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Photography News Issue 23 absolutephoto.com
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CyberLink’s newMedia Suite Media Suite 13 from CyberLink uses the latest versions of the firm’s award-winning software to provide a complete multimedia suite offering 12 software solutions in one package. Get yourself a free trial from the website if you don’t already own it. cyberlink.com External storage upgrades StarTech’s new dual-bay RAID enclosure for 2.5in SATA drives makes it easy to expand your laptop’s storage, all through a single USB 3.0 host connection. It’s small, taking up minimal desk space, and works with a broad range of operating systems, costing just £81.99. startech.com/uk My Passport My Passport for Mac and My Passport Ultra portable hard drives have been redesigned, now coming in capacities up to 3TB and in four colours: Classic Black, Brilliant White, Wild Berry and Noble Blue. They’re available now with prices ranging from £59.99 to £159 depending on capacity. wdstore.co.uk Perfect portraits Updates have been made to the award-winning portrait retouching software, PortraitPro, with version 12.5 now available to download for existing customers free of charge. portraitprofessional.com DonMcCullin awarded Internationally renowned photojournalist Don McCullin has had his work and contributions to journalism recognised with an honorary doctorate from Bath Spa University. He’s covered youth gangs in his childhood neighbourhood for the Observer and has collaborated with the Sunday Times Magazine to cover conflicts from in Northern Ireland to Cambodia and Israel. bathspa.ac.uk Kingston’s big card Kingston has added a 512GB card to its range of Class 10 UHS-1 SD cards. It has a write speed of 45MB/s and read speed of 90MB/s. Price is expected to be £163. kingston.com/us/flash/ sd_cards
Nikon’s coveted Photo Contest has another name to add to its winners list, as it unveiled the 2014-2015 Grand Prize photo winner, Japan’s Katsuhiro Noguchi. ‘Fukushima Flowers’ was the series of images that landed Katsuhiro the top spot, beating off an incredible 89,000 other submissions from 164 different countries and impressing a panel of 17 judges, which included current photographers, creative directors and imaging experts. Judge Stephen Mayes said of the winning images: “Using the descriptive detail of the
photographic process, the images describe nothing, but instead offer a meditation, first visually and then intellectually and finally emotionally as their significance emerges. And the lasting emotion is of hope plucked from the very earth that betrayed its inhabitants in 2011.” A further 107 winners will be announced on the Nikon Photo Contest website, where you’ll also be able to look through all the winning images.
nikon-photocontest.com/en
B&Wwinner announced The first winner of Tetenal’s B&W European Classics Award has been announced as Oliver Hecht. His image titled ‘Mood’ (above) was selected out of entries from 16 different countries. Managing director of Tetenal, Matthias Hübener said: “We are delighted that many photo fans are currently focusing again on black & white photography and that it is almost experiencing a renaissance. We are of course also thrilled about the submitted photos, they were all of a high quality, oftenwonderfullymagical, artistically fascinating, provocative, witty and original or of unusual aesthetics.”
tetenaluk.com
Gitzo on themove Excellent stability in a small size is the promise of the latest Traveler tripods
Gitzo has updated its popular Traveler tripod range. All feature a 180° leg-folding mechanism and carbon-fibre eXact tubes for greater stiffness. Three series are on offer – 0, 1 and 2, the 0 series being the lightest and most compact. The Series 0 GT0545T costs £559.95; the Series 1 GT1555T and GT1545T cost £639.95 and £619.95 respectively; and the Series 2 GT2545T is £699.95. To partner the Travelers, Gitzo has introduced the GH1382TQD, GH1382QD and GH3382QD ball heads. Their design enables the tripods to be folded tominimum size and they accept most Arca Swiss plates. Prices start from £264.95.
Industrial Britain Capture a photo that celebrates Britain’s manufacturing industry, whether that’s the design stage, technology in action or the finished product, and send it in to EEF/Lombard’s photo comp for a chance to win a share of £5,000 worth of Canon photo kit. It’s the sixth year the competition has been run and there are three categories to enter: professional, amateur and young photographer (14-19 years old). Get your entries in before 30 September and await the winner’s announcement in December.
eef.org.uk/photo
gitzo.co.uk
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