Silvershotz - Showcasing Contemporary Photography

11/12/2024

Why you should submit work to the Silvershotz 2025 Folio book. Extensive marketing helps showcase you and your folio.
https://www.silvershotz.com/photography-submissions/

Magazine and book publishers worldwide receive thousands of submissions every day; the competition is fierce. Silvershotz provides integrity and credibility to your work as a world leader in publishing contemporary photography since 2002. Silvershotz has published 100 magazines, six folio books, featured more than 700 emerging photographers and distributed 470,000 quality magazines.Layout of one of the double page spreads in the last folio book featuring Elizabeth Opalenik.

01/12/2024

The use of the term Ai in photo post production may require another catchphrase.

In many photo awards the T&Cs for entry state that photos created with Ai will not be accepted. My first question is, how would you know just by looking at an image that it is created by Ai? Some of the software currently available is mind boggling where you can instruct the software to create an image via your instructions.

Using advanced algorithms and machine learning through neural channels Ai can automatically analyze images and apply a wide range of edits, such as adjusting exposure and white balance, enhancing colors, retouching portraits, removing backgrounds, and even selecting the best images from a batch.

I am sure that many of you, like me, have used Photoshop for twenty years. Sometimes I click on auto and it does a perfect job, other times it mangles the photo, then I manually adjust my exposure, highlights, contrast etc using the sliders. These are considered tools for enhancement. The neural learning remembers your preferences over time to emulate your work flow, smart sophisticated technology utilised by software providers such as Retouch4me. The lines are blurred between Ai and image enhancement.
Faces, eyes, skin, teeth, fabrics and backdrop retouching plus color matching can now be done automatically. Photoshop Plug-In and Standalone software for Windows & MacOS.

Retouch4me has a dozen different plugins for post production and is based on neural networks.

These tools let you spend more time behind the lens and less time on tedious retouching. With just one click, your entire photoshoot is retouched.

FREE - try the software with 20 photos in their cloud before you buy.

One-time purchase of a perpetual license with free updates.
https://retouch4.me/products/retouch-plugins?promocode=Silvershotz&utm_source=Silvershotz

Retouch4me Community

20/11/2024

"I don’t have to explain the importance of patience, persistence and determination to a landscape photographer. The idea that we wander out into the landscape and easily capture images like the ones presented in this book is simply nonsense. This year’s winner Andrew Mielzynski knows all about patience, perseverance and determination, based on the quality of his winning portfolio" explained Peter Eastway, Chairman of Judges.

The image shown was created by Benjamin Barakat, Switzerland and awarded winner of the Aerial Award landscape photograph of the year 2024.

This is the eleventh year of the ILPOTY awards with 3643 entries received.

The International Landscape Photographer of the Year

13/11/2024

Susan Meiselas is announced as the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Photography of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025, in recognition of her impact on the medium over the past five decades. Celebrated for her deeply engaged approach, Meiselas has created a powerful corpus of work, expanding perceptions of documentary photography through her insightful portrayals of people in their communities.

Meiselas is well known for depicting the stories of women: from girls growing up in Little Italy, New York; to st*****rs performing in state fairs; to women escaping domestic violence in the UK, and for her work documenting human rights issues in Latin America, as well as compiling a photographic history of Kurdistan.

World Photography Organisation

30/10/2024

Smiles, sun-burnt faces, and Sydney's best creatives come together for the annual Head On Photo
Festival 2024. From 9 November to 1 December, festival hubs in Bondi and Paddington transform
into the heart of Sydney's art scene. You'll watch artistry come to life, and stories unfold, and go on
sensational journeys through photography.
Head to headon.org.au/festival to discover the full program .

Head On Photo Festival
Artspace Sydney ArtPhotography

09/10/2024

The Siena Awards festival promises a month of breathtaking exhibitions, running from September 28 to November 24. Visitors can enjoy eight captivating exhibitions for a single entry fee, held in stunning locations. The Academy of Fisiocritici will host Jaime Rojo's solo exhibition "Saving the Monarchs," which highlights the awe-inspiring migration of Monarch butterflies and the escalating threats they face over the past three decades.
'Dream above the universe' is the image title by Lurdes Santander | Creative Photo Awards - Photographer of The Year 2024.
'Drifting in space' is the image title by Gilad Topaz | Drone Photo Awards - Photographer of The Year 2024

Siena Awards Gilad Topaz Santander

02/10/2024

Epson International Pano Awards 2024 Open Photographer of the Year and also the Nature/Landscape category is Kelvin Yuen
from Hong Kong for his entries in Power of Nature, Wilderness
and Mountain of Divinity.
Describing the Power of Nature Yuen said, “The primary goal of this trip was to capture the iconic mountains of Guilin, renowned for its karst formations. On the day I took this photo, I woke up at 3 am and was supposed to hike up for the sunrise. However, a heavy thunderstorm struck out of nowhere, so I decided to
shoot the thunderstorm.
# kelvin Yuan
The Epson International Pano Awards

