It's Finally Safe to Upgrade to Lightroom 2015 6.3

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In a recent Lightroom update, Adobe decided to make major changes to the import process, in order to appeal to a more consumer level user.  However, the current Lightroom users were outraged with the performance problems, the removal of important features, and the crashing of Apple computers.  Luckily Adobe listened to their customers and created an update called 1015.3 or 6.3 which returned the import process back to normal.  It's now safe to update your Lightroom again.  This update seems to be stable, but only time will tell since it just came out. Check out the list below to see what else is in this update.

New Camera Support

Lightroom will now import files from the following new cameras: Canon EOS M10, Canon PowerShot G5 X, Canon PowerShot G9 X, Fujifilm X-T1 IR, Leica SL (Typ 601), Sony RX1R II (DSC-RX1RM2). Click here for a list of all cameras supported in Lightroom 6 (and other Lightroom versions. The title says Camera Raw, but the righthand column shows Lightroom support.)

New Tethering Support

Lightroom will now allow you to shoot tethered with the following additional cameras: Canon EOS 5DS, Canon EOS 5DS R, Canon EOS T6i / 750D, Canon EOS T6s / 760D. With your camera connected to your computer via USB, you can automatically import photos into Lightroom as you shoot. Click here for a list of all cameras supported for tethered capture.

Bug Fixes

Here is a list of fixed bugs, from Adobe:

Fixed several instability, functionality and performance issues introduced in Lightroom CC 2015.2.x/6.2.x.
Fixed several bugs related to Panorama Merge.

Fixed bugs that:

• caused edits made and saved in Photoshop or 3rd party plug-ins to not appear in the Develop module.
• caused user default for Chromatic Aberration Correction to not be honored after new Import option was removed.
• prevented rotated photos from showing as rotated when in Full Screen view.
• caused a performance slowdown when creating Standard sized previews on high resolution monitors.
• caused image previews to be incorrectly displayed as completely black after import if “Auto Tone” is on in preferences.
• caused crash when using the Radial or Graduated Filter.
• caused Palette, a 3rd party hardware device, to stop working with Lightroom.
• caused the Map module to appear pixelated and photos to be  dropped in the wrong place when using hi-dpi monitors on Windows.
• prevented you from exiting Full Screen view while using the Spot Healing Tool.
• caused the Flickr Publish Service to improperly publish multi-word keywords.

New Lens Profiles

MountName

AppleiPhone 6s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2

AppleiPhone 6s front camera 2.65mm f/2.2

AppleiPhone 6s Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2

AppleiPhone 6s Plus front camera 2.65mm f/2.2

Canon EFCanon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM

Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x

Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +1.4x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +2.0x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM +1.4x

Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM +2.0x

Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM

Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4x

Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM +2.0x

Canon EFCanon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo

Canon EFSIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 1.4/50 ZE

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 1.4/85 ZE

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/35 ZE

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/50M ZE

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/100M ZE

Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2.8/21 ZE

Canon EFZeiss Otus 1.4/28 ZE

Canon EF-MCanon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

DJIZENMUSE X3 HG310 (RAW + JPEG)

DXODxO ONE

Leica MVoigtlander VM 35mm f/1.7 Ultron

Nikon FNikon AF NIKKOR 24-85mm f/2.8-4D IF

Nikon FSIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 1.4/50 ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 1.4/85 ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/35 ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/50M ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/100M ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2.8/21 ZF.2

Nikon FZeiss Otus 1.4/28 ZF.2

PENTAXAsahi PENTAX Super-Takumar 28mm f/3.5 M42

PENTAXAsahi PENTAX Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 M42

PENTAXSIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

SONY ASIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

SONYSony DSC-RX1RM2

SONY FEZeiss Loxia 2.8/21

SIGMASIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015

Make Creative Compostions with this DIY Tilt Shift Lens

On this new web-serie we will focus only on the weird lenses , the old, the crazy ones that you can mount on a mirrorless camera. 

Paris-based photographer, Mathieu Stern is back again with another interesting lens experiment.

This time, he created “bokeh madness” by attaching a Russian Jupiter 9 85mm f/2 lens onto his Sony a7II using a M42-to-E tilt adapter.

The Jupiter lens can be purchased for about $100 to $150 on eBay, and has gotten glowing reviews for its image quality and affordability. The tilt lens adapter costs about $30 on eBay.

This is the second video in Stern’s ongoing Weird Lens Challenge series of videos.

Geoff Tompkinson invented this really cool hyperzooming time lapse effect.

Geoff Tompkinson invented this really cool hyperzooming timelapse effect.

HYPERZOOM COMES OF AGE. The beautiful historic town of Hallstatt is a Unesco World Heritage site in Upper Austria. It is visited by many thousands of tourists each year but perhaps none of them get to see it quite like this. As if on the back of an invisible insect we fly around the sites of this wonderful town in one continuous journey passing through buildings to emerge in different parts of the town, finally ending up on the new viewpoint from Rudolfsturm perched high above the ancient town square. Those of you who know Hallstatt, as well as anyone who watches the video carefully, will appreciate that I have applied a little artistic licence to the geometry of the town in order to seamlessly link the locations. The footage was shot over a two day period but the post production, of course, took considerably longer. SEE MORE HYPERZOOM EXAMPLES http://www.geofftompkinson.com Sound Design: Slava Pogorelsky Website: http://www.slavapogorelsky.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slavapogorelsky

New Software from Topaz: Texture Effects

Topaz Texture Effects

Who says it takes time to create an awe-inspiring image? With the ability to quickly achieve a variety of textured, toned, and lighting effects, the NEW Topaz Texture Effects allows you to do in minutes what could take hours in other editing software. Get More Information Here: http://www.topazlabs.com/textureeffects

Topaz Texture Effects will be on sale through November 20th. It will retail for $69.99, however, you can purchase it for only $49.99 ($20 off) until November 20th by using this coupon code: TEXTUREFX.  

Click here for more information and to purchase. 

Click here to get the free users manual for Topaz Texture Effects

LIVE WEBINAR: 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!

LIVE WEBINAR: 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!

Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 pm.

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Update Your Camera for Daylight Savings Time

Update Your Camera for Daylight Savings Time

Strange Photographer? Why? Interesting? Popular?

A photo posted by RenHang (@renhangrenhang) on Oct 30, 2015 at 12:21am PDT

Learn to Identify Five Owls by Their Calls

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Snowy Owl, Sachuest Point, RI.

Check out this article on how to identify owls by their calls.

Nikon's Small World Competition Winners

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1ST PLACE
2015 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION

Ralph Claus Grimm

Subject Matter:

Eye of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered in dandelion pollen

 (120x)

Technique:

Reflected Light

I think it's so cool that this year's winner is a high school biology teacher and is self-taught in this technique.  I also teach high school biology and have always wanted to try this myself.  It's also interesting that the winner was a fairly common subject and not some obscure cell type.  The photographer also used focus stacking which is becoming very common in macro photography.  Check out all the winner at Nikon's Small World website.

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Here is one of my first attempts at micro-photography using a high school microscope and photographed with my iPhone.  This is a green algae from a local pond.  I believe it's called spirogyra.