Frozen Eyes photography workshp in Norman Wells, NWT

Frozen Eyes photography workshp in Norman Wells, NWT, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor .

©2011 Tamara McDonald
Konrad Grandjambe, student (Left) with George Lessard, trainer (Right) at a digital photography workshop in Norman Wells, NWT http://www.frozeneyes.com

Eddie Adams 2011 Barnstorm Photographic Workshop

The premier photography workshop for students and young professionals | Eddie Adams Workshop
http://ow.ly/4msHT tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.

2011 Barnstorm Workshop

The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected students. The photography workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.

Key 2011 Dates

Feb 28: Application period opens

May 27: Application deadline

July: Selection announcemet

Oct 7-10: Eddie Adams Workshop

Nikon is the Official Sponsor of Barnstorm: The Eddie Adams Workshop

Global Union Video Contest

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From: Derek Blackadder <dblackadder@cupe.ca>
Date: 19 March 2011 04:53
Subject: Global Union Video Contest
To:

Online videos are becoming pretty common in the union world, as elsewhere.  If you have produced one or if you have enjoyed a union video that you think deserves wider attention, nominate it for the LabourStart Video of the Year award.

 

Info on how to nominate, as well as last year's winners and this year's current nominees can be found here:

 

http://www.labourstart.org/lvoty/2011/

 

 

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Derek Blackadder

LabourStart Canada

www.LabourStart.org

www.UnionBook.org

blackadderonline.blogspot.com/

705-930-3724

Skype, Flickr and Twitter: dblackadder

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Do you really have to print this email?

 

 

FrozenEyes @ the Mackenzie Mountain School March 21 to 25 in NORMAN WELLS #NWT

As posted on the Norman Wells

Community Channel

http://www.normanwells.com/lifestyle/community-channel

George Lessard and Pablo Saravanja of
Frozen Eyes Photographic Society of the NWT www.frozeneyes.com will be giving a photographic workshop for students at
Mackenzie Mountain School March 21 to 25;
so smile when the students ask to
take your picture!

Contact Thomas Aikman at
Mackenzie Mountain School (587-2286)
for more information.

Captured memories with Helping Hearts photographers

[excerpt]

"Helping Hearts is an organization that is Canada wide providing free photography sessions for families with children who are disabled, sick or ill," says representative Brandy Jackson. "The family gets a free session with a disk of 20 to 30 images, and free 8" x 10" print of their choice."

The founders Melissa Knowles and Michelle Regner created the Helping Hearts project by asking Canadian photographers in various provinces to donate their time and skills in providing free photography sessions for families with children under 16 years of age suffering from a life threatening illness or disability.

"I wanted to start a similar program myself. Then I found a link on Facebook of a photographer that I follow out of Yellowknife, who became a member. So I contacted them (Helping Hearts) and they accepted me," says Jackson.

To become part of their photography team, a form found on the Helping Hearts' website at http://www.helping-hearts.ca must be completed along with a photography portfolio or an online website so photographs can be reviewed.

If approved, the individual is invited to become part of the Helping Hearts photography team.

http://www.emcstlawrence.ca/20110317/news/Captured+memories+with+Helping+Hearts+photographers

The IPTC-NAA standards

The IPTC-NAA standards

http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html

What are the IPTC standards?

[excerpt]

Way back in the dark ages (OK, it was the 1970's) of image transmission, AP and other wire services actually sent images via machines that were little more than fancy fax machines. A black and white image was printed out line by line similar to how an inkjet printer of today works. Alongside the image would be typewritten information regarding caption, location source, crediting, etc. Typically the caption would either be cut off, or photocopied, and the two would go their separate ways. The text would be sent to editors, while the "photo" would go elsewhere for reproduction. If one or the other got lost or misplaced it would take valuable time to track it down and possibly mean missing a deadline. Obviously there had to be a better way.

Jump forward to today, where each image file can be saved using Adobe Photoshop with this text information embedded within the file. Anyone that's worked around newspapers, with digital images or image databases for a while has probably heard the acronyms IPTC or IPTC-NAA tossed around, usually when discussing the use of the File Info feature of photoshop. But few understand what they mean or what they stand for. The short story is that IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council, was one of the groups responsible for encouraging the standards necessary to"marry" the text information describing an image with the image data itself. The NAA is the Newspaper Association of America (formerly ANPA), and they also have been responsible for developing standards for exchanging information between news operations, including information used to describe images.

