#943 – Music Photo Contest – Send in your best shots!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by admin

This week we announced the John Rowlands’ Music Photography Exhibition at Ottawa Studio Works.

Today we’re very happy to announce (and invite you to) Best Music Photo Contest.

Enter your best shots from any music event:
• Crowd shots
• Performers
• Musical Instruments
… anything related to music. We want to see your bet shots!

Vote for your favourite shots. Encourage your friends to vote. You can vote every day!

Music photography contest

The Prize

On May 25th the person with the most votes will get a free print of their photo to be hung at the John Rowlands Music Exhibition.

That’s right, your photo could hang alongside John Rowlands’ portraits of some of the biggest icons of Rock & Roll history!

Music photography contest

Details:
• Visit the Music Photo Contest (based on the Facebook platform)
• Click on the camera symbol (top right)
• Like the page and register
• Upload up to three photos
• Vote like crazy (you can vote every day)
• Encourage your friends to vote, too!

Exhibition Details:
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
noon-9pm (approximately)
Ottawa Studio Works;
160 Preston St., Ottawa

Fine Print
The winning photo will be contacted – a large and suitable digital file will be needed to produce the exhibition photo. To enter you must be the owner of the copyright and have rights to post the photos! We reserve the right to remove photos that do not honour these rights! You authorize Harry Nowell Photography Inc. to use your photo to promote the contest and exhibition – you retain full copyright of your photo.

Enter and vote soon.
Vote often!

#942 – Announcing the Music Photography Exhibition of John Rowlands!

Posted on May 5, 2013 by admin

David Bowie - © John Rowlands

Last year we ran our second Music Photography show at the studio. I was contacted by John Rowlands about his music work.

As I learned about the sheer depth of his work my jaw continued to drop! It seems he has photographed EVERYBODY in rock and roll with any significance.

Rolling Stones
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Elton John
James Brown
BeeGees
David Bowie
Elvis Presly
etc, etc, etc.

Bob Marley © John Rowlands

John’s music career started from humble beginnings:
“John Rowlands, a 13 year old teenager who lived in a part of Ottawa called ‘Manor Park’ was a big fan of the popular recording artist, Brenda Lee. With an advance on his 10 cents a week allowance, money made from his 77 drop morning paper route, and cash made from helping the local milkman he bought a ticket to the Brenda Lee Show. Sensing that it was a long shot that she might ever be his girlfriend he took along his father’s camera, a single roll of film and 12 very large flash bulbs…”

And his career grew quickly from there! John has just returned from a show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London featuring his portraits of David Bowie.

Jimi Hendrix © John Rowlands

And soon he will be featuring his work at our photo studio – Ottawa Studio Works. It’s a one day show highlighting some of John’s fabulous work.

Details:
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
noon-9pm (approximately)
Ottawa Studio Works;
160 Preston St.

John’s prints will be exhibited and available for sale!

Jackson 5 © John Rowlands

We will be collecting donations for the Ottawa Food Bank, too!

Ottawa Food Bank

Stay tuned for the Music Online Photo Contest where we ask you to enter and vote for your favourite music shots, ever. The most liked photo will have a chance to be exhibited alongside John’s work at the studio – details coming this week!

Pete Townshend © John Rowlands

#941 Photo Class Update

Posted on May 3, 2013 by admin

Smartphone photography

Our spring photo courses are filling up in Ottawa:

• Spring’s Creative Fundamentals filled up – and dates have been set for September’s class in Gatineau Park.

• Macro Photography with Louise Tanguay is full – email us to be put on the waiting list!

• Tulips Safari with Louise is close to full!

• There is still some room on the Waterfall Safari and Smartphone Photography Seminar/Safari with Blair Gable.

Waterfall Photo Safari

• On-Location Lighting with Blair is still a long way off (October!) but last spring sold out quickly!

• And the Online Program always has room for you! People are discovering this relatively new program and loving it!

• We’re looking at offering our popular Natural Light Portraits course this summer because you keep asking. What do YOU think?

#940 Online Photo Course “Slow Photo” Results

Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin

Last month’s challenge on the Online Photo Class was “Slow Photos.”
Members were asked to shoot at slow shutter speeds of 1 second or longer. That’s tough – just try it! Much of the time it’s hard to even shoot at one second because there’s too much light.

Members, as usual, wow-ed me with their creative ideas. They took the info and lessons I presented in the weekly material sent via email, web and private Facebook forum and created some beauty!

Online photo members enjoyed it, too!

“I’m not sure why it took me so long to come aboard, I knew about this ages ago. I was certainly in a funk with photography and now feel inspired to shoot again.

I enjoyed the informative critique video very much and learned a lot through that review and exercise. I’m glad I signed up for this online program. Look forward to more…”
G.R. April

Slow photography - Online Photo Class!

“I had a couple of main goals when I signed up – have fun, actually get out and shoot, enjoy the process.

So far all of these goals have been fully met… I have been out shooting more in the last two months than in the year before that!”
A.G. April

“Once again a fun challenge with lots of learnings. I particularly enjoyed experimenting with light painting.”
M.M., April

Join us for “Fast Photos” in May.