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Members may also enter our qualification programme and have their pictures assessed by our panel judges.   Our qualifications allow members to be recognised as professional wedding, portrait, commercial, landscape etc photographers.

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New Lastolite Strobo Kit

New Lastolite Strobo Kit - Lastolite have released a new creative light modifying system.
Lastolite's Strobo is a compact, simple to use, light modifying system that's designed to be used with battery operated flashguns.
The Strobo comes as a kit and is available in two versions: one which fits directly onto a flashgun and the other which includes the Ezybox Hotshoe Plate.

 

Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5.
These are final versions of updates that were originally posted as 'release candidates' on the Adobe Labs site, and are available for immediate download.
The latest versions provide final RAW support for 15 additional cameras including the Olympus E-P3, E-PL3 and E-PM1, Panasonic G3 and GF3, Pentax Q, and Sony NEX-C3, NEX-5N, SLT-A35, SLT-A65 and SLT-A77.
A number of digital backs from Leaf and Phase One are also now supported.

 

Steve Jobs

The NPS would like to join the rest of the world in offering condolances to the family of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc who has sadly passed away at the age of just 56 after a protracted illness.
Steve Jobs made a huge difference to the world of computing and home electronics, and photography was as impacted as any other area by his company.
The world has lost someone who is irreplaceable and we mourn his passing.

 

Photography Competition

The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), based at the University of Southampton and a consortium of Scottish Universities, is holding a photography competition.

On the 31st of October 2011 the UN predicts the population of the world will reach 7 billion.

The theme of the competition is: 'What Does Living in a World of 7 Billion Mean to You?'

 

An appeal

The NPS would like to pass on an appeal by photographer Giles Penfound.

Giles was the victim in a car robbery last week which saw the theft of his camera equipment.  More importantly however, the cameras contained memory cards with wedding photographs which of course cannot be replaced.

Here is the appeal from Giles :-

Dear All, this is a very big ask but can you help.?

 
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