At this point, some of you are thinking,"OK that's enough about history, I'm doomed to repeat it, just show me how to use these IPTC "thingies" to help me find my images." If that's the case, you may wish to jump to the chart of Sample IPTC fields below. If you need some help in figuring out how each of these IPTC fields actually appears in your version of Photoshop, download the IPTC Core mapped fields PDF. For those that want a little bit more background about how these standards came to be, read on.

A Brief History of the IPTC
Standards regarding metadata for news images have evolved over time, beginning in the 1970's when some were first issued as"guidelines." However, most of these efforts were regional in nature, and focused on text. As news organizations moved from manual typewriters to CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes) and VDTs (Video Display Terminals) these standards were revised and became more specific. Only later, as the world embraced the web, did the standards begin to address multimedia content.

In 1979, the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) approved its first news exchange standard IPTC 7901. This provided metadata and content in plain text only; the only delimiters allowed were spaces and line breaks. Despite these limitations, IPTC 7901/ANPA 1312 is still in use. In the '80s, the IPTC and ANPA standards were revised, updated and expanded into other areas such as radio and broadcast television. As the '90s approached, these various groups focused their efforts on a new standard that could serve various media, not just text....

What's the difference between FFO or XMP?
Which IPTC fields should I use?
View the IPTC Core mapped fields PDF
View the Users Guide to the IPTC Core panels (PDF) on the IPTC website
What programs are there to edit IPTC Metadata?
Is there an easy way to view IPTC or other Photo Metadata?
Which IPTC fields do you suggest to use for stock photography image collections?
List of Software supporting IPTC photo metadata standards IIM and "IPTC Core"

Deh Cho Bridge under construction March 1st 2011

Deh Cho Bridge under construction March 1st 2011, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor .

Deh Cho Bridge under construction March 1st 2011
©2011 George Lessard htpp://mediamentor.ca
DSC_0792-v2.jpg

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex (video)

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex

http://www.tomguilmette.com/archives/1986
[excerpt]

Violating the laws of nature. Playing God. Capturing stuff we are not supposed to see. Potentially opening up a wormhole in the fabric of time.

These are a few of the things I think about while shooting with a Phantom High Speed Digital Cinema camera. The above video is a bunch of test footage I shot to get familiar with the new "Flex" version. I shot inside my Las Vegas Palms Casino hotel room between the hours of 2am and 6am. If you had a Phantom in your bedroom, you would stay up too!

This past weekend, I worked in Las Vegas for FOX shooting the World Championships of Ping Pong (WCPP). Yea, Ping Pong.

The Digital Eye: Shooting Snow

The Digital Eye: Shooting Snow

[excerpt]

The days are getting longer and the sun brighter, but you still have time to get out there and photograph the frigid Yukon wonders.

Winter brings unique challenges in capturing this splendour effectively - challenges you can overcome.

Your mind and eye adapt to each portion of the landscape as you gaze over the vista before you.

Not so for your digital camera.

http://whatsupyukon.com/index.php/2011-02-08-22-32-49.html

Norm Hamilton is a freelance writer and photographer in Whitehorse. Learn more at http://www.normhamilton.ca/blog

Covering Strife: What Not to Bring to Tahrir Square

What Not to Bring to Tahrir Square:
No matter how many precautions journalists take in Egypt, it is mostly about luck.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/what-not-to-bring-to-tahrir-square/?ref=media

[excerpt]

It is rare that the most important piece of equipment in your bag is the bag itself, even more rare for that bag to be a black plastic trash sack slung over your shoulder as you walk past pro-government thugs on a bridge over the River Nile. The trash bag's purpose, of course, is to conceal your large nylon camera bag, which is likely to get you grabbed off the street by the aforementioned thugs.

Sometimes the hardest part of a story is getting there. Sometimes it is getting around. Sometimes it is obstructive intelligence agencies and soldiers. Sometimes it is lawlessness, sometimes overattentive law enforcement. Sometimes it is lack of transport, poor communications, power blackouts, accreditation difficulties or a hostile local population.......

