Win Lytro Cameras! Photography Contest and Sweepstakes

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Lytro

Today, 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.

Lytro Summer Tour

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Lytro

Summer is here and the Lytro Team is taking our cameras to some of the hottest (some literally) events of the summer. Look for us:

July 12-14, in San Diego at Comic-Con International
July 20-22, in Seattle at the Bite of Seattle Food Festival
July 26-28, near Minneapolis at the Soundtown Music and Camping Festival in Somerset, WI.
August 3-5, in Chicago including Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, August 4.
August 17-19, in New York City for the International Fringe Fest.

We’ll be sharing pictures from the festivities, demoing cameras and even giving some away. Watch for more updates here as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

Now You Can Play with Living Pictures Directly in Twitter

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Lytro

We’ve always made it easy for you to share your Lytro living pictures on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. And, you and your friends have always been able to play with living pictures directly in a Facebook Wall post, or when they’re embedded on a blog or website.

Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve partnered with Twitter to use expanded Tweets so that everyone can play with living pictures directly in their Twitter feed. Now your friends and followers can refocus and interact with living pictures on both web and mobile devices, without ever leaving Twitter.

Be sure to follow @lytro to check out some of our favorite living pictures, or share your favorite living pictures with us, and we’ll re-tweet a few of our favorites throughout the day.

Expanded Tweets begins rolling out to everyone on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com starting today, and it’s coming soon to Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. After it rolls out to you, you can click “View Media” to play with living pictures directly in your Twitter feed.

Pictured: Lytro engineering manager Tom Hanley worked with his web development team to bring living pictures to Twitter.