Adobe Lightroom 4

I was really stoked after collecting my package at the distributor in Sunway Damansara.

This might be old news, but it's been a month since I bought myself Adobe Lightroom 4. I've been testing out the beta version for a while and once the full version was released I couldn't believe how affordable it was. I got it for RM 505 through The Network Hub Sdn Bhd, who is one of Adobe's Gold Distributor as listed on Adobe's website.

What I like about Adobe Lightroom 4.
Although you can be content if you still have Lightroom 3 at hand, having Lightroom 4 does give you some edge in processing your images.

1. Better shadows & highlights rescue than LR3. I shoot a lot of high key portraits on a white cyc. It's easier to clean-up the highlights in LR4.
2. More options on the adjustment tools (gradient and brush tool). More control on highlights, colour, saturation, clarity and almost all of the basic editing variables are also available on the adjustment tools to be tweaked, hence more control.
3. Superb noise reduction. I shot an ISO 2500 image and it did wonders in cleaning up the noise.
4. More stable tethering than LR3.

If you're interested to learn more about Adobe Lightroom 4, why don't you attend "The Ultimate Lightroom Workflow" , a 3-day workshop by Jared Platt all the way, LIVE from Seattle via the internet, from 14-JUN till 16-JUN. It's FREE!

More info at:
http://www.creativelive.com/courses/ultimate-lightroom-4-workflow-jared-platt

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Been Super Busy

Hi All,

I've been super busy that I haven't been updating my blog for ages! I'm sorry for that. Lately my weekends have been filled by watching the CreativeLIVE workshop all the way from Seattle. I'm not done watching them because there's still a lot more workshops to come.

Recently the workshops that touched my soul were Sue Bryce's Glamour Photography Workshop, Sandy Puc's Baby Photography Workshop and Zach & Jody Wedding Photography Workshop. What touched me the most is how they shared their worst experiences in the business of photography and how they recovered. 8-hours each day for 3-days workshop really put me into an overdrive mode. There's a lot of things to be done, and I feel like 24-hrs in a day is just not enough.

Generally, on Sunday, I plan out my schedule for the rest of the week, and since the new year, I've not come across a day in a week that is not filled up with things to do! What frustrates me is that there were fantastic work that I've done during the past year and I haven't even shared them with my readers.

Amongst things that are due are:

1. Hosting a food photography workshop for 2012
2. Re-painting the studio
3. Pitch for new clients in the industrial sector
4. Upgrade my website
5. Update my portfolio

Anyhow, the image above is a screen capture of the environment in the CreativeLIVE venue, which most likely is in Chase Jarvis' studio in Seattle, Washington. I love the space, and the reason I put this image up is that I would like to have a space like this some day. Currently our studio ceiling space is not as high as in the photo. Even more, we do not have natural light coming in the studio. However, I do intend to make our studio at FOTOMOMO as multipurpose as possible.

With that note, Thank You!