share.

The story was all started when one college professor named Glenn Knoll maintained a darkroom in his house basement. Glenn’s darkroom has brought some huge influence to both his son Thomas Knoll and John Knoll where Thomas first learned image manipulation of how to make black-and-white and color prints conversion, while John was attracted to Glenn’s personal computer Apple II Plus (with 64k of RAM at that time) that he had brought home for his work research.

During the year 1988, the nature of technology that Glenn’s brought home had influence Thomas Knoll, at that time was a PhD student at the University of Michigan and currently is an American software engineer, teams up with his brother John and combines the routines of writing graphics program called Display on Macintosh Plus. In 1988, the program Display has been refined to becomes ImagePro and only in 1989, the program ImagePro has been finally renamed to Photoshop which turn the program into a full-fledged image editing program and so call the original “killer apps”

About a year later, in 1990, the first Photoshop version 1.0 ships in February. Only in the year 1994, Photoshop version 3.0 ships with the ‘Layers’ capability and following with ‘History’ palette functions in 1998 on Photoshop version 5.0. Since Photoshop was first run with Macitosh computer, it was only first run on PowerPC chip for Windows version in 1993.

Unbelievable isn’t it.. so, this question might be interesting, which first Photoshop are you?

Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop!

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Hi again! This is some fresh addition to my self portrait series, after about one hour of editing, finally I made one retro comic look to be my current self portrait. At first I was looking into like rich creamy mocha tone for the overall feel, but at the end I’ve made the background to be look more retro colorful than just boring brown + reddish color. In addition, I added some retro lines at the background blends with wall textures and for the final touch, I add one bubble text to the image to make it more like a comic look.

Shot taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
Treatment: PS CS4
Techniques hint: Soften, half tone, pixelate, blending

For those who been wondering of how i get this effect, so this is the good news.. Photoshop tutorial for this technique will be added later in future, so guys.. stay tuned!

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It was not long enough the EOS 500D (Rebel T1i ) was introduced about less than a year after and this February comes the latest EOS family, the 18 megapixel EOS 550D (Rebel T2i). What can I spot that the EOS 550D comes with clean and solid display buttons from its previous predecessor which makes it look neat and tidy at the rear body. The EOS 550D also comes with new battery of BP-E8 and new battery grip of BG-E8 which enhance the capability of allows more accurate ‘power remaining’ display. The EOS 550D also comes with the ‘Q’ button (Quick Control Screen) fast access to the overall shooting setting which has been applied to the EOS 7D earlier. Almost all specs from 500D has been enhance to be likely as another Canon’s hugely the popular consumer SLR range.

Sensor : 18.7 million effective pixels
Image Size : 5184 x 3456 (L) / 3456 x 2304 (M) / 2592 x 1728 (S)
Auto Focus : 9-point CMOS sensor
Movie - 1920 x 1080 / 1280 x 720 / 640 x 480
Sensitivity: ISO 100 - 6400
Shutter: 30 - 1/4000 sec (0.5 or 0.3 EV steps)
Shooting modes : Continuous 3.7 fps
Metering: TTL 63-zone SPC
LCD Monitor: 3.0″ 3:2 TFT LCD at 1040,000 pixels
LCD Live View: Live TTL display, 100% frame coverage (30 fps display rate)
Storage: SD / SDHC card / SDXC card
Dimensions: 129 x 98 x 62 mm
Weight: 530 g with no battery

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If you own an iPhone, here is something I would love to recommend..

Take a best photo with your iPhone, make some editing with the apps of your choice and send to Adorama iPhone Photo Contest which will takes you one step behind these cool list of prizes :
1 x $1,000 Adorama Gift Certificate
10 x Wacom Tablets (Bamboo Craft Pen & Touch)
15 x Canon Wireless Printers (Pixma MP560 Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer)
25 x $50 Apple App Store Gift Cards
30 x $100 Adorama Gift Certificates

Don’t panic or over reacted as you have ample of time to send your best photos, this contest ends only by 22nd March 2010. Currently the voting round has started since 15th Jan while the judging round will start on 15th Feb. The rules are simple, the photo that you submit has to be captured from an iPhone, that’s it.

