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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
Venice (Italian: Venezia; Venetian: Venesia, Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
It is situated across a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 2018, 260,897 people resided in Comune di Venezia, of whom around 55,000 live in the historical city of Venice (Centro storico). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 2.6 million. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area.
The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals."
The 697-1797 Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. The city-state of Venice is considered to have been the first real international financial center which gradually emerged from the 9th century to its peak in the 14th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.
It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was annexed by the Austrian Empire, until it became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, following a referendum held as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. Although the city is facing some major challenges (including financial difficulties, pollution, an excessive number of tourists and problems caused by cruise ships sailing close to the buildings), Venice remains a very popular tourist destination and an iconic Italian city, and has been ranked the most beautiful city in the world.
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The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces camera-related products with its historic basis on photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated in New Jersey. Kodak provides packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services for businesses around the world. Its main business segments are Print Systems, Enterprise Inkjet Systems, Micro 3D Printing and Packaging, Software and Solutions, and Consumer and Film. It is best known for photographic film products.
Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong on September 4, 1888. During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film. The company's ubiquity was such that its "Kodak moment" tagline entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that was demanded to be recorded for posterity. Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s, as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography. As a part of a turnaround strategy, Kodak began to focus on digital photography and digital printing, and attempted to generate revenues through aggressive patent litigation.
In January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In February 2012, Kodak announced that it would stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames and focus on the corporate digital imaging market. Digital cameras are still sold under the Kodak brand by JK Imaging Ltd thanks to an agreement with Kodak.
In August 2012, Kodak announced its intention to sell its photographic film, commercial scanners and kiosk operations, as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy, but not its motion picture film operations. In January 2013, the Court approved financing for Kodak to emerge from bankruptcy by mid 2013. Kodak sold many of its patents for approximately $525,000,000 to a group of companies (including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe Systems, and HTC) under the names Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation. On September 3, 2013, the company emerged from bankruptcy having shed its large legacy liabilities and exited several businesses. Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging are now part of Kodak Alaris, a separate company owned by the UK-based Kodak Pension Plan.
Camera: Intrepid 8x10
Film: Adox CHS II ISO100 8x10 black and white negative sheet film
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 300mm f=5.6.
Filmholder: Chamonix
Shutter: Prontor Professional 3
Exposure: ISO100 at f5,6 1/15s.
Light:
Natural light
Development: Rodinal in a Stearman Press developing tank at 8 minutes. No stopbath but water. Ilford fixer for 5 minutes. Increased agitation to make the scene more contrasty.
Scanner: Epson Perfection V700. Scanned at 900 dpi in two segments and stiched together digitally
Printing: Cyanotype kit from Franalog. About ten minutes in the sun and then dropped in a bath of hydrogen peroxide.
Just like other customizers, I'm first and foremost a fan of LEGO especially customized LEGOs. Recently, I purchased some great figs over the holidays. Here's my favorite of the bunch. Reviews will be put up shortly of all. Must say I was most impressed by Muddy River (iggs02) Clea minifigure as the results of pad printing and design were excellent. Was most surprised by Minifig4U's Spiderman, as it produced the best results from digital printing I've ever seen. While there is still that texture (which I usually don't like) the printing of that mesh pattern gives it the texture of mesh...very cool and very surprised how much I liked it. Good job to both Beau at Muddy River Figs and David at Minifigs4U on their custom figs!
New bootleg figures from Xinh. Raven's design appears to have been shipped from someone who posted it online. Saturn Girl is taken from the most recent Lego DC superheroes movies that had an appearance from the Legion of Super-Heroes. I don't pre-order any Xinh figures anymore as they have been doing horrible miss-mashes of using bad digital printing with supplemental pad print on the same figure. After I saw real photos posted of these, I decided to pull the trigger on AliExpress. As usual, I order 5+ of each just to make sure I can piece together a decent one after all the misprints, scratches and ratty capes. This time, I ordered 9 of each and let me tell you - I'm glad I did as there wasn't one perfect example and I had to 'Frankenstein' both these together from the best parts. In the end, these look pretty decent. Raven's cape has a velvety texture on the outside. The legs are printed on purple - same color of plastic as the hood. I would have preferred a slightly darker purple, but maybe when the Lego Dimensions figure comes out (expected to be a mighty micro, which I don't care for), I can see what pieces can make this better. Saturn Girl is pretty good. There are some lines that didn't make it into the print that should have been there and the Legion belt isn't gold metallic like TLG's Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad, but it is a clean print. Interestingly, they used silver metallic print on the arms. I swapped in an authentic Lego blonde hairpiece here as the one that came with the figure had a greenish tint to it. I feel we'll get official version of each of these from Lego eventually, but until then, these make nice stand-ins.
Edition of 75 numbered and signed copies
40 photographs
44 pages 14,8 x 21 cm (soft cover, staple binding, digital printing)
It's a MOC MOC! (My own creation mint on card...nerd.) This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
Edition of 75 numbered and signed copies
40 photographs
44 pages 14,8 x 21 cm (soft cover, staple binding, digital printing)
Fabric, Wallpaper, Home decor.
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I've decided to significantly reduce the amount of Polaroids I post here. I've been doing it unintentionally for awhile, and so might as well mention it, lock it down.
I've been working to segue into medium format for months, ever since I heard Polaroid was being discontinued. After going through all the stages of grief, I started attempting more and more to get the medium format shots in line with the kind of shots I take with the Polaroid, and at this point I'm fairly satisfied with how that's going. And the way stock appears to be dwindling at my local camera stores, I'm not sure I'll be able to find film even a month from now.
