• Abandoned
    An abandoned British research station on Stonington Island in Antarctica
  • Harbour Dusk
    The daily buzz on Sydney Harbour is always a joy to experience.
  • Mona Vale
    View from the headland to Mona Vale Pool.
  • Antarctic Night
    Midnight in Antarctica and mirror-like reflections.
  • Neko Harbour
    Sunrise over Neko Harbour in Antarctica.

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Lightroom 3.4 and Camera RAw 6.4 released

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Adobe announced today that Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 Release Candidates are available for instant download from the Adobe website. The new version bring support for various news cameras including Canon EOS Rebel T3i and Olympus E-PL1s and they also improve lens correction, which was introduced in Lightroom 3.3 and Camera Raw 6.3, The lens profiles help photographers automatically correct unwanted distortion and chromatic aberration.

In addition, the Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 Release Candidates address a number of issues reported by customers on the previous releases.
Get Camera Raw 6.4 here
and Lightroom 3.4 here

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Nik HDR Efex only one month away

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

I always get excited when I hear about new tools for us photographers.
Particularly when it’s a new HDR tool. I’m not entirely happy with the results I get with Photomatix, although it still is the market leader for HDR photos and it certainly beats Photoshop and other 3-party HDR products.
That being said Nik has always convinced me with their plugins. I use almost their whole range of plugins, from Sharpener over Silver Efex to Color Efex. Their filters are simply superb!
It goes without saying that I am very excited to give Nik HDR Efex a try when it’s being released this October.
Here is a video for the time being. Just check out the HDR presets which they use with a single click.

Here is the link to the official website.

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Digital Magazines – the way of the future

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Digital magazines seem to be the way of the future and Apple’s Ipad is the perfect device for it.
I believe it will be able to change the way we browse magazines long term.
Wired Magazine app for the Ipad has been a big success already and Adobe plans to make publishing digital magazines a lot easier. Find out more here.

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Exciting new HDR tool – HDR Expose

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Many photographers have played around with HDR, either in photoshop or with dedicated software products such as Photomatix.
I am a big fan of HDR – as long as they are naturally looking.
However it is very easy to go overboard with it and create an overprocessed image, that looks completely unnatural.
I myself always used Photomatix and although it was hard to control, I was able to create some nice looking images with it.

3361334151 18e0b65951 o 600x398 Exciting new HDR tool HDR Expose

Bay of Fires – 3 exposure HDR

Making HDR more user friendly when it comes to the interface was always something I thought could be improved.
It looks like the wait could be over.
Enter HDR Expose. In the press I read:
“HDR Expose produces natural looking HDR images without halos and color shift artifacts that have become synonymous with the HDR Look”
It has caused quite some stir already and just looking at the video, I am thrilled:

The introductory price is $149, but there is a special til the end of July for $99. It also comes with a LR and Aperture plug-in.

I am very keen to try it out. You can download a fully functional 30-day free trial here

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Adobe Lightroom 3 has been released!!

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

The wait is finally over and after Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 has just been released!
Check this link to see some cool new features of Lightroom 3.

And here is a workflow video made by Terry White. He shows you how he gets his HDR images from LR3 into CS5:

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