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Wildlife photographer of the year disqualified

A winning entry in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has been disqualified for featuring a “stuffed” anteater. The picture by Mr. Cabral was a winner of the 2017 Animals in their Environment category. The Natural History Museum, which runs the contest, said it was “highly likely” that Marcio Cabral’s image featured a taxidermy specimen. The picture, titled The Night Raider, shows an anteater beside a termite mound in Emas National Park in Brazil. But an anonymous whistleblower contacted the museum last month to say the animal bore an uncanny resemblance to a stuffed anteater that can be found at a visitor centre in the reserve.

Mr Cabral denies the allegation, but could not supply any other pictures of the anteater in a different pose.

In a statement, the Natural History Museum said: “Evidence was presented to the Museum by third parties that it is highly likely the animal in the awarded photograph is a taxidermy specimen. “After a thorough investigation, the Museum concluded that the available evidence points to this allegation being true. As a result, the Museum believes that the image breaches the competition rules, which state that ‘entries must not deceive the viewer or attempt to misrepresent the reality of nature.”

Weekenders Photography Club 5th Year Anniversary Celebration

Weekenders Photography club celebrated its 5th Anniversary with an informative and educative workshop by bringing in macro Guru and International award winning photographer “Yuwaraj Gurjar” from India for a macro Photography workshop titled “The Amazing Tiny World”.

The workshop was presented by ShutterXpose Photography in association with Tamron Kuwait, garnered lot of positive feedback from the participants which was held in the Murjan Ballroom, Crowne Plaza, Kuwait on 18th November 2016 from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. A souvenir was released during the event highlighting the activities and achievement of the Photography club over the last 5 years. Tamron and Naser Al-Sayer Communication has been a key associate of Weekenders Photography club and has been supportive through each of the club activities. Tamron Kuwait introduced an exclusive special discount lens offer during the workshop which truly amazed the participant expectation. Mr. Salman Al-Basha, Tamron Kuwait Development Manager spoke on Tamron lens and its active development and new technology included in some of their latest lenses. Mr. Adil Javed, Tamron lens ambassador spoke on his personal experience of using Tamron lenses and how it has helped him at professional front.

The macro photography workshop had an extremely informative morning session followed by a practical demonstration of various techniques with tips on approaching macro subject, composition, and controlling light to get a good macro photograph. Post lunch the participants moved on to the workshop desks where they photographed to their heart’s content the various macro subjects displayed. The participants enjoyed one to one interaction and guidance from the experts. Lumen Store, the main dealers of Elinchrom Lighting and lighting accessories in Kuwait supported the event as lighting associates. At the end of the workshop each participant was handed over certificates. The organizers also had arranged for a raffle draw for the participant.

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“The Amazing Tiny World Macro” Photography Workshop

the-tiny-world_sx-macro-photography-copyShutterXpose Photography is completing it’s 5th year Anniversary with a vision to Inspire, Promote and Educate Photography. To commemorate the occasion, A Macro Photography workshop “The Amazing Tiny World “by Award winning Internationally acclaimed Photographer “Yuwaraj Gurjar” at the Crowne Plaza Banquet Hall on Friday 18th November 2016. The event is brought in association with Tamron Kuwait, one of the leading lens manufacturers for DSLR cameras.
 
Yuwaraj Gurjar is a Tamron (India) mentor with many International award, among the Highly Honored Winner Award by Windland Smith Rice International (2011). He is also a author of many books and publication on Macro Photography, recently he along with his team has developed an Android app on Butterfly I Love Butterflywhich includes more than 128 species.
 
Macro Photography is quite intimidating aspect of photography, photographers spends hours working on the backyard capturing images of butterflies, flowers, insects, etc. These images looks appealing with lots of details in a 1:1 ratio. However the principle of Macro photography and use of Macro lens can be used in Product, Jewelry, Food and also in Nuptial Photo shoots.

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500px Redbull Global Photowalk 2016 concludes with lots of Excitment

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ShutterXpose & Weekenders Photography club in association with 500px conducted the 4th Annual Photography walk in Salmiya, Kuwait. The Photowalk was well attended by over 60 plus photography enthusiastic from novice to professional with the intention to learn, share and inspire photography. A quick registration and general introduction to event followed by activities kept the participants on the move. The theme of this year 500px Photowalk was “Adventure and Action”, the organizers meticulously worked behind the scene and made sure the participants get to experience a first hand Live Sports events with lots of action, adventure and excitement.

