The mark of progress brings us again to the start of the public beta for the next version of Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom. Now before you run off and download it and think, “Oooh new tool time!”, keep in mind this is a beta program. What that means for you non-computery photographers is that it’s not [...]

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 [...]

A look at the compact, lightweight, security minded Flipside 200 backpack from Lowepro.

You know it’s fall when the camera press spins and spins on new camera after new camera. Sometime a while back Lytro, a newcomer to the market, had released a press release talking about their new camera design they were preparing to release. It’s finally come to fruition and while the technology is certainly novel [...]

Puma Ocean Racing’s entrant in the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race, Mar Mostro (Monster of the Sea), sails down the Port of Miami shipping channel after winning Leg 6 (Itajai, Brazil to Miami, FL, United States). The Volvo Ocean Race is a 39,000-mile, 10 month, regatta that circumnavigates the globe stopping briefly in ports around the [...]

Puma Ocean Racing’s entrant in the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race, Mar Mostro (Monster of the Sea), sails with the spectator fleet after winning Leg 6 (Itajai, Brazil to Miami, FL, United States). The Volvo Ocean Race is a 39,000-mile, 10 month, regatta that circumnavigates the globe stopping briefly in ports around the world to replenish, [...]