Author (#33)February 2007 Archives

PPA’s RECON program is investigating FedEx Kinko’s – and it  needs your help.  

As a copyright enforcement driven by volunteer participation, PPA is asking its 17,000 members to get involved by placing an investigative order with the retailer.

The process is simple:
Take a clearly marked photographic print (or CD of images that is clearly marked as containing copyrighted material) and ask to have some copies made. Then, report the results of your test to PPA – it’s that simple.

If the store associate refuses to make the copy, thank them. If the store associate makes the copy, or allows you to make the copy please keep a copy of your receipt and your filled order. Regardless of the outcome, contact PPA by e-mail at mmathews@ppa.com and  let us know how it went.

Wedding photography is a lucrative business in a large market. We’re pleased to announce that PPA and Bridal Guide magazine have teamed up to help PPA members overcome the first hurdle in wedding photography: reaching new clients in a unique and cost-effective way during 2007 and 2008!

PPA wants to help you reach your target audience. Working together, Bridal Guide magazine and PPA will create a regionalized full-page, four-color ad encouraging engaged couples to select a PPA photographer for their big day. And we all know that the first thing an engaged woman does is pick up a bridal magazine. That moment becomes your chance to win her attention before she's made any decisions.

Six OnAsia contributing photographers were selected to participate in a prestigious book project which brought together 55 of the world’s top photographers to create a comprehensive photographic portrait of the Kingdom of Thailand in just nine days.

“We were thrilled to have so many of our member photographers working on this project,” said Peter Charlesworth Managing Director and Co-Founder of OnAsia. “The photographers selected for this book represented a roll call of the world’s leading talents. The selection of so many OnAsia members for this project underlines the importance we attach to working with this region’s top photographers.”

Entitled ‘Thailand: Nine Days in the Kingdom’, the book is being produced by Singapore publishing house Editions Didier Millet (visit the project’s website at: www.9days-inthekingdom.com). The project will be a contemporary update of a similar book called ‘Seven Days in the Kingdom’ that was produced by Editions Didier Millet in 1997.

Adobe Announces Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™--the professional photographer’s essential toolbox provides one easy application for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. From its elegant, uncluttered interface to its carefully tailored tools and features, Lightroom was designed specifically to meet photographers’ needs.

With Lightroom you can quickly import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs—from your latest shoot to your entire library—with one flexible and easy-to-use application.

• Adjust, rename, and apply metadata to photographs as you import them
• Enjoy support for more than 150 camera raw file formats
• Make your selections with fast, flexible viewing and comparison features
• Nondestructively adjust color, exposure, and tone curves
• --Track changes automatically and return to any image version with a single click
• --Tag photos with keywords and you'll always find the image you need

"Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives" provides the knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between analog (traditional) and digital photography.

Many photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is sure to be an archive of slides and negatives that cannot be directly integrated into the new digital workflow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. In "Scanning Negatives and Slides" the reader learns how to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or a slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable, and reliable. The author uses Nikon film scanners, but all steps can easily be accomplished while using a different scanner.

Alfred Coda of New Jersey passed away on January 1, 2007 at the age of 89. He was the founder of Coda Studios, Coda Color Lab and Coda, Incorporated. He was an active member of the Professional Photographers of America and was a Past President of the New Jersey PPA. He was a Master of Photography and was named a Fellow of Photography at the 13th annual convention of the PPA.

Al Coda pioneered the use of pressure sensitive adhesives for graphic mounting and laminating. He founded Coda, Inc. in 1974 and developed the first mass-produced Cold-Mount laminator.  Coda, Inc. is still a leader in the industry today, headed by Al’s son, Lee Coda.

In a statement released by the family, they would like to "thank all those in the industry for their friendship and support shown to Al through-out the years". Kindly make any donations in his memory to the American Lung Association or a charity of choice.

Coda, Inc. can be contacted through their website at www.codamount.com.