COMPANY INFORMATION
ABOUT LUMEDYNE

Lumedyne, Inc. is a family owned and operated, American success story. The company was founded in a two-car garage back in 1972 by a Wedding Photographer/Engineer, Bill Vogt. In 1976, he moved to our current factory in Port Richey, Florida. Bill passed away in 2000 and his step-son, D.J. LaDez is now managing the company of about 30 employees. If you want to reach D.J. by email, send to dj@lumedyne.com.

CLICK HERE to see a Time Line of the company's history

Lumedyne builds the highest quality portable flash system in the world. No other brand of portable flash offers as much versatility or will even claim to perform to our guaranteed standards. These units are basically hand built in our 7,000 square foot factory and shipped to Authorized Dealers around the world.

More than 40,000 photographers count on the consistent performance of Lumedyne flash equipment to light their location assignments. These photographers come from all walks of life to shoot fashion, wedding, media, portrait, architectural, commercial, news, documentary, archaeological, travel and editorial photography among other things. In all cases, they recognize that the quality of light is the magic of photography, even on location.

Lumedyne also builds custom flashes to be used for extreme exploration, medical purposes and even those traffic cameras that take your picture while you're speeding.

Due to the fact that we are a small company, we survive on satisfied customers. If you have questions or problems, contact us directly for immediate answers. info@lumedyne.com or click here for Contact Information.

Dear Friends and Fellow Photog's

I just heard about a contest on photography corner, check this out...

PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year
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PhotographyCorner.com and SmugMug.com are proud to announce the PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year contest. This page contains all the relevant contest information, and will be updated throughout the contest.

The value of the prizes for the contest this year are over $20,000!!! Check out the full list of prizes here!

The PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year contest begins today (December 18th, 2007) and runs until the end of January, 2008. Check out the Sponsors and Prizes, as well as the Rules and the Timeline of the contest before submitting a photograph.

Before Submitting a Photograph, make sure you are aware of what pieces of information are required with your submission (explained on the How to Submit a Photograph page), as well as what limitations there are as to what photographs can be submitted.

Entries are due in no later than midnight, GMT on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008.

Every photograph submitted, as long as it fits within the Rules, will have a chance to win, as the community votes on all the photographs. Voting will begin on January 18th, and will run, in several rounds (depending on the number of entries) through the end of the month, with the winners being announced on January 30th, 2008. Only members (in good standing, with at least 5 posts) of PhotographyCorner.com are able to vote on the photographs.

Sponsors Prizes
How It Works Timeline
Rules How to Submit a Photograph
Promotional Materials

The PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year contest is proud to have the following companies as sponsors:

SmugMug
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PsPrint Masters of Wedding Photography ScanCafe
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OnOne Software

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Lowepro
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Here at Lumedyne, we are gearing up for our company Christmas party. It is going to be held at the Gulf Harbors Yacht Club in New Port Richey, Florida.

Friday, we should have some great pictures and maybe even some video to post for you.

To Photographers everyhwere,

We here at Lumedyne would like to extend warm holiday wishes to all our valued amateur and professional photographers.

Thank you for your beautiful photo's, and for the opportunity to serve you and deliver to you our finest portable flash lighting systems to serve your needs.

Warmest Holiday Wishes,
DJ Lumedyne

Well, it's the day after Christmas, and we're all busily back at the factory making sure that our portable flash lighting systems are the top in the photography industry.

In the coming weeks, we will be creating newsletters, podcasts, videos,articles and interviews just for our photography buffs.

We will also be creating some great information resources for you to access to not only skyrocket your photography careers, but also to ensure that you have the perfect portable flash lighting systems to become a top notch photographer.

So stay tuned to our lens and we will keep you up to date.

Sincerely,
DJ Lumedyne

Today is New Year's Eve, and as our New Years Resolution, we are planning to bring you some great suprises. We want to make 2008 our best year yet by making sure that you have every tool and technology and system and strategy that you need to make your photography career successful and profitable. In order to do this, we are planning lots of new information for you to readily access directly from us.

The first project we have planned for you is a 5 part mini-series on planning out your photography career. This series will include information on how to choose the right field of photography for you, and, the equipment you will need to achieve the most beautiful pictures you can find, ways to market yourself as a professional photographer, ways to market stock photos for extra money, and of course, other sources of revenue that you can create from your camera.

The 5 part series, if not available today, will be available by Wednesday January 2, 2008. It's going to be full of great information and resources that you can use to make your career as a photographer the best career you can have. We here at Lumedyne are committed to making your life as a professional photographer as rewarding as you want it to be and to providing you with the right flash lighting system to perfectly suit your photography style.

To Your Photographic Success,
DJ Lumedyne

www.lumedyne.com

As we prepare for next month's New York City Photo Shoot, we have started the process of pulling the permits for a street photography shoot and street videography shoots.

Here is some of the information we discovered that we need to get these permits. If you ever want to do a photo shoot or video shoot in NYC, here are some important things you need to know...

1.) Street Photography is pretty easy. It's a simple one page form and it can be found at
http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/permits/still_photography.shtml
It's a fairly easy form to fill out, there is no fee and it can be mailed or faxed in.

2.) A permit for videography, on the other hand, is a bit more complicated, and requires more forms.

First, you need the Motion Picture Television Permit, which you can find at
http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/permits/tv_permit.shtml

Next, you need, The Schedule A form for to list your locations and special requests.

Third, you will need a Dropp/Add form if you need to request parking privileges.

And Fourth and finally, you need the Keys To The City Information regarding insurance, find this here at http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/pdf/keys%20to%20the%20city%20Nov%202007.pdf

A very IMPORTANT NOTE: For the Videography Permit, the forms must be either brought in in person or Fed Ex'd over.

We are glad to be able to keep you up to date on information like this. Thanks for visiting.

DJ Lumedyne