Bob Jones knows good wine

I popped over to a good friend's place yesterday morning to help him out with Lightroom. As I was leaving he gave me a bottle of red...oh my it's good! Thank you Bob and if you need another favour, just let me know!

Lightroom 1.2 Update

Not a ground breaking update like 1.1

But, in Lightroom 1.1, some photographers had complained that the software applied overaggressive noise reduction when importing raw images, the unprocessed image sensor data without any in-camera processing. Adobe apparently took heed with Lightroom 1.2.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2 Update

Corrections for several issues including XMP auto-write performance, Vista grid display errors and noise reduction for Bayer patterned sensors. Additional camera support for the Canon EOS 40D, Fuji FinePix IS-1, Olympus EVOLT E-510, Panasonic DMC-FZ18 and more.

Lightroom weekly video

I've been thinking about the best way to post lessons on Lightroom. As many don't know the first thing about it, I've decided to start from the beginning. I recently promised to give twice weekly video tuts on Photoshop and Lightroom. What was I thinking. I don't have the time.

My new approach is to give a weekly tut on Lightroom starting from the absolute beginning. I'm in the process of setting up the videos so it may take a week or so to get the first one out.

Light Control and Lightroom

Here's an interesting question that may get your brains working.

Apart from the fact I did use Lightroom to close the image of Shelley down, another reason exists for having such a dark background and it happened at the time of shooting, not during manipulation. The image was shot at midday in my lounge with the ambient light flooding into the room. It was bright!

So how is it possible to make the background go almost totally dark while exposure properly for the subject? Any answers, fire away!