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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – June 13, 2023 – Symington Family Estates, producers of some of the finest Ports in the world for five generations and owner of the renown Port house Dow’s, announces the launch of its second Dow’s Black and White Photography Competition in partnership with Leica. Inspired by the centuries-old winemaking process and patience that goes into making every bottle of Dow’s, the theme for this year’s competition is “A Moment in Time.” The competition opens live today and ends on the 15th of September; winners will be announced on September 29th. 

Dow’s invites all levels of photographers to share their work inspired by “A Moment in Time”, showcasing “emotions, places, people in a single frame.” To take part, each participant is required to follow @dows_port and @leica_camera_portugal and post the photos on Instagram tagging @dows_port and #dowsblackandwhite. 

Winners will receive the following prizes (alcohol prizes do not apply to those in the US):

• Winner: $2,000 Leica voucher and a bottle of Dow’s 1983 Vintage Port
• Second place: A bottle of Dow’s 1994 Vintage Port and a copy of the Leica book entitled Ninety-nine Years
• Third and Fourth place: copies of Ninety-nine years and Leica Years by Alfredo Cunha

For additional details and how to enter, please view this link.

About Dow’s

One of the first producers to establish its own vineyards, Dow’s has been producing some of the finest Ports since 1798 and is today family owned and operated by the Symington family, whose involvement with Dow’s dates back to 1912. Dow’s is renowned for its portfolio of Ports: Late Bottled Vintage, Trademark Reserve, Aged Tawny Ports, as well as its famed Vintage Ports. Since 2004, Dow’s has also produced a Douro DOC table wine, Vale do Bomfim.

About Symington Family Estates

The Symingtons of Scottish, English and Portuguese descent have been Port producers in northern Portugal since 1882. For five generations they have combined their passion for producing fine wines and Ports with a deep commitment to the region’s land and people. Today, ten Symingtons work across their four Port houses: Graham’s, Cockburn’s, Dow’s and Warre’s, as well as their Douro wine brands – Quinta do Vesúvio, Quinta do Ataíde, Altano and Prats & Symington (of Chryseia fame). In 2017 they launched a new venture, Quinta da Fonte Souto, in the Alto Alentejo. Symington Family Estates is a leading premium Port producer and the leading vineyard owners in the Douro valley, with 26 Quintas covering 2,462 hectares and 1,114 ha of vineyard. All their vineyards are sustainably managed under a minimum intervention certification and 130 ha are organically farmed, the largest area of organic vineyard in northern Portugal. The family has invested significantly in viticulture R&D to adapt to climate change and have an ambitious sustainability plan, with a series of goals under the banner of Mission 2025. In 2019 the company became a certified B Corporation – the first wine company in Portugal to take this step – joining a global community of businesses audited for the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility, committed to using business as a force for good. www.symington.com

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Although many photographers approach it in different ways, understanding white balance is a key to getting better at photography. Like other camera settings, it’s possible to have your camera set white balance automatically, but it doesn’t always produce the best results.

By learning what white balance is and how it affects your images, you will be able to consistently produce well-balanced images and correct images that are unbalanced.

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What is White Balance?

In simple terms, white balance is your camera’s way of adjusting colors so that the whites in an image actually appear white. For example, if you’re shooting without proper white balance in a setting with lights that appear very yellow, any whites in your image will look yellow or tan. The entire image will have a color cast on it, and it won’t look natural. White balance counteracts color casts and produces natural-looking images.

Our eyes and brain work together to adjust to different lighting, which is why we usually see whites as white regardless of the conditions. If you wear sunglasses, you’ll probably see everything with a color cast right after you put them on. After a few minutes, the colors will look normal again. This is one example of how our eyes and brains work to adjust to different lighting conditions. Similarly, your camera may try to adjust to different lighting, and it will succeed to various degrees.

White balance is dependent on something called color temperature, which is measured in degrees Kelvin (K). Color temperature is essentially how warm or cool a light source is, and it ranges from 1,000 K to 10,000 K. The lower end of the spectrum, closer to 1,000 K, corresponds to warmer light sources (more yellow or orange), while the higher end of the spectrum corresponds to cooler light sources (more blue).

For example, a candle’s flame is usually warmer than light outside at midday. The next time you shop for light bulbs, pay attention to the different color temperatures that are written on the bulb packages. Many people are very picky about the color temperature of their lights throughout their homes.

