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dSLR Video Stabilization/Captain Stubling Review
Recently I shot the legendary Wastach 100, a footrace held on rugged terrain in Utah’s backcountry. As an Olympus Visionary photographer, I use my Olympus dSLRs and PEN compact still cameras to shoot video for my projects, and am always looking at ways to get the best quality whenever I shoot. For this race, I used [...]
Lightroom ACR posts-Coming Soon
Ah well, life has a way of delaying even the best laid plans. Due to some personal issues, I had to bump the remaining posts from last week on Lightroom 4′s ACR improvements. I will get to them soon. Thanks for your patience. -Jay
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 [...]
Lightroom 4: 2012 Process Value
I’m spending this week grouping together several of the most important changes to Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom’s camera raw processing engine. With ACR 7, we continue to see ACR evolve in two important directions. The first focuses on capturing better image quality from both our existing images as well as new photos. The second expands [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Curse Of The Expert
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. – Shunryu Suzuki For the past several years I’ve worked hard to be the go-to expert for my client’s Photoshop, workflow, color management and printing needs. While I’ve always found it immensely rewarding to be able to remove the technical [...]
Apple Going Semi-Pro?
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for die-hard Final Cut users. They feel betrayed and abandoned. And rightfully so. FCP was a tool they’d spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours working with and now Apple effectively shut them out of moving forward without any warning. I won’t go through the gory details as [...]
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