I just built me a new workstation just to run the latest versions of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom. With the new support for 64bit in both Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2, I decided to go with Windows Vista 64-bit for the opperating system. One of the main advantages of 64-bit is the bigger memory address [...]

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The new Canon 5D Mark II was announced a couple of days ago.

21 Megapixel Full Frame Chip
Automatic sensor dust cleaning
ISO 100-6400 with expanded 50 - 15600
3.0 Frames per second
Raw (21mp), sRaw1 (10mp), sRaw2 (5mp)
3″ Lcd Screen
1080p 30fps movie mode
external mic connection
New Battery
UDMA Compact Flash Support
Price $2699

There are some great features to it. First is the [...]

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Fake Chuck Westfall has some information on the new Canon 5D Mark II. He says that parts of his non-disclosure aggrement ran out today. The can’t say the offical name of the camera, but he did say that it is going to be 24mp with great low light capibilites. There is no on camera flash.
These [...]

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Last Friday I photographed a great hard fought football game. This was one of the best high school games I have seen. 2007 GHSA Class A State Champs, Emanuel County Institute took on Savannah Christian.

The coin toss, Savannah Christian elected to receive.

Washaun Ealey, state touchdown record holder, makes a big run.
The score at the half [...]

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Vincent Laforet shot a video of the remote camera setups at the Beijing Olympics for the mens 100m final. Its amazing to see that ammount of equipment just siting there.
Video
Also if you are wondering how that many photographers can use Pocket Wizards at the same time, you can send them in and get your own [...]

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John Nack is saying that Adobe is going to announce the new version of Photoshop and other programs on September 23rd. It seems that it will be called CS4.
Also they are going to show off some of the features at Photoshop World during tommorow’s keynote.
You can sign up to see the annoucement here.

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It’s that time of year again. No I am not talking about fall, I am talking about Football!
For the first weekend I went to David Emanuel Academy vs Bullock on Thursday night in Statesboro Ga. On Friday i went and photographed last years Georgia Class A state champions Emanual County Institute vs Savannah Contry Day [...]

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In a article on cnet for the new Lightroom 2.0, John Nack revealed some details about the configuration of the new interface that will be in the next version of Photoshop. The best thing I see is that you will even be able to make your own menus in flash!

Adobe is taking a page from [...]

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Adobe also released today a camera profile editor for camera raw. It’s on Adobe labs.
We have been actively working on improving color rendering for digital raw photographs. Our new color rendering package contains the following components:

the DNG 1.2 specification, which expands and formalizes the concept of a color profile for raw (i.e., scene-referred) image [...]

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Adobe released today the new full version of Lightroom, version 2. It has been in beta for a while now and it seems like they have added some more features to it.
The first one I noticed is a graduated filter, will have to play with this one.
Also they added a SDK to build plugins for [...]

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