WPPI Announces Wedding Photography Contest

Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI), in association with American Photo and Destination Weddings and Honeymoons magazines, announces the “2010 Look of Love” wedding photography contest. From now until April 5, 2010, wedding photographers can enter their best wedding photos online at www.weddingphotographycontest.com.
You may enter as many photos as you want, at a cost of $25 [...]

Sunset Velvet Rag and Sunset Select Canvas Win ‘Hot One’ Awards

Two products in LexJet’s Sunset portfolio of materials for professional-quality fine-art and photographic printing have received 2010 Hot Awards from Professional Photographer Magazine.  The two products chosen as “Hot Ones” in the Inkjet Media category are Sunset Velvet Rag 315g and Sunset Select Matte Canvas.
LexJet’s award-winning products are among 57 Hot Ones chosen from the [...]

Canon Will Show Three New Wide-Format Printers at WPPI

 At the WPPI Show March 8-10 in Las Vegas, Canon will unveil three new models of imagePROGRAF printers for the proofing, graphic arts, photography, and fine-art markets. The three models include: the 44-in. imagePROGRAF iPF8300 and the 24-in. imagePROGRAF iPF6350 and iPF6300.

New Inkset: Each new printer features Canon’s all new, 12-color LUCIA EX pigment inkset, [...]

Photo Book and Exhibit on Ferrari Testarossa

Photographic artist Duane Conliffe, who was profiled in Vol. 3, No. 5 of LexJet’s In Focus newsletter, is proud to report he is  one of the featured artists at The Art of Living Black Exhibition at The Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA from Jan. 26-March 13.
The first major public exposure of the exhibition will take [...]

Learn to Integrate Video into Your Photography Business at WPPI

Whether you shoot weddings, portraits, sports, products, or landscapes, it’s becoming clear that the new, hybrid VDSLR cameras are going to profoundly affect what clients will expect when they hire a professional photographer. (Why hire two separate professionals to shoot stills and video, when one qualified professional can deliver both?)
 You can learn more about how [...]

Custom Display Backgrounds for Collectors of Action Figures

Collecting action figures is a popular hobby, as evidenced by the tens of thousands of action-figure-related auctions that can be found on e-Bay. Once a collector acquires a rare or vintage action figure, he will want to find a meaningful way to display it.
That’s why LexJet customer Joe Harris has launched a new website, D&J [...]

LexJet Co-Founder Featured on VoiceAmerica Business

When you visit LexJet offices, you’ll see motivational posters on the wall, with inspirational quotes for employees. But these aren’t the typical motivational-quote posters you see in office-supply stores or in-flight magazines. These posters feature real testimonials from real LexJet customers, who routinely rave about the quality of service they receive from LexJet account specialists [...]

Robert Rodriguez Jr. Offers In-Studio Class on Fine Photo Printing

There are a number of ways to learn how to create top-quality prints of your best photographs.
If you would like a full-day of instruction from a working professional, check out the Fine Art Digital Printing workshop that will be offered on Feb. 27 and March 13 by landscape photographer Robert Rodriguez, Jr. He is conducting [...]