Raleigh wedding Photographer back from X-Mass vacation

Hey everyone,
The folks that bring you www.f8photostudios.com and www.jkazphotography.com are back in action after a well rested vacation over Christmas.

Looking for your Raleigh Wedding Photographer this weekend Jan 2nd-3rd. Attend the Forever Bridal wedding show and mention that you saw the keyword "f8" on our fan page to receive $150 off our photobooth rental for 2010. learn more by logging on to www.f8photostudios.com

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Lightroom 3 beta... About time!!

Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta

Posted on Thursday Oct 22, 2009 12:00 PM by Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta, PC World

Adobe has released an early public beta for its Photoshop Lightroom 3 in order to solicit "concise, constructive criticism" from its users. Lightroom is a workflow program in which you can sort, organize, develop, and publish your photos, or hand them off toPhotoshop for finishing. With version 3, Adobe has improved the image quality of RAW processing and streamlined some workflow situations.

Importing into Lightroom offers more transparency so that finding and defining your source and destination is easier. For instance, the import interface reveals all attached drives but grays out all previously imported files to avoid duplication. Once you have defined your import naming convention, the type of import, the file handling, the metadata, and other options, you can save an import preset (or several different presets) to use in the future, with just a couple of clicks. To take advantage of the presets, the program offers you a compact view of import that implements your presets but also gives you control over editing metadata, keywords, and the type of import.

On first glance, the most obvious change in the Develop module is that it gives you access to all collections and recent folders, so you don't have to switch to the Library module. Under the hood, however, the biggest news for Develop lies in the updates to how it processes RAW files. Specifically, Adobe has rewritten the demosaicing, sharpening, noise reduction, and vignetting algorithms, and the program now allows you to add film-like grain to your pictures. Adobe claims that the new algorithms will produce much better image quality. For instance, the company says that the revised sharpening algorithm holds detail better, delivers finer gradations and tonality retention, and improves color saturation retention in highlights. And for image files that you previously processed in Lightroom 2.5, Lightroom 3.0 introduces versioning; you can choose to apply the new algorithms or use your old edits.

For this public beta of Lightroom, Adobe has turned off luminance noise reduction, because the company is more interested in feedback on the new color noise reduction.

The Slideshow module has simplified how it uses music. You can easily select your music file from any attached drive. Lightroom will automatically calculate the appropriate duration of each slide to have the show sync with the length of the loaded audio file; then, if you wish, you can customize your fade times. Lightroom now supports MP4 export of slideshows, as well.

Print options include a new Custom Package, which allows you to create a page with different background colors and place photos on it; you can use cells of specific sizes that are customizable, or just drag a photo from the filmstrip. You can make the cells overlap or abut one another, or arrange them as you wish. You can also fine-tune the placement of your identity plate by moving it pixel by pixel with the arrow keys.

Lightroom 3.0 hasn't made many changes to its Web module, but the software does now allow you to add watermarks. You can save several watermarks (such as a logo, copyright, or name), which you can then add to your Web pages or edit right there, when you need to use them.

For this public beta, Lightroom is offering the ability to publish to Flickr and manage published images, as an example of how it will work with other online services (depending on third-party plug-in development). Using the Lightroom Publishing Manager, you can keep track of what images have been uploaded; it will also tell you which ones have been modified since they were uploaded, so you can republish them.

This beta of Lightroom 3.0 looks appealing, but it will take time (and lots of testing) before we'll know how compelling an upgrade this version will be.

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Day One~New Mexico Land Rover Road Trip

Hi there All! Most of you probably don't know this simply because the planning of this happened so fast, but Jonathan and I were asked by "Land Rover Lifestyles Magazine" to deliver a beefed up LR3 out West and to do something really cool photographically along the way. So we have been taking pics of the truck in as many funky spots as possible. It has truly made for some really creative shots.

Day One started with a little bit of a late start as we were wanting to leave at 6am, but got on I-40 about 8:30 instead. We definitely made up the time though in the fact that we drove like maniacs to get as many miles as possible between us and Raleigh, NC. We had the prospect of cool photo ops and fly fishing opportunities to drive us!! No pun intended! We drove through North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, and finally ended up right outside of Kansas City, Missouri where we stayed in the most bare boned hotel room that I had ever stayed in in my life! But it was cheap and it was a place to lay our heads after 16.5 hours of driving!!

Thanks for reading and stay tuned as the trip is abound to get interesting. :)
Cara and Jonathan

The Silver Beast!

This drive should be sponsered by 5 hour energy'nn

Horses and early morning coffee.

Sophia and stopped with our coffee and sweet tea this morning to feed
some horses, it was all giggles and smiles for my little girl.

And for me, it was a refreshing break from the normal morning.

f8 Photo Studios travel blog... start it off with a 2200 mile journey!

Hey there,
Cara and I travel so much we have decided to start collecting images from our travels and blog about it to show our watchers what we do, not only our spare time, but in our everyday accounts on some of our photography jobs.

This blog is meant to be informal and somewhat stimulating as we will be providing images the whole way through.

Recently we had the pleasure of getting a phone call from my old friend Gustaf Kupetz offering me a fun little proposition.

"I have a corporate LR3 Land Rover with everything you can imagine on it, how would you like to drive it from Raleigh to New Mexico?"
"I need it delivered for Land Rover Lifestyle Magazine" Well I said, I am a photographer and I do like Rovers, How many images should I cap it off at?

For those of you who know me, I have a fascination with the green oval known as Land Rovers and after having owned 4 of them in the last several years, I thought why not!

Our goal of this goes something like this: Go as fast as you can as legally as you can until we hit Colorado, camp and Flyfish for 2 days and spend our last day in a hotel after dropping the truck.

We will be posting images from random spots so please be patient.
Stay tuned, It will be fun.

-team f8