In more technical terms, white balance is your camera’s process of adding a certain color to a scene in order to make the image neutral (and make the whites appear white). For example, if you’re shooting outside in the shade where the light has a fairly cool temperature (something like 7000-8000K, for example), your camera will compensate and add warmth back into the image if you set your white balance accordingly. Something as simple as going from sunlight to clouds can change the color temperature of the light by a lot, so it’s important to pay attention to consistency in white balance throughout any shoot.

White Balance Presets

On most DSLR and mirrorless cameras, there are many different white balance presets, as well as auto and custom options. In your camera’s menu or home screen, you should see options to change your white balance. If you’re having a hard time finding out how to change your camera’s white balance, read your manual or search the internet for tips.

White balance presets are useful if you know that the light you’ll be shooting in won’t change very much throughout your shoot. Here are a few common examples.

A sun icon will usually denote a daylight preset, which accounts for a color temperature of around 6200 K. Daylight is usually in the high 5000 K or low 6000 K range. Obviously, not all daylight is guaranteed to be the same, especially with varying air quality and locations. Presets are best used with some caution because not all light is created equal.

A building with lines next to it denotes a shady white balance preset, which is cooler than daylight (around 7000-8000K). If you were to switch to this preset in the shade, your images won’t be too blue from the change in color temperature.

Instead, the camera will compensate for the change in color temperature and your image will be balanced.

A cloud icon is similar to shade and is useful when it’s cloudy outside. This is usually a little warmer than full shade, around 6000-7000K.

A light bulb icon is useful in scenarios with light coming from a light bulb, also called tungsten light. This light tends to be very warm, around 3200K.

A larger, more horizontal light bulb denotes fluorescent lights, which are cooler than tungsten light, around 4000K.

When you’re using flash, your camera emits light around 5000 K to 6000 K.

Automatic White Balance

Auto white balance, usually depicted by an icon that says “AWB,” allows the camera to decide what it thinks the white balance should be. Essentially, your camera will evaluate the incoming light and reference it with a neutral, which is usually similar to daylight. If the incoming light is warmer or cooler than the neutral, the camera will determine what needs to be done to bring it back to neutral. This isn’t always perfect, especially because scenes can have multiple color temperatures at once, and lighting conditions can change rapidly.

The goal of a camera’s auto white balance feature is to make reference white points appear white.

Certain scenes, such a snowy landscape, can also make it challenging for a camera to determine the correct white balance. This can be due to things like color temperature confusion (e.g. the sunlight reflected off snow causes the resulting photo to have an unwanted tint), a lack of neutral elements to serve as a reference point, dynamic range challenges (e.g. different parts of the scene reflect different amounts of light, causing the white balance to be skewed), and reflective color casts (e.g. snow reflecting the colors of the surrounding environment).

Custom White Balance

This is useful when you know you need your white balance to be accurate, and/or if you’d prefer to post-process as little as possible. This is a mode on many cameras that allows you to set the white balance by holding a physical card or set of cards in front of the camera. From here, the camera will measure the actual color temperature of the light and set the white balance accordingly.

White balance cards are also called gray cards and can be found at many camera stores. They vary in price and application. Many studio photographers use custom white balance because once they set their white balance for their studio and light setup, chances are good they won’t have to change it much as long as they continue to use the same gear.

Especially if you’re shooting using a white backdrop, it’s important to have balanced whites.

Color Temperature Mode

Finally, many cameras have a white balance setting that allows you to input a custom color temperature. This gives you some creative direction if you’d prefer your shots to be on the cooler or warmer side for whatever reason. You can also change white balance precisely on the fly if you know your color temperatures well.

Auto White Balance, Fix Later If Necessary

Especially these days, many photographers choose not to worry about white balance while they shoot. Instead, they turn on auto white balance (AWB) and correct their images using tools such as Adobe Lightroom. Most post-processing tools have built-in white balance adjustment tools, and if auto white balance doesn’t do the best job in-camera, it can be corrected. The best way to do this is by shooting RAW rather than in a compressed format because much more information will be retained.

Note that when shooting in raw format, the white balance setting selected in-camera doesn’t affect the actual raw data, which will be identical regardless of which setting is used. Instead, the selected white balance will serve as a reference for the software you use to process the raw files. This means you can change the white balance after capturing the image without any loss of image quality.

Some post-processing tools such as Adobe Lightroom have their own “auto white balance” tools.

Essentially, you can use a dropper to set a target neutral, which is whatever color you want to appear as white. The accuracy of this tool isn’t always perfect, but it can let you very selectively determine what parts of your image you’d like to actually appear white.

Tint

In addition to color temperature, which adjusts yellows and blues, you’ll see something called “tint” if you adjust white balance using a post-processing tool. Tint adjusts the appearance of green and magenta in your image and contributes to white balance.

