Congratulations Nathan and Rebecca!

Nathan and Rebecca were married this past Saturday at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Here are a few highlights from their big day:

ICSEA Summer Social 2008

Last night we had our annual ICS Employee Association Summer Social. This year featured a delicious Luau dinner followed by entertainment by some wonderful dancers (including some of our own employees!) as well as a prize drawing.

Below you'll find a selection of highlights of the evening, more images are available here.










(this was one of the dancers, I couldn't resist taking her picture, she had such gorgeous eyes!)

Tum Tum Portraits

Brandy's new kitty, Tum Tum, is probably my least cooperative subject to date! lol I did manage to fire off a couple of shots before she totally ran out of the picture.

Happy 2nd Anniversary Mike and Jessica

It's kind of fun to look back at older pictures... to remember who much fun a particular couple was (and I had a LOT of fun with Mike and Jessica) as well as to look back at my old pictures and realize how much I have changed.

Mike and Jessica: Here's wishing the two of you a very happy anniversary, and may this next year be even better than the last!

Lightroom 2.0 Test Image

Tonight I had my first chance at playing with Adobe Lightrom 2.0. My main goal was to find out what was new in 2.0 and just "play around". I'm wasn't looking for the perfect image to start with, nor the perfect outcome to end with.

Rich Legg had just posted an image where he had asked a few friends to volunteer some editing efforts just to show different editing styles/visions on a single image. Click here to view his article and the other versions of the image. I decided to use that image to show a "before and after" using Lightroom 2.0.

Here is the before image using ACR defaults (click to view larger):


And here is the image after editing using Lightroom 2.0:


The Lightroom version of the image includes Local Adjustments for the sky and the rock, as well as original Lightroom 1.0 adjustments on specific colors within the image (you can, for example, pick yellow or orange and darken only that color without adjusting anything else).

So with only a small amount of effort, I have produced a "brilliant image", deepening the blues and yellows in the sky, while lightening the model and darkening the rock. All of which are non-destructive edits - my raw file is completely intact and all of my edits can be reversed. Other changes include straightening the horizon and vignetting the image.

Adobe Lightroom can be purchased (or a 30-day trial version downloaded) from here.

A surprising long and detailed list of new features for Lightroom 2.0 can be found on the Lightroom Journal.

Camera Raw 4.5 was released as well.

And new ACR Profiles can be downloaded as well.

Lightroom 2.0 Released!

Wow, I didn't expect Adobe Lightroom 2.0 to be released for another month or two. I'm so happy it's here. I shoot in raw and use Lightroom to process pretty much every picture I take.

If you haven't tried it yet, be sure to check out the 30-day free trial here: Adobe Lightrom 2.0

Top new features

* Local adjustment brush
* Enhanced organizational tools
* Volume management
* Extensible architecture
* Multiple monitor support
* Flexible print package functionality
* Streamlined Photoshop CS3 integration
* Enhanced output sharpening
* 64-bit support for Windows® and Mac OS

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