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Lightroom 3 Beta: Slideshow, Print and Web Modules and Watermarking

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The last part in my series taking a first look at Lightroom 3 beta. This time we look at the Print, Slideshow and Web modules and the new watermarking features.

A Shot in the Dark: Pointing My Camera Skyward at Night

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Astrophotography is a specialized area of photography that looks more like astronomy than photography. On a lark, with out any serious astronomy gear, I decided to turn my camera and a fast lens towards the heavens to see what I could photograph.

Lightroom 3 Beta: Develop Module

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The third part in Points in Focus’s look at Adobe’s first public beta release of Lightroom 3. This time we look at the develop module and the improvements in the software’s rendering engine.

Art Wolfe on Light

Art Wolfe, the widely recognized fine art photographer, speaks on light and how to use it to make stronger images.

Lightroom 3 Beta: Library Module and Publishing

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Part to of our in depth look at the public beta of Lightroom 3. This time we look at the tweaks and changes made to the Library module and the all new Publishing tools.

Lightroom 3 Beta: First Impressions, Problems and the Import Dialog

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Points in Focus takes a look at the public beta of Lightroom 3. New features include an vastly improved rendering engine, a new import dialog box, real watermarking and much more.

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Public Beta

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Public Beta

Adobe has released the first public beta of it’s RAW editing and digital asset management software, Photoshop Lightroom.

Liberty Belle, In Flight

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A series of images of the B-17 bomber Liberty Belle in flight.

Canon Announces the New EOS 1D Mark 4

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Canon has introduced their latest professional body targeted at photojournalists and sports photographers. The EOS 1D Mark 4, brings image quality improvements, video and new higher ISO support (upto ISO102400) to Canon’s line of digital SLRs.

A Look at the Thermaltake BlacX SATA Docking Station

Thermaltake BlacX, SATA hard drive docking station.

Not necessarily photographic hardware but potentially useful for photographers, the Thermaltake Blacx SATA harddrive dock makes backups easier, smaller and slightly cheaper.

Nikon Announces the New D3s

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Nikon has announced their newest professional SLR body targeted at photojournalists and sports photographers. With improoved image quality, even higher ISO support (up to ISO102400) and the addition of video recording the Nikon D3s looks to redefine Nikon’s line of digital SLRs.

Spyder 3: Software Update

If you use a Spyder 3 Pro or Elite and don’t have the Spyder Utility set to auto update, there is a new version (3.1.2) of the Spyder Utility to introduces several improvements to the UI as well as fixing some annoying bugs I was experiencing in the previous version. The new version also introduces …

Inside the Liberty Belle

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Photos from the Inside of the B-17G Liberty Belle.

Lightroom Development Defaults: How to Make Them Work for You

By holding alt (option on Mac) the reset button becomes the Set Default button.

Development defaults are the way Lightroom applies baseline development settings to an image on import or reset. Defaults are the best way to apply common settings that apply to all images from a specific camera, like sharpening and noise reduction, and not for creative styling or effects. Unlike presets, development defaults change every development setting …

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