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The Truth About CDNN Cyber Diver News Network
Finally, there is a website that collects information about the crooked dealings of the Cyber Diver News Network (CDNN). Check out divepoll.com to see the truth about CDNN. Excerpt from DivePoll:
Cyber Diver News Network is a known hate website that claims to deliver “world scuba news worth knowing”. In truth is they are copyright infringers, which means they literally steal other’s material without the author’s permission. Many authors and artists have been violated. CDNN steals images from photographer websites, removes the copyright notices, and uses them for headlines in their news articles.
Note that DivePoll lists Cuan Law and Lammer Law as sponsors of CDNN. This is incorrect. Cuan Law and Lammer Law’s management have informed me that they have not given money to CDNN for at least five years:
We did subscribe when they first started up not knowing then what a problem they would become. We have repeatedly asked them to remove our “sponsorship” but get no reply and no action. We have not been able to find any way of reaching them other than by email, which is not answered.
James Wiseman to Speak at Aquarium Conference
This weekend James Wiseman will be giving two presentations at the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America. His first talk with be the keynote address at the Saturday banquet - about the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. This talk will be co-presented with reef ecologist Eric Borneman and will be both educational (a Powerpoint presentation about the sanctuary) and inspirational (underwater photos and video). James will also be presenting an educational workshop about aquarium and underwater photography on Sunday morning. If you’re in the Houston area please stop in and say “hello.”
Veg out while watching new collaborative, dynamic slideshow
I’ve just added a page here on Wetpixel where you can see a slideshow of the most recent images uploaded to our Flickr photo group. Having set up this new page, I feel the need to issue a serious warning: it’s yet another resource on Wetpixel that will cause you to lose productivity at work…
To get to the new slideshow page, mouse over the Media item in nagivation area and select Collaborative Slideshow. To participate in the slideshow, head on over to Wetpixel’s Flickr group, join it, and proceed to flood the group with your amazing underwater imagery!
Warm or Cold Strobes - What’s your preference?
Wetpixel member Andrzej Czyzyk (aczyzyk) has started a topic asking about the merits of using strobes with different color temperatures:
What I understood reading other threads is that it is a matter of personal taste. The problem is I’m not sure what I prefer. I use warm strobes and like the results, but maybe cold strobes would be ok too?
The thread has expanded into a discussion on how strobe temperature, white balance and exposure medium all contribute to the balance and choice of color in your underwater photography. Be sure to join in with your thoughts!
10th International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade
The 10th International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia has announced a call for entries!
The competition is open to both amateur and professional filmmakers, with a minimum of 30% of the submitted footage taken underwater, and unlimited film length. The film must have been made in either 2005 or 2006, and admission is free!
The postmark and registration deadline is November 15th, so continue reading for all the details…
Leatherback Turtles Revisted
During the months of July and August, I and a select group of adventurers from Mexico, Australia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Singapore and the United States visited the nesting beaches of the Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys Coriacea), in very remote Papua Barat, Indonesia.
My initial visits and exposure to these “Gentle Giants of the Pacific” was a year previously in a far different manner than these just concluded trips…
Fuji to Announce S5 DSLR on Sept. 25th
According to Nikon camera pundit Thom Hogan, Fujifilm will announce their new S5 DSLR camera on September 25th. The camera is said to be based on the Nikon D200 platform, with a new Fuji SR sensor (high dynamic range). Fuji’s cameras have been lauded for their excellent image quality, however have lost popularity with underwater photographers because of the S3’s “clunky” design and slow performance. Only time will tell if the S5 will reverse the trend.
Adobe releases Camera Raw 3.5, updates DNG Converter
Yesterday, Adobe announced new versions of Camera Raw and DNG Converter. Camera Raw 3.5 supports more than 125 different cameras, and for the first time is also available as a Universal Binary for Intel-based Macintosh computers. The free Adobe DNG Converter, which translates all Photoshop-supported raw photo formats into the universal .DNG file format, gives photographers a single unified file format for archiving raw files.