Worth Watching

Chase Jarvis sits down and talks to Jeremy Cowart

I know what you want for Christmas

An Ipad of course, check out the ACMP website for the details on how to win one Here

Anyone feeling generous???

I just found what I want for Christmas... Ferrari H4D

An Evening with Nik Software

Silverpixel and Nik Software invite you to an evening with Victor Ha and Mornee Sherry of Nik Software.

Join Victor as he reveals the technology and creative possibilities behind Nik Software's award-winning software Define, Viveza, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and the latest creation, HDR Efex Pro. Victor will also explain the techniques of how to shoot HDR for the best results, and then demonstrate this exciting new software product for creating realistic to artistic HDR images.

Time: 6.00 - 9.00pm
Date: Thursday, 2nd Dec 2010
Where: Silverpixel, 1/39 Phillip St, Newtown 2042 ( enter via Gladstone St )
RSVP: david@silverpixel.com.au

Contact: David Roche

Want to have your work exhibited in New York?

Of course you do, As well your work will be critiqued by an art director from Leo Burnett.
Get onto it you have til the end of the month... Humankind

Calling all volunteers

Projections Sydney is in need of some go to people to help this coming Tuesday night at the Chauvel Cinema Paddington. If you are good at anything we'd love to have a hand setting up and packing down after the event. For your services you will receive free entry into the event.
If your keen to be involved with Projections and Trampoline we'd love to hear from you or you can just turn up on Tuesday to the Chauvel at 4pm.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Event!!!

Projections 2010 free tickets yes please

Ok it's been awfully quiet on the blog for the last few months and I sincerely apologise for the lack of posts but I have been terribly busy of late. To make up for this I am offering two free tickets to both the Sydney and Melbourne Projections screenings to the first two people to correctly tell me who the winners have been from the last three years of Projections?

Projections

Projections 2010

Only 1 Month to go before Projections 2010

It's now only one month away and shaping up to be the biggest year yet with a massive amount of truly exceptional work, don't forget to book your tickets early here
Not that you should wait to buy any but in the coming weeks I will be giving away two tickets to the Sydney event...

National Portrait Photographic Prize

Entries are now open for the 2011 National Portrait Photographic Prize NPPP2010

Shoot every assignment as if it's your dream assignment

I came across this video today and a couple of things mentioned I thought was really good advice for photographers aspiring to be somewhere different and shooting different kinds of jobs someday...
Keep the dream alive
Also Dan Winters has a new website His portraiture is amazing!!!

One Life

Cool comp from PDN and ArtistsWanted Now Open SO Get Cracking... Details Here

State of play

Post worth reading

Streetlife

The good People at World Bar have partnered with the St Vincent's Hospital to hold a charity exhibition, with funds raised to be used to help Gorman House.

Get on it people you have a week...

Everybody loves to do things at the last minute

For the rest of you who haven't, you have until 11:59pm tomorrow - 1 September to submit. 

I have been surprised to hear from so few agents for their photographers. If you have an agent who has not yet either contacted you to submit or submitted on your behalf, I'd be asking some questions!

I am looking for submissions in the following areas - ensure you submit something in all areas:
The Work – your best images of the year (August 2009 to August 2010).
Top five lists - your Top Fives in the categories NOT Top Ones.
Favourite websites and blogs.
Please see below for details on submitting.
The Work
The Annual is all about showcasing the best work shot by Australian and New Zealand photographers, both commissioned and personal work.
How to send

Please send up to six (6) of your best shots taken from August 2009 to August 2010 for consideration in our very special edition of the magazine. The easiest way to submit files will be to combine them all into one zip file and send with www.yousendit.com - a free upload service. DO NOT ZIP AND UPLOAD INDIVIDUAL FILES.

Images should be approximately 6x9 inch 300dpi JPEG 12 – do not send TIFFs.

What to send

Please send an accompanying e-mail with caption/credit information as well as what category the various images fall into. For example, Advertising, Wedding, Portrait, Magazine/Editorial, Photojournalism/Documentary or emerging or student work, to suggest just a few categories. Please ensure you indicate whether the work was commissioned or a personal project (using C or P in the file name to designate. Not required for emerging category). I would love to see images across a broad range of specialisations.

Naming standard examples

Wedding1C-YOURSURNAME.jpg or Doco3P-YOURSURNAME.jpg or Editorial2C-YOURSURNAME.jpg or Emerging5-YOURSURNAME.jpg

Top Five lists

Please share your Top 5 with us for the year, in any or all of the following areas. Don't be shy - lists will be aggregated, not attributed to individual photographers. We'll tally up the votes and share the results.

