Friday, November 21, 2008

Mercedes Benz C180 Revived!

Hi All,

Was going through my library of images and came across some of these old images i took with a friends camera. Took these just before i got my own camera and was borrowing a friends every now and then. It was a Canon 1D, the first of the series it had a 16-35 f2.8L on it. Quite a heavy thing to lug around but was very durable, i dont think you could actually break that thing it was that strong.
I got used to the layout of the buttons and was one of the main reason i went with the Canon 40D in the end, i think if i hadnt used that camera for a while i could have gone Nikon in the end and maybe got a D200 or D80....not that that is a bad thing or course.
Played around with the images in Lightroom 2.0 made some adjustments to it to make them seem a little more moody.
The pics were taken in the underground carpark of the old building i used to work in, i thought it was a pretty cool place to have taken the pictures.....the merc just blends in.
The car belongs to a friend from work, its a Mercedes Benz C180 not the best merc around but in the end it is a merc after all i suppose.





Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Lightroom 2

Hi All,

I recently started using Lightroom 2, in my opinion after using Aperture which is possibly the closest program to Lightroom.....lightroom comes through just that little bit better. You have a great interface that looks very slick and inviting. Im hooked as you might tell, the other cool thing is there are plenty of free presets available out there from cool B&W settings to crazy adjustments to make it look like it came out of the movie 300.

I highly recommend giving it ago to see what you think, you can organise all your pictures and make general adjustments in the same program. You can also set lightroom to open images you want to do more intense editing in photoshop.

Check it out:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/?promoid=DJGSN_P_US_FP2_LR_MN&tt=P_US_FP2_LR_MN

Here are a couple of old and new pics that i revived with some of the presets in lightroom 2: