This Week in Photo

This week on TWiP: Adobe releases the Lightroom 4 public beta, Nikon announces the much anticipated D4, & updates on Olympus and Kodak. Steve Simon is preparing a Dubai trip, Nicole Young visited New York and Vietnam in the last few months, and Andy Biggs has just returned from Antarctica.

From soft boxes and strip banks to beauty dishes and grids, there’s no shortage of accessories that will help you shape the light coming from your small flash. One such modifier comes from a more recent entry into the game. It’s the Rogue Grid from ExpoImaging, and it’s something I’ve been using – and loving – since its release.

This week on TWiP: Photographers building a book for charity in Google+, is Apple planning new publishing tools? And should you send your photos out to be retouched? In India?

Proving that big things can come in little packages and that the little guys can make something that’s faster, better and cheaper than the big guys, the Paul C. Buff Einstein E640 impresses us with its mix of price and performance. Here’s our review.