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If you want to improve your technique for printing your photography, there's a great opportunity for you to learn from Lightroom and Photoshop expert Andrew Rodney (see his site, Digital Dog).
He will be teaching a workshop in Art Wolfe's school of photography in two weeks (May 25-28). See the course description here.
As I've mentioned before on this blog, I like to sit in on Art's workshops and offer… Continue reading
A few days ago, a friend sent me a copy of Thomas Hawk's article, "My Photography Workflow 2009." A few minutes ago, I tweeted saying that I thought this article would cause me to radically shift my personal workflow. Another friend asked what I meant by that, so I thought I'd try to address that here.
Disclaimer: This is all still a bit murky in my mind. If… Continue reading
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Microblogging is so 2008. Want to get right to the point? Then try picoblogging, where the name of the game is all about character. One character.
That's right. I'm excited to announce my new start-up venture, Jitter, where you can send 1-character messages at random intervals. Your friends can subscribe to see what letter you think is most interesting right now.
We're currently in α testing with a limited number of subscribers… Continue reading
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If you've ever wondered how your camera will respond to extreme light conditions (or, more importantly, extreme contrast in a scene), this article is a must read:
Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof (from Jeffrey Friedl's blog)
Be sure to take the time to click through the "normalized to the base exposure" and "jpeg version normalized to the base exposure" sections. This is by far the best demonstration of
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Do too many keywords in your Lightroom catalog have you spinning round and round?
Here are a couple of simple tricks I use to keep me organized with over 10,000 keywords in my catalog.
Organize Your Keywords with Category Headers
I'm a big fan of David Rieck's Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog. It's a well-organized and (for me, at least) comprehensive keyword set. I… Continue reading{ 5 comments }
Got an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? Looking for a quick way to take your favorite photos with you? Follow along with this demo:
Step 1: Choose the photos you want to export. Ideally, put them in a collection so you can update this later. A keyword or folder will work too.
Here, I've chosen a collection with 24 photos… Continue reading
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Lightroom 2.2 was released a couple of hours ago. Tom's announcement covers all the gory details, but a couple of highlights are worth mentioning:
- Canon 5D Mark II support (ooh, ahh ... I want one! :-) )
- Canon PowerShot G10 support
- Camera Raw profiles added
- Bunch o' bugs fixed
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I've just signed up for Skribit, which allows you, my loyal readers, to suggest topics for this blog. I've seeded the suggestion box with a few ideas that are sitting unfinished in my Drafts folder. I'll use your votes to help decide which items get attention in my copious blog-writing time.
I'm open to writing about Lightroom technique (especially Library and Develop modules), WordPress technique (as much as I know… Continue reading
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I've had an unusual burst of inbound links to this site lately, and it just occurred to me last night that there are no visible trackbacks or pingbacks.
Hmmm. After temporarily changing themes, temporarily disabling plug-ins that might interfere with trackbacks and comments such as Akismet (which is absolutely wonderful, BTW!) and No Self Pings, I eventually stumbled upon the real cause:
My custom permalink structure lacked a trailing slash.
I… Continue reading
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In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom's folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made the choices I've made, and some of the alternatives I considered and why I rejected them.
In addition to my work on the Lightroom development team, I also like to teach Lightroom. I live in the Seattle area and, when my schedule permits, I assist… Continue reading{ 22 comments }