Categories to consider include:

Gear and technology

- best photographic iPhone apps

- best Photoshop plug-ins

- best software

- best pieces of gear you’ve discovered this year

Experiences

- most impressive screw up on the shoot (that the client never knew about and those they did!) – names will be hidden to protect photographers and clients

- trends you’ve noticed

- dodgy business practices

- weird moments you and your assistants experienced on a shoot - names will be hidden to protect photographers and assistants

Service providers receivers

- best assistants

- best retouchers

- best studios hired

- best talent agencies

- best casting resources

- best design agencies

- best ad agencies

- best gear hire facilities

- best business resources – accountants, graphic and web designers, business coaches, insurance brokers and other useful service providers or resources.

Best websites

Please also share your favourite websites for information and inspiration – send as many as you deem suitable for this category.

Some areas to consider may include local and overseas photographers, blogs, forums and suppliers.

Deadline

The deadline is 1 September 2010. No material submitted after this date can be considered, unless we've had "the chat".

Please forward this message on to anyone you think has some amazing work to share and would like to potentially be published in the magazine, whether emerging or seasoned professional.

Cheers and thanks for your time,

Marc...



Marc Gafen
Editor
Capture

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The Factory Of Yeah

Happening tonight at 196 Harbord Road in Brookvale. A charity fund raising event to raise money for Homes for Hope.

Kicks off at 6pm...Chance to win some great prizes and check out some great artwork too.
Details factory of yeah

Another Competition

internationalapertureawards First prize is $20 Grand US, you have til the 15th October...

No Excuses

Call for entries for this years Projections competition have been extended for another two weeks, until the 15th August. So now you have no excuse for not submitting an entry...

Want to win a 16GB Wifi Ipad?

Of course you do details are on the ACMP website

FBI fundraiser Thursday 22nd July

 

Happening tomorrow night with all proceeds going to FBI radio check it

Congratulations to Mark Tipple

For taking out the top honours in the 2010 Shutterbug competition with the underwater project

This Week

Tomorrow night at the Chauvel cinema, Paddington Shutterbug 2010 is happening...

The following night at the Redbull Gallery 41 Bourke Road Alexandria, Mark Watson will be speaking and showing some of his action sports Photography tickets here

Big Money

Closing dates for two well known Portrait prizes are fast approaching
The MGA Bowness Prize and also the Moran Photographic Portrait Prize So get to it!!!

Projections 2010 Call for Entries Now Open

Head to theprojections for all the details

Girls and Cars Tomorrow night

Tomorrow night at the China Heights gallery an exhibition opening by our very own Fiona Wolf.

Fresh from her win of this years Head On Portrait prize Fi is showing a series of work she has been for working on for the last couple of years.

Projections 2010 call for entries open

Goto theprojections for details on how to enter as well as the chance to pick up 10 grand to shoot a personal project thanks to thepool entry form here

Very Sad News Today

 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/executive-lifestyle/top-fashion-photographer-richard-bailey-dies-after-cancer-battle/story-e6frg8k6-1225880425019

Lighting set up for time cover

Gregory Heisler walks us through his set up for shooting Bruce Springsteen for the cover of Time magazine here

Creative Review Photography Annual 2010

One week left to enter this details here

You have to be in it to win

Want to win a Canon 1dmk IV of course you do go here
and if you'd like a shot at being the photofocus emerging photographer of the year here for all the details...

Creative Sydney

Has had some great artist talks and events on as part of Vivid sydney.

Scrathing the surface tonight at the MCA will be awesome and come hear the organisers of the finders keepers markets tomorrow here

Been loving this bad weather we've been having in Sydney lately?

Why not move to the Uk and enjoy it for a whole year....
Weather aside this is a great opportunity for young creatives to realise their dream you only have a week to apply so get to it!!!

Tonight tonight tonight

For the Sydney heads, New Photographic show opening tonight at Somedays gallery details here

A couple of comps for you to enter

Win both pass go and collect 50 grand what could be easier?
Photography book now
Vimeo awards

3d Portraits

Show on for a couple more days yet read about it here

One Of Britains Best Photographers Passes Away

THE MAN WHO SHOT THE SIXTIES from CHRIS DUFFY on Vimeo.

Great documentary about the life of Brian Duffy

Want to win a two week exhibition at Monster Children gallery?

Get to it here

Portrait Exhibition Opening this Friday 6pm

For the Sydney heads there is a new artist run space in woollomooloo and they have a new exhibition opening this Friday 28th May from 6pm.

For a sneak peek go here

See you there

Liquid Light

Cool light painting experiment with the results being a  Hennessy campaign.  

