2 Big Announcements
Happy hump-day everyone. Let’s get right to the 2 big announcements from the past week.
The first happened last Thursday evening at about 9pm. That is when I received a text about the announcement of the Nikon D4. Loren nudged me to ask Joe what he thought of shooting with the D4. I found this really interesting since I had just unpacked the whole lot of Joe’s gear with Drew that day and he didn’t let on about anything… as well he should have. I understand that Joe and Drew were under the threat of water-boarding if they leaked any of the information about their secret shoots with the D4 to the public. Read Joe’s post about shooting with the D4 here. It was great to pull the camera out of the bag and touch it. It was incognito, still stamped with the D3 logo, but it had a few more mysterious buttons on it. I was not the only one able to fondle the new camera. I’d like to thank the Nikon reps that came all the way from Toronto to give us all a chance to see and touch the D4 as well as plenty of other gear.
Secondly, yesterday Adobe released the Beta of Lightroom 4. This comes coincidentally on the 6th anniversary of the public release of Lightroom version 1. I’m not sure if anyone else out there was downloading and messing with the beta yesterday while watching the live unveil with Matt Kloskowski and Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty, but it was pretty informative and got me totally excited about this next generation of Lightroom.
I took a little time yesterday to play with a few of the new sliders found in the basic development module as well as playing with a few of the brand new modules… Book & Map. I imported all my Iphone photos and geeked out seeing all the places I’d shot photos. Here is a screen shot of my Vancouver Iphone map.
The book module is amazing. It was totally needed. Lightroom 3 was almost there, with a few work arounds and exporting to PDFs and now is was more user friendly with the Blurb publishing plugin, but its got nothing on the book module in Lightroom 4. Blurb and Adobe teamed up on this one and it shows. I’m excited to sit down and make a few more books this year without having to leave the Lightroom environment.
I really can’t say enough about the Beta. Go download it, check it out, and what some of the videos about the new features from Scott Kelby and PhotoshopUser.com.
Now on to VPW news. We are in the middle the two workshops with Joe McNally and I’m looking forward to another busy weekend. Joe will be wrapping up his workshop at Iron Works Studio on Sunday while we host a HUGE day of seminars here at the VPW studios. If you haven’t already signed up, do it now… all the seats my be filled. The demand for the day has been huge. We are glad to see so many people interested in getting to know what VPW has to offer.
Next week marks the start of all of our workshops at VPW for 2012. Intro, Intermediate, Lightroom, On & Off camer flash, The business of photography and a few Nude workshops fill up the calendar for January. Is not too late to sign up!
This month VPW is also featuring Master Photographer Lectures & Seminars with:
Eddie Soloway acclaimed photographer from Santa Fe, Jan 20th-22nd
Freeman Patterson award winning Canadian photographer, Jan 19th-25th
Please check out the information for both of those workshops, and keep on top of all our new class on our website:
www.vancouverphotoworkshops.com/courselisting.php
Thanks for reading, now I’m off to get ready for a shoot this evening.
Happy photographing everyone.
Keep up to date with all our future events on www.vancouverphotoworkshops.com