Yanik's Photo School YouTube videos and blog

Yanik's Photo School http://yanikphotoschool.com is Yanik's personal blog with the mandate to teach fellow passionate photographers as much as possible through tutorials, tips, tricks, reviews and interviews.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TouchPhoto

Yanik Chauvin
http://www.yanikchauvin.com/
http://www.touchphotography.com/


About Me:
My name is Yanik Chauvin, professional photographer http://www.yanikchauvin.com/ and photography teacher.

I enjoy working with publishing houses that focus on educational books and materials.
Nature photography is a pure pleasure and is a big part of what I capture.
I also have a passion for massage therapy and created TouchPhotography http://www.touchphotography.com/ specializing in massage therapy fine art prints and stock images.

My professional journey gave me to opportunity to be a judge at the prestigious International Photography Competition hosted by the Canadian Association for Photographic Art. http://www.capacanada.ca/

I invite you to check out my BLOG at: http://yanikphotoschool.com for regular tips and tutorials on anything related to photography.

2011 Getty Images Grants for Good competition is now open

Call for Entries: The 2011 Getty Images Grants for Good competition is now open. Proposals from photographers and creative agencies, to create compelling new imagery for nonprofits they support, are due by March 1.

We proudly support photographers and communications professionals who use imagery to promote positive change in our world. To that end, we've launched our Grants for Good.

Nonprofits need imagery to tell their stories effectively, which is why our Grants for Good provide two grants of $15,000 annually, to cover photographer, filmmaker and agency costs as they create compelling new imagery for the nonprofit of their choice.

Grants recipients may use the entire award to offset shoot expenses, or choose to donate all or part of it directly to their charity and contribute their own time and resources. The photographer and the nonprofit as well as the communications agency involved will be showcased to the media and to our customers..

Feel free to contact us with questions about our Grants for Good at grants2@gettyimages.com.

Read more about the requirements at 
http://imagery.gettyimages.com/getty_images_grants/overview.aspx

NatGeo photographer Paul Nicklen to talk about Arctic, polar bears

NatGeo photographer Paul Nicklen to talk about Arctic, polar bears

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/jan/24/241223/natgeo-photographer-to-talk-about-arctic-polar-bea/life/

[excerpt]

In a telephone interview Friday, he said he was already in Florida swimming with and photographing manatees at Crystal Springs. "Some of the other divers here are complaining about how cold it is, they should try diving in the Arctic," he joked.

He says this National Geographic Live! series is a first for Florida. "Most people will never see a polar bear in the wild so here's a chance to look at these magnificent animals," he says.

Some of Nicklen's other encounters include an amazing face-off with a female leopard seal, a powerful animal that could have easily killed him. But instead, she started offering him food, bringing him penguins that she had killed, This encounter and others can be seen on YouTube.

Nicklen, who is one of about 50 freelance photographers that work for National Geographic, says he is "not a tree-hugging environmentalist" but he does believe that the planet is warming up and the wildlife in Arctic is in danger.

"I want people to go away with a sense of appreciation for the wildlife that may disappear some day if the ice continues to melt," he says.

Nicklen, who lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, with his wife, has tracked Stellar sea lions in the Aleutian Islands and dived with minke whales off Australia's coral reefs.

X-pire! Software Adds a Self-Destruct Feature to Your Digital Photos

X-pire! Software Adds a Self-Destruct Feature to Your Digital Photos
http://ow.ly/3Gsdw
X-pire:
http://ow.ly/3Gsfo

Welcome to the web page of X-pire! - the innovative software that adds a digital expiration date to your images.

A short overview so that you quickly become familiar with this site:

• X-pire! will be released in the third week of January 2011. (Please note: The prototype is no longer available, the prototype-server will be deactivated soon)
  
  
• Additional information about X-pire! can be found here. (Link is in German.)
  
  
• The coverage of X-pire! in the public media (press, TV) can be found here

"Help! I've Been Infringed!" Photo copyright

"Help! I've Been Infringed!"
http://www.photoattorney.com/2009/05/help-ive-found-infringement.html

[excerpt]

You're sitting in your easy chair and surfing the web. You're not paying much attention, until you see it. It's your photo, but you did not post it there. You can't believe they used your photo without your permission. Now what do you do? The steps you take may limit your ultimate remedies so be sure to first understand what your options are.

