9.30 am at AtkinsTechnicolour May 23rd 2013.
Come in for a cuppa and a chat! All funds to the Cancer Council of SA
Metadata, part 3
So far we have identified the following types of information as being the ideal minimum ‘metadata’. Or in simpler terms, the information we need to describe a photograph.
- Importance of the image
- Date it was taken
- Who or what is in the photo
- Location of the photo
- What is happening in the photo
Now let’s review these. Read more »
We’re in iTunes!
We are excited to announce that the podcast Q and A Photo with Paul Atkins, hosted by DJ Paine and his Black Market Podcast Network, have made it into iTunes.
Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph a choice of prize!
We are very proud to announce that the most popular bridal magazine in South Australia, Brides of Adelaide would like to offer an alternative prize for the winner of Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph.
So if you are entering, you can choose the $1000 cash or the double page advert!
Here is the press release from BofA:
We are pleased to announce the inclusion of Adelaide’s most luxurious and innovate wedding publication Brides of Adelaide Magazine to our Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph 2013 prize list, the winner will now have the option of extending their marketing presence as Atkins Technicolour – Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph 2013 via a double page advert in the January 2014 edition of the Brides of Adelaide magazine valued at $2375.00 inc gst.
The highly popular and stylish ‘Brides of Adelaide’ Magazine is published bi-annually. Its ultra modern appeal and its local, national and international distribution reach has ensured Brides of Adelaide has quickly become the premier wedding publication for the stylish Brides of Adelaide.
Click here for more information.
Remember, entries close this Friday 17/5/13 5.30pm!
Identifying Culture
Amy Pfitzner, Father (Family Culture)
Identifying Culture brings together three discrete series of artworks by emerging Australian photographer Amy Pfitzner. Through her practice she embraces conflicts and curiosities, which are allowed to enter her images, many of which explore issues of identity in relation to family and culture.
Pfitzner herself is a part of a growing generation of ‘white’ Indigenous Australians, with her Indigenous ancestry lying with the Kokatha people of the west coast of South Australia, whilst her other ancestory is of English, German and Irish. Many of her artworks bring to light a personal feeling of disconnection, and subsequent desire for reconnection to traditional Aboriginal culture, established through the platform of new media. As such the works shown within Identifying Culture question a person’s identity and cultural history,an identity that is slightly obscured, or hidden behind a new urban or ‘white indigenous’ perspective of place, and contemporary equipment.
This is Amy Pfitzner’s first solo exhibition. She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. In addition to her studies she has worked as a photographer at the South
Australian Museum since 2012, working with the Insect Collection.
Image: Amy Pfitzner, Father (Family Culture), 2012, Giclée print on Metallic Pearl paper, 100 x 100 cm.
I had the privilege of attending the opening of Amy’s “Identifying Culture” exhibition at Tandanya, the opening was part of a group show and featured traditional dancing and high ceremony. Tandanya is possibly the best art space in Adelaide, and Amy’s work takes it’s place well. Amy’s work is grand and mesmerising, I found myself returning to it to study. I highly recommend you visit Tandanya and experience these works for yourself. – Paul
Kit Moller’s desert abstracts
It was a pleasure to attend the opening of Kit’s latest exhibition at the National Wine Centre (NWC). Kit’s images of the Simpson Desert are printed as large canvasses and hung in the upstairs gallery at the NWC. The desert is a fascinating place at all scales, and Kit has chosen an intimate view that can only be seen when your looking carefully. Below is the story behind the images.
Please make time to visit this great show.
My first experience of the Simpson Desert was in the 1960′s when, while teaching at the Alice Springs High School, I accompanied an Alice Springs Stock and Station friend on his business trips to cattle Stations out from the Alice – some being on the edge of the upper Simpson.
It wasn’t until June, 2001, when I was very fortunate to be offered a trip as a passenger/relief driver on a Toyota 4-Wheel Drive trip to Birdsville and west, that I would be able to renew my acquaintance with the desert. The trip didn’t turn out as planned as a lot of rain had fallen over that route and we changed from the Birdsville Track to the Oodnadatta Track to Mt Dare homestead and then onto the Old Andado Track to the Old Andado Station. Read more »
Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph 2013
Shona’s winning photograph.
Yes it is on again. Your chance hold the title of shooting Adelaide’s Best Wedding Photograph 2013 and win $1000 cash.
This is the competition where prints and online images are judged by your potential clients, and it generates some fascinating statistics about what buyers of wedding photography want.
Shona Henderson won our 2012 competition Shona’s image was chosen out of the 32 entrants by over 750 members of the public in two voting forums; the Winter Bridal Ideas Fair, where the entrants’ images were printed on a 20x24inch paper and visitors to the fair were asked to pick their favorite, and on-line at our voting website.
Shona won with 16% of the total vote, and was most popular at the Bridal Fair. Allison Hernach was second and Paul McCall third. Voting was very close and all entrants received similar votes, mirroring our opinion of the high standard of this years’ entrants.
The images are printed to fit within a 20x24inch page with a white border, they are mounted and displayed at a bridal fair and the visiting public judge it. Each voter has to register. Images are also judged online at the same time.
Here are the timings for this competition:
- Photos must be from the 2012 – 2013 season.
- May 1st entries open, entrants are numbered in a first come, first served bases, so the first entrant will be #1 (and sequentially after that) and hence will appear on the first page of the on-line judging.
- Registration must be completed using the @tkins online software – in the “Wedding Competition” catalog is a Portrait and Landscape layout which you must use to submit your image.
- May 18, 5.30pm, entries close.
- June 1-2 prints judged by the public at the Winter Bridal Ideas Fair
- June – July online and in
- July winner announced.
Entrants must be an 2012-2013 Accredited or Emerging AIPP member. This is to assist us in assessing the entrants professionalism.
Click here for more information.
Click here for the conditions of entry.
Photographic awards special pricing
We are offering a buy 3 get the fourth free for entries in this year’s SAPPAs and APPA’s (Epson SA AIPP professional photography awards and Canon AIPP Professional Photography Awards)
Conditions to receive the special offer:
- You purchase 3 prints mounted and matted to 16x20inch and we give you the fourth for free.
- You must request the “SAPPA special” when sending the work to AtkinsTechnicolour.
- Includes all papers and surfaces, foamcor mounting and single matt cutting for SAPPA entries.
- Fourth print must be of equal or lesser value than the other three.
- We need 2 weeks to produce the prints, matts and mounts.
- Files delivered to AtkinsTechnicolour on time must be print ready and tested.
- Special does not include testing, artwork or adjustment.
Contact the lab if you want to take advantage of this opportunity. We have printed for state and national category winners in previous years and have a huge range of papers and matting options.
Phone: 08 8431 6755
Email: info@atkins.com.au
Products and pricing
This is the audio recorded from the AIPP‘s pricing and products seminar held April 16th 2013. The first recording features Simone Hanckel and Mark Trumble and the second Glen Dealtry followed by a group Q and A.
Packed house for Peter
What a lovely afternoon we had at Atkins listening to Peter MacDonald talk about his career in photography. With an audience of 40+ it was record attendance for our Open House sessions. I think we may need to take registrations!