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Photography News | Issue 45 | absolutephoto.com
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TPOTY open for entries
Queen in 3-D
The Travel Photographer of the Year 2017 (TPOTY) contest is open for entries and you have until 25 September to get your shots in. The overall winner gets £4000 in cash, £750 of Paramo clothing and a Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio case. The winners of each portfolio category –CelebrationofHumanity, Earth&Climate andTales ofAdventure – win a FujifilmX Series professional camera and lens of their choice. Entry is open to all photographers of all ages, and fromall countries. Judging is done by an international panel of photographers and imaging experts. For creative inspiration there are two free TPOTY exhibitions on show. The first closes on 30 June and is taking place at the Princes Quay, Hull; the second is in London at the University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street from 4 August through to 3 September. It costs £8 to enter the one-shot single image categories, £15 for the New Talent and portfolio categories, while Young TPOTY is free. Also see the profile on TPOTY’s founder, Chris Coe, in this issue of PN .
Queen guitarist Brian May has been an avid stereo photography enthusiast ever since he got a free viewer in a Weetabix packet, aged 12. His book, Queen in 3-D, has been three years in the making and features previously unseen pictures of the band both at work and relaxing. Over 300 pictures are featured and there’s a story behind each one. With the book comes a 3-D viewer (called the OWL) so you get to enjoy the images properly. Published by the London Stereoscopic Society, Queen in 3-D is out now and costs £50.
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Ammonite’s latest book is Mastering Macro Photography by David Taylor and it's out now with a cover price of £19.99. Exploring the world of close-up photography is great fun and can be technically challenging, too. David’s book is sure to help you make the most of this fascinating subject. It is the definitive guide to modern macro photography, covering core techniques including creative focusing, exposure and magnification ratios but also explains in detail topics such as focus stacking, using smartphone apps and using Wi-Fi to compose and take your pictures. Mastermacro
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EPOTY hits ten TheEnvironmentalPhotographer of the Year (EPOTY) competition is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2017, and this year’s contest has five categories including Built Environment, Mobile Phone and Young EPOTY. The organiser of the contest, CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management), has assembled a panel of celebrity judges including Stephen Fry, Ben Fogle and Christine Lampard. There are cash prizes for each category – the Environmental Photographer of the Year scoops £3000, for example – except for Young EPOTY where the winner receives an Olympus OM-D E-M10Mark II camera. Entry is open to UK and international photographers of all ages. There is no entry fee, but there is an entry limit of ten pictures per photographer. Entries for Environmental Photographer of the Year close on 8 September 2017.
Get theEye Michael Freeman’s book The Photographer’s Eye came out ten years ago and was an instant success; to date, over 500,000 copies of the book have been sold. It has now been digitally remastered, bringing it right up to date. Its update makes it the ideal book for those modern photographers keen on learning how to make the most of a scene or subject, using the opportunities offered by new techniques of digital capture and editing. The book is out now priced at £35.
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