"Project: Photoshop and Lightroom reaffirms Adobe's commitment to photography and photographic education," said Julieanne Kost, senior evangelist at Adobe. "This program enables students and educators to experience the Lightroom beta first hand, get in-depth training on Photoshop as well as serve as a conduit from which they can freely share their work, ideas and tips through a dynamic online community."

There will be a two-day seminar at each venue with world-renowned documentary photographer and four-time Picture of the Year Award winner Colin Finlay taking participants under his wing. He will share some tidbits of his career as a photographer, while Julianne Kost will take the wheel on the second day, briefing students on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta. A selected group of students will be chosen to join Finlay in a workshop assignment. Students will place images from this assignment into a portfolio which will be uploaded to the Web site for sharing with the extended community.

Adobe Lightroom, available in public beta for both Windows® and Macintosh platforms.

Schedule:

Sept. 5-6, Lansing Community College, Lansing, Mich.
Sept. 7-8, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas Sept. 11-12, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Calif.
Sept. 13-14, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 15-16, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Sept. 18-19, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 20-21, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.
Sept. 26-27, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
Sept. 28-29, Syracuse University, The Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse, N.Y.
Oct. 5-6, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Oct. 9-10, Antonelli Institute, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct 11-12, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
Oct. 16-17, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colo.
Oct. 18-19, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 23-24, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 27, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 28, Parsons - The New School for Design, New York City, N.Y.
Nov. 6-7, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga.
Nov 15-16, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Nov. 27-28, New England School of Photography, Boston, Mass.
Nov. 29-30, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turner's Falls, Mass.
Dec 4 - 5, Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, Wash.
Dec 7 - 8, School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York

Julia Fullerton-Batten had done some work for internationally renowned fashion magazine Vogue and is recognized in the field of fine art photography through her project Teenage Stories. The same project where she placed the girls in a model village environment, dwarfing their surroundings and acknowledged as one of the best among up and coming talents proven by awards given to her by The Royal Photographic Society, The John Kobal Awards and Schweppes Awards.

This time, however, this multi-awarded youngster shocks us once again by turning her sights to healthcare. The National Portrait Gallery presents her sixteen newly commissioned large format colour photographs, shot with a Technicarden, 5x4 plate camera for A Picture of Health. It profiles some of some of the outstanding men and women who have shaped healthcare at the beginning of the 21st century.

A Picture of Health runs from June 6 to September 10 at the NPG.

DSC-T10	DSC-N1	DSC-T50

Photos of the supposed Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T50 has surfaced the web just recently. Along with the pictures are specs, claiming that this new camera from Sony will be a 7.2MP digital camera with 3x optical zoom, Super SteadyShot, high sensitivity with ISO 1000, a 3" touch panel at the back and slideshow with music feature. Nothing fancy really, especially when you realize that it's basically a combination of features of the DSC-T10 and the DSC-N1. It's like their offspring really. It mostly takes after DSC-T10. Just look at the overall design. while the 3' touch panel comes courtesy of DSC-N1. According to reports it will be due out this coming October and will come in silver, black and red.

Having just come from watching films at an independent film festival, I got the urge to write about this project. A camera dolly is a specialized piece of film equipment that looks like a little car. The camera is mounted to the dolly and the camera operator and camera assistant usually ride on it to operate the camera. The dolly is operated by a dolly grip who is a dedicated technician trained in its use.

If you want professional-looking equipment on the cheap, then just follow this step-by-step instruction on the pdf file up for download. Who knows this may be your first step to becoming the greatest filmmaker of all time.

Download: [How to Make a Camera Dolly]

DJ Ron, or Ron Slomowicz, has been spinning on Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU for over a decade. This talented DJ has compiled these hilariously, funny photographs on his website.

You have probably seen these pictures in one of the SPAM emails that's in your inbox or trash right now depending on your mood. Some of them are quite amusing, like my favorite Panda Kiss, and some just ho-hum. I can't go into details on how these photos effects were achieved because their origin is unknown. But what we do know is that there are a lot of bored graphics artists out there.

VPC-E7	VPC-S7

At first glance you'd think that they are actually the same camera, and Sanyo got all confused themselves and released it with different names. Their similarities in design also transcend to the kind of features that they have. Both only have minor differences, that would be dependent on the buyer to deem them important or not.

