Industry News

Eventpix.com Partners With Bride’s Magazine
Eventpix.com, the imaging industry’s premier online event and proofing service, recently partnered with Bride’s magazine to sponsor two days of total bridal indulgence on Chicago’s Miracle Mile on June 11–12. The show drew more than 500 brides, showcasing the wedding industry’s fashion and food experts, planning and décor consultants and high-end wedding photographers. The two-day event featured seminars, celebrity panelists and menu tastings up and down Michigan Avenue. Also included was a bridal fashion show at the legendary Marshall Fields on Michigan Avenue, followed by a closing party, where Eventpix-sponsored photographer Ellie Vayo set up a mini portrait area for each bride to receive a complimentary 5x7 engagement photo. In addition, the brides received a complementary engagement photo taken by Christopher Dimock.

The brides can now access, view, and order their images at Eventpix.com, where proprietary patent-pending EPX Express software allows event photographers to instantly upload images. Event customers can then customize and order easily online. Eventpix works with over 20 major imaging labs, plus key industry partners like Fuji and Art Leather to provide high-quality support for member photographers and their clients. Information: www.Eventpix.com/.

L–R: Curt Littlecott, Sheri Ebert and Tony Corbell.

Focus on Photography Speaker Series
Albums Incorporated announced that its “Focus on Photography Pro Speaker Series” has been a rousing success at every stop in its four-city tour. The tour brings together award-winning, renowned professional photographers to share information in an informative, action-packed series of seminars focusing on lighting, artistry and design as they impact photographic vision. “Focus on Photography” is intended to benefit owners of professional photography studios by exposing them to the latest information from the industry’s top professionals.

Included on the tour are Sherri Ebert, one of “Florida’s Top 10” and winner of WPPI’s Grand Album Award; Curt Littlecott, who uses his fashion industry experience to add excitement to high-end wedding photography; and Tony Corbell, who has photographed three U.S. presidents, hundreds of world leaders and heads of state, noted celebrities and more than 400 brides and grooms. Tony is the recipient of the WPPI Lifetime Achievement Award.

After the success of this tour and positive reaction from attendees, Albums Inc. is looking forward to another “Focus on Photography” tour in the fall. Ten tour dates have been planned for September 2004. For more information regarding tour dates, please reference the Summer 2004 QuarterFlash, or call (800) 662-1008 and ask for Charlotte Krnac.

“Issues and Icons: Photography by Adam J. Nehr III”
The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum is proud to present the debut exhibition of “Issues and Icons by Adam J. Nehr.” This exhibition features 40 images, each depicting an issue or icon, old and new, that shapes our society and sometimes sparks much debate. Nehr has spent years planning and organizing the exhibition with each photograph representing hours in his studio or on location. “The images are multi-layered, controversial and sometimes upsetting to the viewer. The purpose is not to preach, but to instill a desire for discourse with those of opposing views,” says Nehr. Religion, politics, race issues and sexual orientation are a few topics presented through his portraits and still lifes. Nehr has been a professional and fine art photographer for more than 35 years. He says, “Some images reflect certain circumstances that, when known, enhance the power of the image.” You can learn more about Adam J. Nehr and see images in this exhibition by visiting www.issuesandicons.com/. For exhibition information, visit www.iphf.org/.

Kodak and Lexar Join Forces
Eastman Kodak Company and Lexar Media, Inc. announced recently that the companies have formed a long-term agreement to gain a larger share of the market for removable digital memory products. As part of the exclusive multi-year agreement, Lexar Media will manufacture and distribute a full range of Kodak-branded memory cards and will work with Kodak to provide consumers with a wide variety of reliable, high-quality, mass-market memory cards worldwide. Kodak will contribute to the partnership its brand power and global distribution network, while Lexar Media will contribute removable memory products known for their quality, reliability and speed, and its demonstrated retail category management. Both companies will market the products worldwide.

Photoflex Unveils New Web Site
Photoflex has just overhauled its web site (www.photoflex.com) to provide an unusually high amount of customer-friendly information on its lighting products for the photography, digital-imaging, video, and film industries. With 10 times more information than its printed catalog, the revitalized web site displays Photoflex’s entire line of products, including softboxes, lights, connectors, reflectors, backdrops, umbrellas, grids, stands, and carrying cases, plus lighting kits for digital, video, and film.

Customers can review product information more easily now, as content is provided for product features and benefits, as well as specifications, components, and step-by-step assembly instructions. Roll-over buttons show practical, creative images of products in use. Links to related products are also provided on each product page.

Schneider Introduces B+W Electronic Digital Filters
Schneider Optics has introduced a new line of digital filter software that enables any PC or MAC user to easily and quickly apply special retouching and effects to any digital image. Available in two different sets: (1) Portrait and Family, and (2) Outdoor, these B+W software sets each provide six selectable effects that can be selected by a single click of a mouse, be instantly adjusted, and applied to an image by a second mouse click. Special effects available from the Schneider B+W Portrait and Family Set include: Black and White (cool), Enhance Colors, Luna, Soft Focus, Summertime and Warming. Special effects available from the Schneider B+W Outdoor Set include: Brighten, Graduated Blue, Graduated Neutral Density, Polarizing Enhancer, Summertime and Warming. The filters function as plug-ins in such programs as Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Photo Paint and others. A demonstration of the effects available with both B+W Filter Software sets can be viewed at www.schneideroptics.com/software/b+w_software_filters/. The Schneider B+W Portrait and Family Set and Outdoor Set each have a MSRP of $65.

Westcott Master’s Brush
Westcott has recently made an exciting new addition to its line of Soft Box Light Modifiers by introducing the new Master’s Brush, which provides the ultimate in directional control by allowing more defined shadowing, which enhances depth and adds contour. Westcott worked directly on the design with Master Photographer Ken Cook, who said, “The Master’s Brush is specifically designed to provide a self-feathering light source in a portable 16x22-inch softbox.”

Cook went on to say, “The specially designed multilayer front panel along with the barn door and internal baffle creates a two f-stop differential between the center or the heart of the light and the outer edges. This allows us to achieve the lighting patterns created by the old Masters of Photography using split, broad and short lighting, including all the variations of Rembrandt and Butterfly Lighting.” Info: www.fjwestcott.com/.