But I can't stop thinking about the things I'll miss. The things that helped immensely when shooting models for the first time, like with Sarah here.
Being able to see the shot right away, in my hands. The particular click-whirr of the camera's mechanics. The auto-focus. Explaining the antiquated technology that made it all work. Using the flash like it was a guest star on a sitcom. Putting the best shots on my wall.
And don't anybody even think of mentioning any kind of digital printing to replace that.
But, ever onward. So here at Flickr, the present & the future, medium format for as far as the eye can see. I'm still shooting Polaroids, and I'll be posting them over on my blog, for as long as I can.
It's a MOC MOC! (My own creation mint on card...nerd.) This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
It's a MOC MOC! (My wwn creation mint on card...nerd.) This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
This technique was developped by Emmanuel Gatti, an artist from Paris, France ( gatti.carbonmade.com/ ).
Transfer is a combination of digital printing and traditional engraving technique. At first, we print a digital inkjet file on a plastic film that is not suitable for printing. Also the ink remains fresh and on the surface of this film. In a second step we press this film on engraving paper with an engraving press. However it takes several inkjet prints on film and several prints of it on paper to have an interesting image. The process ultimately questions the nature of this new image. Photography, engraving, painting? This is an alternative and creative technique of photo printing.
Edition of 75 numbered and signed copies
40 photographs
44 pages 14,8 x 21 cm (soft cover, staple binding, digital printing)
As he appears in Lego Batman 2.
I've been wanting this character for ages. This is a pretty accurate figure but the digital printing is hard to capture and the pics don't do it justice.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Digitale print op vinyl
Digital printing on vinyl
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
(Part III, Chapter III, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)
Met beelden en woorden benadert Barbara Kruger de representatie van macht, identiteit en seksualiteit in de massamedia. Zelf zei ze erover: ‘Ik werk met beelden en woorden omdat die het vermogen bezitten te bepalen wie we zijn, wat we willen zijn en wat we worden.’ Krugers oeuvre is breed – van fotoprints op papier en vinyl tot video, grote installaties, werk in opdracht, drukwerk en artikelen voor de verkoop. Met haar directe taalgebruik en woorden als ’jij’, ‘ik’, ‘wij’ en ‘ze’ spreekt zij de sociale omgeving van de bezoeker aan. Voor deze installatie – speciaal ontworpen voor de Erezaal, de grootste tentoonstellingsruimte in het Stedelijk – bedekt Kruger de vloer en wanden met gedrukte teksten die ons luid en duidelijk toespreken. Haar provocerende en emotioneel beladen opmerkingen, over de manier waarop mensen elkaar beschouwen en hoe ze met elkaar omgaan, verstoren het traditionele museumdecorum. Kruger brengt de wereld in haar werk en haar werk in de wereld. Ze stelt stereotiepen en clichés aan de kaak en verplettert ze met vernietigende kritiek, een groot inlevingsvermogen en scherpe humor.
Barbara Kruger’s work with pictures and words addresses mass culture’s representations of power, identity and sexuality. As she has stated, “I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be, and what we become.” The range of Kruger’s works is broad—from photographic prints on paper and vinyl to videos, room-size installations, public commissions, printed matter, and a variety of merchandise. Using the language of direct address and words like “you,” “me,” “we,” and “they,” her works reach out into the social space of the spectator.
In this installation—designed especially for the building’s largest gallery, known as the Hall of Honor—Kruger’s wraps the floor and walls with printed texts that “speak” directly and loudly to the spectator in a chorus of voices. Her provocative, emotionally charged statements about how people regard and treat each other disrupt the decorum of a traditional museum space. Bringing the world into her work and her work into the world, she confronts stereotypes and clichés, shattering them with a rigorous critique, a generous empathy and a sharp wit.
It's a MOC MOC! (My own creation mint on card...nerd.) This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE. GET IT NOW at poundaprint.com. It's a 9 Meg jpg at 300 dpi and prints nicely onto A4 cartridge paper.
டிஜிட்டல் பிரிண்டிங்
கல்யாணமா? காதுகுத்தா? எதுவாக இருந்தாலும் பரவாயில்லை, முதலில் டிஜிட்டல் பிரிண்டிங்யில் பேனரை தயார் பண்ணலாம் வாங்க.
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This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
huh ?? the translation is incredible. . love to hear your comments on this one
found in Old Delhi about 1994
A little bit of history
Indian film poster artists have left an indelible mark on our minds. Hand painted posters were not only a means of advertising but a representation of culture. Back in time, film releases were preceded with the most popular form of advertising prevalent then – film posters plastered on crowded streets, followed by large billboards overlooking busy marketplaces. Although the exact origin of the use of hand painted posters in film advertising in India are not certain, they can be traced way back to the 1920s. Rapid growth of Indian cinema from the 1950s onwards (referred to by many as the “golden period”) fueled demand for outdoor film advertising. Talented artists from across India responded to this need by specializing themselves in the trade of creating hand painted film posters and billboards and taking up the practice as their full time profession. Putting soul into their paintings, these master artists created lifelike impressions of some of the biggest icons in the Indian film business, and thus the magic of hand painted billboards and film posters was born.
