Our friend Adam Block from the University of Arizona astronomy department emailed us yesterday to let us know that his three day workshop “Making Every Pixel Count” will be kicking off at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in late August. For those of you who don’t know Adam, he is recognized as one of the top astro-imagers and an expert in image processing techniques. Needless to say, the LightBuckets team (me and Alvin) immediately grabbed the first two seats.

Adam’s workshop can accomm...
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LightBuckets announced today that they are open for imaging! As a photographer, if you have an interest in imaging what's in the night sky, this is the way to do it and create some absolutely stunning results. Also, if you enjoy image processing to bring out the faintest details and ultimate eye-popping images, you should give LightBuckets a try.

LightBuckets offers an unmatched line up of world-class, large-aperture telescopes located in both the northern and southern hemispher...
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We've already seen it previewed and unboxed, but now that Nikon's super high-end D3 DSLR has been out for a little while, we're starting to get some full-on reviews of the camera and, as you might have guessed if you've been lucky enough to get your hands on one, there's plenty of consensus going on. Indeed, the praise being heaped on the camera is among the loftiest we've seen, with Photography Blog calling it "pretty much peerless," Think Camera declaring that "the files coming out of the Nikon D3 look better than any camera we've seen to date," and Ken Rockwell flat out calling it "the best camera ever made by Nikon." Needless to say, the upsides to the camera are a little long to list here, but it particularly fares well when it comes to rapid-fire image capture and low light photography, which makes it especially well-suited to press photographers. The biggest single complaint the reviewers could find was a lack of any built-in sensor cleaning technology
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