The E7 offers a red-eye correction function while the S7 doesn't. It is also lighter than than the S7 by 34 grams, coming in at 132 grams compared to the 166 grams of the S7 with the battery. Aside from those very minute discrepancy, the two cameras offer a 7.1 Megapixel CCD, 3x Optical Zoom, 2.5 inch LCD monitor, VGA-Size (640x480) video clips and compatible with a 4GB SDHC Memory card.

If you're considering buying one of these cameras, think about the features you're looking for or what you're going to use it for. It might be better to have them side by side for better comparison. Both cameras will drop on September and is rumored to be priced at roughly around $353 USD.

If you were intrigued on about this photo of velcro that we previously featured here on QJ. Wouldn't you want to know how to achieve the same effect? David, over at the Strobist has posted arguably the most inexpensive way on how to set up a macro photo studio.

How inexpensive you ask? If you already have a small flash gear, tracing paper, a cardboard box and posterboard, then zilch. But, even if you don't have some of those materials (excluding the flash of course) you'd probably just shell out $10 at the most.

Now that you have all that you need for this project, let's start by making cuts on the cardboard box.

Make window-like cuts on three sides of the box. It's up to you if you want to leave one side of the box attached for added support, or remove it entirely for flexibility, if you want to shoot an object that is immovable (like a plant still on the ground). Leave two of the flaps on to act as gobo's for light control. Attach the tracing paper over the windows you've cut out and secure them with tape.

This set up can help you achieve the "infinity sweep" effect, for seamless bottom-to-background look, with just a strip of posterboard (black or white). And, if you're going to use two light sources like what he's done on this shot for this radio.

Make sure to adjust the intensity of one of the flashes or by moving one of them farther away. Also if you're worried about reflection and glare, just stick a black posterboard on the side and on top, to eliminate it.

Beautiful photographs need not to be expensive. All we have to do is think outside of the box.

Patrick Di Fruscia would know how to view Canada's wonderful countryside, having lived there for most of his life. Son to his father Joseph, who was once a  professional photographer and his mother Michele, who's a woman gifted with an array of artistic talents like drawing, painting and decorating. All these factors combined could be the only possible explanation why his photographs reflect the subtle yet overwhelming beauty of nature. View the rest of the stunning images he took by clicking on the read link. You can also order his prints for $90.00 (8x11), $110.00 (11x17) and $125.00 (13x19).

Who says there isn't anything to see in Canada? Clearly you haven't looked through infrared eyes for you to be able to say that. Jeffrey Klassen's photographs show Canada's breathtaking sceneries in a different light. Achieving this effect required him to use a Tiffen 87 filter and some manual white balance for the best effect possible. Those in Black and White came directly from the camera while those in color needed some post tweaking. If you want to own one of Klassen's images you can order it for in a variety of sizes that will start at 4x6 Matte print for $4.26 up to 16x24 for $24.00. Click on the Read link to view the rest of his gallery.

Here at QJ we believe that every disposable tech gadget is the perfect candidate for recycling. Today we've set our sights on this Ten Dollar Digital Camera by the good people at Elephant Staircase. All you need are those disposable digital cameras you can get at RitzCamera, CVS or Walgreens. A little ingenuity and you'll make non-disposable digital cameras out of these cameras on the cheap.

You'll be needing a camera, Palm 3 cradle, USB cable (with one normal end), soldering iron/electrical tape and Windows PC with USB ports.

First thing you would have to do is to strip the Palm cradle by removing all the screws until you get to the cable with the connector. Then cut the button circuit off, leaving only the black wires attached to the main board, followed by the big thick gray wire about an inch from the board. Cut one end of the USB connector that doesn't connect to the computer. Now all you have to do is wire up all the connections. You can either strip all the wires and solder them to the board or simply use the colored wires already to the board and tape them using electrical tape.

Palm circuit->USB
Hole E1->Ground (Black)
Hole E2->Data - (White)
Hole E3->Data + (Green)
Hole E5->+5V (Red)

Final step would be to install the software along with the driver. When you're prompted to "specify location of driver" point it to the location "libusb.inf" Repeat this procedure for each driver dialogue that pops up. Rebooting shouldn't be necessary.

Now you have the ability to take more than 25, 90 even up to a mythical 200 pictures on it. Here are some sample pictures for you. So get snapping!

Download: [Single-Use Camera Reader for Windows]