These adjustments are somewhat second to color temperature, especially because your camera will emphasize color temperature in its white balance menus. However, in post-processing especially, it’s important to know that you can make your image more green or more magenta, similar to how you can change the color temperature.

Creativity and White Balance

Many photographers consider white balance to be part of their style. Maybe they always shoot on the warmer side, cooler side, or some other creative way. White balance is really just a way of changing the colors in your image, and sometimes that’s a great way to develop a consistent style.

If anything, many photographers intentionally keep their portraits on the warmer side, especially when they’re trying to achieve the “golden hour” look. Some street photographers and landscape photographers keep their images on the cooler side, and some people prefer everything to be free of color casts.

It’s up to you as a photographer to decide if you’d like to use white balance to be creative or not. Above all, it’s important to know how to use white balance so that you can properly decide whether you’d like to be creative with it or not. There’s a big difference between intentional, creative use of white balance and not knowing how to manage white balance on your camera.

Conclusion

It’s easy to look at an image and notice if there are white balance issues. Images will be astoundingly yellow or blue when the photographer really didn’t intend for that to happen. By learning about white balance and its components, you have the ability to fix white balance issues in-camera or using post-processing tools. Once you master that, many photographers turn to white balance as a way to add to their style.

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Some of you have asked some interesting questions about night photography. Here’s your answers to your darkest questions.

What is light painting?

Light painting is used in several different ways. However, both use long exposures.

One way is to shine a handheld light directly into the lens and draw things. These can range from very simple letters to rather complex drawings of flowers or dinosaurs. Because you are drawing, it is commonly known as light drawing, which differentiates it from light painting nicely.

If you are doing letters, you must practice writing them reversed, though!

Another kind of light painting involves using a handheld light also. But instead of purposely shining it into the lens, we use it to “paint” light on a subject. In other words, we illuminate a subject such as a tree, abandoned car, building or natural feature while the camera’s shutter is open during a long exposure.

Why don’t you appear in your photos when you walk through the frame?

I love this question because it’s a fascinating one. Many of us night photographers will “light paint” a subject by walking through the frame, where the camera lens is pointed.

However, if we don’t shine the light on ourselves and we don’t stand still, we won’t appear. In fact, we won’t appear in our photos at all unless we stand still for 10% of the exposure time or longer. For a two-minute-long exposure, that’s twelve seconds. And even then, you start appearing as a faint dark smudge, not easily seen unless the background is a little brighter.

Do you need special cameras?

No.

I could almost let that be the entire answer. It might be funny. But no, I don’t use special cameras. In fact, both my cameras are “garden-variety” DSLRs that were made in 2014 and 2016. They’re old. This is primarily due to finances, as I would be happy to use a Nikon Z8 mirrorless.

Most any modern camera that has manual controls can take good night photos.

And if you are looking to create low-ISO images near a full moon, you can use extremely modest cameras.

With lenses, it depends on what you wish to do. If you wish to create beautiful Milky Way photos with the stars as pin-points, a lens that has a large aperture is best. This lets in more of that incredibly dim light. Something like f/2.8 or wider is good for Milky Way photos. These can be more expensive. However, Rokinon and other manufacturers make good lenses with wide apertures that are inexpensive.

If you are taking photos near a full moon, using low ISO, and using longer exposures, then you can use just about any sort of lens. I frequently use a Pentax 28-105mm f/3.35-5.6 lens that I purchased used for US$300.

More questions?

If you have other questions, please leave them in the comments below. If I post a particular photo that spurs a question on social media, please ask there! If there are enough recurring questions, I might write another article like this later.

The photographic services market is projected to be fueled by increased demand for high-quality visual content and growing popularity of personal branding.

PORTLAND, Ore., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Allied Market Research published a report, titled, “Photography Services Market By Type of Photography (Commercial Photography, Consumer Photography), By End User (Individual, Commercial): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2023-2032″. According to the report, the global photography services industry was valued at $32.6 billion in 2022, and is projected to reach $56 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 5.7% from 2023 to 2032.

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Prime determinants of growth

The photographic services market is projected to be fueled by increased demand for high-quality visual content. The increased demand for high-quality visual content has undoubtedly had a major impact on the photographic services market. With the rise of social media, online advertising and e-commerce, businesses and individuals increasingly need high-quality visual content to grab their audience’s attention and stand out in a crowded market. However, growing competition is one of the major impediments in the photography services market.