Their colours captured the shades of characters and reflected the intensity and drama behind the scenes they represented. Many poster artists used unique colours to portray negative or positive shades of characters, such as blue being synonymous with evil, red signifying anger or revenge, and pink portraying love. Such was their mastery, that they made the streets of India come alive with their unique colours and painting styles that became virtually synonymous with Indian cinema. During their prime, the presence of massive hand painted billboards outside theater halls delivered an unforgettable visual treat, pushing the definition of film poster art beyond advertising, and metamorphosing it into a cultural icon instead.
In 1990, when television had officially taken over outdoor advertising as the mainstay medium of film publicity, the emphasis on hand painted movie billboards and posters dwindled rapidly. In 1992, the digital printing revolution delivered the final nail in the coffin, closing the curtains on this traditional art.
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
This is just a fun little art project for me, but if you're interested in making the figure, I'm happy to share the original artwork. I just ask that, if possible, you make me one. (Or a few, if you're capable of pad/digitally printing some.)
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
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3D Sublimation 101
Dye sublimation, a digital printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to materials such as a plastic card, printer paper, poster paper, or fabric, is rapidly gaining market share due to the increasing availability of new and improved combinations of inks, media, hardware and software that have pushed the quality range of digital media much higher.
Dye sublimation printing can reproduce images on a variety of flexible and rigid substrates, which can endure the amount of heat, pressure and dwell time necessary for image transfer. With two primary areas of focus, including sublimation to textiles/soft fabrics as well as rigid substrates, dye sublimation enables the production of items such as point-of-sale applications, banners, custom flags, license plates, snowboards and promotional pieces.
New Applications for Dye Sublimation Printing: Driving Market Change
There are literally hundreds of different applications for dye sublimation, meaning plenty of profitable business opportunities for digital decoration. The primary limitation is that the surface must be composed of polymer fibers and able to withstand 400° F of temperature without melting. Provided those criteria are met, sublimation will create a premium full-color, photographic-quality image that will not crack, peel or wash away from the substrate. You can download our free Extensive Marketing Report.
2D vs 3D Sublimation
2D sublimation normally using heat press. The flat (flat platen) press is available as a clam-shell style or a swing-sway style. The clam-shell version opens and closes like a clam, where the bottom platen is stationery and the top platen moves up and down. The swing-away press opens by lifting up the top platen, but then will move sideways completely out of the way for ease of placement and removal of transferred products. It only can press flat substrates.
3D sublimation use vacuum heat press or oven, it can fully sublimate curved products using an air-forced vacuum, like phone cases, mugs, computer mouse, perfect for curved products that don’t work easily in flat heat presses.
Paper vs Film 3D Sublimation
As we mentioned the major priority of 3D sublimation heat press or oven is fully sublimate curved products, there are two types of 3D sublimation system in the market, using paper or film. However the output quality are huge different. Simply google 3d sublimation heat press, you will find tons of red and black color 3d sublimation heat presses which are made in China, selling around one thousand dollar. These machines use sublimation paper to wrap the substrate first, then using an air-forced vacuum to suck the thin silicon pad to wrap the paper which wrap on the substrate, however the sublimation paper is not soft, so if the substrate has round corner, then either the image can not be fully sublimated or paper crease is sublimated onto the substrate. We bought one of them and have been testing phone cases over 6 months. The conclusion is only can make iphone 4/5/5s cases which are straight corner, most of Samsung cases and iPhone 5C cases are all fail, because thoses cases are round corner. Even sophisticated operator will have 20% defective rate for iPone 5 and 90% defective rate for those round corner stye cases. Moreover, it only can make one case each cycle as the vacuum suction is not strong enough. Don’t be fool by the video that shown can make 4 even 6 cases each cycle, but it never be, truste me. Also the image color is little dull even printed on glossy cases and impresson of silicon pad also sublimated onto the surface if you look carefully.
Another 3D sublimation system using film, mostly call “3D Sublimation Oven“, just google “3D Sublimation Oven“, you will find most of these system selling by Europe company. Usually one case system pricing between $5000 to $8000 and 4 cases system pricing between $12,000 and $16,000 which are not include VAT and shipping cost. But the output quality will be completely different with the system using sublimation paper. The color is vivid and rich, image is fully sublimated onto the substrate no matter what curved shape of substrate. There is one important factor is labor, film system spend much less labor as it sublimate the printed film directly onto the blanks but paper system need to manually print the image on the sublimation paper, then cut and wrap it on the case, it spend couple mintes to make one case. If you are just selling 10 cases a day, it will be fine, but if you are selling 50 cases a day, you will feel frustrating. Simple formulars, you get what you paid.
Conclusion: The cheap paper system seems an amateur toy if compare with film system, it cost more labor and high defective rate. Film system is the one you need to run long term personalized products business, no matter output quality or production efficiency.
3D Sublimation System Comparison
On the right hand side, you may compare the output quality difference between paper and film system. Image is printed on iPhone 5C.
3D Sublimation Oven (Film)
Film system is designed to take the shape of any object that it is adhered to and to sublimate any kind of image onto the surface of that object. Image is Vivid. Save labor and productive.
3D Sublimation Press (Paper)
Color output is little dull compare using film and can not make round corner style substrate. High defective rate and cost more labor.
3D Sublimation Oven (Film)
3D Sublimation Press (Paper)
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Some film sold here, digital printing service too, but no film developing.
La Serena, Chile, September 2019.
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
La Vergine delle rocce
Die Felsgrottenmadonna
(Virgin of the Rocks)
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1483 - 1486
Louvre/Paris (F)
"The Great Masters" in the Votive Church
"David" by Michelangelo, "Mona Lisa" by da Vinci: Reproduced Renaissance classics are on display in the Votive Church. The exhibition runs from 1 September to 2 December.
