Lightroom 4.1 and Camera RAW 7.1 Update

Adobe has just released the final versions of Lightroom 4.1 and Camera RAW 7.1 today. Lightroom 4.1 is ready for download and it finally reads the Fuji X-Pro 1 RAW files! Plus a bunch more improvements.

New Camera Support in Lightroom 4.1

• Canon EOS 1D X
• Canon EOS 5D Mark III
• Canon EOS 60Da
• Canon PowerShot G1 X
• Fuji FinePix F505EXR
• Fuji FinePix F605EXR
• Fuji FinePix F770EXR
• Fuji FinePix F775EXR
• Fuji FinePix HS30EXR
• Fuji FinePix HS33EXR
• Fuji X-Pro1
• Leaf Credo 80
• Leica M Monochrom
• Leica X2
• Nikon D4
• Nikon D800
• Nikon D800E
• Olympus OM-D E-M5
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5
• Pentax K-01
• RICOH LENS A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5
• Samsung NX20
• Samsung NX210
• Samsung NX1000
• Sony Alpha NEX-F3
• Sony Alpha NEX-VG20
• Sony Alpha SLT-A37
• Sony Alpha SLT-A57

Here are the download links:-

Lightroom 4.1 update – Windows – Mac

ACR 7.1 update – Windows – Mac

 

"Photography With Impact 2" Seminar

A “Photography With Impact 2” seminar was hosted by Digital Synergy Academy of Photography last Sunday (27th-May-2012) which was held at the Oil and Gas Discovery Centre in Seria. Featured speakers Gerry Fox and Jason Ong  gave a talk on “Photojournalistic portraits & Photojournalism and Event Photography”. Gerry Fox did a live demo on environment portraits utilising available light and/or artificial light.

Present was the Deputy Managing Director Of Brunei Shell Petroleum, Haji Salleh Bostaman Bin Haji Zainal Abidin.

Haji Salleh Bostaman Bin Haji Zainal Abidin & Gerry Fox during the live demo and hands on.

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Rock Concert Photography

Earlier this year, in February, I shot an assignment for the band “CanDoLah”. CanDoLah is located in Seria, Brunei Darussalam, and has been founded in 2008. I like getting into concert photography as it is the challenge to take good shots and capture the emotion that motivates me. Stage lighting can be tricky, so you have to get your exposure right or you’ll wind up with beautifully composed, crap shots.

During the assignment, I decided to use the Canon Speedlite 550EX Flash in E-TTL mode and mounting it to a PhotoFlex LS-B2320Y light stand which I bought from B&H Photo. The 550EX Flash is set to ‘Slave’ mode and triggered by another flash Canon Speedlite 580EX II on camera in ‘Master’ mode.

Taken during rehearsal, with and without off camera Flash.

Only ambient light, NO Flash.

Ambiet light + Off Camera Flash.

When you have a band only playing 4 songs to capture the emotion of the concert, every single one of them has to count. There is no room for error.

Another photo on the Lighting Setup. That stage is about 5 feet high.

Work with the stage lights – move around and use them to rim light, sidelight or silhouette your subject. If there’s a background light flaring into your lens, see if you can make the flare work for you.

Drummers are particularly tricky to get clean shots of, as they are surrounded by all kinds of ‘hardware’ and are usually also far back on the stage.

Another sample with & Without off-camera-flash.