And the Head On winner is...

A big congratulations goes to our very own trampoline member and projections coordinator Fiona Wolf!!!
Well done FI, all the hard work has finally paid off. Among other things Fiona is now a proud owner of a 5dmk2!!!
Fi also has an exhibition coming up with Ingver Kenne and Toby Dixon.

More details to follow soon.

Your life in a graph

Taken from APE

Busy Weekend

Shane Rozario is having an exhibition this Saturday evening 1st May in Chippendale followed by another exhibition that opens on Sunday 2nd by the talented Marilia Ogayar details here

Personal Projects equals???

ASMP blog

Live rent free in New York for a year where do i submit?

Go here for details

APPA

APPA

Exposure Comp Full Details Coming Soon...

Cost of doing Business calculator

nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices

Bookmark this link!!!

One stop for information on eveything dpbestflow

Free lighting Workshop Tomorrow Afternoon

Vote Now for your favourite

Pdnfaces

SCARY

PDN Assistants survey

Marketing Strategies for Successful photographers

Great Information on the Photoshelter blog about marketing.
A must read for all photographers serious about success.

Great Interview with Simon Harsent

Go here
Simon will be speaking at the next Sydney Trampoline meeting at the end of the month...

Art and About Call for Entries

Details here

How to quit assisting and become a Photographer

Great article from PDN website

Pricing and Negotiating insights

Great in depth analysis of a job from aphotoeditor thanks to wonderful machine

Up Update for new Canon firmware

Apparently a bug has been fixed from the previous update to Version 2.0.4
Go here

CS5 SNEAK PEEK

WOW!!!

How to become a better photographer

Great article from the Prophoto 101 blog

Low light Competition

Head to the Photoreview website for details on how to win a brand new sony cybershot

Monster Children On Thursday night and the Chauvel on Sat

The latest exhibition opens this Thursday at Monster gallery

And then a special presentation of short films by the Beautiful losers artists is happening on Saturday night at the Chauvel

What the hell is Pecha Kucha?

Want to present some of your work and talk about it at the Sydney Biennale?
Head to the website for all the details, submissions close at the end of the month..

Film photo exhibition this friday night

Interesting exhibition happening this Friday at The National Grid

Where would you rather be?

Coronaextra comp

Creating an online portfolio

Great info over at austrlianinfront about different options for creating an online portfolio as well as a summary of both days of semipermanent by Rebecca Wolkenstein who came and spoke at Trampoline last year.

This Message is brought to you by...

All the letters of the Alphabet go here to find out what I'm talking about.

You want to shoot 24fps on your 5dmk2

Finally your prayers have been answered
enjoy

Creativity Alone is Not enough

Check out Chase Jarvis' blog for some great words on creativity and innovation.

The Best Self Promotion Piece Ever

Do you have $15 grand just lying around at home, Maybe you could do what Casey Templeton did and create a stunning self promotion piece that he sent out to 300 agencies/creatives across the United states.
The results seem to have already generated more business than he spent.

THE LATEST WE'RE MOVING!!

The Official Trampoline blog will be moving soon so please update the details when we do.
The ACMP's new website will be launching soon and will be hosting the Trampoline blog.
Keep a look out for the new url coming soon.

Want to Work at the Front?

The Front have moved to Henderson Road Redfern and are looking for someone to work in their equipment department

Too Many Competitions, Not enough time

Less than two weeks left to submit your entries for this year's Head on Portrait Prize
DO IT DO IT NOW!!!!

PDN Faces Competition

You have two weeks get cracking facespdncontest.com

Monday Night

If you haven't booked already or didn't know about it, you now have no excuse...
L and P Photographic is hosting a free Pro Photo seminar at the Freeway Hotel, opposite where they are in artarmon.
This should be a great event and a chance to see the latest Profoto gear in action.

Awesome Event Coming Up on Tuesday March 9th

For the Sydney heads, an informal meet up will be happening at the Art house Hotel, in the Dome Lounge(level 1) from 5-6:30pm on Tuesday March 9th. This is a free event and all photographer's, assistants, operators etc are welcome.
No membership or industry association required to attend.
Come and hang out, meet some people, have a chat, get some advice, or maybe bring some work you want feedback on.

This is such a great idea, and a throw back to the good old days I hear older photographers talk about when photographers used to get together and share ideas and war stories perhaps in an informal setting with no keynote speaker that people were there to hear talk.

Tell anyone you think may be interested in attending this event.

Hat's off to Torunn Momtazi for making this happen.

See you there on Tuesday week.

