We are happy to be participating with BarlowProductions this Saturday for the Help-Portrait project.
This Saturday, 12.12.09, hundreds of photographers across the country will be making portraits free of charge for people who otherwise might not be afforded such a luxury. We will be providing family photos via the organization Connections To Success, and we’re glad to be able to help such a worthwhile group. If you’d like to help, please let me know. We too can use all the help we can get.
At least you’re not a Pentax.
The latest release candidate of Adobe‘s hugely popular Lightroom 2 image management software was released yesterday. The main reason to upgrade to this version is for enhanced RAW support if you have bought one of the latest digital cameras.
Newly supported camera models include:
* Canon EOS 7D
* Canon PowerShot G11
* Canon PowerShot S90
* Leaf Aptus II 5
* Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31
* Nikon D3s
* Olympus E-P2
* Pentax K-x
* Panasonic FZ38
* Sigma DP1s
* Sony A500
* Sony A550
* Sony A850
Face.com’s facial recognition platform just got a whole lot more interesting. It now can recognize photos on Facebook of you that aren’t even tagged.
Head over to TechCrunch for their more in-depth write-up of it.
The brainchild of celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a movement of photographers, coming together in every major city, to use their photography skills to give back to the community. On December 12th, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered. Yep. It really is that easy.
Definitely participate if you can.
I plan on helping out in St. Louis – if you are in St. Louis call me at 314-238-4586 to join.
Adobe’s hugely popular image management tool Photoshop Lightroom now is in free open beta until its release. Head on over to Adobe Labs to download the beta that includes image publishing options for Flickr.
From Adobe:
Lightroom 3 beta builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love—the art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.
We’re offering a public beta of the next release of Lightroom to give you a chance to preview some of the new features and enhancements in the upcoming version. It’s an opportunity for you to evaluate a select portion of the new features planned for Lightroom 3, to help the team discover and address issues if any, and to send feedback that the Lightroom team can use to make Lightroom 3 an even better digital darkroom and more efficient assistant for you.
For the development of this latest release, we’ve focused on what we believe are the fundamental priorities of our customers: performance and image quality. Lightroom has been rebuilt from its core to provide a performance architecture that meets the needs of photographers today and into the future. The raw processing engine has also received an overhaul in order to ensure that you’re maximizing the potential in your images in terms of sharpening and noise reduction. And, a number of other new areas have also had new features added and enhanced. Like any beta, Lightroom 3 beta is unfinished, which means some of the features we have planned are not in this release, and some of the features in the beta are not yet complete.
FotoFurnace is produced by Todd Gilbert of St. Louis. Todd got his start at www.secondstreetmedia.com as the account and product manager for myCapture, a white label photo publishing platform that caters to media giants like The LA Times and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as well as the smallest weekly newspapers.
This blog will cover workflow, selling photos and the occasional gear review.
