Upgraded the system to the new Lightroom 1.4, no changes which is fine with me, as long as we’re stable kids…
And finally got the Kodak Plug in dilemma worked out. Now it’s finally all installed and ready to go, can’t wait for more portraits to be worked on.
I can’t believe that Mac’s 10.5 is still not working stable enough for the Capture one, Epson printer drivers and Eye-One software, i can’t wait to propel my Mac into the year ’08…

What a week this was, had a great meeting to create images for a fashion designer. We actually want to make this a serial mailer and due to budget restrictions we decided to cut out the model, make up, hair department and shoot the outfits on a dress form. Can’t wait to shoot this…I got a call from the principal that night, that she loved my ideas and that i actually should create an Ad agency to do all the work on the project. Funny that there is the other flower client in Connecticut who want me to do the same…just online, we’ll see.
Interestingly enough that’s what happened at the first photographer that i assisted with, a year in we had our own little ad company, doing work for various german Fashion brands, and before you moan, BOSS and the Lagerfeld label was on the client list.

Otherwise we’re busy getting the finals retouched and uploaded for Chestnuts and updating the online system.

Today i met up with my old friend Julian Dufort. We met at Annie’s 10 years ago, he’s doing great now, shooting a lot in the UK and Germany, but published in the US quite frequently. He’s not giving up on film yet, even that he shoot a campaign right now with the P45+. We reconnected last year over an ebay ad, me selling my loved Fuji 690 kit, which he ended up buying. They’re his mainstay bodies and Fuji stopped making them a couple of years ago and i’m happy they found a great home with a friend.

Anyhow, due to Polaroid calling it a day, he now has to switch to Fuji-roid…Am i happy i switched to Canon and keep got so much better at the digital capture and post production early on.

Spend my morning shooting and the afternoon checking out Lightroom 2.0.
Looks great, just as the old one, Clarity got a diffusion direction now, very Hamilton and thus not my cup of tea, the search abilities are much improved but cut into the image area, a little on the negative when only on a laptop.

Otherwise i love that the tools (crop, spotting, etc.) are now neatly on the right side and pop out like the other command items, much clearer and easier to access.
Oh, and i hear there’s now dual monitor support and a dodge and burn tool, very fine with me.

so here we go: on the way to the Hamptons to shoot my friends daughter who just got accepted to Click models NY. Its going to be a fun weekend.
Disney got the Behind the scenes for the upcoming Ariel Ad shot by Annie L. That was a fun and full day at the Universal Studio lot, between Western Town and the tours going by…
And Tasha’s next music production goes into the final remix on Monday. We’ll reviewing artwork next week but we exchanged first impressions on the shoot this week.