Make Copies of the Infringement
If you think that the use is likely an infringement, make copies of it - both in electronic and print forms. Once the infringer realizes that she is caught, she will do what she can to get rid of the evidence of the infringement. You may need that evidence later.

If the infringement is in print, then take a photograph of it, scan it, photocopy it, and/or show it to another person who would be willing to testify about it. If the infringement is on the Internet and/or in electronic form, make a paper print of it and/or copy a screen capture of it; both are better! (Snagit by TechSmith is a great program to copy web pages.) Determine whether your copyright management information (CMI) is included in or has been removed from the infringing use. Read more about why and how to include your CMI in your photos in one of my blog entries here and here.

Make Sure That the Use Is an Infringement
Not all uses of your photographs are infringements. Do you use a licensing agency that may have authorized the use? Could the user be related to an entity to which you authorized the use? Is the use a fair use? While only a court can ultimately decide what fair use is, the law gives us guidelines as to what may qualify. Read more about fair use in my blog entry here.

Research the Infringer
Next, find out what you can about the infringer. Research the infringer's website to find his name and contact information. If the infringer is a corporation based in the United States, you can find information about it on the website of the Secretary of State for the state where the infringer is based. To find the Secretary of State's website using an Internet search engine such as Google, search the corporation's state's name (such as "Georgia") and the words "secretary of state." The extension of the URL will be ".gov" or ".us." Be careful - some sites attempt to appear to be the state's website so that they can charge you for the information. Once on the proper Secretary of State's website, look for "corporations search," "business search" or similar language. You then will find the company's registered or resident agent, officers, and/or official address.

You also may be able to find a contact name by searching the website's "who is" information. You first do a "whois" search on the website name. Several websites provide free "whois" services, such as http://www.whois.net/. Conduct an Internet search to find them. After you enter the website name there, you may be able to find contact information for the administrator of the website.

FYI Roy’s Audiotronic – Digital Photography Class with Lee Sacrey

RT @arlenehache: RT @ykonline: Roy's Audiotronic – Digital Photography Class.
http://bit.ly/funJEO #yzf

Roy's Audiotronic, Yellowknife's local electronics store, is organizing its first Digital Photography course. Robin and the Staff at Roy's are working hard to support local and northern Photographers (from Beginners to Pros) and are constantly improving their products and services. I, for one, appreciate their efforts. So much so that I have joined with them to lead a class on Digital Photography. The class will run through the basics, Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, White Balance, etc. There will be some discussion on Camera Equipment and Accessories and some time for topics from the attendees. There may be some new equipment to view as well (the equipment will be available to purchase from Roy's Staff after the class). The class will be held on January 22, 2011. Contact Roy's Audiotronic at (867) 873-5441 or stop in to their store to sign up, do it quickly as class size is limited. Here is a poster and a pdf file for the event. Thanks for stopping by, I hope to see you at the class and as always Happy Shooting.

Yukoner Paul Nicklen piles up photo awards

Yukoner Paul Nicklen piles up photo awards
Yukon photographer Paul Nicklen has had a lot to celebrate this month — even without Christmas.
Full Story:
http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickhjpedeaolaehldghfhda&M=32

[excerpts]

The Christmas 2010 issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine named Nicklen one of the world's 40 most influential nature photographers; he is featured in the cover story in the January 2011 issue of Photo Life magazine; and earlier this month, Up Here named him Northerner of the Year.

Earlier this year, Nicklen won first prize for nature photography in the World Press Awards, and he had two images selected for inclusion in the International League of Conservation Photographers' 40 Best Nature Photographs of All Time auction.

[...]

Nicklen grew up on Baffin Island in Nunavut, studied marine biology at the University of Victoria for four years and then worked as a wildlife biologist in the Northwest Territories for four years.

He now lives just outside of Whitehorse, but he travels the world, taking photos and writing for National Geographic.

He's passionate about the wildlife he photographs and feels his images are a way of helping to preserve what he loves.

"Recently, we influenced Parliament to vote against oil tankers in the Great Bear Rainforest on the B.C. coast because a team of photojournalists … went in there this summer," he said. "We've been working on a lot of different campaigns."

My Bolivian photos

My photos of Nunavut

My photos of the Northwest Territories, Canada