Business Portraits

Recently I did a business portrait shoot for an accounting firm. As many companies have these days they started a Facebook page for their firm and needed a portrait of each employee to go along with a short bio on each person. Overall we did portraits for 19 employees, it was fun getting the staff to relax and enjoy getting their picture

Horses and Marmots

Went out in the middle of the day today to see about taking some photos of the wild horses. Not the most ideal time of the day to try and take photos of wildlife (if you consider the horses to be wildlife) but then it was more of an exercise of getting out and taking some photos while I had free time and seeing what I could come up with for the conditions. It was super windy out today also and that made it slightly more challenging to keep the camera steady with a larger lens on.

 After checking out the horses for a bit I drove over off East McCarran where there are some fields and there were marmots all over the place so I pulled off along side the road where I saw one near the edge of the field to try and get some images of them. They are real skittish so most the time they just took off for their burrow but I managed to get a few of this guy sticking his head out.

Software And More Software

Adobe released their latest version of Lightroom yesterday and though I don't have any previous versions of it I downloaded the trial version to get a better feel for it. Currently I use a different setup for processing files (view NX2 and Capture NX2) and for the most part it works for me but like any program after awhile you like to see them bring out a new version of the program with new and improved features. With the programs I am currently using they have released the typical updates over time however have not released a new version in around 3 years now.
Both Capture NX2 and Lightroom 4 have features I wish the other had. I think overall Lightroom 4 is a nice program and I like the way it works slightly more than Capture NX2. Just not sure if it is enough to justify the cost when I do have a system I use in place already. The nice thing Adobe did though is the Cost of LR4 is about half the cost of what LR3 was when it was released originally.

The above image is one from last fall that I pulled into LR4 to play around with and get a feel for the program. Still figuring out the best way to do stuff in this program so we will see how I feel after the 30 day trial is up.