O.K. so I know that not everyone is a photo geek the way I am, but I love tools that make my work look it’s best and save me time on my workflow.  I’m a complete fan of all of Doug Boutwell’s “Totally Rad actions”.  I own and regularly use all of them.  From the original Totally Rad Photoshop actions to TRA 2- The Revenge and Dirty Pictures-Image Textures, I love them all.  I was so excited when Doug started a TRA Recipes site and featured one of my images.  Here’s the link to my blog post about that http://bit.ly/bxzOLm.  Well he’s done it again and the long awaited Lightroom presets are here!  Once again I am honored to have one of my images chosen for the samples on his site.  Of course I picked up my copy of the presets the moment they were officially announced.  103 of them to be exact, most of them offered in several strengths.  This will totally change how my clients see their online proofs and I’m really excited about it.  I think that Lightroom users all over the world must be doing the happy dance.  Congratulations to Doug for yet another fantastic achievement, that is besides the pilots license.

Here’s a screen shot of my image from the TRA site, a portrait of my friend Ryan looking all dapper.

I was thrilled to get an email from Doug Boutwell, the brains behind  “Totally Rad Actions” regarding the recipe that I used to create one of my images.  I then got a second email from him announcing the trarecipes.com site.  I am so excited that my image made it to the site and that it is the first image on the page.  Go check it out, spread the blog love and vote for my image.  It’s all for fun.  BTW, if you don’t own these photo shop actions yet, than I simply cannot imagine what you’re waiting for.  I can’t live without mine.

Here’s my image which is of “Just Max” in the 9th ward of New Orleans this past October.  The ravages of hurricane Katrina still very apparent.