Monthly Archives: August 2012

New Weekly Finalists Selected in Lytro’s First Photography Contest

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Five more Weekly Finalists have been selected in the Lytro Share the Fun Photography Contest and Sweepstakes. Congratulations to Ken Trombatore, Linda Steider, Myles Honicker, Ian Storrs and Julie Warner who took this picture, “Fast-moving baby blind snake.”

The Lytro Picture Gallery now features all 10 Weekly Finalists that have been selected by our judges and your voting. The photographers could win the Grand Prize, a Master Light Field Photography Lesson with Eric Cheng plus five Lytro cameras to share with very good friends. Voters are entered in a sweepstakes with a chance to win a Lytro camera of their own. This week’s Lytro camera winners are Chris Fletcher, Matt Durazzani and Lance Goforth.

Next week’s guest judge is Helen Cho, the Social Media Manager at Zero Point Zero Productions, managing the social media channels for the popular Travel Channel series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and The Layover.

Want some tips to win? Check out last week’s contest update, as well as Eric Cheng’s light field photography podcasts.

Photography Contest Update (plus Tips to Win)

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The judges have spoken. Richard Koci Hernandez, Heather Champ, Eric Cheng, Matt Buchanan, and you have chosen our first Weekly Finalists in the Lytro Share the Fun Photography Contest and Sweepstakes.

This week’s guest judge, BuzzFeed tech writer Matt Buchanan, announced our first Weekly Finalists. We’re featuring their pictures in our Lytro Picture Gallery and the photographers could win the Grand Prize, a Master Light Field Photography Lesson with Eric Cheng plus five Lytro cameras to share with very good friends.

Three voters have won Lytro cameras of their own. Congratulations Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Paul Mozolewski and Lindsay Wood.

It’s a new week, so we also have a new guest judge: Cliff Kuang is an editor at Fast Company and the founding editor of its spin-off, Co.Design, which in 2011 won the National Magazine Award for best online department.

Tips to Win:
Everyone – If you didn’t win last week, try again! Every time you vote or submit a picture, you get another chance to win.

Voters – Vote for a new picture every day. Each vote is like a raffle ticket, increasing your chance of winning.

Light Field Photographers – Focus your efforts to get out the vote on one picture each week. The pictures that receive the most votes during the week get a “fan bonus” during the judging. Submit a new picture or re-share a previous submission.

Congratulations Ren, TR35 Entrepreneur of the Year

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We could not be more excited to announce that today, our founder and Executive Chairman Ren Ng has been recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as a TR35 Honoree for 2012 and as the first-ever recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year award!

Selected from a TR35 panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review (who evaluated more than 250 nominations!) TR35 recognizes the world’s top young innovators under the age of 35, spanning industries from biotechnology, computer and electronics hardware to software, energy, the Web, and nanotechnology, among other emerging fields.

Ren along with the other TR35 award winners will be profiled in Technology Review’s September/October issue of the magazine. In the meantime, be sure to also check out Tech Review’s feature video of Ren.

Ren will join other TR35 honorees in discussing their achievements at the EmTech MIT 2012 conference, taking place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge October 24-26, 2012.

Congrats Ren!

Life as a Lytro Intern

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Less than a hundred days after the first Lytro camera was shipped, I began my marketing summer internship.  I knew the company was growing fast, the product was sexy, and the media was definitely taking notice.  I also knew that I loved photography, was attracted by new technology, and wanted to work at a small(ish) company back in sunny California. After begging for many months that they should let me work for them, I found my seat at their shiny new Mountain View office with a completely open floor plan full of camera gear that would make any photographer drool a little. All of this, combined with a stocked kitchen, a full kegerator, and a frequently-used ping-pong table gave me confidence that I was going to have a great summer.

Along with my online acquisition and social media projects, I had a couple unexpected to-do’s I can now file under the skills section of my resume.  I put together legos, taste-tested lollipops, spray painted a brown box black, tracked down fruit pies, re-assembled broken manikins, and planned a pub crawl.  And this doesn’t even account for the rigorous training hours I put in on the ping-pong table and the countless living pictures I ended up taking.
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Help Lytro Get to SXSW 2013

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Lytro is going to SXSW! It’s that time of year to vote for the Lytro Team to be chosen to speak at SXSW in Austin next Spring. We have an amazing line-up submitted this year and are super excited to hopefully see all nine sessions in action, but we can’t do it without you!  Please take just a few minutes to vote for the Lytro Team, and tell your friends and family as well. The voting is open until Friday, August 31st, 9:59PM PT.

If you haven’t already done so, sign up at the SXSW website here so you can vote.  To vote, simply click the thumbs up button on each of the panels’ pages. There is no limit on the number of panels you can vote for, so vote today to see if we can get Lytro into all nine panels.

Win Lytro Cameras! Photography Contest and Sweepstakes

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Win Lytro Camera for You and Your FriendsToday, we’re launching Lytro’s first light field photography contest, Share the Fun, which also happens to be THE first light field photography contest ever.

Each week through the end of September, five Finalists will get their pictures featured on the Lytro.com gallery and will win a Lytro accessories package worth $125. One of those Finalists will win the grand prize, a Master Light Field Photography Lesson with our Director of Photography, Eric Cheng, along with 5 Lytro cameras to share with their friends.

We have amazing judges who will help determine the winners:

  • Eric Cheng, world-renowned underwater photographer and Lytro’s Director of Photography
  • Heather Champ, currently at Findery and Flickr’s former Community Manager, never leaves home without a camera
  • Richard Koci Hernandez, Emmy award winning video and multimedia producer
  • Matt Buchanan, our first weekly guest judge, writes about technology, food and drink and is the editor for FWD, Buzzfeed’s tech site
  • You!  (And, you could win your own Lytro camera just for voting.)

Vote for your favorite pictures, or add your own, here. You can increase your chances of winning by voting or adding a new picture every day.