New Nikon Professional DSLR, D3... maybe

In the next week we may see Nikon's new D3 DSLR camera. Although the actual model number is still a closely guarded secret, be ready for 2 new features said to put Nikon way above anything its rivals currently offer. Maybe it's a hard drive enabled camera, 60GB would be nice! Full frame sensor is something I understand is NOT on the cards. That's super good news, as I have a number of DX lenses which would be unuseable on a full frame sensor. Maybe we will be looking at 12fps in burst mode at 6MP. I'll update this blog as soon as I have further info!

Lightroom Weekend Course

I will be running a Lightroom course in the next couple of months. It will take place over a weekend. By the time you leave on Sunday afternoon you will be using Lightroom most of the time and occasionally diving into Photoshop for pixel based editing.

If you are interested, please express it here. And spread the word! In the next week you will see an application form on the lucaschaos.net site

The cost will be $100 and will run 9am-4pm with a one hour lunch break.

Until then I will be posting tips on Lightroom and how to use it here.

Back from Hong Kong

We are back! Touched down this morning at 8am and ended up sleeping most of day. Feeling much better now and have six copies of Lightroom to dish out. So make contact with me to arrange a time for the hand over.

Bridesmaid

An image of one of the bridesmaid's. Again Lightroomed. Applied a preset to get the monochrome look, applied a vignetteing under lens correction and sharpened. Sharpening has been stepped up big time to include four sliders giving you almost the control you have in Photoshop.

My Sister's Wedding

I had to include this shot of my sister laughing her nut off! This image was shot in Raw mode, colour corrected, increased vibrance and sharpened in Lightroom. Total time... 2minutes.