Santa Ponsa from Sean McCormack on Vimeo.

Timelapse Panning Video one hour compressed down to 12 seconds   -   no sound by Sean McCormack ( larger high-def version is here )

At right is a short timelapse video (12 seconds, no sound) that Lightroom expert Sean McCormack made from the collection of 300 images he ended up with after setting his camera up on a tripod and having it take a shot every 10 seconds for 50 minutes.

To see the high-resolution version, go here and look for the "four arrows" icon at the lower-right of the video. [...]
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Adobe has re-released the troubled Lightroom 1.4 now as a (hopefully) untroubled Lightroom 1.4.1. Links are here.

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As I mentioned earlier today, full bloom has finally hit Kyoto.

Having recently read photographer Rick Lee's blog post When is dusk dusky enough? about how actually shooting a "night" shot at dusk can make use of a bit of remaining skylight to balance the harsh artificial lights, it reminded me of the lessons from Strobist's classic How to Photograph Christmas Lights, and made me want to try it with the cherry-blossom lightup that's going on in my area during the evenings this week.

I brought my D200, tripod, remote shutter release, Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8, and Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 across [...]

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I like to post right away when there's a new release of Adobe Lightroom, but alas, I've been on vacation for the last few days, and I was at the car-rental return at the Amami Ooshima Island airport when Lightroom 2.0 beta was released earlier this afternoon.

The 2.0 beta has a lot of exciting new features you can read about elsewhere (links below), but the ones I'm most excited about are localized corrections (you can "paint" exposure, saturation, tint, etc.) and multi-monitor / multi-window support. Now you know why I finally succumbed and added a second monitor a few [...]

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Update April 11th, 2008 Lightroom 1.4.1 has now been released to address the problems discussed below. Download links are here.

Adobe has just released a very minor upgrade to Lightroom, version 1.4, available for free download here. This comes about four months after Lightroom 1.3 and its support for export plugins was released.

Full details are in the Lightroom 1.4 ReadMe, but in short this upgrade adds support for some new cameras, and fixes a few bugs (but unfortunately, not the "FormatMessageW failed" uploading bug some Windows users of plugins have seen).

Added Cameras

Canon:EOS 450D, Digital Rebel [...]
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