Covid-19 Scenario:

• The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the photographic services market. Many weddings, corporate events, and other events that typically require professional photographic services had been canceled or postponed due to restrictions on large gatherings and events. This had led to a drop in demand for photographic services in various regions.
• The market has already recovered in the post pandemic.

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The consumer photography segment to maintain its leadership status throughout the forecast period.

Based on type, the consumer photography segment held the highest market share in 2022, accounting for nearly three-fourths of the global photography market revenue and is estimated to maintain its leadership status throughout the forecast period. However, the commercial photography segment is projected to manifest the highest CAGR of 6.3% from 2023 to 2032. With the rise of e-commerce and online shopping, businesses need high-quality images of their products to showcase them effectively to potential customers.

The individual segment to maintain its leadership status throughout the forecast period

Based on end users, the individual segment held the highest market share in 2022, accounting for more than two-thirds of the global photography market revenue and is estimated to maintain its leadership status throughout the forecast period. Individual trends in the photographic service market are constantly evolving and changing, driven by advances in technology, changing consumer preferences, and emerging cultural trends. However, the commercial photography segment is projected to manifest the highest CAGR of 6.0% from 2023 to 2032.

Asia-Pacific to maintain its dominance by 2031

Based on region, Asia-Pacific held the highest market share in terms of revenue in 2022, accounting for nearly two-fifths of the global photography market revenue. There are several reasons why the photographic service market is rising and growing in Asia-Pacific. Firstly, the region is home to many of the world’s leading camera manufacturers and photographic service equipment suppliers, which has helped to create a robust and innovative industry. This has led to the development of high-quality equipment and cutting-edge technology, which has in turn driven demand for photographic services and products. Secondly, Asia-Pacific has a large and diverse customer base, encompassing everything from individual consumers to large businesses and organizations. However, the North America region is expected to witness the fastest CAGR of 6.2% from 2023 to 2032.

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Leading Market Players: –

• Fisher Studios Ltd.
• Carma Media Productions
• Bella Baby Photographic Service
• Angle Platform
• Shutterfly, LLC
• Studio Alice Co. Ltd.
• Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
• Lifetouch Inc.
• Portrait Innovations Inc.
• Cherry Hill Programs, Inc.

The report provides a detailed analysis of these key players of the global photography market. These players have adopted different strategies such as new product launches, collaborations, expansion, joint ventures, agreements, and others to increase their market share and maintain dominant shares in different regions. The report is valuable in highlighting business performance, operating segments, product portfolio, and strategic moves of market players to showcase the competitive scenario.

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• U.S. Photography Services Market Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032
• Canada Photography Services Market Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032
• Europe Photography Services Market Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032
• UK Photography Services Market Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032
• Mexico Photography Services Market Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032

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The popular r/photography subreddit has gone dark, preventing millions of photographers from accessing vital information.

As well as r/photography, popular camera-related subreddits including r/photoshop, r/lightroom, r/cameras, r/poloaroid, and r/videos are all down as well.

Instead of being greeted with the latest posts, Redditors visiting r/photography right now will receive a message that says the subreddit is a private community.

“We are currently closed to protest the Reddit API pricing change in solidarity with the developers of 3rd party apps. Join our Discord instead,” it reads.

“Reddit’s policy changes will harm subreddit communities by making them more difficult to view, browse, and moderate. Third-party tools and dedicated users have always been critical to making welcoming, safe communities. These policy changes are a failure to recognize the value and contribution of third parties.”

Why Are Camera Subreddits Going Dark?

It is not just camera-related subreddits that have closed, thousands of popular Reddit communities have gone dark in protest against Reddit’s plan to charge for access to its data.

According to Reuters, from July onwards third-party app developers using Reddit’s vast troves of information will have to pay a fee with the knock-on effect being felt by large companies like OpenAI and small developers too.

This policy change has brought about widespread protests, with thousands of forums going dark for 48 hours. However, others are planning to protest indefinitely.

Reddit is heavily dependent on community moderators who police subreddits for free.

Why is Reddit Charging for its Data Now?

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman gave an interview to the New York Times in April and said the “Reddit corpus of data is really valuable” and he doesn’t want to “need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

This is partly due to the rise in generative artificial intelligence (AI) and new tools like ChatGPT using Reddit’s data to train its large language model (LLM). Reddit’s API makes it easier for companies to directly find and collate the data.

It comes after Elon Musk’s Twitter in January restricted all third-party clients and apps and updated its rules for developers accessing its APIs.

Image credits: Header photo licensed via Depositphotos.

