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Luminar updated has announced an update to its Luminar photo editing software. Luminar 3.1.0 offers enhancements and content-aware recognition to its Accent AI filter, as well as other improvements to its library. Accent AI 2.0 now features facial and object recognition technology and also offers better colour correction and smarter detail boost. Other improvements that the update includes are more convenient file organisation, improved selective sync, the ability to copy photos to a folder from within Luminar, and a gallery selection. With the update announcement Skylum is also offering Luminar 3 at the special price of £56 throughout May. Skylum Software
Neil Burnell was announced as the Fotospeed Photographer of the Year at this year’s The Photography Show. His winning image of a common blue butterfly waschosenfrompreviouswinners of Fotospeed’s #fsprintmonday Twitter competition. Neil’s prize was a Canon A2 printer, Fotospeed inkjet paper worth £500 and a bespoke one- to-one day of tutoring with a Fotospeed photographer. On
winning Neil said: “It’s a great feeling, to know you have been picked from the thousands of entries over the course of the year; it makes me very proud. It is also really good timing for me, as I don’t currently print from home and it was something I was going to invest in this year.” You can enter Fotospeed’s #fsprintmonday competition via twitter now.
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Get very close with Laowa The Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2X Ultra- Macro Apo lens joins the 60mm f/2.8 macro as the second member of the brand’s 2:1 macro line-up. The new 100mm lens covers the full-frame formatandfocusesfrominfinitydown to 24.7cm to give a 2:1 (twice lifesize) magnification, making it ideal for subjects where even 1:1 is not enough. Of course the lens’s 100mm focal length means it is equally suitable for portraits and general photography. This manual focus lens’s construction features 12 elements in 10 groups and the internal focusing mechanism means its size is constant, regardless of the focusing distance. The lens is available in Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony FE fittings and the UK price is
£469. The Canon version has a CPU chip on-board and an aperture motor so aperture control can be done from the camera and EXIF data is recorded onto your files.
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Travel Photographer of theYear – call for entries
The Travel Photographer of the Year competition is now open for entries across six categories for single image and portfolios, reflecting the great diversity of travel photography. Prizes include £5000 in TPOTY cash bursaries, Fujifilm X-T3 cameras, a Wildfoot Travel northern lights and whale sailing ship expedition in northern Norway and many more.
The judging panel this year includes double Pulitzer Prize-winner Essdras M Suarez and Lawrence Jackson, a former official White House photographer under the Obama Administration.
Entry fees start at £8, while entries to Young TPOTY are free. The competition closes on 1 October 2019,with the results announced in December.
Above Stefano Pensotti was overall winner of 2018 TPOTY with his eight-image portfolio
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