I just finished my last evening of a series of non-credit photography classes yesterday. Overall I found it to be fun. In the 2nd class I don’t think I learned quite as much as I’d like to simply because it was a critique class and as these typically go…critique is often not quite as direct and harsh as is helpful. You know, sometimes you want people to look at your photo and say, “You know Raph, that photo really sucks because you didn’t put the flash in the right spot”<\/p>\n
Instead, what you typically hear is “I like it”\u00a0 I find this true whenever I try to get my students to critique each other when I teach as well. It’s a challenge encouraging people to both speak up AND do it in a manner that offers objective criticism to one another.<\/p>\n
I digress. The reason I mention my Photography class was that I heard the news from our instructor that Lightroom has a new public beta out for version 3<\/a>.\u00a0 Long-time readers of mine may have heard me tout this program more than once in the past. Hey, I’m an Adobe fanboy what can I say?<\/p>\n You can download<\/a> the beta version for free. Or you can just wait and watch some of the videos <\/a>they have previewing some of the things you can do in this program. The vids are a little bit on the snore-fest side…but if you’re in any way interested in photography I think there’s enough there to tease you into conformity.<\/p>\n Note to Adobe though…I’m not a big fan of having to upgrade software every year. I liked it better when Adobe would historically release a major overhaul to their programs once every other year or so. I think 2 years between versions is good simply because I don’t want to spend so much on software and it allows the developers to really bake on revolutionary changes rather than just staggered upgrades.<\/p>\n \/getting off my soapbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just finished my last evening of a series of non-credit photography classes yesterday. Overall I found it to be fun. In the 2nd class I don’t think I learned quite as much as I’d like to simply because it was a critique class and as these typically go…critique is often not quite as direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-news","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}