Lightroom 3 Process Quality Improvements
I'm pretty impressed with LR3's new demosiacing, sharpening and noise reduction in LR3's new process rendering. To the right is an image taken at this month's workshop in Mono Lake (larger view). This is a 15 second "star points" exposure taken at 1600 ISO with a 5Dmk2.  Below is a side-by-side detail comparison, processed in LR2.5 on the left and LR3b on the right. Click the image below to view…
Lightroom 3 Public Beta is now available
I particularly like the improved sharpening, noise reduction, demoasicing, watermarking and new grain tools. There are significant quality improvements especially for high ISO and long exposure photographers. The completely redesigned Import dialog allows you to browse all images on the hard drive (similar to Bridge functionality). LR3 now archives the catalog during exit instead of upon launch…
Digital Capture, Lightroom, Change, and why, yes, you really do have to learn this File Management Stuff
October 16th, 2009, 9:30am - 4pm, Houston TX
presented by Scott Martin via ASMP Houston
In my day-to-day consulting I am seeing photographers struggle with organizing ever-increasing, huge amounts of images. To add to this, the "file browsing" applications photographers have been using are showing their age and Adobe Lightroom is emerging as a surprisingly powerful tool for not only image…
Seminar: Digital Capture, Lightroom, Change, and why, yes, you do have to learn this File Management Stuff
September 13th, 9am - 4pm, University of Texas, Austin TX
presented by Scott Martin
In my day-to-day consulting with photographers I see them struggle with organizing ever-increasing huge amounts of images. To add to this, Adobe Lightroom is a powerful new tool to learn that has opened up new possibilities for image file management.
This one day class will examine (in great detail) every…
Seminar: Lightroom to Digital Pro Lab
July 22nd, 6:30 - 9pm, Digital Pro Lab, San Antonio, Texas
led by Scott Martin
This 3 hour seminar takes a look at photography workflows from capture-to-lab using Adobe Lightroom. We'll take a close look at some new and unusual ways to send images to the lab.
Topics covered
Importing procedure from memory card
File Management
Keywording
Optimizing RAW development with Lightroom's…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
February 8-10th, 2010, 10am - 4pm in San Antonio, Texas
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom. As a special treat, this workshop will be held at San Antonio's upscale Restaurant Insignia. Fine dining and valet parking is included as part of this workshop.
Day 1 - Capture and organize…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
November 9-11th, 2009, 10am - 4pm in San Antonio, Texas
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom v2.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of all RAW software available today
The story behind Lightroom and the direction it heads from here
The DNG…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
August 21-23rd, 10am - 4pm in Houston, Texas
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom v2.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of all RAW software available today
The story behind Lightroom and the direction it heads from here
The DNG format and…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
June 8-10th, 10am - 4pm in San Antonio, Texas
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom v2.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of all RAW software available today
The story behind Lightroom and the direction it heads from here
The DNG format…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
April 7-9th, 10am - 4pm in San Antonio, Texas
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom v2.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of all RAW software available today
The story behind Lightroom and the direction it heads from here
The DNG format…