Experience the "David" by Michelangelo in full splendor and marvel at Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" just a few steps further? This is possible from 1 September in the Vienna Votive Church. This is where the exhibition "The Great Masters" begins, which brings together replicas of important Renaissance works under one roof. Here "art as a sustainable emotional event" should be taught.
So you do not have to queue at the Louvre or go to Florence to see the works of the greats of that time. The "visual adventure", as the show is described on the website, is aimed not only at a decidedly art-interested audience, but wants to appeal to the masses.
Exhibition for everyone
Behind the project are Manfred Waba as Artistic Director, who last year was responsible for the exhibition concept "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel" in the Votive Church, and Wolfgang Grimme as Commercial Director. Wabe has again taken on the Votive Church to place the "David" in its original size, to present Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" and the "Creation of Adam" as well as to set Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" in scene.
David of styrofoam in original size
A total of 53 replicas of the most famous works of the Renaissance can be seen. Among them for example Michelangelo's David before the fight with Goliath, with 5.17 meters in original size, but made of marble powder and styrofoam. The original, however, was knocked out of a single block of Carrara marble. David was created in a workshop in Liesing (23rd district of Vienna), a perfect replica of the almost six-ton original.
Images like Botticelli's Birth of Venus or Da Vinci's Mona Lisa up to the Last Supper are staged like monumental stage sets.
Several visits to the Vatican were needed, among other things, to get impressions for the exhibition. State-of-the-art technology was in use for the true-to-original art prints: "It's just that you have to have the image licenses, with very high resolutions, so that you can print it. This has now become possible through the development of digital printing technology, "said Manfred Waba.
„Die großen Meister“ in der Votivkirche
„David“ von Michelangelo, „Mona Lisa“ von da Vinci: Reproduzierte Klassiker aus der Renaissance sind im Rahmen einer Ausstellung in der Votivkirche zu sehen. Die Ausstellung läuft von 1. September bis 2. Dezember.
Den „David“ von Michelangelo in voller Pracht erleben und nur einige Schritte weiter Da Vincis „Mona Lisa“ bestaunen? Das ist ab 1. September in der Wiener Votivkirche möglich. Da beginnt die Ausstellung „Die großen Meister“, die Repliken von bedeutenden Werken der Renaissance unter einem Dach vereint. Hier soll „Kunst als nachhaltig emotionales Event“ vermittelt werden.
Man muss also nicht beim Louvre anstehen oder sich nach Florenz begeben, um die Arbeiten der Größen jener Zeit zu besichtigen. Die „visuelle Erlebnisreise“, wie die Schau auf der Webseite beschrieben wird, richtet sich dabei nicht nur an ein dezidiert kunstinteressiertes Publikum, sondern will die breite Masse ansprechen.
Ausstellung für jedermann
Hinter dem Projekt stecken Manfred Waba als künstlerischer Leiter, der bereits im Vorjahr das Ausstellungskonzept „Michelangelos Sixtinische Kapelle“ in der Votivkirche verantwortete, und Wolfgang Grimme als kaufmännischer Leiter. Wabe hat sich erneut der Votivkirche angenommen, um dort den „David“ in Originalgröße zu platzieren, Michelangelos „Jüngstes Gericht“ und die „Erschaffung Adams“ zu präsentieren sowie Botticellis „Geburt der Venus“ in Szene zu setzen.
David aus Styropor in Originalgröße
Insgesamt sind 53 Repliken der berühmtesten Werke der Renaissance zu sehen. Darunter etwa Michelangelos David vor dem Kampf mit Goliath, mit 5,17 Metern in Originalgröße, aber aus Marmorpulver und Styropor gefertigt. Das Original hingegen wurde aus einem einzigen Block Carrara Marmor herausgeschlagen. Entstanden ist David in einer Werkstatt in Liesing, ein perfekt anmutender Nachbau des fast sechs Tonnen schweren Originals.
Bilder wie Botticellis Geburt der Venus oder Da Vincis Mona Lisa bis hin zum Abendmahl sind wie monumentale Bühnenbilder in Szene gesetzt.
Mehrere Besuche im Vatikan waren unter anderem nötig, um sich Eindrücke für die Ausstellung zu holen. Für die originalgetreuen Kunstdrucke war modernste Technik im Einsatz: „Es ist so, dass man einmal die Bildlizenzen haben muss, mit sehr hohen Auflösungen, damit man das drucken kann. Durch die Entwicklung der digitalen Drucktechnik ist das jetzt möglich geworden“, sagte Manfred Waba.
Publication details :
195mm x 280mm
56 pages
Screen-printed cover
Digital printing inside
Hand-stitched
Numbered edition of 50
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
This photo shows work from Octink, London's leading display specialist. You can find out more information at www.octink.com/.
Focus on Imaging 2009, Professional Imaging Supplies, pfd, Gary Walsh
A couple of minutes before 10.00am on the morning of Sunday, January 14th, 1990, Mary Walker was getting ready to open her first exhibition, Focus on Photography.
It had taken her 18 months of hard work to get to that point but she had had tremendous support from right across the industry. As she waited for the clock to tick towards ten o’clock she knew she had succeeded in putting together an exhibition which had so exceeded her early expectations that she had had to have a marquee erected at the back of The Pavilion at the NEC to accommodate everyone who wanted to be there.
