Some very exciting services and applications launched today including a new search engine Cuil.com and Adobe Lightroom 2. Having used Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta I’ve been very impressed and opted to buy Lightroom 2 at the first notice of its availability. Unfortunately after purchasing the Lightroom 2 Upgrade per the install PDF I was unable to get the program started. I was not given the option to reference my exi
PhotoNetCast Episode 7 has just been released where a healthy discussion is covered regarding the Philosophy and Ethics of Editing and Processing . As always the photographers and bloggers involved in this podcast include Brian Auer of EpicEdits, Jim M. Goldstein of JMG-Galleries, Martin Gommel of Kwerfeldein, and Antonio Marques of Words: irrational. Access the podcast and its RSS feeds via PhotoNetCast. [tags]podca
This weekend has been well for lack of a better term miserable. I’ve burned 90% of my weekend trying to figure out what has been causing some very odd behavior on my computer, as noted in my previous post Beware OS X 10.5.3 Bug That Destroys Adobe PSD Files. So what could I possibly be doing that has taken up so much of my time this weekend sorting through this mess? First based on the corruption and disappeara
Up until recently it’s been nearly impossible to know for certain where your online photos might end up on the Internet. As we’ve heard over the years a growing vocal minority will be the first to jump on photographers complaining about online image theft stating “Get used to it. You put it online. That’s how it is.” This argument is anything but true and frustrates the hell out of photo
For some strange reason I started to experience really odd behavior with Adobe Lightroom this weekend. In the end I burned a good portion of my weekend dealing with reviving Lightroom rather than working on my photographs. This made me a very unhappy camper as I’ve been short on time to catch up on post-processing. How far this will set me back I have no idea, but its not going to be a short amount of time as m
Click To Enlarge This has been making the rounds online this week and I had to share it in case any readers here have missed it. In 1975 Kodak developed the first digital camera prototype. Hardly something you’d carry around your neck to a family function. 100 line black and white image were recorded to a cassette tape and took 23 seconds to write. The “microcomputer” being the size of a large VCR w
The 16th and 17th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. These episodes feature an interview with Jeff Sedlik, President and CEO of the PLUS Coalition (usePLUS.org), current Professor of Photography at the Art Center College of Design and also a past president of the Advertising Photographers of America (APA). Discussed is the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS). Although relatively young by comparison t