THE AWARDS | THE WINNER | THE PRIZE | THE JUDGES | THE STORIES

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British Journal of Photography, in association with Canon, launched the first UK HD-DSLR Awards, open to all kinds of HD-DSLR films, from documentaries and commercial promos to creative films.

The inaugural Open Shutter Awards celebrated the emergence of filmmaking using an HD-DSLR and rewarded those photographers and filmmakers who embrace the new convergence of technology to express their creativity and innovation beyond the still image.

Aimed at all UK-based photographers and film-makers, Open Shutter aims to encourage excellence in the fast-developing world of convergent image capture, recognising the best films and multimedia works shot on HD-DSLRs such as Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II. The introduction of broadcast-quality HD video to the latest generation of DSLR cameras has democratised filmmaking, rendering movie capture truly affordable and opening new creative opportunities.

THE WINNER

CJ Clarke has been named the winner of the inaugural Open Shutter awards, the UK's first competition dedicated to HD-DSLR movies, organised by British Journal of Photography in partnership with Canon UK. The 27-year-old photographer, who works as a picture editor at Save the Children, collected his prize on 12 January at an awards ceremony at the Soho Hotel.

Remarkably, Mother and Daughter was Clarke's first film. It was nominated alongside eight other entries made up of short films, promos, documentaries and full-length features, some of them produced by filmmakers with decades worth of experience.

Read more about CJ Clarke's winning film and all other shortlisted in BJP's special ebook catalogue.

THE PRIZE

An expert panel drawn from the world of professional film and photography judged the entries and selected a shortlist, which was shown at an award ceremony in London on 12 January. The overall winner, CJ Clarke, received a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV digital SLR, worth £4500, He will be featured in an interactive magazine and in BJP in early 2011.

Canon's EOS 1D Mark IV, a 16.1 megapixel DSLR, offers true 24, 25, and 30fps video recording in high definition at 1080p, as well as 50 and 60fps at 720. For more information, visit www.canon.co.uk.

THE JUDGES

Nicholas Barker
Multi-award-winning commercials director Nicholas Barker made his breakthrough with two acclaimed BBC documentaries in the early 1990s, Signs of the Times and From A to B (collaborating with Martin Parr on two accompanying books), before making his first film for cinema, Unmade Beds, which collected Best Feature at the Stockholm International Film Festival. He’s since created some of the funniest ads of the last decade, including a Cannes Lion winning spot for Carte d’Or, and has just made a short experimental film using a Canon EOS 7D.

Dominique Green
Combining a career in film and photography, Dominique Green is managing director of the award-winning charity PhotoVoice, and acts as a delegate and UK ambassador to the Berlin Film Festival. Previously she was the MD of Magnum Photos London, having worked 14 years in the French film industry, where she was head of Co-Productions at TF1 and Studio Canal+.

Brian Griffin
One of the world’s most influential portrait photographers, Brian Griffin switched to filmmaking in the 1990s, directing commercials, music videos and experimental films, before returning to stills at the beginning of the decade. He recently completed a London Olympics commission, funded by the National Portrait Gallery and BT, and this autumn has large-scale retrospectives on show in Birmingham and Paris.

THE STORIES

	Video stock Cross-media is the new stock superstar. And with the advent of HD-DSLRs, photographers have an opportunity to benefit from a growing business niche. Stock Agencies 31 May 2010
	From stills to motion "The biggest switch is with your mind" – seven pioneering photographers on shooting video alongside still images Professional Photographers 02 Jun 2010
	The ultimate guide to HD-DSLR camera accessories A camera is just the starting point if you want to get into HD-DSLR video. Now there’s a small industry of makers producing the necessary accessories to convert them into broadcast quality filmmaking... Accessories 01 Jun 2010
	Hollywood comes knocking HD-DSLR's are revolutionising film-making as well as photography, with cinematographers embracing it as a small, neat solution DSLRs 01 Jun 2010
	Moving images Everybody's talking video and convergence as a generation of HD-enabled digital SLR cameras puts filmmaking into photographers' hands. DSLRs 01 Jun 2010
	Continuous lighting for stills and motion If you’re venturing into HD video capture, you need to get familiar with continuous lighting. BJP tries out three of the best options at different price points, from a powerful new HMI priced several... Lighting 01 Jun 2010
	How to sell HD-DSLR movies Equipped with high-definition video tools packed inside their digital SLR cameras, photojournalists now have access to a whole new market. We talk to photographers about they sell and distribute their... Photojournalism 28 May 2010
	Canon 550D impresses Canon’s new entry-level, HD-shooting DSLR does everything its predecessor doesn’t. In fact, the EOS 550D is a good match for the 7D at half the price, says David Kilpatrick in his test of the camera... DSLRs 05 May 2010