The F Stops Here

New York (Vocus) July 28, 2010 Photopreneur, the No. 1 blog covering new opportunities in the photography business, today announced the release of its new book, “Amazing Public Domain Images Sourcebook.” At a time when photo editors, art directors, graphic designers, researchers, educators and bloggers worldwide are seeking free and low-cost images to illustrate their work, Photopreneur provides guidance on utilizing the world’s largest free photography collection: the tens of millions of images currently in the public domain.

The 232-page soft-cover book, published by New Media Entertainment, is available at Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/Public-Domain-Sourcebook.

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Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) October 21, 2009 — John Wiley & Sons, Inc. will be present at Photo Plus Expo this year and will bring dozens of new titles as well as some award-winning authors for live demonstrations in their booth, 558. The PhotoPlus International Conference +Expo 2009 (PPE) will take place October 22-24 in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

Two Wiley authors will be making presentations at the event. Kevin Ames is a well-known commercial digital photographer who has written several Photoshop and photography books. His company, Ames Photographic Illustration, has done work for Honda, AT&T, and Westin Hotels. He also writes the “Digital Photographer’s Notebook” column for Photoshop User magazine, and is a Photoshop World Dream Team instructor.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 21, 2009 — The Adorama Learning Center has just published “Fix the Pix”, a new series of free online tips designed to help snapshooters take better pictures. The series identifies fourteen of the most common picture-taking mistakes made when using compact digital cameras, and shows how to avoid them through sample before-and-after photos and non-technical explanations.

"Hey, what's with that tree growing out of my head?" This pic needs a fix!

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Soth’s photos feature local CommonBond residents; limited edition book benefits the development of additional affordable housing and resident services

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ — CommonBond Communities, the largest nonprofit housing developer, manager and resident services provider in the Upper Midwest is proud to announce the release of Allowing Flowers, a limited-edition book created specifically for CommonBond Communities. Allowing Flowers features the work of Alec Soth, an internationally renowned photographer who blends his unique style of photography with the organization’s mission to provide homes for those most in need.

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First Annual Juried Contest Seeks Best Family, Pet and Travel Photo Books; Offers Three $3,000 Grand Prizes, Three $1,000 Runner-up Prizes

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Blurb , the creative publishing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books, seeks entries for the first-ever Best Blurb Books Contest. Photo books can be entered at http://www.blurb.com/photo-book-contest in one of three categories – family, pets, or travel – for a shot at one of three $3,000 grand prizes or one of three $1,000 runner-up prizes.

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United States of America (Press Release) August 4, 2009 — Established stock photography company PhotoEdit Inc. has published the results from its first-ever student survey. Conducted for several months in spring and early summer 2009 at the request of a client, the survey questioned 284 high school students in the local area about their thoughts concerning the stock photos in their textbooks.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) August 7, 2009 — Fodor’s Travel announces the latest in their series of travel photography contests, “Show Us Your Argentina,” where visitors to Fodors.com will have the opportunity to upload and share their favorite photos of Argentina with other travelers and the chance to win prizes, including Fodor’s guides.
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Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) July 29, 2009 — Luminescence of Nature Press is pleased to announce the release of The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro, the latest eBook by photographer and author Jason P. Odell, Ph.D. The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro is a comprehensive PDF tutorial that guides photographers through the steps of digital black and white conversion using the popular plug-in software for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. The tutorial includes 15 instructional videos narrated by Dr. Odell, each of which reinforces concepts illustrated in the pages of the eBook. The instructional videos are embedded directly in the PDF file, which means that users don’t need to worry about separate video files or media players; as long as they are using Adobe Reader 9 or later, the videos will play directly from the eBook.

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ — The Photography.Book.Now International Juried Competition today opened voting for the People’s Choice Award. Anyone may now visit the Photography.Book.Now Bookstore and vote for their favorite photography book through August 20, 2009. Photography.Book. Now, presented by Blurb , celebrates the finest self-published photography books – and the people behind them.
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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 17, 2009 — Acclaimed documentary photographer Phil Borges and CARE, a humanitarian organization that fights global poverty by empowering women and girls, are continuing a successful multi-year collaboration with today’s launch of the Women Empowered Project. Using Borges’ photography and video, The Women Empowered Project spotlights some of the issues that women and girls in the developing world face while demonstrating practical, proven solutions to fighting global poverty.

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