kendal larson
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I suspect that both of you gents (John and John) just need to sit down and do it – write that is.
Start a blog, practice, do it a little more, and most of all – don’t let fear stop you.
Brother Bennett is probably on the best track – taking a course or two to hone those writing skills makes great sense. I sadly don’t have time for formal learning, so have to fill in my knowledge gaps with self-study, which works fairly well if you can discipline yourself to plow through exercises/books/etc.
You both rather echo something that I’ve felt myself, and I think it can be summed up in one word; fear.
Sure – there are going to *always* be folks who know more than you, who are better read, who have great expertise of the topic at hand – so what? Heck – use those that you can get hold of for quotes – learn from them – enjoy that process.
It’s been said of writers and photographers in the past that so and so has a “journalist’s curiosity.”
What does that mean?
It means that person has a keen interest in learning, and I think when the writer or photographer shares both the process of edification through enlightenment and the result of the process, then we find that little bit of magic we all enjoy.
It doesn’t have to be profound, or the most amazing, or the most revealing, but I think the best photographers and writers find a way to convey all that they’re learning about the world around them, and that’s the chord they strike within us.
Heck – I don’t claim to be a great writer by any means (and it showed, as I forgot to recheck myself, and I went 40 words over in my 600 word requirement, and the result is a few kinda “kludgie” edits) – but I do have to say that fear won’t keep me from trying, and I don’t think it should stop anyone – especially you two.
Nice one – from my own experience I have always found that magazines etc. prefer “packages” – word and photos together from which they can create a feature or whatever. When I started working in fishing, I worked out very quickly that here in the UK I was never going to make a living if I wrote or photographed only – had to do both and it sort of went on from there.
Well said Henry.
I’m a little slow, but it finally sunk in here too.
Mega-grats on that accomplishment Mike – very nice.
You deserve to be proud of what you’ve done.
Kendal
Tim –
It could be the color space you used when you exported them.
Remember to export to sRGB if you intend to use them for web/email postings.
Adobe or ProPhoto colorspace should be used when printing, but electronic display wants sRGB.
luckily that shot is an easy fix in photoshop!
Do you notice the lens hood helping much on such a wide angle lens? I took the hood off my 25-105 and will flag with my hand if I need to get rid of a flare. My 19-35mm Sigma lens has a small lens hood but I’ve never noticed that it actually is blocking light unless the source is pretty far back and probably not going to cause a flare anyway.
Just wondering if it’s actually doing it’s job or if you could take it off and potentially save yourself from a headache of dealing with this.Yeah – you’re right that (some of them) won’t be too hard to fix.
And while you make a good point regarding the lens hood possibly not doing that much good, I do like the protection it provides from bumps and dings to the glass.
I’ll just have to mind myself a little more closely in the future.
Killer Chad – thanks for the heads up! 🙂
Kendal
(doh – just noticed it was before the 28th – missed it by a hair….argh)
May not be a fish-eye, just a wide angle pointed down that leads to a curved horizon but I’m sure Corey will tell us………
Lauren as mentioned in a previous post Lightroom’s graduated filter function is GREAT, outstanding in fact – I just don’t bother carrying filters anymore, not even polarisers.
Morsie
Agree with you 100%
The filter tool has changed my life.
Thanks for the info Kendal, I might have another look at it..
I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
The last 2 stand out to me as great shots, i really like the sky in the background. The others look a bit soft, or have bad sharpening or something. Or waybe trying to stretch a long lens with a bit to slow of shutter speed? All the busy-ness of the rocks and brush makes them a bit hard to follow with the eye also.
There are a lot of shots in the set that will make good crops, with loads of negative space for text.
They were shot with that in mind.
There are a couple where there’s movement, but at 100% (and I checked ’em all) they were tack sharp save for one critter leaping, or something like that.
Hi Kendal – the thing is I don’t want to keep a library at all and would find things filling up fast if I did.
Is it possible to delete everything after an edit – or is it a lot of faffing around ?
(please think IQ similar to dog when explaining computer stuff :D)
Yep – you can easily delete it all after an edit if you so choose.
Select those you want to keep with a flag – then set your filter to all the unflagged photos, and select them all, and delete them.
All that will remain is those images you wish to keep.
KL
Had a note, but decided what’s the point, you’ve obviously chosen a course as to how you want your board run.
So, your house, your rules and all (and yes, I do understand your intentions) – just a quickie to note I’ll abide, and refrain from future postings to my, or anyone else’s external galleries/lightboxes.
KL
I have a few questions on this topic as well.
What is the difference in CS3 or 4 and lightroom. Why would I need CS4 if light room is soo good?
Do most of you store your images on an external HD? I was keeping them on my C drive but was told it was slowing my PC down so I moved them to an external HD. I didn’t see any improvement to my PC’s speed. ???
LR will do the basic editing you need – but you can call an external editor (CS3/4, PSP, etc) from inside LR, and it’ll edit a copy with the LR adjustments already applied, and then bring the image edited with the external program back into LR when it’s done.
As for the comments re; computer speed – that’s actually backward. If your photo library exists on an external drive, it’ll almost always be slower to access those files than if they resided on an internal drive, as the bus is slower. Externals are great for backups though.
Kendal