Simon Harsent's Melt And Rock at the ACP

If you missed seeing it at the ACP, Simon's latest exhibition melt will be opening at the Saatchi gallery, 70 George Street the rocks, This Wednesday from 6:30pm

Also this coming Friday come and hear Daniel Boud and Tony Mott speak about photographing live music at the ACP Gallery between 6 and 8pm.

Can't wait for tomorrow...

WTJ

Your number one Asset

Worth reading article at the ASMP strictly business blog

Some more competitions

Photographer's Forum

Communication Arts

Head on

GET TO IT!!!

New York New York

3rd Ward Open Call.
The chance to win 5 grand, a 3 month residency in New York plus accommodation and studio facilities!!! Where do I submit my work to ??

New York Photo Awards

Go here

Australia Feature

Peter Eastway was recently featured here

Happy Australia Day!!!

Hope you get out and take some photos...would love to see what people shoot today.

Very little time left on this one...

Pdn Photo Annual

Details for next sydney meeting

Coming soon..

Behind the scenes

Behind the scenes photos by James Elks

More shot s from Monday night

Photos by Weraroa Kawana
Link to more photos go here

Need to shoot a car maybe?

I received this email today from Russell, the studio manager at mammoth Studios.
He attended monday night's shoot and has an offer for Trampoline blog followers.

A few photos from Monday night

More photos to follow...

Want to go shoot WA with Trente Parke

Head to the website for all the details here thanks to Jamie Williams for the heads up.



Starting the year with a high speed flash!!!

This may not not look like much gear to some but the value would equal the total cost of a two bedroom apartment in Sydney.
This was the gear we had to play with last night in the first Sydney Trampoline meeting for the year. A big thank you must be given to Sun studios who provided their biggest studio and lighting gear for those who attended to play with.

Stay tuned for the results from the night coming soon.

Want to Live in New York Rent Free?

You now have an extra week to get your entry in for the chance to win free accommodation in New York..
Head to artistswanted for all the details.

Pimp Your Laptop in 2010

This is a cool way to customise your laptop, ipod or iphone and support independant artists at the same time WIN WIN. gelaskins

Want to be on the Mardi Gras photo team?

Emerging Photographers head over to the ACMP website for all the details

The First Trampoline Meeting for 2010

It's happening this coming Monday night, between 7pm and 9pm at Sun Studios, directions to Sun are here

You DO NOT want to miss this event.
It is a practical event, come one come all, bring your camera.
Sun studios has very kindly allowed us the use of their biggest studio for this event.
There will also be Broncolor lighting packs available on the night for people to plug into and use.
We have bboys who will be having a breakdance battle for your enjoyment as well as gymnast/circus performers, fire twirlers and skateboarders.
All on hand for you to shoot!!! There is no cost or cover charge for this event.
It is going to be huge!!!

Get your photos on the AIPP website

I just recieved an email from the AIPP, they're on the lookout for people to help with the new website plus if you wanted to have some of your images used as web banners, contact them. A link to the letter is here

Inspiration for the new year

I came across this after following a link from chase jarvis' blog Definitely worth checking out and make sure you view in full screen!!

Also if you haven't checked out the nikonfestival site yet do yourself a favour and get over there. Some really great work there.
You can vote and decide who wins.

A couple of my favourites in the cards
new york state of mind and some comedic relief,
your future husband

Best Be Quick

Capture Magazine is on the lookout for work by emerging photographers to feature in the talent section of the magazine.

You need to send 3-5 images of your best work (500kb-1mb per image jpegs)to marcgafen@yaffa.com.au by tomorrow so get cracking!!!

Good luck.

Also We have the first Trampoline meeting for the year happening this coming Monday night 18th January at Sun Studios between 6 and 8pm.

This is a practical meeting so bring your camera there will be various things happening in the studio for people to photograph including skateboarders, breakdancers and circus freaks. I hope you can make it to this free event.

Directions of how to get to Sun here

Cool Interview With Chase Jarvis

From photoshopusertv website

Looking for Somewhere to Post your work?

I have recently found out about this website which you can post images to and have different portfolios of work. There are quite a few well known Australian photographers on there already...

Lucie Foundation Scholarship

Head to the website for all the details

RIGHT ON!!!

Great post over on the ASMP Business Blog

PDN Emerging Photographer

Upload your photos here

Best Business Practices for Photgraphers

Just thought I'd share a book I have recently started reading. It has been reviewed and recommended by Strobist and chase jarvis.
Best business practices for photographers should be required reading for photographers!
Great note to start the year on.
What photographic goals have you set for the year ahead?
This is a great year for emerging photographer's to knuckle down and get serious and for those transitioning from assisting to start shooting.
GOOD LUCK IN 2010