Lightroom 4 Public Beta

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Public Beta released!

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Adobe just released a Beta version of the upcoming “Lightroom 4″ photo management software. It introduces major improvements in the Develop Module and also a bunch of new features like the Book Module and the Map Module. The support for video has also been improved a lot and you are now able to send Emails directly from within Lightroom 4 to your friends and clients!

Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski over at the NAPP recorded a series of videos about the new features in the “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Launch Center”. Terry White from Adobe published this 35-minute video explaining the key features:

According to the “Adobe Labs” website the New Features are:

  • Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
  • Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
  • Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
  • White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
  • Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
  • Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
  • Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
  • Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
  • Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

You can download the Lightroom 4 Public Beta for free at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/.

It does NOT affect an existing Lightroom installation!

Audi @ Autostadt

Video: The Yosemite 2012 Photowalk

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Above you see another of my HDR photos I’ve shot recently at the Volkswagen “Autostadt” in Wolfsburg, Germany. I like the sky and also the details you can see inside the building.

Here is an interesting video by the “Scobleizer”, Robert Scoble, about a photowalk in the Yosemite National Park with Trey Ratcliff:

Happy Rizzi House

James Rizzi has died

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Pop artist James Rizzi has died at the age of 61 on Monday, the night after Christmas, in his studio in New York.  The cause of his death was not announced. On his website you can read:

“His sudden and unexpected death comes as a shock to family, friends, and collectors alike. [...] In James Rizzi the art world loses one of the last great pop artists, and we lose a good friend and a wonderful human being.”

James Rizzi has a strong connection to Braunschweig: the “Happy Rizzi House” was built here and opened in 2001. His last visit to the city was in late 2008.

B.B. King at Autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany

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Last week, the American blues-legend B.B. King performed at the “Kraftwerk” at Autostadt Wolfsburg in Germany. Before driving to the venue, he signed autographs for his fans in front of his hotel. I took the shot above during this time.

Short film “Das Hotel”

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In the last two weeks me and three friends participated in a seminar to learn video production and cutting at our university. During this seminar
we made a short film called “Das Hotel” to practice. You can watch it right here:

Happy Easter to everyone!

A goshawk in the backyard

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Recently, this goshawk rested in my backyard eating some kind of prey animal. I immediately grabbed my camera and so I was able to take this shot. Sometimes you just have to look outside the window to shoot something exciting.