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Mark Sirota

Biography

Mark Sirota is a hobbyist photographer living in greater Philadelphia who finds that the majority of his favorite shots are of his young kids and their friends. He maintains a public gallery of his favorites on Flickr.

Mark has a background in software engineering and system adminstration, and works in his day job at the University of Pennsylvania, providing next-generation network services to a community of 40,000 people.

This background served him well during the initial public beta of Lightroom, when he was named one of 50 "Most Valuable Contributors". Mark is a Lightroom Guru at Lightroom Forums, and also actively participates in Flickr's Lightroom group discussions and the photo.net community forums.

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What does an unprocessed image look like?

January 08 2009

Pop quiz: Which of these describes an unprocessed raw image? 1. The initial preview created by the camera, seen briefly in Lightroom 2. The initial preview generated by Lightroom 3. The state after applying the General - Zeroed Develop Preset 4. None of the above read more

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

December 22 2008

Adobe first released Lightroom in 2006 as a public beta, asking photographers to participate in the design through the associated discussion forum. While that forum is now closed, the opportunity to influence the direction of Lightroom still exists. read more

Why I gave up Photoshop

December 15 2008

When bought my first digital SLR in April 2006, moving from scanned film, I gave up Photoshop completely. Quit cold turkey. At that time Lightroom was at public beta #2, and it certainly wasn't capable of doing everything Photoshop could (and still isn't). But even then there was considerable overlap… read more

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