Sistemul de obiective şi accesorii Lensbaby (The Composer, The Muse, The Control Freak + Lensbaby Optic Swap System + 1.6x telephoto, 0.6x wide angle, +4 / +10 macro filters) se completează cu încă un adaptor superangular: 0.42x Super Wide Lens.
Mai multe detalii aici.

Un mic îndreptar financiar pentru pregătirea nunţii, semnat Alin Popescu.

Primul episod, via Scott Kelby: cum, de ce, cu ce…

După alţi “păianjeni” de la Datacolor, responsabili cu calibrarea monitoarelor şi a imprimantelor, un nou instrument util pentru fotografi: SpyderCube. Detalii şi preţul aici.

Features & Benefits
•    Capture accurate color without a lot of trial and error manipulation
•    Spectrally Neutral, so that Cube responds accurately to all lighting conditions
•    Provides reference values to check and adjust RAW control settings
•    Includes Black Trap for shadow detail control
•    Allows users to instantly correct color images by setting color temperature value
•    Allows users to accurately adjust shadows and highlight detail in any RAW image
•    Ideal for location shooting (outdoor or indoor) and studios
•    Essential for RAW conversion, and can also be used when correcting images in a JPG workflow

Un proiect foto interesant, cu fotografii luate la aceeaşi oră (4am) şi în aceeaşi zi (4 aprilie) din toate părţile lumii. Detalii aici.

I’d like to involve you in this project. What will YOU be doing at 4am on 4th of April?

Put the date in your diary, set your alarm, and take a picture of your world at 4am. It can be of anything at all. A self portrait, the room you’re in, the view from your window. Perhaps you want to venture out a bit further, maybe you’ll be travelling, or at work - maybe you’re a night owl…

I’m going to get some friends together and go out and have a 4am party. Why not do the same? Get some of your friends and family involved too. Or simply set the alarm, take a picture, and go back to the land of nod.

Whatever you’re doing, it’d be great if you could get involved and play a part in building up a big picture of the world at 4am.

După mai multe luni de tastare a versiunii Release Candidate, Lightroom 2.3 şi Camera Raw 5.3 sunt de azi disponibile în versiuni finale. Linkurile pentru download le găsiţi aici.

The Lightroom 2.3 update includes several bug fixes.

FIXES originally provided in the Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate
* In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
* Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
* A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
* Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
* Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.

FIXES new to the final version of Lightroom 2.3
* Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.

Serie semnată Narcis Virgiliu (apropo, bun venit în blogosferă!).

Expoziţie de fotografie, semnată Simona Şerban, Andrei Iliescu şi Andrei Teodorescu.

Vernisaj: joi 5 martie 2009, ora 18.00
Durata: 6 martie - 31 mai
Program vizitare: luni - vineri 10.00 - 17.00
Palatul Parlamentului, Sala de Expoziţii Constantin Brâncuşi
(Intrarea S1, Izvor. Parcarea asigurată în curtea instituţiei)

12 “învăţături” pentru fotografii amatori (vezi punctul 12), de la Syl Arena.

Pe scurt:

1. If you can’t be remarkable, be memorable.
2. You are NOT defined by your photo gear or your computer’s operating system.
3. Powerful photographs touch people at a depth they don’t anticipate.
4. You have to let your images go out into the world without you.
5. Cross-pollinate with photographers and other creatives.
6. Photography slices time. Photography gathers time.
7. Learning to create photographs that “look” like your world should be only a milestone - not the destination.
8. “Coopetition” is a new business model that’s here to stay.
9. Wars have been fought to protect your copyrights.
10. Your photographs have value. Don’t give them away.
11. Your photographs have value. Give them away.
12. Resist the temptation to become a pro photographer.

Un nou plug-in pentru Photoshop, care permite simularea mai multor efecte de bokeh, soft blur, tilt-shift, lensbaby, DOF îngust etc.: BOKEH.
Un semi-review via  X-Equals Blog, aici.
P.S.: Pentru cei care se întreabă ce înseamnă totuşi BOKEH, revin cu un link către care am mai făcut trimitere şi într-un post anterior (pe vechea adresă resursefoto.wordpress.com).