LIGHTROOM 2.4 UPDATE RELEASED CAMERA RAW 5.4 RELEASED

Photoshop Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 are now available for download from Adobe. This update provides additional Raw support for Canon EOS 500D, Nikon D5000 and 18 Hasselblad models.

ANOTHER FAREWELL IN DIGITAL AGE
Kodak Retires Kodachrome.

It was announced on Monday that Kodak will retire Kodachrome, which has been in production since 1935. Although still used by many professional photographers, Kodak sited a continuous drop in sales and the digital age of photography as their reason for coming to this unfortunate conclusion.

See PRESS RELEASE at PDN website.
See TRIBUTE TO KODACHROME at Kodak.

Randolph Community College featured in PDN Online.
The story which previously ran in the print edition of PDN EDU has now been published on the PDN website. If you missed the original printed story, you can now visit pdnonline.com read the article titled "Community College: The Affordable Alternative", and also view some imaes of students at work in the photo studio on our campus.

Link: http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/pdnedu/student-features/special-report/e3i388dc3328f74c5ee4ea196ad01c83f8f?pn=3

Tuition-Free Multimedia Workshop
for students and laid-off professional photojournalists.

Responding to the current U.S. economy and the state of the newspaper industry, VJ Multimedia Workshops founder and executive director Paul Myers developed the multimedia workshop to provide college students and professional journalists with strategies for storytelling in the ever-changing media landscape.

When and where will the workshop be held? The workshop is July 30- August 2, 2009 in Ventura, CA. The work will be displayed on www.vjworkshops.org and launched on August 2, 2009.

How do I apply? Application is open to all college students and visual journalists who have lost employment over the past two years. This is a tuition-free workshop. Apply at: http://www.vjworkshops.org

25 free openings are available for photojournalists laid off in the past two years.

25 free openings are available for university students.

Costs: This workshop is tuition-free.

The only costs for attendees are their personal expenses: travel to the workshop, transportation, food and lodging during the workshop. Attendees should estimate $500 for personal expenses for the four day workshop.

Application Deadline – June 21, 2009

Call For Submissions: World Photography Awards 2010.
The Sony World Photography Awards is free to enter and features 12 categories which are divided into three photographic genres: PHOTOJOURNALISM, COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, and FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY.

Submissions are open from June 1 - Dec 4, 2009.
Visit worldphotographyawards.org for more information.