Adobe initially launched the Photoshop Photography Program in September to support the needs and workflow of photographers who use CS3 or later. Now, for a limited time, Adobe it is extending this offer to all photographers for $9.99/month as an annual subscription – valid from Nov. 20 (9:00 a.m. PST) through Dec. 2, 2013 (11:59 p.m. PST) on Adobe.com.

The Program offers access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 (plus respective feature updates and upgrades as they are available), 20GB of cloud storage and Behance ProSite, all via Adobe Creative Cloud all for $9.99/month as an annual subscription.

Upon the expiration of this limited offer, the Photoshop Photography Program will continue to be available for $9.99/month to those photography customers who own a previous version of Photoshop Photoshop Extended, or Creative Suite, version CS3 or later (CS3.x, CS4, CS5.x, or CS6). This offer expires Dec. 31, 2013. For more information on the Photoshop Photography Program, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html#pslr-bundle.

Considering the cost of the programs and the upgrades, this is a pretty amazing deal.

The bain of every photographer using speedlights is the rather ugly, harsh light blasting out of the end of them.

It needs to be tamed, shaped, many times softened so that your subjects are treated with respect, and beautiful, flattering light.

It’s a quest we’ve all been on.

Last week I shot an assignment for 3 days using the new Rogue Softbox for speedlights, the small guy.

This has now become my standard, on-camera lighting, diffusion, and here is why:

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You know, when one of our compadres make a  good video, you have share.

Up in Calgary,Canada, there’s snow on the ground but that doesn’t stop Chris Nicholls from walking around and showing of the mew Nikon Df

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Maybe it was the proliferation of speedlight modifiers.

Maybe it was the entire wireless control feature of our lives and electronics becoming ubiquitous.

Or maybe it was just that photographers needed a high quality, battery powered, lighting system that had TTL and no wires?

Heck Speedlight king like Joe McNally has been living life like this for years. hmmmm… I wonder if he’ll switch!

Enough blathering, here are the deets:

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it’s been teased, it’s been rumored. And earlier today, it may have leaked out a bit.

Multiple commercials have spoke to the heritage and classic lines of Nikon.

Today, they have introduced the Nikon DF – looks like the classic F but has the guts and sensor of the D4.

Now the D4 is a supreme piece of photographic machinery. To have a cool design, with the essential power of the D4, at half the price, it’s a no brainer for Nikon owners.

Now they didn’t go for video on this one. Lot’s of photographers feel that they are paying for capabilities they don’t use, perhaps, never will.

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