New Additions to My Stock Library and Photoshop CS3
The following nature, landscape and wildlife photographs represent the latest additions to my ever-growing and developing library of stock images. The landscape photographs were captured with a Canon 5D with Canon 28-70mm f2.8 L and 70-200mm f4 L lenses. The wildlife images were taken with a Canon 1D Mark II and a Canon 300mm f4 IS L lens. Of course I use professional-grade tripod and ballhead for all of these photographs. Each was shot in RAW mode and then processed and converted with Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a MacBook Pro.
Just yesterday I downloaded the beta version of Photoshop CS3 by way of a mention in the most recent webzine from istockphoto. The download is available at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/. So far it reminds of Apple’s Aperture. I’m still getting to know CS3. One change I’ve already noticed is that Adobe did way with the “ready-made” web portfolios that were available in the earlier version - the ones where the user could create a file where all the thumbnails and pages were automatically generated that could then be placed on a simple FrontPage site using a frame, for lazy people like me who still haven’t gotten around to learning Dreamweaver. Aperture still provides this option.
Now Adobe has teamed-up with a web design and hosting service by pointing photographers to a set of hosting “options” ($$$) with a choice of several templates. Although these sites have that “cool-simplistic-urban-photograher-flash” thing going on (quite unlike my barnyard-variety mish-mash I’ve created with FrontPage), I kind of wish that Adobe still included the previous options, and possibly even offer a few more that would work with WordPress. Kind of like a “make your online gallery,” “choose a template” and then “press it to your blog” thingy-dingy. Oh, well, maybe they will when the full release comes out. Even though I enjoy using Aperture, Adobe still sets the standard with Photoshop.
