LR Preset: William Petruzzo Pack

Today I bring you a free Collection Pack from photographer William Petruzzo from Petruzzo Photography.

How many times you wonder, on your Adobe Lightoom photos, how an increment in Exposure or Fill Light would look like without having to move the slider up and down every time?

And how about the Blacks and Noise Reduction? Wouldn't it be good to have some presets that could help you visualize that, on the preview window, without having to move the sliders all the time?

Well maybe you have already thought about that but were too lazy to create them in Adobe Lightroom... well wait no more as William Petruzzo makes you life much easier on this subject.

Just take a look at this awesome pack I got for you today...

With this presets you can find some very useful tools, the Pack is a 3 folder content and you will find, on the first folder, a Common Basic Adjustments presets for the Blacks, Exposure, Fill Light, Noise Reduction and Recovery in increments. This could be a lot of help for those quick fine tunings you need on your images.

Next one is an HDR Effect from a Very Light state to a more Heavy and contrasty look.

And the 3rd folder gives a Split Tone look with 3 different effects.

A BIG thanks to William Petruzzo for sharing this with us, also say thanks by paying a visit to his webpage.

2nd Strobist WS in Luxembourg - Registrations Opened

I would like to let everyone knows that due to the heavy demand for a new workshop I decided to pull another, out in Luxembourg, to talk about some of the techniques and gear for Strobist flash photography.

It will take place on the 5th/6th March 2011 at Espace H2O in Rue Rattem - ‪Differdange‬.

This will be a full day with lot's of information about the gear you can use with also a couple of great models.

In the morning you can count with a more in-depth review of the gear and in the afternoon some setups would be build so participants can practice different lighting situations.

I also have included Lunch, coffee, soft drinks and some snacks so you won't miss anything.


--- Update 2011-03-03 ---

Day 5 - Saturday SOLD OUT
Day 6 - Sunday SOLD OUT

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Use the links for download the Subscription PDF files and complete Program as well as information on how to register. For more information you can contact me directly.

Hope to see you there.

Take a look at what happened last time.

Luxembourg 1st Strobist Workshop - 8 Jan. 2011

And a BTS video.

LR Preset: Sara-Ji Collection Pack

As many of you been aware, Adobe Lightroom as became a very powerful tool for the photographer if not one you cannot live without it, at least this is my case.

Although I still go to Photoshop for some fine and precise tuning of the images a lot of my base work is done in Lightroom. When you need a fast editing RAW system I rely more and more on tools that make my life easier and would put on the field faster to capture more images instead of siting down at the computer for long periods of time.

Well enough of this... let me tell that today I will bring you an excellent pack of presets for Adobe Lightroom created by photographer Sarah-Li from Chicago and I hope you enjoy them.

Sarah-Ji NE Presets

Sarah-Ji Night Owl

Sarah-Ji Autumn

Sarah-Ji LE

Sarah-Ji Vol.1

Sarah-Ji THANK YOU for sharing this brilliant presets with us.

The Sounds of Hard Drive Failures

Nowadays that hard drives are getting bigger and bigger and more of our photos and information becomes vulnerable to hard drive failures it's important to know what are the symptoms of the hard drive when it start to show signs of heavy use.

Datacent - Professional Hard Drive and Flash Data Recovery Services created a very interesting list of sounds they hear in their data centers of failing drives.

From Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi/IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Quantum you can hear the sounds of the hard drives with bad heads, degraded media, stuck spindle and failing heads.

This is a MUST listen database so you know when you're hard drive is starting to fail. If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - BACKUP immediately.

Here is the link to the sound files.

Understanding Shutter/Flash Synchronization

Just when you thought you know everything about Shutter and Flash Synchronizations Paul Duncan gets out this magnificent video explaining how this all process work.

From Shutter curtains to Flash synchronization, all with great detail and in a 9 minute video.



Also take a moment to visit Paul Duncan blog with also lot's of good photographic information.

Do You Think Your Gear is Safe When Travelling??... Think Again!!

How many times you have traveled with your bags full of locks and locker systems.

Well let me tell you that with all that security measures your stuff is not really safe inside even with all those sliders locked up.

This video shows how easy it is to break into a zippered bag without leaving any kind trace tampering.
This is why you should try and keep your gear in sight at all times and no matter what.



Have a safe trip...