Photography News 11

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Leading tripod brand Manfrotto has launched a new collection of camera supports. Known as the Off Road collection, two products designed specifically for the outdoor market are featured: a pair of walking poles and a lightweight tripod, both available in blue, red and green. The aluminium walking poles cost £79.95 for the pair and one of them features a rotating camera attachment on top so it quickly converts to a very usable monopod. The Off Road tripod weighs in at just 650g but is capable of supporting a payload of 2.5kg. An integral levelling bubble helps keep horizons straight and a rotating camera wheel speeds up set-up. This sells for £119.95. Off roadwith Manfrotto

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π To find out more, go to www.manfrotto.co.uk.

Sony has launched a new initiative designed to help you get the best photos of landmarks in cities across the UK. Sony Xperia Spots has introduced distinctive footstep marks on the ground near the most photographed places in London, Manchester and Birmingham, including the London Eye, Royal Albert Hall, Tower Bridge, The Birmingham Library and the

Beetham Tower. It follows on from a similar scheme in America, which identified the best locations for capturing landmarks in New York and San Francisco – the same team has applied the same process in the UK. The scheme encourages photographers to share their own Xperia Spots for the chance to win the latest Sony smartphone photography technology.

Street season Take part inGreenwichGallery’s street exhibition and competition

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Greenwich Gallery presents the On Our Streets season of street photography. Invited photographers will exhibit over several months, including Steve Smith FRPS, Dave Mason, Nick Sack, Norman Smith, Paul Halliday, Kate Hooper and Stefan Lubomirski de Vaux. Images cover urban landscapes, captured moments, purposeful messages, unusual cultural events, activism, and destruction and construction.

Alongside the exhibition is a chance for all to take part with a competition. Entrants can submit a portfolio of three street photography images, and the judges will select 80 to be shown on a plasma screen in the Gallery. From these, an overall winner will be invited to hold a two-week exhibition in the gallery in 2015. Each portfolio of three images costs £10 to enter, and you can enter as many portfolios as you like.

π To find out more, go to www.thegreenwichgallery.com.

Photography News | Issue 11