24/09/2024

This year's International Photography Awards showcased an exceptional range of global talent, with submissions across diverse categories such as editorial, landscapes, portraits, wildlife, and abstract.
Benjamin Yavar, Professional Nature Photographer of the Year, described photographing sardines as an extraordinary experience, noting their ability to form unique, mesmerising shapes.
https://photoawards.com/winner/?compName=IPA+2024

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19/09/2024

Increase your chances of success and submit your folio to Silvershotz for the 2025 Folio book. Guidelines and terms and conditions https://www.silvershotz.com/photography-submissions/

18/09/2024

ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH ANNOUNCES THE WINNER
OF ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR. Overall Winner: Distorted Shadows of the Moon’s Surface
Created by an Annular Eclipse © Ryan Imperio
The photo captures the progression of Baily’s beads during the 2023 annular eclipse.

Baily’s beads are formed when sunlight shines through the valleys and craters of the Moon’s surface, breaking the eclipse’s well-known ring pattern, and are only visible when the Moon either enters or exits an eclipse. These are a challenge to capture due to their brevity and the precise timing needed. The image will be on display alongside the winners of the other categories in the accompanying exhibition, opening at the National Maritime Museum on Friday 13 September 2024.
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12/09/2024

MICHAEL ORMEROD: VANISHING POINT
The exhibition will be held at The Soho Black Boutique,33 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London from 26 September – 9 October 2024 and will showcase many previously unseen works by the late British photographer. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of the first new book on his work since 1993’s States of America. The new book American Photographs focuses on his black and white works only and consists of fifty previously unpublished images.


Crane Kalman Brighton

02/09/2024

Don't miss this chance to explore the powerful and timeless work of Steve Schapiro. The "American Edge" retrospective promises to be an unforgettable experience that will leave a lasting impression on all who visit.
The exhibition will be held in Siena from 28 September to 24 November 2024.
https://festival.sienawards.com/en/steve-schapiro-en/

Siena Awards

29/08/2024

At the exit of the Brooklyn Bridge, not far from Dogtown Brooklyn, under a bridge, John E. Davis survives.
I spotted him from a distance. He reminds me of an Australian aborigine. I’m skeptical. I circle around him. The character is dense, intense. He yells, he speaks loudly, it’s all intimidating. He calls out to me. For the thousandth time, I explain that I’m a photographer and would like to take his portrait. He looks at me, questioning, then loudly declares: OK! I take four shots. The ending is happy.
Winner of AAP Magazine #41: B&W competition

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20/08/2024

Installation image taken at Living Room, Hamiltons Gallery, London, 2024 © Hamiltons Gallery, the art works depicted in the photographs remain the rights of Nick Waplington and are used courtesy of the artist and gallery.
Photography by Prudence Cu***ng.

Photography Hamiltons Gallery

26/07/2024

The Australian Photographic Prize (APP) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 competition
Sydney-based professional sports photographer, Andy Cheung, was named Digital Photographer of the Year with his black and white capture of Rafael Nadal sharing an intimate on-court moment with a common cabbage moth at the Australian Open.
Frances Suter, won the overall Print Photographer of the Year with a striking wintry landscape image.
Both overall winners receive a $5000 Nikon voucher.
There were 1924 entries from 570 entrants across 12 countries.
With a combination of traditionally printed, digital, and non-traditional 3D photographic art pieces, APP is the last photographic competition of its kind in Australia – and one of few remaining globally – that accepts both printed and digital photographs.

The Australian Photographic Prize Community

03/07/2024

Photographic artists from across the world featured in this special feature edition.

Silvershotz - The Digital Journal of Contemporary PhotographySilvershotz is an interactive, visual experience that brings the concept of a journal to the nex...

02/07/2024

Silvershotz potential TV series Behind the lens.
Silvershotz has a Library of over 700 folios by photographers from 67 countries in a range of genres. This promotional reel was used to present an idea for Television broadcast behind the lens series and shown to Shark Tank. However the cost of production and distribution appeared to outweigh the expected revenue. Silvershotz has all the talent, cameraman, editors and production team available if funding becomes available.

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Silvershotz has a Library of over 700 folios by photographers from 67 countries in a range of genres. This promotional reel was used to present an idea for T...

01/07/2024

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition is from June 22nd to October 13th 2024 at The Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia.
The following photos are all from the Animal category in the 2024 Awards.

Australian Museum