For those of you who might be interested, click here to read my thoughts on Adobe Lightroom 4.1 and the new 2012 process version.  Also of interest is a bug when using Lightroom to read files from the Canon 5D Mark III.

I photographed a really cool campus in Manhattan called General Assembly.  Entreprenuers rent space in these large open areas for their small business start ups.  Their are classes and common areas for meetings and hanging out.  You can read the story here.

It’s always fun to do something different.  I had to find an interesting angle, showing the expanse.  The photo ran as a spread across two pages. They wrote a bit about some of the people in the photo with arrows pointing to them.  So I didn’t want anyone to be too small.  I ended up shooting with the Canon 24mm TS-E II, but barely utilizing the movements.  I really like that lens lately.  I used it for a portrait recently which I will post once published.  I was on a ladder and the camera was just out of comfortable reach.  I gently clamped my laptop to the ladder’s top and shot in live view on the computer.  I was able to verify focus and see what the camera was seeing, and fire the camera on my computer- very cool.

For those who are interested in such minutia, check out my thoughts after the link about my recently acquired input devices.  Click here to read more.

Reviewing photographs while tethered in the studio during the Next to Normal shoot. Pictured from left: Aaron Tveit, David Barrineau of Serino Coyne, Jacqueline Bovaird of Glasshouse Assignment (my agent), me, and Jacek Kuzniar

When shooting with strobes I almost always shoot tethered or connected to a computer.  I find it difficult to really judge light on a camera’s LCD.  It’s much easier to make judgements on a calibrated computer monitor than a 3″ camera screen.  That said, it is NOT easy to get a computer and camera to communicate reliably.  To read an extended discussion of my thoughts and methods of tethering click here.