profiPhotos News

I hope all of you had a pleasant holiday season.  I’m sure many of you are now back and if you’re like me, can hardly wait to get the photos loaded into Lightroom and start reviewing the volumes of priceless memories.  

If any of you are back for a second or subsequent visit to this site you’ll notice that we have a new look at profiPhotos.  Gone is the old, narrow window that constrained the view into our world.  We’re now widescreen and fluid and plan on making good use of the extra real estate we won back with the new design.

In this month’s first article I thought it would be nice to get into a studio setting and see how we photograph an antique clock.  Since we wanted to demonstrate a technique that almost anyone can try, we chose a limited collection of gear for the shoot.  Our equipment consisted of a single flash head (200 Watt), umbrella reflector, light stand, white cardboard reflector, camera (Canon 30D) and a tripod - that’s it.  We travelled with our mini-studio to our shoot location where we had the chance to photograph a working but rare old clock.

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Summer, Sun, Beach and Ocean! Or perhaps a garden dwarf or grilled sausages? The summer vacation is for most people the best time of the year and everyone enjoys it in their own way. If you captured that perfect vacation moment with your camera, your photo could soon be awarded the most beautiful vacation photo of 2008. Contest is only open to residents of Germany!

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Well we’re back from our shooting assignment in Austria and naturally we want to show off some of our photos.  We were in the vicinity of Salzburg in Austria and took a small excursion up Mount Untersberg with the cable car.  Read more about Mount Untersberg here.  In the photo on the left, I’m standing on one of the peaks at a height of about 1,860 meters.

While we’re editing the photos in preparation for the Flash gallery, I wanted to give you a taste of what’s coming.  The last photo in this mini-gallery is a Panorama comprised of 11 individual shots.  An assignment for those interested; send us your comments and tell us how many people are visible in the panorama photo.  To make it easier, we’ve provided the full size panorama at a resolution of 12,830 by 3,206 pixels for download (see below).

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Our first Lightroom 2 video is now online.  The general feeling I get browsing the Internet, is that Adobe has captivated the hearts of many photographers with the new Adjustment brush.  Videos and comments are cropping up everywhere and the most popular theme seems to be localized adjustments in Lightroom.  Many die-hard Photoshop users will still scoot over to Photoshop to handle the big retouching jobs but I think it was never the intention of Adobe to replace Photoshop (in fact they’ve made the interface to Photoshop a lot better).  It’s just nice to have the option to do some retouching in Lightroom without having to constantly switch to Photoshop.

We’ve produced a 25 minute video showing the kind of adjustments or retouching that is now possible in Lightroom.  We haven’t covered all the bells and whistles of the tool, however we have shown it’s application in your everyday photo work flow.

Click on either the Title of this article or the link "Read the rest …" to go to the video page. Then click on the large image to start the video!

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