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This week we sat down with our friend David from Esquire Photography to discuss different aspects of wedding photography. What we thought was going to be a quick discussion turned into almost 90 minutes of everything from technique, to contracts, to workflow, and much more. Because of the length, I decided to cut it in half and do one half this week and the second part next week. Enjoy!

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Adobe’s Rick Miller, my personal Lightroom Guru, is doing an online seminar this Friday at 1pm PST. These are normally invitation-only events but they have opened it up to all Camera Dojo readers as well. If you want to see some really cool new features in Lightroom 2.0 then you should find a way to attend it. I will certainly be there as I never miss an opportunity to see Rick showing how to do cool things with my favorite tool

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2.0 eSeminar
Friday, May 30, 2008 1 PM PST

To View the Online Session, visit:
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a500201843/lightroomrickmiller

To Access the Audio Portion dial into: 1-866-705-2554 User ID: 797570

In this video tutorial we take a look at doing white balance correction during post production with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This lesson applies to both Lightroom 1.x and Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.

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It’s the height of the wedding season now and people that are shooting their first weddings or considering shooting a wedding should know a few tips to make sure the day goes as smooth as possible. Since weddings are our primary income at L7 Studios we figured we would pass along a number of our favorite tips and tricks.

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Our good friends over at DIYPhotography.net have launched a new photo contest called At My Home. Not only do we think this is a great idea for a photo contest but yours truly here is one of the judges! From the DIYPhotography site: “

At My Home contest is about the most important place in your life: home. The emotions of home: the distinctive rituals, the intimate moments, and all the myriad ways in which you work, play, learn, conduct your life, and interact with friends, family members (and pets!) as you transform your dwelling into your home.”

Please head over and check out the rules and information at:
http://www.diyphotography.net/at-my-home-photo-contest

Adobe has rolled out some cool new features into the online Photoshop Express product. Here are a few of the key items:

Flickr integration
Photoshop Express is now officially hooked up with Flickr. Now you can pull photos from Flickr into Photoshop Express, amp them up, then upload them back into Flickr to show them off to your vast and adoring fan base.

Embeddable player
Take your photo slideshows to the wider webified world with the embeddable player, which lets you post your slideshows to Facebook, MySpace, and other sites where your audience awaits.

Save as
Go version crazy with the new Save As feature. With Save As, you can keep the original shot of your best friend alongside all the ones where you gave him a tragically oversized head. (Your work is genius—why not save it all for posterity?)

Source: Photoshop Express

CameraPorn.net is a gret photography blog in it’s own right and they just put up a list of 60 photography sites that you should most certainly have bookmarked. Included at #8 is (our former name) L7Foto.com. Thanks guys for giving us a shout-out and keep up the great work on your own site.

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L7Foto.com has been growing by leaps and bounds but the problem is that when you tell someone L7Foto.com they remember L7Photo.com which belongs to someone else. To make it easier to find and tell people the URL we have changed the name to CameraDojo.com. This new name is reflective of our style of providing news, information, tutorials, and tips in a central location. We have lots of new things planned for CameraDojo.com so stay tuned and thanks for coming!

Today we are going to take a look at the new Adobe Photoshop Express. Express is a free web-based photo editor from Adobe that allows you to upload images and do basic photo correction. While it doesn’t have the full features of Photoshop or even Photoshop Elements, it may well be the perfect tool for many home users who want to make basic corrections, share images in a gallery, and email family and friends their images. The service is free from Adobe and currently allows up to 2gb of disk space. To check it out, go to http://www.photoshop.com/express.

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In this tutorial we take a look at using both Lightroom 1.4 and Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta to compare how to create vignettes in both versions. This will show you the new post-crop vignette tool in Lightroom 2.0 and demonstrate how it is different than the Lens Correction Vignette in Lightroom 1.4. All new videos are available on iTunes and you can subscribe to the feed to make sure you get all of our podcasts and tutorials.

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