Adobe announced today that they will discontinue their Adobe Stock Photo Service to “concentrate” on their core business.

Casio will sell in March a photography camera that will shoot 60 frames per second in burst mode and in video mode, it will shoot up to 1200 frames per second. Of course, at 1200 frames per second, the resolution will be small, a measly 336 pixels by 96 pixels. None-the-less, that would give you some awesome slow motion effects, but the screen size would be tiny.

Adobe.com today released Adobe Lightroom 1.3.1, which addresses many issues with Mac OS X Leopard including:

The Adobe Lighroom Journal is reporting that Adobe Lightroom will be updated to version 1.3.1 within the next week.

Adobe released today version 1.2 of Adobe Photoshop Lighroom, their incredible Photography post-production application.

What a great update to one of my most favorite applications that Adobe (and for that matter, any software maker) makes. Adobe Lightroom has been upgraded to version 1.1 and for a .1 upgrade, there is plenty of “new toys” to play around with, along with some great improvements overall.

First of all, if you are upgrading to 1.1 from 1.0, the upgrade path is very easy. Just download the file from Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/) and double click the install file. On the Mac and PC, the old files are replaced with the new one (on the PC, it installs a new “Adobe Lightroom 1.1″ directory and then deletes the old “Adobe Lightroom” directory.

After installing it, just run Lightroom as usual. Your library (.lrdb file) from your previous version will be converted to the new “catalog” (.lrcat) format. You will be prompted (see image below) to make a backup of your .lrdb file.

What a fantastic conference! The Adobe CS3 conference was a two day (June 19 and June 20) networking, product immersion and just plain old fun “experience” for only $199; can’t beat that!

That price not only included a bunch of classes and networking opportunities, but also a fantastic dinner on the first day (I mean shrimp, prime rib, Chinese food and even an open hosted bar).

There were plenty of networking opportunities as well, including the lunches and dinners, the get-togethers after the days ended and a bird-of-a-feather meeting.

Pre-conference Sessions
The conference started with a “Pre-Conference Session”. There were 5 sessions to choose from, including Rich Internet Application for Developers, Video, Management/IT, Photographers and Print Service Providers.

Ok, so I found one big “gotcha” in Adobe Lightroom tonight while I was fixing my photographs.

Here is the deal. I imported all of my 400 photographs into Lightroom, created some collections and separated them by collections (audience, comedians and bands). That all worked great.

After that, I went through each collection and flagged my “pick” photographs (using the P shortcut) and that went well.

I then filtered my grid view in the library by “Pick” photographs only.

Everything cool up until this point. So now, I’m working on a photograph and decide to make virtual copies of it so that I can test out different effects. However, every time I made a virtual copy of it, it was not there. I kept making virtual copies and they never showed up.

I researched everywhere why there are not showing up and everything pointing to them having to be there, but they were not.

So after bitching at my wife telling her how messed up of Lightroom it is to have a big bug light this, the light inside my own lighroom (my brain) went off.

Ok, so I had my first official photography “concert” gig. It wasn’t the Stones or Madonna, but it was still pretty cool. Mampalooza was put together to raise money for the Motherhood Foundation. There were 3 comedians and 5 bands performing (thought I had to bail when the 4th band was done since we had another party to go to).

Apple today released a point update to Aperture. Version 1.5.3 fixes issues with the following:

1) Generation of thumbnails for adjusted images.
2) Entering and exiting Full Screen mode.
3) Working with large sets of keywords in the Keywords HUD.
4) Restoring from a vault.

Other issues that were fixed:

Ok, so I just ordered (about 4 days ago) my new lense for my Canon 30D. It’s the Tamron 28-300MM lense. Since I can’t afford for now a really fast lense, I had to settle for a slower (this one is F3.5 at the wide angle and F6.3 at the telephoto side.).

However, after attending a few Tamron seminars and looking at the images on their website I decided that for the money ($378 out the door since I’m a student at a local photography school) it is a bargain and offers great quality.

There are a couple of reasons I decided to go for the Tamron lense:

#1 - The focul length it offers (from 28 to 300MM). This is a pretty wide range which will allows me to shoot both wide angle shots and really nice close ups when I’m shooting either a concert and/or air show.