Posted 554 days ago
Seems like a good time for a little update on my contributions to other sites around the internets…
I’m looking for your vote, if you think the shot is worthy, on this image of seedlings for the JPG Magazine ‘Breakthrough’ theme for their next issue.
And last weekend was the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, the weather was pretty good and the costumes better. A bunch of photos from the event are now up in a new Flickr Set
Posted 564 days ago
For digital photographers, particularly people shooting any sort of volume of RAW files you may find you need a better workflow for ‘development’ and organization of the photographs then simply storing the files on your file system and then opening a few at a time in Adobe Photoshop. Into that gap has come a few new applications including Apple’s Aperture. More recently, Adobe has finished work on its Lightroom application and moved it from a long public period to an official 1.0 release.
With that release two professional photographers and bloggers, Micah Walter and Michael Clark, have committed their time and expertise to putting both Aperture and Lightroom through the paces on a typical week or so of shooting and editing.
Both photographers have started posting their day to day thoughts after working with he applications, and the articles are both interesting and informative. Versions and Stacking, for example. Contrast that with posts like Aperture in Somalia, may be a little light on the details that feed your curiosity about the applications they are rich in story and images.
My own application of choice since the first time I used a beta has been Adobe Lightroom, but I have been planning on looking at both Aperture and Nikons own Capture NX before pulling the trigger on the 1.0 license.
A sampling of some recent photos, bookmarks and news stories I've flagged elsewhere with this tag.
To aid users in selecting the right look for their landscape images, I've created a set of over 70 Graduated filter presets to get you started with making creative choices for your images. Covering both landscape and portrait orienations, as well as hard and soft line filters, these filters come in 3 standard colours: ND (Grey), Blue and Tobacco. As is also standard, they come in strengths of 1 stop (0.3), 2 stops (0.6) and 3 stops (0.9).
By The National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
2008 will be remembered for the housing and mortgage market meltdown, but will it also be the year of the stock photography market crash? There's no doubt in my mind the industry has been in a "bubble" for the past few years.
To get a border or edge effect on your image when printing from Lightroom, you need to add a graphical identity plate. Once you add one (or two or three) you can access them from the Identity Plate section in the Print Module. Here's how to do it.
This page contains download information and links for ImageIngester/ImageIngesterPro and ImageVerifier and ImageReporter. Scroll down for the actual download links. ImageReport scans a lightroom library and creates summaries of different exif information and shooting details.
I'm in Las Vegas this week for the annual PMA conference and trade show. I've been here for a few days already, and there's one topic that has come up in almost every discussion I've had with photographers: Aperture.
The B&H Event Space offers free events almost every day of the week and includes a great selection of educational seminars hosted by leading manufacturers in the industry as well as our very own B&H Mavens, professional development workshops and inspirational lectures by distinguished photographers.
There are special considerations to take into account if youâre shooting RAW and you want to be sure that youâre getting a proper exposure You wouldnât think changing image capture from film to digital photography would require a new way to think about exposure, but it may, depending on how you use your digital camera. This is because a digital camera sensor behaves quite differently from how film and our human visual system respond to light intensity. Digital cameras record data in a linear fashion.
A limited number of Sigma lenses when used with the new Nikon D3 digital SLR camera will not support the "Auto DX crop" function. To overcome this we will be supplying a free upgrade to our customers. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused to our customers.
There comes a time in every point-and-shooterâs life when he or she wonders if there is more to photography than a palm-sized block of aluminum stowed away in oneâs pocket.
Book Excerpts, Videos and other materials for learning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Great site with video tutorials and other updates on using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
I hate to admit it, but the main reason I bought a D300 in the first place is because of the bigger LCD screen on the back. I know that sounds silly, but it's true (I had only actually held a D300 once; at Photoshop World, and then only for about three minutes.
Lightroom 1.2 and Camera Raw 4.2 are now available. Lightroom customers will receive an update notification through Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 users will be able to download the Camera Raw 4.2 update through the Adobe Update Manager.
My Korean isn't even good enough to call appalling, but fortunately for me, some Web site pictures of what sure looks like a new Olympus E-3 SLR speak louder than the surrounding words.
After an initial leak last night while testing the servers, Adobe has officially released Lightroom 1.1 to the expectant public. The free download for all 1.0 customers is available from the Adobe website.
Sensor cleaning is becoming a standard feature on modern digital SLR cameras. While the manufacturers may use different techniques to get rid of the dust from the image sensor, they all promise clean, dust free images. Do they all work equally well? Can we throw our air blower away? We have tested the four different types of sensor cleaning technologies to see which one will most likely to fulfill the expectations.
Lightroom - News Tips Tricks Workarounds - Try these camera calibration settings in Lightroom. They're not an exact match for Mode III, but they'll get you in the ballpark.
With all of the recent buzz about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and its release today, the big question is how it compares to Apple Aperture. In tandem with Micah Walter on the Inside Aperture website I will be conducting a comparison of the two programs and how they stack up for my workflow. Iâll just say upfront that my purpose is not to bash either of these pieces of software. They are both incredibly powerful and a cut above the rest of the RAW processing and image editing software programs on the market today.
With all of the recent buzz about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and its release today, the big question is how it compares to Apple Aperture. In tandem with Micah Walter on the Inside Aperture website I will be conducting a comparison of the two programs and how they stack up for my workflow. Iâll just say upfront that my purpose is not to bash either of these pieces of software. They are both incredibly powerful and a cut above the rest of the RAW processing and image editing software programs on the market today.
Micah Walter spends a week using both Aperture and Lightroom during his professional workflow and reports back on what he thinks of the applications
Micah Walter spends a week using both Aperture and Lightroom during his professional workflow and reports back on what he thinks of the applications
Lightroom Develop Presets
Lightroom Develop Presets
downloadble presets for different flim stock like effects in adobe lightroom
downloadble presets for different flim stock like effects in adobe lightroom
site covering the photo technique of shooting through an older viewfinder to gain noise, distortion and other 'old' effects
good walkthrough of some basic fujifilm f30 camera settings and usage
photoshop plugin for correcting lens distortion
photoshop plugin for correcting lens distortion
digital noise reduction plugin for photoshop
Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100
Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100
Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100