Now the only question was “Will the show attract enough visitors – and of the right quality – to make the whole thing a complete success.”
The answer, as everyone connected with the show will tell you, was “yes” and from then onwards Focus has grown in both size and, arguably more important, reputation. However, even now, as Mary puts together the final details for the 20th Focus, now Focus on Imaging of course, she takes nothing for granted and is more than happy to confess that she will still have butterflies when she picks up the microphone to declare Focus 2009, the biggest ever, open.
So much has changed in those 20 years, including the name which Mary presciently changed in 1992. So many well known names have vanished – or at least are now shadows of their former selves while companies which once had no connection with photography – or “imaging” as we now know it – are now market leaders in that industry. Film is now a sideline product. Mobile phones now routinely feature cameras whose “megapixellage” was once thought all but unachievable. The internet has become a real rival to the High Street.
Throughout this time, Focus has provided a unique platform for innovation and product launches that new and emerging technologies have helped create but one thing hasn’t changed, the unique ambience that is Focus on Imaging. Focus is large enough to have a major impact on the imaging world, it’s Europe’s biggest annual imaging industry showcase after all, yet it retains a very personal, almost intimate, persona.
Not easy in an industry where some of the biggest companies in the world hold sway but where Focus scores – and scores heavily – over other exhibitions, is that even after 20 years, it’s still Mary Walker herself who pulls the whole thing together every year. It is still very much “her” show, just as that first one was back in 1990 but Mary has no plans to sit back on her laurels. Indeed with Focus 2010 already demanding her attention she’s already looking at ways of making that “coming-of-age” show even more of a success than its predecessors.
It hasn’t been an easy 12 months for anyone since Focus 2008 and the imaging industry has not been immune to the problems affecting the rest of the economy but one thing is clear from this year’s Focus exhibitors’ list – there’s a determination among both the giants and the giants-to-be of the industry to project a positive, “business as usual” message to the 33,000 or so visitors expected to make their way to the NEC over the four days the show is open, Sunday, February 22nd to Wednesday, 25th.
So, what can those visitors expect to see? First of all, a great many of the products which were unveiled at Photokina will be getting their UK debut, some of them indeed getting their first full debut in production rather than pre-production form.
They will be able to say “we were there” to share the excitement as a flurry of new companies set out the kind of thinking which allowed George Eastman to take the Kodak concept from his mother’s kitchen table to international status.
They will able to listen and learn as some of the best known names in the industry show how they do it, how they turn a fiver into fifty quid, how they use their computer as much as their camera to turn a perfectly acceptable photo into a top class Photo with a capital “P”.
And they will leave with their bags full of show special offers and end of range bargains, brochures about products they will want to investigate further, samples of different types of paper they can use at home, quite possibly with that special new lens they have been saving for or with the complete paperwork for the purchase of a new dry minilab or studio lighting system or wide format printer for delivery immediately after the show.
Memories are precious, says photo album specialists, Bob Books, but the rapidly increasing use of digital cameras has meant that the age-old delights of family photo albums are declining. Photographs are now stored in the memory of our computers, yet the desire for the emotive, tactile experience of photographs remains – and this is where Bob Books comes in.
From your computer simply download the Bob Books software. Use the formatting options to choose your desired layout, add your text and images to personalise your book; then just wait for delivery – it's that simple.
The quality of our binding sets the benchmark, says Bob Books, which claims to offer the highest available production standards from its bookbindery in Switzerland where the company enjoys a reputation as one of the world leaders in bookbinding production.
The stand will also feature some brand new software but for now Bob Books will only say: “You’ll have to wait to the Focus doors open to see exactly what it does.”
Broncolor claims to have long set the benchmark by which all other lighting manufacturers are judged and says its new Scoro range sets a new level to which the competition must aspire, as it sets no less than four world bests.
With the new Swiss-built Scoro power packs, you can let your artistic imagination run free. With their uniquely convenient control systems, you can deal with even the most complex lighting setups easily every time. No other flash system gives you so much creative capability – and no other holds so many world records.
A recharging time of 0.6s at 1600 joule and 0.4s at 1200 joule, a 10 f-stop control range with stable colour temperature, adjustable colour temperature (at 200 K intervals), and three independent channels with exactly the same colour temperature – with Scoro, broncolor has set no fewer than four new world records, and remains the industry benchmark in modern flash technology. With its versatile and unparalleled capabilities for power distribution with consistent light quality, this new power pack is the ideal light source for digital photography.
Creativity Backgrounds will be offering 10 percent off all orders taken at the show. A great opportunity to stock up on your Arctic Whites and Blacks and to try one of the 50 colours. Why not go for a Carnation pink for children or wedding photography, or stimulate your imagination with a chromagreen backdrop. This show they will be highlighting the fact that they deliver direct to your studio or any location in the UK for only £5 (or £8 for next day). As a preview have a look at www.creativitybackgrounds.co.uk . This is a brand new website, which makes ordering dead easy. The company is also running a prize draw for a full-length 2.72mx11m roll per day. It’s free to enter, just put your card in the box or fill in a form on the stand for the chance to win.
Digital Photo Solutions, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of large format printers to the photographic and fine art markets and an authorised specialist dealer for over 30 digital imaging brands, will be demonstrating leading print to finish workflow solutions at Focus on Imaging 2009.
Visitors to the company’s stand will also be to test drive and compare the latest large format printers from Epson and HP, learn how to move seamlessly from image to print to finish to frame in less than 30 minutes, ensure your monitor's colours are displayed correctly and match the output you are looking for with Datacolor's industry-leading range of Spyder 3 monitor and printer profiling hardware calibrators.
