Study confirms potential of cell phone photography

Bad Kreuznach, Germany, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire - AsiaNet) - The photography sector is facing another upheaval: Towards the end of the 1990s, digital cameras started replacing analog models. Now there is a new trend to replace digital cameras with cell phones with camera capabilities. A representative study carried out by optical component specialists Schneider Kreuznach confirms the potential of cell phone photography. Around 1,000 users in Germany, China, India, and the U.S.A. were interviewed about their specific usage patterns relating to picture-taking with digital cameras and cell phones. International comparison of usage patterns One out of four respondents indicated that in future they would exclusively use cell phones for picture-taking (early adopters), provided the quality matched that of today's upper mid-range digital cameras with approximately 6 million pixels.

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Pro Photography Online Marketplace Digital Railroad Raises $10 Million

New York - Digital Railroad, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of professional photography, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by DN Capital.Previous investors Morgenthaler Ventures and Venrock Associates also participated. New York-based Digital Railroad's service is used by professional photographers and photo agencies to manage, market and sell their images to thousands of buyers in nearly 60 countries. The company will use the funds for product development, marketing, and to open international offices, beginning with Milan. Related Links:http://www.digitalrailroad.net/corpsite/press_02-05-07.html .

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WaveridersGallery.com Debuts with Fine Surf Art and Photography

WaveridersGallery.com, a site devoted to promoting artists and photographers who celebrate the simple act of waveriding, has debuted with an extensive collection of signed, limited-edition offerings. Mediums include canvas, paper, film, digital impression, wood and foam. Prices range from $20 to $5,000, with custom framing available for most pieces. Some WaveridersGallery.com artists are debuting their work online, while others are well known in the surfing and art worlds. Artists new to the Web, and their mediums, include Meegan Feori, Chris Bolden and Ea Eckerman. Established painters include Ken Auster, Pat Tobin, Wade Koniakowsky and Kevin Short. Prints from renowned surf photographers Brian Bielmann, Sean Davey, and Scott Winer also are available at www.WaveridersGallery.com.

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Photography: A Glimpse of The Traveling Life

Through the middle of February, the Wrocaw Gallery of Contemporary Art is holding an exhibition consisting of a collection of photographs which narrate the story of photographer Harald Medbe's encounters with Roma society. "The Gypsy Trips" records the life of the people whom the author calls "the last free people of Europe." Medbe is an established Norwegian photographer who worked in the 70s as a photographer for the National Theater in Olso. He now works independently and has published various albums, which are usually accompanied by written work or audio media. "The Gypsy Trips" features a catalogue published in Norway, consisting of 60 pictures and 20 short stories describing meetings between the artist and the gypsy community. The photographs on display in Wrocaw capture the relatively undocumented life of the Roma.

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People in Photography

The result, as seen in People in Photography, is an avalanche of more than 200 photographs with extraordinary, occasionally baffling juxtapositions of subject matter and author. Cecil Beaton's portrait of Princess Alexandra shares wall space with an anonymous 1910 portrait of the confident but ultimately doomed boxer Les Darcy and hawkish Kings Cross witch Rosaleen Norton. The great American portraitist Arnold Newman's take on an earnest but irrevocably shifty Richard Nixon shows the American president attempting a sincere smile from beneath a handwritten, affectionate inscription to an Australian friend. John Elliott's 1982 photograph of Slim Dusty coexists uneasily with Max Dupain's portrait of a chubby young Yehudi Menuhin, photographed 40 years earlier. Dupain's versatility shows in two other, very different pictures - his carefully lit 1940s views of the enigmatic politician "Doc" Evatt, and the actor Chips Rafferty resting on his haunches in a rocky landscape with his right hand cradling the ever present hand-rolled cigarette.

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• Photography exhibition to raise cash for cancer

The exhibition opens on Friday, February 9, at the Auckland Museum Event Centre. For online artwork bidding, visit the website www.sweetlouise.co.nz. PHOTOGRAPHY celebrating the uniqueness of New Zealand will help raise funds for the Louise Perkins Foundation. The weeklong exhibition titled, us: undiminished spirit, features a collection of New Zealand images culminating at a party at the Auckland Museum on February 16. It’s hoped the images will appeal to collectors, investors and the wider public, and through auction, raise funds for the Sweet Louise programmes for women with metastatic breast cancer. "We’re a small community on the edge of the world but we have a spirit to rival the biggest nation," foundation executive director Jennifer Clark says. "This exhibition and auction is a fantastic opportunity to rejoice in that spirit, invest in some unique New Zealand artwork and support a great cause." The exhibition opens on Friday, February 9, at the Auckland Museum Event Centre.

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Neda Johnson Photography finds new home

Neda Johnson is excited about moving her portrait photography business out of her home and into downtown Albert Lea."It's a dream come true. It's what I've wanted for the last 10 years," she said.Neda Johnson Photography, 112 S. Broadway Ave., opens Jan. 29, she said. The store offers photography services for weddings, children, families, groups, high school seniors, college graduates and other moments in life.Johnson, 33, grew up in Owatonna and Medford. She attended Mankato State University back when it had that name, but she didn't go to school for photography. She ended up working for Lifetouch School Portraits, with her studio in Mankato. Her job was to shoot school pictures all over southern Minnesota. She has shot pictures of children in Albert Lea, Wells, New Richland and Austin, among others.She then worked for Robin One in Albert Lea and seven years ago began her own portrait photography business in her home.

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