The activities involved the walkathon runners at the forefront, followed by a friendly Basketball game to a Jet-skier zooming the Arabian sea as the photographers try to freeze and finally the icing of the event with Kuwait best BMX riders “The Spark family” mesmerizing both the photographers and audience to daredevil stunts. The organizers made sure each of the participants get to capture their best shots with sharing tips and tricks all along.

The event was well supported by Tamron as Event partners by providing T-shirts to all participants. Red Bull provided the much needed energy drink to keep us flying high with wings all through the event.

Our special thanks to Marina and Kuwait Scientific Centre for the support and the venue.

For images from the event, please click [Here]

500px Global Photo Walk 2016, Salmiya-Kuwait

Join us for thebanner_blogshutterxpose_500px-photowalk 4th Annual 500px Red Bull Photography Global Photo Walk 2016 Meet fellow photographers in your community who share your passion, share along tips & tricks,make new friends, and of course – capture some inspiring images. The theme of this year’s walk is “Action and Adventure.”

We have included actions to capture a basketball game,Jet-Ski roaring the Arabian sea, bicycle riders capturing our spirits, along with goodies from our event partners. No need to be a pro to attend! Grab whatever camera you have (DSLR, mobile phone, point-and-shoot) and join in the fun!

For Enquires contact +965 99584378

Tamron has always been our major support player and is our official Event partner during this event. Redbull Kuwait has been kind to relinquish our thirst and add energy to all participants during the photowalk. All participants would receive goodies on a first come first basis from our event partners and ShutterXpose.

This year’s hashtags to use #PhotoWalkThisWay #Shutterxposewalk #weekenderswalk

Venue: Salmiya (Marina Basketball court)
Date: 17th September, 2016
Photowalk: From Basketball court to Kuwait Scientific Centre
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm

Photography 101 Workshop Season 3 concludes on a high note

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ShutterXpose concluded its season 3 of Digital Photography 101 workshop on a high note. The workshop was held at the recently upgraded MAS Boardroom at the IBIS Hotel with the state of art audio/video system on Friday 29th April 2016. The workshop was sponsored by Tamron Lens and Naser Mohamed Al-Sayer Communications Communication, the official dealer of Tamron, Canon, Steiner and Vanguard products in the State of Kuwait.

Mr. Salman Al-Basha, the Product Manager representing our sponsor introduced the participants about the company and Tamron lenses in particular. Tamron lenses have won many awards among the prestigious EISA awards. Tamron Kuwait offers 5 years International Warranty on all it’s lenses at a very competitive price. Tamron produces Di and Di II lens for both full frame and crop sensor camera bodies and are available for most of the popular camera mounts. Their most top selling 90mm macro f/2.8 Di VC USD; 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD; 70-200mm Di VC USD and 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lenses were on display for the participants at the venue.

ShutterXpose has been conducting workshops from it’s inception in 2011, they are generally known for their high quality course contents and detailed explanations. The participants were dynamic personalities representing multiple nations working in different background yet with a common passion to pursue Photography as their hobby. The workshop also witnessed few students who wished to continue their hobby along with their professional career in the future. The workshop was targeted towards novice, beginners and amateur to provide them not only with basics but enough of knowledge to carry on to the intermediate level. (more…)

ShutterXpose Digital Photography 101 Workshop: An Inspirational Success

GPH_4856ShutterXpose organised it’s Season 2 of Photography workshop for upcoming photographers titled ”Digital Photography 101”. The workshop was held at Avanti Palace, Salmiya on 10th April 2015.

Aimed at the Novice and Amateur group of photographers in Kuwait, the 5 hours long session covered various topics from the Basics of photography, Fundamental Pillars of Photography, Lenses and peep thru on Post Processing. Topics on Fundamental of Photography, Depth of Field were explained through with live demo and slides.

ShutterXpose Team leaders Dr. Yogee Tumkur, Dr. Vinod Kumar and Mr. Sanath Ramesh guided participants on various aspects/tools available in their cameras during the workshop.

ShutterXpose has been one of the pioneer photography groups in Kuwait with the aim and vision to nurture novice and amateur photographer to become Better Photographers. The group also conducts weekend photo-shoots exploring the scenic beauty of Kuwait.

The workshop was well attended and received good feedback. Keep checking for future workshop. 

