Adventure 2008: May 2008 Archives

As many of you know, one of the key sponsors of the Adobe Adventure to Tasmania is Digital Railroad, the online photo marketing system for professional photographers and stock photo agencies. Digital Railroad is where many of our photographers have chosen to present and market their work. This week our very own Jeff Pflueger is featured in Digital Railroad's marketplace. Good job Jeff, and thank you Digital Railroad! Next week Digital Railroad will feature Catherine Hall's photos of Tasmania.

There are just two weeks left for a chance to win free trip onboard Qantas airlines to Tasmania! Sign up here. All of you who followed the Adobe Lightroom Adventure on the O’Reilly site know what a treasure Tasmania is. It’s photographers and travelers’ paradise and the Adventure team all came back thinking we had just been on a trip of a lifetime.

As many of you know, one of the key sponsors of the Adobe Adventure to Tasmania is Digital Railroad, the online photo marketing system for professional photographers and stock photo agencies. Digital Railroad is where many of our photographers have chosen to present and market their work. This week our very own Angela Drury is featured in Digital Railroad's marketplace Member Showcase. They are featuring her fantastic images from Tasmania, and also many of the shots Angela took on the Adobe Adventure to Iceland two summers ago. We are told that Angela has already sold some of her work. Good job Angela, and thank you Digital Railroad! Next week Digital Railroad will feature Jeff Pflueger's photos of Tasmania.

I've worked through some portraits I took on location and made a Lightroom gallery. I really smiled a lot as I went through these photos , and thought about what a wonderful bunch of creative, collaborative people Mikkel put together....

I've been playing with the Lightroom 2 public beta (free here) and finding some things I really like. Take the new Clarity, for example. Clarity controls are found under the Basic pane in the right panel of the Develop module. Traditionally, Lightroom's Clarity has been used for local contrast enhancement and gives dull images a "punch". With Lightroom 2, Clarity can have a reserve effect, a negative Clarity if you will. Negative values, (up to -100) when applied to a photo of, say, a face can give skin a smooth silky look (You can use reverse Clarity with the new localized adjustment tool as well). I was curious how negative Clarity might work on some of my Tasmanian landscapes and I was pleasantly surprised. Tasmania already has a romantic feel to it, but this simple adjustment really brought out the romantic quality even more, as you can see by looking at my Romantic Tasmania web gallery. I've also prepared a simple video that walks you through what I did using the public beta on one of the images. I'll post that shortly.