BENGALURU: Young wildlife photographer Dhruv Patil captured a rare albino deer in the Kabini forest area a few days ago.
This click, which was the result of months of effort, had drawn the attention of wildlife lovers across the state.
“Usually, deer possess shiny brown skin. Deer with white or pale white skin are found once in a while. However, such deer do not form any special species,” explained 22-year-old Patil.
According to him, their skin attains a white or pale white colour due to congenital defective genes, and the lack of melanin pigment remains the reason behind this. Further, the colour of the eyes of albino deer will also be different, with a pinkish hue unlike that of other deer. They are also said to have poor eyesight, making them easy prey for predatory animals. Because of this, the average lifespan of an albino deer is less than that of other deer.
Patil, son of Karnataka Large and Medium Industries Minister MB Patil, is pursuing a degree in hotel management and tourism at New York University, US.
He started wildlife photography in 2013 and has had field experience in the jungles of Africa and the Americas. Patil founded the Society for Protection of Animals and Plants in 2011. Now, the organisation has an active volunteer base of about 10,000.
Earlier, Patil had captured a black panther with his camera at Kabini Wildlife Sanctuary near Mysuru. He had spent over 9,000 minutes, 150 hours, or almost seven days on a single road in a national forest in Karnataka to wait for a glimpse of the elusive black panther and capture it with his camera. He has also adopted many animals at Mysore Zoo and is also taking care of many birds at his home.

An astrophotographer captured the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the Sun as two astronauts were conducting a spacewalk to install solar panels.

Thierry Legault drove six hours from his home in France to a vantage spot in the Netherlands so he could capture the ISS crossing the Sun an hour after astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody “Woody” Hoburg had begun their spacewalk to install a new solar array outside the station.

The solar transit lasted just 0.75 of a second as the ISS hurtled across the face of our nearest star at a speed of 16,777 miles per hour (2,700 kilometers per hour).

Each frame that Legault captured was shot at 1/32000 of a second with an OM-1 attached to a CFF 200mm refractor with a Baader Herschel wedge and an Emmanuel Rietsch’s GPS trigger.

“Using real-time images of the Sun, I estimated the position of the main sunspot groups towards vertical and horizontal directions (which depends on time and location),” Legault tells PetaPixel.

“I compared it to the trajectory planned by www.transit-finder.com, and I tried to place myself on the corresponding transit line (which was not the center of the transit visibility path).”

“I never make ISS transits from stackings or assemblies,” he adds on Twitter.

Sunspots

Eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted the sunspots present on the Sun’s surface in Legault’s photos which he says are larger than the Earth.

“The ISS passed in front of three sunspots groups in a split second,” he writes on Facebook. “The big sunspot could swallow the Earth, but it is 300,000 times farther than the ISS.”

He adds that despite the ISS and the Sun looking like they are near one another, the Sun is a staggering 94 million miles away (150 million kilometers) from Earth while the ISS is a mere 342 miles (550 kilometers) from home.

Spacewalking Astronauts

NASA astronauts Bowen and Hoburg completed all of their objectives while installing an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) that will augment power generation for the 1A power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.

The new arrays are 60 feet long by 20 feet wide and each new IROSA will produce more than 20 kilowatts of electricity.

More of Legault’s work can be found on his Twitter, Facebook, and website.

Image credits: All photos by Thierry Legault.

While street photography is a well-known genre, surprising people with their own photos is not a common practice. Naturally, we became curious about how Volodymyr came up with this idea. The photographer revealed that the idea is not new; however, it is always necessary to bring something of our own into any endeavor. “Photography itself is capable of evoking positive emotions as people appreciate the opportunity to have a tangible reflection of their important moments and experiences.

Of course, I practice the method of surprising people with photographs, where they are unaware and don’t expect such a gift. It triggers emotions of surprise, joy, and admiration in them. The answer to this question lies in the psychological realm, as the element of surprise makes it more unique and contributes to creating strong emotional impressions. In those moments, our emotional state can be more vivid and memorable. Moreover, a surprise gift signifies that someone has noticed us, cared for us, and invested time and effort to create something special. It creates a sense of importance and value in our eyes. In a world where we are constantly surrounded by digital images and photographs, this approach stands out and acquires special significance.

So, there is a natural desire to share my creativity with others, to give them genuine moments of joy and surprise by capturing their natural emotions while receiving the photographs. There is a desire to bring a smile to someone’s face. If this kind of photograph can make them slightly happier, believe me, the goal is achieved. It is precisely emotions and interaction with people that serve as a source of inspiration and motivation for me as a photographer, fueling my further creative growth.”