Workshop with Kevin Kubota - Secret Italy

For photographers who have never had the opportunity to travel to Italy, this is the perfect way to experience it and photograph it. For those photographers that have been to Italy before, then they already know why they want to go back. This time husband and wife team Kevin and Clare Kubota will share some of the undiscovered gems of this beautiful country that they know so well.

Daily photo excursions will include escorted trips to:
• Pompeii
• The island of Capri
• Amalfi Coast
• Adriatic Coast
• National Park of Abruzzo

There will be brief daily classroom time (1-2 hours) to discuss photo projects that will be assigned, talks about creativity followed by creative exercises, and the opportunity for participants to apply fine art Photoshop skills on their images. Class size is limited to 20 participants.

The cost of the 7-day trip is $2,995 for class attendees and $2,550 for non-class participants. Single participants will be partnered in gender specific rooms unless requesting a private room for an additional $300. (Actual costs are based on currency exchange rates and are subject to change.)

Partners will be able to join attendees for all of the group outings except the classroom time. The price includes lodging, all ground transportation (attendees are responsible for airfare to and from Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci international airport), 8 meals, guided tours, classroom instruction, photography review and a DVD of the class images and experience. The tour is organized and guided by native Italians, Max and Cristiana, who live in Umbria and have an incredible zest for sharing their culture and a unique insight into what the essence of Italy really is. This is not a typical tourist trip. It’s a photographic and cultural adventure!

Kubota Image Tools announces that there are still spots available for professional and advanced amateur photographers that would like to attend Kevin Kubota’s 4th creative Italy photography workshop. This inspiring 7-day photography workshop (October 5-11, 2008) includes several exciting photo excursions, classroom instruction, photography critiquing and more.

See the Kubota Image Tools Web site for up-to-the-minute details: http://www.kubotaimagetools.com/ or call 877-330-4330

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8-Megapixels On Your Camera Phone?

OmniVision's new image sensor wants to increase the number of pixels on your cell phone without increasing its profile.

OmniVision Technologies on Tuesday introduced a new image sensor technology that they claim will pack more pixels in camera phones while retaining a sleek and skinny form factor.
Conventional CMOS image sensors utilize front side illumination technology, but the company's new OmniBSI architecture utilizes backside illumination. This allows manufacturers to deliver more pixels in a smaller package and deliver a higher resolution image in low-lighting settings, executives said.
Backside illumination technology isn't new -- it has been utilized in aerospace and military applications for years, but often in larger devices. But OmniVision credits its partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation with making this technology manufacturable in high volumes.
"Although backside illumination concepts have been studied for over 20 years, up until now nobody has been able to successfully develop the process for commercial, high-volume CMOS sensor manufacturing," said Dr. Ken Chen, senior director, mainstream technology marketing, at TSMC.
While a megapixel race can be exciting, it can be a moot point if the image quality and resolution aren't up to snuff. OmniVision's new architecture will provide sharper images and more vibrant colors, particularly in situations with low lights, said Michael Hepp, product marketing manager, camera technologies group at OmniVision.
"In the public's mind, viewpoint quality has been equal to the number of pixels," said Hepp. "But with the next wave of products I believe you're going to see a larger emphasis on the camera's sensitivity."
OmniVision's client list includes all the major handset makers, but the company cannot disclose specific customers. While most phones currently have 3-megapixels or less, OmniVision is demonstrating an 8-megapixel OmniBSI CameraChip sensor and expects to start sampling the first products before the end of June.

Credits: Marin Perez InformationWeek
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Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights : Film Art from the Collection of the Kunstmuseum Bonn

"Every artist is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed." - Leo Rosten Arabian Nights : Film Art from the Collection of the Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn, ...

Bonn, Germany - The Kunstmuseum Bonn has at its disposition one of the most important video collections in Germany. Its special significance comes not least of all from the fact that it is comprised of important and rare video works, above all from the 1970s, which the museum took over from the Ingrid Oppenheim Collection. In the seventies and early eighties Ingrid Oppenheim was a central figure in the Rhenish art scene, whose gallery became a platform for media art in ist infancy. After her sudden death in 1986, her collection was donated to the Kunstmuseum and became the basis of the museum’s video collection.

The upcoming exhibition presents films and slides from the mid-seventies, illustrating the media landscape in which video art evolved at that time. Two of those films, by Katharina Sieverding (born 1944) and Klaus Mettig (born 1950), also remind of the vibrancy of the brisk super 8 scene. Another important artistic format of those years is the dia projection, which sometimes acoustically accompanied, dominated the display of large-sized photography in exhibitions long before the present day formats. Dia art was less concerned about the aesthetic statement of a single picture, but rather about the evolution of visual stories. In the cases of Buthe (1944 – 1994) and Kohlhöfer (born 1942), they tell stories about journeys to foreign countries that serve as projection space for phantasy and inspire the artists’ work through the encounter of the foreign. This especially applies to Michael Buthe whose diary of a trip to Persia and Afghanistan shows alternatives to the aesthetics of the modernistic western world.

The exhibition aims to introduce a series of these video rarities and thus thematizes the very beginning of this visual medium.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn is a museum of modern art of the 20th century. The collection’s centers of gravity are “August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists” and “German art after 1945”. In hardly any other German museum it is possible to track the development lines of German art as good as here. Both centers of gravity of the collection are discussed internationally and have been expanded by works of Robert Delaunay, for example, in the Macke department, in order to illustrate the changing influence of the national and international flow of art. With its changing exhibitions the museum concentrates on the international art scene of the 20th century, which is reflected in subject-related exhibitions, as well as individual representations.

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Model Releases In-depth exploration

You may think that model releases aren't necessary for photos used in editorial contexts, but the truth is actually much more complex.
Here are some examples that came up in discussions, all of which share a common theme:

- You're a wedding photographer and you're shooting the bride and groom during a ceremony at their home.
- You're an equestrian photographer on a "farm call" to photograph a horse at the owner's stable.
- You're an art photographer and you're at an artist's studio to shoot a few pictures of his latest sculpture that he will send to his agent, who will then send them to magazines for a press release.
- You're a portrait photographer and own a studio at the local mall. A client comes in to have pictures taken of him so he can distribute them to potential modeling agencies.
- You're a press photographer, and develop a special relationship with a congressional candidate, who invites you to the family estate to photograph the clan for a memoir they intend to publish about the personal tolls that political life can have on a family.

Though there are contracts associated with each of these assignments, none of them include model releases by the subject for the photographer. Here's the question: can you license any of these photos for EDITORIAL use to a newspaper that is doing a story on the individual who is the subject of any of these given photos?

Most people would say no, and would guess that it's because of the lack of model releases. True, but the more important (and harder) question to ask is: why?

Read Dan Heller's in-depth exploration and you'll know exactly what to do to sell your shots without worries.

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Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp and Drupa 2008

Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp. will be showing off their latest commercial printing gear and services next week at the world's largest print industry trade show.

Drupa 2008, being held in Dusseldorf, Germany, begins May 29 and runs for more than a week, with attendance expected to reach 400,000.

Drupa's importance has grown to the point where print companies now time and tailor their product development cycles for the quadrennial event, said Kevin Joyce, a Kodak vice president and chief marketing officer of its Graphic Communications Group.

"We really look forward to Drupa,” said Valerie Blauvelt, vice president of Xerox's Production Systems Group. “It’s a huge opportunity for us to talk about how our technology, how our workflow can help customers be successful.”

credits: Matthew Daneman at Democrat and Chronicle.com

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