| Event Calendar for week of Feb 1 - 7 | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 1:07:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | Another Type of Groove. 7:30 p.m. today. Poetry reading featuring Noah Supanova Hayes. Cohan Center Pavilion, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo. Free. 756-1405. HopeDance Films. San Luis Obispo City/County Library, 995 Palm St., San Luis Obispo. 544-9663 or www.hopedance.org. 7 p.m. Friday. Death of a President. $7. 7 p.m. Saturday. Converging Ecological Crises. $5. 3 p.m. Sunday. 2012 The Odyssey. $10. Live Comedy Show. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Central Coast Players present local comedians. Grange Hall, 2880 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. $5. 543-0639. The Wonders of the Solar System. 5 to 6:15 p.m. Sunday. Trinity United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 490 Los Osos Road, Los Osos. Free. 528-1649. Opera Lovers Meet. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Jacalyn Kreitzer, Music Department faculty member, speaks about the upcoming production of the Cal Poly Student Opera Workshop of Scenes from Marriage of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte.... | |
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| | | Black and White Images Photography contest to be held at Fort Worth Country Day School | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:16:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | The 19th annual Black and White Images Photography contest and exhibit will run through Feb. 9 at the Fort Worth Country Day School Campus, 4200 Country Day Lane in Fort Worth. The exhibit will be displayed in the Upper School Commons with an awards ceremony from 3-4 p.m. on Sunday.Black and White Images is an annual juried exhibition for high school photography students attending both public and private schools in the Tarrant, Denton and Dallas counties. The exhibit and competition was established 19 years ago by the art department at FWCDS as a forum to exchange ideas and exhibit current work with students' peers.The photography students work in eight categories: Nature/Animals, Landscape and Cityscape, Portrait, Photojournalism, Experimental, Photo Essay, Architecture and Commercial/Still Life.... | |
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| | | PRESS RELEASE: Straight Talk from O'Reilly's Digital Photography ... | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:12:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEBASTOPOL, Calif. -- It makes total sense with prices of digital cameras rapidly shrinking that more folks than ever will be wrapping and unwrapping these fervently craved devices in the weeks to come. Yes, such pixel-packed stocking stuffers possess seductive new features yet trying to create artful and arresting images straight out-of-the box can be frustrating. Happily, next month digital camera enthusiasts traveling to and in northern California can cure the digital blues and get their photography questions answered at a pre-Macworld bookstore reading and Macworld events: http://www.oreilly.com/go/macworld2007. On Jan. 7, a team of O'Reilly Media's best-selling authors kicks off an event-jammed week with an "Ask the Experts" panel discussion. Best-selling authors and photographers Mikkel Aaland, Stephen Johnson, Ken Milburn, and Derrick Story appear at Book Passage, a beloved San Francisco Bay Area independent bookstore, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge.... | |
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| | | Promoting Nation Via Photography Contest | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:21:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Bandar Seri Begawan - A Photography competition, Colours of Brunei, is on to create increased awareness and promote travel around the Sultanate. Brunei Tourism Board CEO Sheikh Jamaluddin Sheikh Mohamed said the contest for the best picture of Brunei Darussalam captured by digital camera, played a vital role in boosting the nation's tourism industry. "We supported a similar project last year (themed Faces of Brunei) and we will continue to support this year's project. A pictune pens a thousand words," said the CEO in a phone interview yesterday. He said in the previous competition, pictures of Brunei's water villages, beautiful mosques, architecture and cultural activities had pulled tourists into the country. The photos, published in a magazine of the same name, had successfully provided a preview of the uniqueness of the nation, added Sheikh Jamaluddin.... | |
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| | | Parma man recognized for creating first digital camera | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:06:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Steve Sasson and his wife, Cynthia, rarely discuss photography around the dinner table, and he even often misplaces his best camera - but the photography world will never forget this Parma resident. As he shows off his clunky-looking eight pound camera, Sasson is almost apologetic. ?If I had known that 30 years later this would be nearly as interesting to people I would have made it prettier,? he said. The camera, created by Sasson, is the world?s first-ever digital camera. Sasson invented it while working as a research engineer for Eastman Kodak. He remembers December 9, 1975 as a red letter day. He and Cynthia were finalizing their move to Irondequoit and a camera he had been working on recorded its first image. The project started from a hallway conversation he had with his supervisor.... | |
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| | | Xenon Flashtube suits digital and mobile phone cameras. | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:27:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Trim Xe(TM) line is available in various sizes and power levels with lamp diameters as small as 1.3 mm to meet demands of digital photography applications. Intense, short light discharge freezes motion, lights objects at long distances, and provides clear photos without need for brightness modification, contrast correction, or image stabilization. Xenon Flash technology enables uniform light distribution and color temperature close to natural sunlight. Additional information provided by manufacturer .... | |
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| | | Digital Focus: Digital Photography Goodies in Vista, Part 1 | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:45:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Five years ago, around the time that Digital Focus launched, Windows XP appeared on the scene and replaced Windows 98, Me, and 2000 on many desktops. Windows XP didn't have many features especially for digital photographers, but that's not too surprising. Digital photography was still in its infancy in those days. Today, digital photography is all grown up, and Windows Vista--Microsoft's new operating system--has been designed accordingly. This week I'm giving you a peek at the bits of Vista that cater to photographers like you and me. (Full disclosure: I work as a user assistance writer for Microsoft.) By the way, Vista is slated for release within the next few months; read "Vista Delivery Date to PC Manufacturers Slips" for the latest estimate.... | |
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| | | Digital makeover software a mixed bag for 'tween' girls | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:08:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new plug-and-play TV game can help your daughter try a new hairstyle without cutting a hair on her head or let her see how she looks with a different eye color or, perhaps, with dimples. With "Digi Makeover" from Radica, tween girls can digitally experiment with their own appearance and the appearance of six models. Girls can try out different hairstyles, makeup and accessories. .... | |
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| | | Mysterious images to make viewers forget | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:21:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | While her peers in abstract photography have largely embraced digital cameras and photo manipulation software, Cover has never used either. She has lugged around the same medium-format film camera for a dozen years, even after it got dunked in a swamp. When Cover wants to make digital prints, she has to develop the film, make prints in her home darkroom, then scan the prints into her computer. Timewise, it's the difference between knitting a sweater and picking one up at Nordstrom. Cover (the name rhymes with "clover") doesn't care about that. Her relish for photography can't be separated from the darkroom experience. "I love being in the darkroom, the running water, the quiet," Cover said, tucked into a leather chair at her home on Birch Lake. Many of Cover's images are hushed and gauzy, as if they were captured inside a snow globe.... | |
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| | | Nature photography show tonight | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:34:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | The 27th Annual Bob Ross Open Invitational Nature Photography Show will be at 7 tonight at Linn-Benton Community College, in the Forum Building, room 104, 6500 Pacific Blvd. S.W., Albany.This year's theme is the all-digital "Windows Into Nature," featuring views that make it seem as if you are looking out of or into some aspect of nature. Photographers are welcome to bring images on CD or on a USB keychain hard drive. Nature photographers from throughout the Willamette Valley gather each year to celebrate nature and share their experiences, techniques, favorite places and things to see. Nature for this purpose is defined as plants, animals, scenics, rocks, clouds, water or anything else that one finds in nature and that lacks any evidence of humans. No architecture, vehicles, hot air balloons or backpackers, etc.If you plan to show photos, please limit your selection to no more than 20 digital images and come early to allow time to download your images prior to the show.... | |
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