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Could Your Online Marketing Ability Give You A Photographer Award?

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Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition has just been announced.

With the advance of social media this year, its hard not to have some type of social media within your marketing plan. Whether you love Twitter and use it all day long, have a great blog that people love to follow, or have a desire to be the best Flickr photographer, here’s your chance.

Start by visiting OpenWebAwards.com. Once you’re there, sign in using either your Facebook or Twitter id, and start nominating. With 50 categories, there’s one for anyone who loves being online. Here’s just a few:

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Photography Trivia – Do You Know The Answer?

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Who invented the camera?
The forerunner to the camera was the camera obscura, which was an instrument consisting of a darkened chamber or box, into which light was admitted through a convex lens, forming an image of external objects on a old slr camera surface of paper or glass. The camera obscura was described by an Arabic scientist in his Book of Optics, written in the early 11th century.

The first camera that was small and portable enough to make photography practical was built by Johann Zahn in 1685, though it took another 150 years for the technology to be used regularly.

When was film first invented?
Eastman invented a flexible, paper based photographic film in 1884. In 1888, Eastman patented the Kodak roll film camera.

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Photographing The Macworld Cover

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Every wonder what it takes to photograph the cover of a magazine? We found a great video that time lapses the entire process, from start to finish.

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Enter A Photo Contest and Improve Your Resume

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Want three reasons to enter a photo contest?

1. Winning an award adds to your credentials. If you can put a long list of awards on your resume, you’ll not only have a more professional look, you’ll be able to charge more for your work as well.

2. You’ll learn a ton. Look at the winners of each contest you enter from the previous years. Study them to get an idea of what they are looking for, and improve your photography skills in the process.

3. It makes you feel great! There’s nothing like winning an award that gets you excited for your business.

I found this great list of contests – 9 Great Photo Contest To Take Part In! – and it inspired me to share the list with you, and to give you 3 more additional resources to enter.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
The Center for Fine Art Photography is sponsoring a photo contest with the theme – a visual representation that portrays the likeness of a person, animal, place or thing.

This contest is open to photographers worldwide, amateur and professional level.

Entry fee is $20 USD for 3 images as a member, $35 for non-members. Additional images are $10 each.

Deadline of August 18, 2009

Official website: http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2009Portrait/portrait.asp
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Kodachrome – A Film Retired But Not Forgotten

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June 22, 2009 become the end of a long journey for Kodak’s Kodachrome. For over 74 years, Kodak manufactured this color reversal film which has been used by photojournalists all over the world to capture amazing images. One of the most famous images was from National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, a haunting portrait of an Afghan refugee appeared on the cover of the magazine in June 1985

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Kodachrome was such an amazing film for the time because of the vibrant colors it portrayed. In the words of Paul Simon:

They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.
~Paul Simon
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Inventor Of Twitter

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We are big fans of twitter and really got a kick out of this Close To Home comic.

Close To Home

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Photography Survey – How Do You Match Up?

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I love surveys and statistics. I love discovering how people are thinking, what matters most to them, and what drives them for the future.

So a few days I found a new survey tool and decided to give it a try – and thanks to the dozens of you who have participated so far (yes, you can still add your ideas if you have two minutes to spare).

So let’s go over a couple of the survey results.

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Is taking a great picture more of an accident for you, or can you take an image knowing you’ve got a great image every time? A lot of that comes down to lighting, and knowing exactly what to do in every situation. And it looks like a ton of photographers struggle with that on a daily basis.

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Where will photography take you this year survey

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What are you doing with your photography this year? Are you enjoying shooting for fun? Or are you looking at turning it into an income stream? Take this two minute survey, and let us know what you’re doing in 2009.

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Thanks for your input – we appreciate it. We’ll update you on the results here in the next few days.

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A Common Theme – Taking A Photo One Moment In Time

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I’m seeing a common theme throughout the web lately. It’s about documenting one moment in time through the eyes of as many photographers as possible.

I first wrote about the 4am Project earlier this year.

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Now I’ve just run across Worldwide Moment. Worldwide Moment will take place on 09.09.09 at 09:09. The idea is for everyone to capture one moment of peace simultaneously from around the world, and share that image that was taken in celebration of this event.

What does your world look like at that moment?

If you want to participate, you can join in many ways.

Website
Twitter
Facebook

And if you want to start early, start with a mini-moment, that will post photos leading up to the big day. Email [email protected] with your photo, and it will be uploaded to the Flickr page.

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A Cold Snowy Morning at 4am

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What does your world look like at 4am?

We were intrigued by the 4am Project, and had to participate. So this morning we set our alarm for 3:45, and headed out to photograph.

We live right by the Cherry Creek Reservoir, and walk, bike, hike, and boat there all the time. So that’s the first place we thought of at 4 am. Especially with it being cold and blowing snow.

This is our view, and the path we start out on almost every day. The city lights of other neighborhoods and shopping is several miles in the distance; but its amazing at how much light there really is at 4 am.

What does your world look like at 4am? I’d love to see your photos; just post links in our comments.

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