kendal larson
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Good stuff. Im not sure that I understand his response to the last question though. F8=fate?
http://www.midcurrent.com/news/2009/12/interview-with-brian-grossenba.htmlI’d suspect he means f-stop….
Um, at the risk of having rotten veggies tossed at me; why the non-vert submissions guys?
Some *glorious* work there – but – horizontals? Covers?
Wouldn’t you crop down to a vert to make it – umm….well, you know.
I’m with Kurt – the 1.4 by Canon by all accounts I’ve heard is sharper.
It’s what I use, which might bias my opinion some.
…..and to add to the above; you might want to download a copy of Adobe’s beta of Lightroom 3.
I *think* you’ll find using it intuitive – and if not, there are loads of good tutorials out there.
Kendall, I’m being a stubborn old bastard so I’m sure the problem is mostly mine. My filing system is done by trip names and dates, for example Northern Territory Dec ’09. On the course of a 10 day trip cards are downloaded daily to this file on my laptop and daily edits are done there. I don’t want to catalogue this file onto my laptop because its not going to be stored there when I get home, I don’t want 15 gigs or whatever of RAW images stored on my laptop, so they go onto a couple of hard drives when I get home. This is when the problems begin. When I move the file to the hard drives I want to delete that file from the desktop and work from the hard drive. The chain is broken and all kinds of work is required to re-establish the links. As DA says they want you to work their way, but I want to work my way.
Morsie
Heh – I can relate to being a stubborn old bastard.
Morsie –
I’m utterly perplexed by your complaint about filing and access.
Collections can be created for access by type.
Keywords can be easily applied by set – or individual image.
Queries can be run on those keywords.
File sets can be browsed by loupe/thumbnail view.
I recognize we all work differently, but I’m genuinely curious what’s hard for you.
Kendal
I do the same as Eric – pretty much anyway.
Also – I mark with “X” the shots in LR that I know I’m deleting – I can then later go back and show just those images, select all, and delete them from the drive.
SWEET stuff Mike.
I worked forever trying to get similar when in Montana this past August, to no avail – the fish simply wouldn’t cooperate, and the water just wasn’t there.
Man – you lucky dog you!
…and in an odd coincidence, I had a friend send me a link to that in the last couple days. She was prompted to do so after I crawled up face-to-face with a rattle snake while trying to get some whooping crane shots last week for the nature conservancy.
Friggin’ snake never rattled – even once.
Oh – and – this might be helpful; rattlers can’t see you if you’ve the sun behind your back. When I first spotted him he was 8′ away, and coiling. I stood (screw the whoopers) slowly, and backed away a bit. After shooting that side I moved ’round to the other side, for more direct light. When I had the sun over my shoulder, my friend couldn’t see me at all, and finally decided to leave.
…got some nice shots of him before he did though.
Question for lightroom users.
I like CS ( ACR and photoshop), but am not happy with bridge. Have been wondering whether to start using LR or wait for CS5. For those of you using LR and ACR as your raw converter, do you find you still use PS? I guess what Im driving at is keeping both LR and PS current would become prohibitively expensive.
I have yet to speak with a single photographer who has started to use LR as it was designed who hasn’t later raved about the fact that it works like a photographer works.
CS is for designers, LR for photographers.
That’s my take anyway.
Huh?
Olle – something has gone awry here, as there should be an issue for you. I can even run both concurrently.
It’s true you have to rebuild catalogs, but you should still be able to start LR2.
Kendal, did you get much use out of that UWA-Marine housing this summer?
Not as much as I’d hoped to, but then isn’t that always how it goes?
David – I just today tried LR3 beta – I’m immediately impressed. It does some things that it never did before at all, and it’s zipping.
Eric – I’ve found it works much faster on a newer machine. (like “duh” right? heh) … but I’m curious; do you have all your files in a huge directory, or is each import loaded into a folder by date? If you’re working with HUGE folders, that’ll slow it down for sure, so by date is the way to go.
If you don’t have it yet, you can rebuild your catalog that way – just import, but use the “leave in place” option, and also make sure you’re importing it using the “dated” option.
Kendal
You go Jacob.
🙂
Sorry – been gone from here a while – rebuilds to computers, and have gotten very busy (in a good way).
Finally reset my password (my email is too long for the box, but whenever I reset the passwd I *always* forget I can just use my name to login! argh) – so the point is I’m back again.
Hope you’ve had a killer summer folks – mine sure has been.
Kendal