They’ll also be able to see the latest version of the acclaimed Shiraz Focus software, explore the extensive range of DPS specialist media and see how you can increase your profits in the photographic, fine art and canvas printing markets, discover how to enhance your print service with the HotPress JetMounter and dind out how to protect your inkjet canvas prints and stretch them on to frames faster than ever before with the DPS QuickMate.
Dunns Imaging Group will be showing their new flex workflow, a complete production and web hosting solution specifically designed for shools and nursery photographers. There will also be demonstrations of their new innovative album creation software Creative Albums. Both products are set to play a major role in Dunns product offering during 2009
If you visit the Extensis stand N8, you’ll find a team of experts showcasing Portfolio Server 8.5, the latest version of their digital asset management solution. Portfolio Server 8.5 provides the core set of capabilities you need to keep your images on-the-move—for routing to other users/departments, for final delivery to clients, partners or vendors, or for secure archiving. Included with Portfolio Server 8.5, Project Sync for Adobe CS3 seamlessly integrates with Adobe CS3 to offer powerful database searching, flexible archiving and automated web delivery—all from within the Creative Suite environment.
Some photographers jump from lab to lab searching for the lowest prices, reckons Portuguese company, Floricolor, adding that others search for a lab to work with them in partnership, to ensure quality, fair pricing and short delivery times.
Floricolor claims to have been pioneers in the protection of digital albums through lamination, and has recently introduced varnish UV protection, pointing out that this is the best system of protecting photos against heat, humidity and scratches, while maintaining the unique touch of photographic paper. Floricolor combines the best in two worlds, the highest technology of digital print (Frontier, two Durst Theta 51s, Laserlab 76, Fuji and Kodak Professional0 and the hands of skilled craftsmen with many years of practice.
“The number of new costumers we have attracted indicates that we are on the right track,” said a company spokesman. “We are looking at the future with optimism because innovation is an inseparable element of our work philosophy.”
Fujifilm UK has expanded its range of professional inkjet media, with additions that include a popular new satin finish canvas type and an outstanding genuine fibre base gloss baryte. Satin Canvas 350gsm is one of two new canvases introduced by Fujifilm UK. Satin has become the canvas finish most favoured by US consumers, a trend the UK is expected to follow. The other new Fujifilm canvas is Fine Art Natural Canvas 290gsm, a single-weave natural matt.
But, says Fuji, the big news in Fine Art must be that two completely new baryte type papers have joined the Fujifilm range of large format print media. The extensively tested new papers are available in gloss and matt, the base paper is genuine fibre based baryte media.
The new Fujifilm baryte papers have a premium look and feel, wide dynamic range, luminous neutral whites, and hold deep, rich blacks, even have the scent of traditional baryte papers, and they give exceptional, museum standard, archival life.
Fujifilm UK have also introduced Boxiprint, an innovative instant canvas wrap box frame product, aimed at retail applications. Boxiprint box frames are supplied as single sheets of high quality satin canvas mounted on carton board. They come pressed and scored with a patented scheme of ingenious folds, enabling each board to be simply folded by hand into a finished box frame canvas, just minutes after printing on an inkjet printer.
Boxiprint instant canvas box frames can be printed on most professional inkjets that have a straight paper path and a 'board' setting, allowing them to accept boards up to 1.7mm thick. This includes all Fujifilm Epson Stylus Pro printers supplied as GreenBox bundles, as well as many other printers. The product is ideal for retail photo labs, and is also suitable for portrait studios, art and framing businesses, and the gift and card sector. Boxiprint is easy to use, but for added peace of mind the product is supported with ICC colour profiles for many Fujifilm Epson Stylus Pro printers, and print templates for Fujifilm
Graphistudio is to launch Graphiware, a new design of software created to give photographers an amazing tool in today’s competitive and highly creative market at Focus 2009.
It’s powerful, yet easy to use. You can gather your images and design your own layout with the option to use Graphistudio’s renowned multi-award winning templates, modify them to suit your needs or even design from scratch your own. The simple drag and drop logic of Graphiware will enable you to design stunning layouts in minutes, adding effects, re-touching elements with Photoshop and much, much more.
At the same time, Graphistudio has created a new on-line ordering system, dedicated to making production faster, efficient and more cost effective Gone are the days of hand written or typed orders. Now with a few taps of the keyboard the huge choice of sizes, orientations, covers and copies can be chosen and directly loaded into the system live at the same time as you upload your order or it will await delivery of your disk, negatives or prints.
Very few companies worldwide can look back with pride over such a long and rich tradition as Hahnemühle. Since its founding in 1584 Hahnemühle in Dassel has demonstrated its superb mastery of a traditional craft, creating uniquely beautiful papers from pure spring water and premium cellulose.
Using this rich experience enables the company to be at the forefront of the ever evolving digital inkjet market as well as the realm of traditional artists paper. Recent technological advances such as its true Baryta papers which enable photographers to recreate darkroom prints digitally, newly released papers available in a 64 inch format to match the latest Giclee printing technology and environmentally friendly papers made from highly renewable resources such as bamboo and cotton rag.
To celebrate its 425 year anniversary Hahnemühle will release an exclusive Anniversary Collection Box. This Anniversary Edition consists of an elegant cotton rag paper with a particularly smooth texture for Fine Art images as well as other special anniversary products. It’s all packaged in a unique presentation box designed exclusively by Prat, Paris.
