Art of Digital Fine Art printing 2008     Our Lightroom E-Book

7/29/2008 Registration for "Capture more Light" workshop in New York now open

7/27/2008 New Front Page Photo

Photo from our recent trip to Oceano/Guadalupe in California.

7/24/2008 HDR and High Speed Bracketing (by Uwe Steinmueller @ Canon Digital Learning Center)

Canon published the second article of a 3 part series featuring our Capture more Light technique.

7/22/2008 Alain Briot released his Composition Mastery Workshop on DVD

Alain writes: "This is Alain's 3rd Workshop on DVD, with contents similar to his 2-day Mastery Seminar except you do not need to travel and you can study the material as many times as you want, anywhere you like. The goal of the composition DVD is to take you beyond the traditional rules of composition by following a 30 steps approach that covers light, tonality, color palettes and many other aspects that Alain considers to be part of composition."

7/22/2008 Phase One 645AF/P45+ Diary started

7/18/2008 Nik Software announces free update to Color Efex Pro 3.0

Color Efex Pro 3.1 update includes support for Aperture and Capture NX 2, compatibility with Photoshop® Smart Filters.

7/17/2008 Print seminars at Plotter Pros in San Jose (this Thursday)

We conduct 3 print seminars at Plotter Pros in July, August and September. Our print studio is about 200 feet from this location. A chance to learn and chat about printing. Protter Pros really understand the printers they sell.

7/17/2008 DxO Optics Pro 5.2 RAW Converter

7/152008 Phase One announced P65 backs using a 60MP Dalsa chip

Last week Hasselblad announced a back with 50MP Kodak chip. We fear at 6 micron these backs also may fall into the trap of diffraction limits. We hope Phase One plans to show the new back at our Summit.

7/14/2008 Backup for Photographers Part 4: Backup Hardware

7/11/2008 Nik Software: Silver Efex Pro B&W conversion plugin

7/9/2008 DxO released version 5.2

7/9/2008 Canon USA announced pricing and release dates for the new Rebel XS

7/8/2008 Image Composition: Watch the Sky

Sky can easily make or break images. Read our thoughts.

7/4/2008 Vancouver Trip Gallery posted

7/4/2008 Welcome from the new server

If you see this message you are on the new server. There maybe some glitches and feel free to let us know.

Known bug (actually not related to the new server): Safari from Leopard may not show some JPEGs. This is a bug on Macs releated to properly reading XMP meta information. Try to use Firefox.

7/2/2008 Nikon announced the new D700

• Full frame 12.1 MP FX sensor
• Live View
• 5 fps (8 fps with optional battery pack)
• Buffer for 14 lossless 14 bit RAW images
• 51-point AF
• 3" high res LCD
• Sensor cleaning (not available with the D3)
• Estimated selling price in the US about $2,995.00

Essentially many D3 features in a D300 package.

7/1/2008 Photomatix: There will be Clouds

We explore how Photomatix can improve cloudy skies.

7/1/2008 New Front Page Photo

Photo from Vancouver Gas Town in classic Photomatix Details Enhancer look.

6/30/2008 PTLens now available as external editor for Lightroom on PC

6/27/2008 Camera Raw 4.5 and DNG Converter Release Candidates are now available

6/26/2008 Intro into HDR (by Uwe Steinmueller @ Canon Digital Learning Center)

Canon published the first article of a 3 part series featuring our Capture more Light technique.