Winter Tales jury board

[alex]

Introducing official jury members of the Winter Tales contest.

Doug Betzold


Doug Betzold is a commercial 3D photographer and was one of the first graduates of the Art Institute Seattle's Bachelor of Fine Arts in Commercial Photography program.

In 2012, Doug was nominated 1 of 6 finalists worldwide for ‘3D Photographer of the Year’ by Sony and the World Photography Organization and had his work exhibited at the WPO gala event in London. Doug's 3D work has also been shown at the Adobe corporate offices in Seattle, SIFF Seattle International Film Festival 2010 & 2011 and Seattle's Museum of history and Industry.

Doug works directly with the companies that are defining the new landscape of digital imaging and 3D including Nvidia, Adobe, NEO3DO and Phereo.

"I really enjoy pushing the boundaries by creating new and different ways to create what I call 'Photomedia' and visual communications.

Doug's gallery on Phereo: http://phereo.com/DougBetzold
Homepage: http://dougbetzold.photoshelter.com/


Cesar Sommer

Cesar Sommer is a photographer / producer of stereoscopic 3D content but also an established commercial photographer in 2D. He most known as being one of the first "Digital 3D" fashion photographer worldwide using the 3D technology not for print but for digital media / hardware as logical extension nvidia (the inventor of the GPU - graphic processor unit) contacted him to collaborate for various occasions. His first 3D Portfolio Reel also was used as demo content for the premiere of you tube in 3D at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. As reaction to that he got much feedback from around the world and interest in his 3D still photography, like Bob Johnston 3D content producer (Streetdance 3D, My Bloody Valentine etc.) or Ben Grossmann Oscar winning SFX Supervisor (Martin Scorsese Hugo 3D) even the NASA was interested in his technique. He is also the first or one of the first to photograph celebrities in digital 3D. Among them Grammy nominated Rapper/Actor Redman (Scary Movie 3 & How High) and 2x Grammy winning Fatman Scoop or Bobby V who won a Urban Music Award for Best R&B Act.

Cesar's stereoscopic portfolio page on Phereo: http://cesarsommer.phereo.com/


Jeffrey Cooper

A seasoned 3D photographer and the creator and administrator of the http://www.3dphoto.net and http://www.3dphoto.net/forum. Jeff's selfless dedication to all aspects of 3D has been a contributing factor in many photographers becoming comfortable in the medium. He also recently published The 3D Photography Book, a great handbook for anyone interested in stereoscopic 3D photography.


Alexander Savin

A filmmaker, stereoscopic photographer and skydiver from Helsinki, Finland. Winner of the NVidia 3D Vision May photo contest 2012. Recently finished a short experimental film titled Helsinki 3D, most of which is shot using hyper stereo 3D timelapsing technique. In the past did cinematography for 3 feature length films, all of which had theatrical releases in Finland. Author and administrator of the StereoFinland.com site.

Alex's Phereo gallery: http://www.phereo.com/alex
StereoFinland site: http://www.stereofinland.com

[zz3d]

greetings to the official jury members of the Winter Tales contest. I am honored to see my 3D images shortlisted among other entries.
ps - Alexander, I hope you don't mind me noticing in your bio, but are you sure you were the winner of the NVidia 3D Vision summer contest?

[alex]

greetings to the official jury members of the Winter Tales contest. I am honored to see my 3D images shortlisted among other entries.
ps - Alexander, I hope you don't mind me noticing in your bio, but are you sure you were the winner of the NVidia 3D Vision summer contest?

Thanks for pointing out It was May Photo Contest after all:
http://www.3dvisionlive.com/content/may ... est-winner

[zz3d]

congrats on winning the Nvidia May contest, Alex.
your bio was confusing because I was the winner of both Summer and Winter Nvidia photo contests.
http://www.3dvisionlive.com/content/sum ... st-results
http://www.3dvisionlive.com/content/win ... st-results

and now I'm honored to be a runner-up of this Phereo Winter photo contest
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=115
thank you