New Photo Optimization Series: Invitation to send your images

Online Web School: "Texture Blending" 5/29/2010

05/14/2010 Camera Raw 6.1 Release Candidate Available on Adobe Labs

05/13/2010 Canon celebrates the production of the 40 millionth EOS-series SLR camera

From the Canon press release: "Production of the EOS SLR camera first began in 1987 ,,,,,.20-year anniversary in December 2007, followed by the current 40-million-unit production milestone....."

05/13/2010 Check Out our 2010 Galleries

05/12/2010 Texture Blending: Sample #2

We plan our next webinar on Texture Blending soon.

05/12/2010 Sony develops E mount HD camcorder (via DPReview)

This is very interesting and can be a strong competition to Panasonic and maybe also to the Canon HDSLRs. There need to be more top lenses though. Hopefully Sony's AVCHD codec can deliver higher bit rates.

05/11/2010 Sony announces NEX-3 and NEX-5 mirror-less cameras (via Imaging Resource)

These cameras look very interesting. Very small and powerful.

05/11/2010 Want to better understand video? "Mastering HD Video with your DSLR"

With the new iPad e-books with full color are now finally fun to read (read our iPad diary).

05/08/2010 Alain Briot: Fine Art Photography Top 15

05/07/2010 Opening for Alain Briot Zion to Capitol Reef workshop

Due to a cancellation, Alain and Natalie have 1 opening for their Zion, Bryce Canyon, Escalante and Capitol Reef Workshop this June. 2 openings are also available for the Mono Lake Workshop in October.

05/04/2010 New Front Page Photo

Fledgling season in San Juan Bautista (shot with Canon 550F/T2i). We have also some more shots here in our May 2010 gallery.

05/03/2010 iPad for Photographers Diary: Battery Powered WiFi Hubs

05/01/2010 Adobe releases Lens Profile Creator V1

Now you can create your own custom lens profiles for Photoshop C5. We heard that you need to work very carefully.

05/01/2010 Photoshop CS5 shipping and you can now download a Photoshop CS5 Trial Version

04/30/2010 Canon Rebel T2i/550D Diary: T2i/550D judged as still camera

We finally talk about our personal experience with the Rebel T2i/550D.

04/29/2010 iPad for Photographers Diary: USB and Photo Kit first Look

04/28/2010 Adobe previews Lens Correction Solution for Camera Raw 6 and Lightroom 3

We featured the new lens correction in CS5 in this article.

04/27/2010 Alain Briot Mono Lake and Route 66 workshops

Alain's 2010 workshops are nearly sold out. Alain has 2 seats left for his Mono Lake and Eastern Sierra Nevada workshop and 4 seats for his Route 66 workshop . Visit the links to read the detailed descriptions.

04/27/2010 Nikon releases AF-S NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G ED VR II lens

The older version was already an amazing lens.

04/26/2010 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Disk Enclosure

04/24/2010 Apple releases raw file compatibility update 3.2

Some popular cameras (like the Canon 550D/T2i) are now supported. If you have your Mac on automatic update (like we do) you may have already gotten this update.

04/22/2010 Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 Performance Review (via diglloyd)

04/21/2010 Adobe releases Lightroom 2.7 and Camera Raw 5.7 Updates

Best you learn about some more details from here.

04/21/2010 Leica announces new V-LUX 20 P&S Camera

04/19/2010 Photoshop CS5 can correct many Sigma lenses on different bodies (via DPReview)

We find that Sigma sends a signal to other lens manufacturers that helping Adobe with the creation of lens profiles is excellent customer support.

04/18/2010 Canon Rebel T2i/550D Diary: Video of the Vegas Bellagio fountains

04/17/2010 NAB 2010 Observations