What Adults Can Learn From Kids – Adora Svitak
Kids!
Gotta love ’em!
Pay no attention to W C Fields.
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Ed Kashi's Shadows and Light: Oil, Power & the Niger Delta
This was great at the Palm Spring Photo Festival.
Powerful multimedia.
How can words help make your pictures stronger and more effective?
Support clean energy initiatives at Repower America.
Blurb's Photography Book Now Contest Is Open
Blurb’s 2010 Photography Book Now contest is open through July 15, 2010.
Now it’s in its third year, this international competition celebrates the most creative, most innovative, finest print on demand photography books – and the people behind them.
Showcase your work to a jury of internationally-renowned judges – editors, publishers, photographers, and gallery owners.
Enter your books in one or more of three categories – Fine Art, Editorial, and Portfolio.
The grand prize is $25,000.
Find out more here.
See the 2009 winners here.
How Long Will Blurb Books Last ?
How long will your Blurb books last?
100 years in dark storage, 45 years in average display conditions, before visible fading occurs.
Blurb books are printed with HP Indigo presses. HP shares Henry Wilhelm’s permanence data. “The study gives pages printed with HP Indigo presses a Wilhelm Digital Imaging Research (WIR) Display Permanence Rating of approximately 45 years, which is longer than the best-rated silver-halide photo paper, Fuji Crystal Archive. The HP Indigo rating is also more than twice as long as the WIR Display Permanence Rating for prints on Kodak silver-halide photo paper. The study also shows that HP Indigo photo book prints received a WIR Album/Dark Storage Rating of greater than 100 years.”
Stay tuned for announcements on my upcoming New York and Toronto Blurb seminars.
Find my Blurb book Antarctica here.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
Blurb Color Management Resource Center
Blurb’s new Color Management Resource Center is online.
You’ll find video tips for using Blurb ICC profiles, using BookSmart, and making Blurb books from PDFs.
It’s part of Blurb’s continuing commitment to advance print on demand quality.
Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo Festival – March 31.
Find my Blurb book Antarctica here.
Brewster Kahle Builds a Free Digital Library
Provide universal access to all knowledge. Is it possible? It is.
Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland
Iceland’s got fantastic eruptions going on right now.
With four active volcanoes ready to blow this could be the beginning of something much larger.
This prelude is dramatic enough.
See video footage here.
Find out about my August Iceland workshop here.
NAPP's Lightroom 3 Learning Center
Lightroom 3 (now in public beta) offers a lot of great improvements.
As an upgrade, it’ll be a must.
Want to get ready for the next version of Lightroom? NAPP offers 9 online video training sessions on the new Lightroom 3 Beta.
The New Import
Web Publishing
Watermarking
Improved Vignettes
Improved Noise
New Grain Effect
Develop Enhancements
Slideshow Improvements
Custom Printing
Plus there’s an interview with Lightroom Sr Product manager Tom Hogarty.
View them here.
Download Lightroom 3 Beta here at Adobe Labs.
Getting the Best Color from Blurb
The image above graphs Blurb’s ICC profile inside sRGB.
Graph Blurb’s new ICC profile and you’ll find something interesting. Blurb’s printers exceed SWOP (standard web offset presses) and they exceed sRGB in cool blues and yellows. What this means is you’ll get the most saturated color if you convert your Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB files into the Blurb color space rather than into sRGB. (Note you won’t get this is you convert sRGB files to the Blurb color space because you’ve permanently lost some saturation by going to sRGB first.)
The image below graphs SWOP inside Blurb’s ICC profile.
Find my Blurb book Antarctica here.
Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo Festival – March 31.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
My Antarctica Blurb Book Full Preview Is Live
The new edition of my Blurb book Antarctica is online now. Same 100 images as the 2nd edition. Lots more text; Voyages, Facts, Climate Change, Disclosure of Practices, and more.
You can find it here.
Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo Festival – March 31.