There is another exciting new addition to our environmentally friendly range of products. Hahnemühle Sugar Cane is made from 75 percent sugar cane fibre. The organic by-product of sugar cane processing is used to make a pulp. This pulp or “bagasse” is an eco-friendly renewable resource endorsed by environmental organizations. Cotton fibres extracted from recycling our own paper surplus make up the remaining 25 percent of raw material used to produce the paper. The result is a natural white Fine Art paper extremely resistant to ageing. The premium inkjet coating guarantees Fine Art images rich in contrast and detail, and the texture of this artist paper has a wonderful feel to it. Hahnemühle Sugar Cane is ideal for warm toned colour and monochrome prints of Fine Art photography and art reproductions. This Paper will have its UK debut as an exclusive preview at Focus.
Luminati says that once again it will be setting out to capture photographers’ imaginations, delivering a range of acrylic frames which are said to push the boundaries for the professional image maker.
Clear2C Professional with its diamond polished flush fronted finish and unique magnet back panel, has been a great success following its launch at Focus on Imaging 2008. Launched as a 15mm thick frame, the range was extended to include the sleeker 9mm thick Impression range. Following customer feedback Luminati also introduced a range of panoramic formats.
This year sees Luminati extend the Clear2C range further with their Capture, and Snap frames. A unique front image holder allows images to be mounted and changed with ease, whilst the frame hangs on the wall. The Clear2C Professional, Impression, Capture, and Snap frames are available in a range of colours, and in single aperture, multiple aperture, and panoramic aperture formats. Luminati experts will be on hand to demonstrate the range, but are just as keen to discuss visitors’ needs, and would welcome discussions regards the need for unique sizes and formats.
Middlewall remain one of the few British wedding album manufacturers who continue to produce quality hand made, non imported traditional albums, ranging from size 5x5 to 12x12.
They have extended their range of Digital Albums with various styles and sizes including silk and aluminium finishes and see the latest ‘Triangle’ Digital Album.
The Oxford (sticky!) album can be designed to any specific requests with a choice of adhesive or non adhesive pages, embossed photo relief frame, a vast choice of material finishes, personalisation and corners.
Middlewall have recently launched MacLab Limited a new sister company, which specialises in digital printing with full photographic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, up to an astounding 24ins x100 ins.
This year for Focus onOne Software will be showing new products, including the brand new PhotoFrame 4 and the new plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop Light Room and Apple’s Aperture, along with many of its existing highly successful software products.
Every day of the show visitors will be given the chance of winning Lastolite equipment worth £250 if they buy an onOne software product. When the customer makes an onOne software purchase they will be given a raffle ticket and entered in to the draw, all they have to do is return at the end of the day with their raffle ticket and their receipt as a proof of purchase and wait for the winner to be called.
On show will also be the new Essentials for iPhoto. This is very similar to the Essentials for Elements, as they both have “Make it better” (the ColourTune half of PhotoTune), “Frame it” (reduced version of PhotoFrame) and “Enlarge it” (reduced version of Genuine Fractals). The difference between the two is that Essentials for Elements has “Cut it out” (reduced version of Mask Pro) and Essentials for iPhoto has “Blur it” (full version of FocalPoint). Not forgetting products such as Genuine fractals 5, Mask Pro 4 and PhotoTools 1.0, PhotoFrame 3.1 and PhotoTune 2.2 these plug-in favorites are still going strong and will be making an appearance at Focus
There’s also the all-new PhotoFrame 4 which comes in two editions - Professional and Standard – and new plug-ins for Lightroom and Aperture
The Open College of the Arts is a creative arts college specialising in distance learning, with courses, which can be entirely studied at home, spanning a wide range of disciplines, and including three new ones, People and Place, Creative Digital Film and Visual Studies. The OCA’s Photography courses have been written by Michael Freeman, one of the world’s most widely published photography authors. Course materials are practically based and set out clear programmes of work that develop practical expertise and stimulate critical and formal awareness.
All OCA courses are supported by one-to-one tuition. OCA tutors are experienced teachers and practising artists in their fields. This combination of professional expertise with a strong background in teaching means you can be confident in your tutor’s ability to help you develop your skills and to provide supportive and constructive feedback.
OCA courses are open to anyone and you can enrol at anytime. You can study with us for pleasure, to explore your creativity, to learn new skills or to gain a degree.
New Eco-Flo systems for the new Epson R1900 and R2880 will come under the spotlight on the Permajet stand along with a new addition to the Portrait family of papers. Portrait Velvet 310gsm has a 100 percent white cotton rag base with an ultra smooth surface that has all the characteristics of Permajet’s popular and successful Portrait 300 and Portrait White 285 product.
“The moment you pick up this beautiful velvet smooth surface,” says the company, “you immediately appreciate the paper for what it is, a wonderful fine art product that exhibits an extremely high Dmax making it ideal for monochrome as well as colour reproductions.”
The stand, which will feature a number of special show offers, will also showcase a range of photoBooks developed for the artist, photographer, graphic designer, educational market and others. They’re described as ideal for photographic/fine art work, personal portfolios, photo books, albums, school projects and much more and “best of all,” adds Permajet, “no heat binding is required.”
As well as offering live quotes Photoguard will be giving visitors the opportunity to photograph a professional model, something which was well received last year with many professional and budding photographers scrambling to get a good picture.
