Amazon has Adobe lightroom half off today. Not sure how long it will last. Awesome deal. I used Lighroom almost exclusively for my image editing. If you’d like to see some of my work, check out my sets on Flickr.
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The Provo River Bottoms shopping center is under construction right now while new cobble stone roads are put in place and what was once a through fair for cars will be a pedestrian only shopping area. I’m really happy about this change. It will be a much more inviting place once complete.
A few days ago, I was returning from an evening hiking at Sundance Ski Resort and stopped by to see how the construction is coming along. One cool thing is that Tucano’s restaurant has free WIFI and it’s open even when they’re closed. As I was walking around, I passed by a bench and noticed that I was in range of the WIFI signal. It also probably helped that there was hardly anyone around using the WIFI. The streets were completely abandoned as a result of most stores either closing early or completely during the construction.
As I sat down, I looked across the street at the lighted window in the Victoria’s Secret store. The lighting from the window and street light reflecting from the newly laid cobble stones created such a cool effect combined with the empty street. I snapped one picture with my iPhone and this is what I got. Conversion to B&W and post processing done in Adobe Lightroom 3.
Spent an evening in downtown Provo with Michelle and some other models getting some great shots in before sunset last month. A mix of blue skies and overcast made for an interesting day with a variety of shooting conditions. Thanks to Michelle Steph and the others who made the event. I’ve posted a few images from that shoot along with this one.
My first use of the new Adobe Lightroom 3 film-grain simulation. I really like the texture and feel it gives the photo. It adds depth and character to black and white images. In the future, I’ll be taking a look at using it with cross-processed images to enhance the faded photo on film look. Stephanie is always a great model to work with.
With the latest round in the Adobe vs. Apple, Adobe has responded with ads in the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times and also posted an open letter to Apple in which it outlines what it believes are the “rights” of individuals reguarding the web and who controls (or doesn’t, or shouldn’t rather) it. If you missed it a couple weeks ago I posted my thoughts on what I feel the real reason for Apple not wanting flash on the iPhone and iPad are here in “Steve Jobs’ thoughts on flash and the Real reason there’s no flash on iPhone” continue reading…
Engadget covers Steve Jobs’ latest “Open Letter” on flash here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-publishes-some-thoughts-on-flash-many-many-thou/ in which he covers various reasons for Apple’s stance on flash.
(In a related note, they’re stance on “lower quality” from third-party tools completely is bogus. I’ve seen plenty of crappy applications grace their store that crash regularly and are *completely* lame.)
In my opinion, the so-called reasons are all secondary and meant as a smoke screen to hide the real reason Apple doesn’t want flash on the iPhone or iPad. I’ll explain what I believe that reason to be here: continue reading…