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Digital Photography 101 Workshop – Season II

ShutterXpose is yet again conducting their 2nd Season of Digital Photography 101 Workshop on Friday 10th April, 2015. Digital Photography 101 is a must workshop for Novice, Beginners and Amateurs photographers. This workshop shall help you to understand the basics of camera operation, related camera jargon’s in simple and easy to understand language, learn exposure and how to balance exposure setting for capturing amazing and stunning images. Photography is not about taking images, it’s all about creating and making good images.

Digital Photography 101

This 4.5 hours course shall help you to be a confident photographer:

•Dealing with tricky lighting situations,
•Exposure bracketing and shooting in low light
•Creative shooting, capturing and freezing motion, and panning
•Composition beyond the rule of thirds
•Demystifying the histogram
•Introduction to On-Camera Flash
•Introduction to Post Processing

The content of the course is based on the features and knowledge required for Digital SLR (DSLR) cameras, it is not suitable for the digital ‘point & shoot’ cameras, however you are most welcome to attend if you are interested and are ready to invest in the future.

Venue: Avanti Palace Restaurant, Party Hall (Hamad Al Mubarak St, Al Fayez Complex, Salmiya)

Cost of the Workshop: KD 15 (Inclusive of tasty cuisine of Indian Buffet)

Time: 11:00 – 16:30  Payment: At the venue, On the day of the event (Registration starts from 10:00am)

On-line Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/bHmLHh65VB

E-mail: admin@shutterxpose.com

Sigma DP Quattro series announced

sigma_dp2Sigma DP Quattro has been officially announced recently, it’s the next generation of its DP series of APS-C sensor, fixed focal length cameras after the revolutionized Sigma DP2 Merrill. The Sigma dp Quattro has turned many heads with its radical design that incorporates the new Foveon X3 direct image sensor paired with the newly developed TRUE III (Three-layer Responsive Ultimate Engine) image processing engine to deliver high-definition, 3D-like photographs with outstanding rich color details.

Sigma  DP (dp1, dp2 & dp3) Quattro series comprises three fixed focal length cameras, each of which features a different basic focal length for a different fundamental photographic approach: the wide-angle dp1 Quattro at 19mm, the standard dp2 Quattro at 30mm, and the medium telephoto dp3 Quattro at 50mm (respectively equivalent to 28mm, 45mm, and 75mm on a 35mm lens). Moreover, the three models share an exciting new camera body that brings out the best performance from the lens and image sensor.

The dp2 Quattro (featured here) with a solid and lightweight magnesium body has 29 million high resolution effective pixels (The Quattro sensor uses three layers to detect color information, top layer captures 19.6 million pixel resolution, with lower two layers capturing 4.9 million pixel resolution each) with a fixed 30 mm f/2.8 lens, improved optics with auto-focus performance and better high  ISO capabilities than its Merrill predecessors.

The Camera has already acclaimed the Best Design award in the Technical & Design category at the TIPA Awards 2014.

Sigma dp2 Quattro Camera images

The price and availability date are yet to be announced, sure AAB world shall have it here in Kuwait on it’s release.

Check the official announcement [here]

Goan 1st Lady Photographer Palmira Coutinho passes away

palmira_coutinhoMs Palmira Coutinho, Goa’s first professional lady photographer passed away at the age of 89 due to ill health. She was recipient of the Goa State Cultural Award in Photography.  She had the proudest moment when she appeared on the cover of the internationally acclaimed British Photographer, David Bailey’s book “Locations: The 1970s Archive”.

An interesting spotlight of her exciting career was when she went clicking during the 1974 Exposition of St. Francis Xavier in Goa, which she photographed. It was then she was spotted by renowned British Photographer David Bailey. Consequently, he visited the Hollywood Studio and shot her picture, perhaps just for curiosity sake, as he had met the only professional woman photographer in Goa, who after her husband untimely death in an accident single-handedly raised her seven children while simultaneously photographing and managing the studio. Years later, he remembered Palmira and traced her through the internet after BBC had done a documentary on him, and decided to interview her for a special series. Palmira was in for surprise, when she received an autographed book brought out by Bailey, containing photographs taken at her studio, with her picture on the book’s cover.

In her career, Palmira has photographed Mother Teresa, former Portuguese President Mario Soares, Pope John Paul II and former President of India Zail Singh, amongst other personalities.

May her soul rest in peace.