Camera’s View

Whenever I get a chance to visit the Napa Valley region of California. I try to stop at V. Sattui Winery located in St. Helena.
In addition to decent wines and a great little deli, V. Sattui Winery has a really neat stone Winery building which, to my eye, is a great photographic subject.
The first image, [...]

I was just curious to see what would happen if I took a single image that was processed as a jpeg right out of my camera, as shown here (untouched by Photoshop or Lightroom )
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and I then processed with Photomatix using tone mapping - results shown here -

and then to [...]

Adobe has made some significant enhancements with the second release of Photoshop Lightroom.
Though I haven’t had much time to try out all the new features. I am particularly impressed with the localized correction features. Due to this new feature, I expect less transferring to Photoshop to make minor localized tonal corrections.
Here is a quick example [...]

2.0
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0. Those who have followed this blog know that I use and highly recommend Lightroom for global post  processing of my images.
Scott Kelby of Photoshop Insider has a detailed blog entry on the various upgrade features. I suspect that with these new features, I will find less need to [...]

Based on a suggestion of a friend, I decided to take another look at the illusion I was trying to create in the previous post. What I was trying to imply within the second image ( see previous post), was an illusion of a pending storm or a storm that had just left the area.
The [...]