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To be honest I’m not sure at all whether this feature is really new in Lightroom 2 (your comment would be appreciated below). As I wrote earlier I’m not in the version craze and currently I use only Lightroom 1.2. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not too keen on upgrading the software packages I use just because a new version is announced. I prefer the proven stability. But now I got quite excited when reading the release notes of Lightroom 2 beta and noticed the localized correction feature. OK, there are some other interesting things too like supporting dual monitor set ups, leveraging 64 bit architecture, streamlined library, enhanced export functionality, vignetting effect to cropped photos, improved printing, but this localized thing is really something.

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Yes, maybe. If his name is happen to be Joe McNally. It’s only for left eyed shooters but it’s so cool it might be worth to switch. Watch his video here:

Dora Faix is an artist and a friend of mine. She makes hand painted tiles, murals, mosaic works and many other things.
She asked me to make a few photographs of one of her mosaic works in an elementary school for her Web site.

She warned me in advance that the scene is quite poorly lit. Hence we decided to make the shots when we had the most daylight available and I took two SB-800s with me.

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My sons were invited to a birthday party the other day. Due to the children’s age the parents were invited too. We had a great time surrounded by mainly 3-6 year old little ones running around us all the time. I took my photo gear with me and tried to capture the lovely faces. (Click on the image for the slideshow of the images.)
I share below the challenges I experienced photographing children during the party.
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Recently I found Steve Paxton’s Web site. As I can recall I found one of his articles referred to on photographyvoter.com.
I really appreciate his efforts of giving back to the photographer community by sharing with us his great tutorials on e.g image processing and workflow in Photoshop, using Lightroom and videos explaining how he processed some pictures to achieve the look he wanted.
Last but not least there are quite a few inspiring photographs on his clean yet stylish site as well.

The list of Steve’s tutorials as it is today can be see below:

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