Ok, I know I have been slacking with the photo updates for a while but one of the reasons was that I did not have the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop. I had a copy that was over 6 years old and was not the greatest at editing the latest digital photography. Hey, I shoot video for a living so still photography has always taken the back burner for a long time.
This weekend I found a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 with the training video, for sale on Craigslist that was brand new in the box for only… $189.00 Yes, $189.00. That saved me a lot of coin since Adobe CS4 is about $700 and I can upgrade for only $199. So I saved over $200 if I do upgrade to Adobe CS4. But, I will hold off on that for a while since it’s going to take me some time to learn this new software but I have been playing around with the new software and all I can say is WOW.
CS3 is a very powerful tool that I should have upgraded to a long time ago but never could justify the expense since I don’t sell a lot of still photography. Tonight I tested it out while reviewing the rest of the flooding stills from March, and again, WOW. The options that I’m now able to do with the RAW image files is insane. Oh and don’t get me started with the new photomerge options and features.
Here is an image that is really several images merged together.

The grass area on each side is the side of the road on my left and on my right and that’s a whole field in front of me from as far as the eye can see that is flooded.
I have uploaded most of the images now to the gallery
This week I have a ton of website stuff to do for BNVN but once that is done, I’m going to be using my down time between chasing this spring to get this site up to date.