Photography
Lightroom 4: Basic Sliders & Tone Control
In addition to the changing Lightroom’s baseline processing values, Lightroom’s engineers made a series of significant changes to the controls found in the Basic panel within Lightroom’s Develop module. These give better control over the tones in your images and improve Lightroom’s ability to recover highlight and shadow detail. As part of this change, Adobe [...]
Attention! Lightroom 4: Tone Curve Bug
Update: 5/1/12 Adobe has released Lightroom 4.1 RC2 on the Adobe Labs Web site. In my testing yesterday, it appears to fully preserve the Tone Curve settings from images in LR3 catalogs. I’ve also found it to be much faster than LR3 as well. I’ve seen several forum posts about some users feeling LR4 was [...]
Lightroom 4 Is Here!
Earlier this week, Adobe Lightroom 4 was officially released to the world. With it comes big changes, some visible to the user, others behind the scenes. Collectively, this is one of the most important releases to Lightroom and solidifies Lightroom’s position as the go-to all-in-one application for managing the chaos of a digital photography workflow. [...]
Documenting Your Life: The Creative Antidote to a Busy Schedule
Because photography is only a small part of my job, it’s a great challenge to find time to shoot regularly enough to keep my technical skills sharp and my creative vision attuned to the nuances of light. It seems that the items piling up on the to-do list often take priority in the limited hours [...]
Trendwatching with “A-list” and “B-list” sources
In the Agile Photographer presentation, I recommend developing two RSS feeds or bookmark folders to help you glean the most valuable information from the sea of blog posts, news sources and Twitter updates on the Web. I call these your “A-list” and “B-list” sources. The A-list sources are the most thought-provoking sources of content. Those [...]
Agile Photographer Wrap-up: Fairfield NJ.
I’m reflecting on last night’s Agile Photographer Presentation at Unique Photo over a delicious cappuccino at Espresso Neat in Darien, CT. Darien, with its tidy upscale downtown, reminds me of Bronxville, NY and provides significant contrast to the bustle and energy I’ve experienced on this trip in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey. At last [...]
Agile Photographer: Kansas City
Late last week, I kicked off the fall tour of the ASMP seminar Agile Photographer: A Multimedia Partner for Business series. In the seminar, I encourage photographers to think outside the traditional publishing channels to discover, and generate, new opportunities for building a business creating compelling imagery. Judging by their questions and comments, the attendees in Kansas [...]
Quick Tip: Olympus PEN Video and Adobe Lightroom
If you use Adobe Lightroom to manage your photos, you’ll want to be sure to download any video you shoot with the new Olympus PEN E-P3, E-PL3 and E-PM1 cameras manually. While Adobe Lightroom will download and manage video from earlier PEN cameras and the Olympus E-5, it doesn’t recognize the AVCHD video format used [...]
First Impressions: The Olympus PEN E-PM1
Last week I received my Olympus PEN E-PM1 and began putting it through the paces last weekend. Having quickly fallen in love with the image quality and focus speed of the E-P3, the E-PM1′s bigger brother, I was eager to see if the E-PM1 could serve as an all-purpose camera for capturing everything from adventure [...]
Dispatches: Wasatch 100, Part 1
Work on the Wasatch 100 short film began this morning before dawn at the East Mountain Wilderness Park Trailhead in Kaysville, UT. The competitors checked in at a small table illuminated by a single LED lantern, then milled about waiting for the race to begin. Some competitors sat on the asphalt road wanting to give [...]
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