The Australian Institute of Professional Photography celebrates 50 years tonight. Along with the dinner the milestone saw an exhibition, and the publication of ‘A History of Professional Photography in Australia’ by Paul Curtis. Happy Birthday AIPP, its members, staff, sponsors and all those who have been involved in the institute over the past half century.
Digital Asset Management (DAM) workflow guru Peter Krogh has published another book, Multi-Catalog Workflow with Lightroom 5. Lightroom is a great raw image processor but not an ideal tool for DAM. Nevertheless it is undoubtably the most popular software used by photographers to manage their image collection. So workarounds are needed to let users implement best … Read more
Inspired by Derrick Story’s 7 Step Workflow for Apple Aperture, here’s one for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5. Firstly, Lightroom was designed to be used from left to right (Library > Develop > output), and from top to bottom on the right hand panel within these modules. So in Develop for example you would go from … Read more
It’s safe to say the iPhone is the most popular “camera” in the world. At least according photo sharing websites like Flickr. That’s because it’s the most convenient camera when you want to “take” a photo. Your mobile phone is always with you. “Taking” photos equates to capturing a record of a moment in time. … Read more
 Today Adobe released their newest version of the Creative Suite. Now known as Creative Cloud apps they include Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, etc. Some of the new features in Photoshop CC include improved sharpening and upsizing tools. Have a look at Camera Shake reduction. The new Adobe Camera Raw 8 works in Layers! Camera Raw … Read more
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 is now available for purchase. See my favourite new features here. After user “feedback” (read, “fallout”) Lightroom can be purchased both by subscription and download. Adobe are also hinting at a big Creative Cloud app update for June.
Marissa Mayer the CEO at Yahoo has since backtracked on her comment that “…there is no such thing really as professional photographers” but it has already started an avalanche of criticism. Photoshelter CEO Andrew Fingerman points out twelve traits that make a photographer professional here. They’ve also added Pricing Your Work: Corporate & Industrial Photography to … Read more
Adobe announce future Creative Suite apps will be only available via Creative Cloud. No more boxed items or perpetual licenses. You can license Adobe apps monthly or yearly. Lightroom 5 will be excluded. Like Apple’s App Store this seems to be the way of the future for software delivery. More info here:Â http://www.adobe.com/cc/letter.html
Perhaps the greatest living humanitarian photographer Sebastio Salgado recently gave a TED Talk which is now available for viewing on the TED website. Brazilian born Salgado has won numerous awards for his work and is a UNICEF Special Representative. Starting as an economist for the International Coffee Organization working for the World Bank, Salgado changed … Read more
The UK Government has passed the Enterprise Regulatory Reform Bill. This effectively allows anyone to use images without payment to the rightful owner – if they attempt a “diligent search”. This totally shifts the power in protecting copyright away from individual photographers. In a letter written by renowned UK photographer David Bailey to the Chancellor … Read more