Browse all Adorama iPhone Photo Contest entries here!

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One of the most popular online photography contest, Digital Camera 2009 had just finished and the overall winners are now published at PhotoRadar.

Overall winner of  ‘Photographer of The Year 2009′ POTY 2009, Partners by Bragi J. Ingibergsson from Iceland.
Taken with Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens at 24mm; ISO 125; 1/400 sec at f/8

You may see all winners on each category at Photo Radar. Here are some of my picks purely based on how I love the way it captured..

Landscape :

New Year’s Frost by Gary McParland, UK

This is Britain :

British Day Out by Russell Francis, UK

Peoples & Portraits category :

Fearless by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong
Canon EOS 30D with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens at 100mm; ISO 160; 1/200 sec at f/5.6

Man Made :

Bladerunner by Brian Stevenson, UK

World in Motion :

Goal by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong

Canon EOS 1D Mark III with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS lens at 82mm; ISO 200; 1/400 sec at f/5.6

Planet Earth category :

OPTICAL by Laura Zinetti, Italy

Fashion :

Red Fashion by Eduard Stelmakh, Ukraine

Balck & White :

Don’t Give Up by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong
Canon EOS 1D Mark III with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at 24mm; ISO 500; 1/200 sec at f/4.5

Destination Everywhere :

Look Left by Mike Sabarre, Philippines

Digital version :

A Dali Dream by Karen Ilagan, Philippines

Below are the winners for Young Photographer of the Year 2009

10 years and under

Poverty’s Children by Nathan Brown, Cambodia
Canon EOS 300D with Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 105mm; ISO 800; 1/200 sec at f/5.6

11 to 14 years

Sea Through the Window by India Sparacia, UK
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 at 10.4mm; ISO 100; 1/250 sec at f/5

15 to 17 years

Breath It In by Tina Sun, New Zealand
Sony Alpha a200 with Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 50mm; ISO 400; 1/200 sec at f/5.6

Which one would be your picks?

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About 57 years ago, there was a smart + compact camera which been built three times cheaper and better picture quality than other cameras on the market. The camera was actually built with half-frame format instead of the standard 35mm format which makes the depth of field more deeper and the focal length to be shorter and are great for manual focusing. With half-frame format and creative inner construction, allows the camera’s body to be built in smaller size. Again, with downsized camera body, the image circle become smaller and this will helps a lot to produce higher resolution images. The camera I was mentioned is none other than the first smallest + compact camera.. the Olympus - Pen which been first introduced in 1959 and later sold over 17 million units worldwide.

Today, the legend returns as the Olympus-Pen E P1 hit the market with highly smarter than a compact cameras while better then an slr.

Body material:Metal
Sensor : 12.3 million effective pixels
Image sizes (Still) : 4032 x 3024 / 3200 x 2400 / 2560 x 1920 / 1600 x 1200 / 1280 x 960 / 1024 x 768 / 640 x 480
Image sizes (Movie) : 1280 x 720 (HD) / 640 x 480
File formats : RAW / RAW + JPEG / JPEG (EXIF 2.2) / AVI Motion JPEG
Auto Focus : 11-area multiple AF
Focus modes : Single shot AF (S- AF) / Continuous AF (C-AF) / Manual focus (MF)
Sensitivity : ISO 200 - 3200 (Auto) / ISO 100 - 6400 (Manual)
Shutter speed : 60-1/4000 sec
Continuous : 3.0 fps / 10 frames max (Raw)
LCD monitor : 3.0″ HyperCrystal LCD with Anti-Reflective Coating / 230,000 pixels
Dimensions : 121mm (W) x 70mm (H) x 36mm (D) (excluding protrusions)
Weight : 335g (no batt)

Read more detail specs here!

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