Photoguard will also be offering a free-prize draw, worth up to a value of £500. No need to answer any difficult questions, simply fill in your contact details and drop your entry into a box for a chance to win.
In addition, the stand will be offering 10 percent off the cost of policies to all those who take a leaflet, so when it’s renewal time test our quote and find out how we fare. “We’re so confident in our prices we offer a price guarantee of double the difference if you find a better deal elsewhere,” says Photoguard.
Photomart will once again be featuring “loads of exciting new products” on their Focus stand. Alongside the UK's leading "nanobook" press, the Imijit, exclusively by Photomart, in the limelight will be latest retail solutions from Sony including the new "Super" Snaplab and Sony kiosk, Mitsubishi Electric’s new EasyPhoto consumer station and their high volume drylab solution or "MPU", Fujifilm’s Frontier DL-410 and Silverlab’s ML-9000 drylab solution. Fomei, the people who helped develop bandw multicontrast paper emulsions, will have their range of wide format media on display as well as their latest retail offering, the MicroLab system. On the studio side, some of the biggest names in photographic studio lighting will be featured with live lighting demonstrations by top photographers and models. There will also be demonstrations of the “amazing” PhotoRobot. This heralds in a revolution in product photography for the web allowing the viewer to see a product from any angle by manipulating the image along any three-dimensional axis with the mouse pointer.
First time Focus exhibitors at Focus, Premier Ink and Photographic is a family-owned photography retailer, based in Leamington Spa, founded seven years ago, and still run by the original core staff. Its stand will be packed full of “Show Specials”, with something of interest for all photographers, professionals, amateurs and enthusiasts alike.
There will be a huge range of photographic consumables on display, and available to buy on the day, including: square filters, circular threaded filters, DSLR camera batteries and battery grips, memory cards, inkjet papers and inkjet cartridges. There will also be “Show Deals” across our entire range, with products from many manufacturers, including Epson, Canon, HP, Ilford, Kood, Cokin, Energizer, Hahnel, and Sandisk.
Praktica’s back at Focus again, this time with a more prominent stand which will help the company place special emphasis on developing links with independent high street retailers. National sales manager David Grandison will be on hand to show current and prospective trade and retail customers the company’s 2009 range of digital cameras, digital frames and binoculars.
With over 20 years experience in the UK recording, broadcast and film-making industries, Protape is a provider of quality blank recording products, offering a wide range of digital data storage, video and audio formats to customers throughout the UK. Established in 1989, the business is located in London’s West End.
Protape supplies a wide range of quality blank recording products that come directly from the UK branches of the world leading manufactures such as Sony, Fuji and Panasonic and are stored in the Protape's local depot to ensure a swift delivery. The products include digital data storage, hard drives, memory sticks and accessories, audio and video tapes, making them perfect for a wide range of customers, and they are available for purchase online and over the phone.
At Focus it will be offering a range of recording products at discounted rates, together with a range of consumer hard drives, CDs, DVDs, memory sticks, Blu-ray discs and other popular formats.
Bob Rigby's will be showing their range of imported lines, including Acratech Ball Heads, Wimberley Gimbal heads, Pinhole Cameras and the Shutterbeam system. A full range of tripods and heads from Gitzo, Manfrotto and solutions for computer work from Wacom tablets and OnOne software. There will also be a range of accessories for all photographic needs, be it digital or traditional
SRB-Griturn is a manufacturer of adaptors and supplier of camera and photographic accessories. It will be introducing its very own slide copier for use with DSLRs and compact digital cameras, as well as showing its better known, filters, adaptors, stepping rings and much more. The company also has its own specialist manufacturing service, which it will be happy to discuss with Focus visitors.
Towergate Camerasure is one of the UK’s leading providers of insurance to the photographic, video and multi media industries, and offers competitive quotations whilst providing one of the most comprehensive policies within the market.
It will be offering exclusive Focus 2009 rates across the whole range of products available and, once again, there will be the Towergate Camerasure Free Prize draw where a year’s free insurance up to the value of £1500.00 can be won.
“Be inspired this Focus” is the message from Annabel Williams’ Contemporary Photographic Training with Catherine Connor and Jane Breakell hosting informal sessions for photographers needing training advice and support. Sessions are completely free and will give advice on which is the best training route, in order to meet both photographic aspirations and educational needs. The CPT stand will host a team of experts, dedicated to ensuring those that visit the stand gain the best form of insight and direction.
Zund UK will be exhibiting for the first time at Focus 2009. It will be showing one of its digital cutting systems complete with the appropriate tooling to show all aspects of finishing. With its modular tooling concept the system can be configured to X/Y trim roll or sheet fed media such as photographs, posters, banners and so on. A simple tool change is all that’s needed for the system to produce photo mounts or even rout thicker substrates such as acrylic, Perspex and so on.
Sometimes companies invest heavily in equipment such as digital printers without any consideration as to how the printed product will be finished, thus causing a bottleneck and inefficiencies in the production process. The Zund range of products is said to fit perfectly into the workflow eliminating these scenarios.
Focus on Imaging 2009 takes place as usual in Halls 9 and 10 at the NEC. It opens on Sunday, February 22nd, and runs until Wednesday, February 25th.
Check out the Focus on Imaging website to find everything there you need to know and a whole lot more as well about Europe’s biggest annual imaging event.
Trade, business and professional visitors can pre-register for free admission via the website. Admission for non-trade or non-professional visitors, including amateurs, who are also very welcome, remains at £6.00 but they can save time on the day by registering in advance via the Focus website.