Birthday!
Time for a 3Gs. Of course, I realize they’ll come out with some fantastic new iPhone in June, but I couldn’t wait any longer. Argh (tm).
So in the process of restoring my iPhone to its former glory, I went thru my photos and found some lovely picts that I’ve been posting to twitter periodically (follow me!) and decided to host a little iPhone Exzibit for your perusal (and I hope) gain.
Lightroom Tuesday!
Let me qualify that sightly - I’m no mountaineer with spiky crampons and plastic boots, struggling under 75 lbs of gear. I’m a fast/light kinda guy to begin with, and don’t much like travel that requires ropes, ice axes and self-arresting near a cliff. In fact, as funny as this sounds to people who know me well, I’m a pretty conservative guy when it comes to life/death situations. I’ve never been to the top of Mt. Rainier or Mt. Hood. Or Shasta. And I never will. I’ve walked around some of them (often that equals climbing them a couple of times), but never gotten frosty beard at 14,000 ft.
But for the past few years, on my birthday I climb a mountain. Its kind of a tradition. Luckily we have several right next to my little town that do nicely - they involve 4-8 miles and 3000-4000 feet of climbing. At this time of year, it also means some snow and the probability you won’t see anything at the top, but I’m usually done by noon.
This year I decided to do Mt. Si again, a popular local route that goes up to about 4000 ft in 4 miles. We were on the trail by 7:30 and down before lunch. So we had lunch at the North Bend Grill. Yum.
A few pictures...
Bagpipe Lessons PT II
Its another Lightroom
Tuesday!
Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere
into one place for your edification, perusal and
gain. And this week is quite an interesting one, so
lets get rolling...
- Warm up your portraits on for a more pleasing look.
- TheLightroomLab.com looks at LRSaver.
- The Targeted Adjustment Tool - powerful adjustments with a few clicks.
- A look at the new watermarking features in the Beta 2
- A look at color workflow
- Eric Chan of Adobe has released new Beta color profiles for the Nikon D3/D700 cameras. (via Lightroom-blog.com)
- Lightroomsecrets.com has a look at the powerful new curve features in the Beta 2. And the Watermarking. And the new Curve tools.
- Victoria Bampton updates her Missing FAQ to include the Beta 2 release
- TTG Highside Gallery was updated...
- Leica M9 High ISO images in Lightroom.
- Lightroom 2 vs. Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Noise Reduction
- A look at the improved camera profiles and highlight rendering in the beta 2.
- Lightroom Sunday, a new feature from DPE.
- Some discussion of the new tether feature in LR 3 beta 2
- Feel like some Lightroom-fu? David Griffin looks at tone mapping.
- RedRex presents some new Creative Presets.
- Lightroom in Monochrome
- Jeffery Friedl has a look at some freaky Tone-Curve presets. Even more wackiness here... A statement on his LR plugins and the beta 2 release.
- For those in New York, Katrin Eismann to give free Lightroom 3 talk at B&H. April 8th at 3-5 pm.
- John Beardsworth looks at the new grain effect feature in Lightroom 3
- X-Equals has a Raw Challenge going on...
- John Nack of Adobe has some space saving tips...
- New versions of Simpleviewer and Monoslideshow engines. Awesome.
- Adobe has announced the launch
event for Photoshop CS5. I vaguely remember
using photoshop for photography
Ok,I kid. Its still 10% of my
workflow. - Matt Kloskowski takes a Part II look at the new Beta release...
- X-Equals points us to a photographer’s look at some of the most useful presets he’s used...
- Tom Hogarty is holding some Lightroom brownbags online...
- Timmothy Armes has released a new Web Engine for Lightroom...
Less Lightroom related, but interesting...
- Epic Edits has a nice roundup of more general photo-related stuff here.
- Win an iPad from SmugMug...
- Speedliting - a new website for learning to use small flashes.
- Keep track of the new stuff at SmugMug - Release Notes blog
That is everything so far this morning. Have a great Tuesday!
Leila
Yesterday it was to bagpipe lessons with Steen. He’s still working with his practice chanter, which will be replaced within 6 months with a set of expensive (I’m sure) bag pipes. They’re going to dwarf him.
Anywho, here is some picts from yesterday’s lesson:
Climb a Mountain
Its another Lightroom
Tuesday!
Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere
into one place for your edification, perusal and
gain. And this week is quite an interesting one, so
lets get rolling...
First off, lets do the Lightroom 3 beta 2 round up:
- Adobe announces the Lightroom 3 beta 2 release yesterday. New features, snappier performance and some results of feedback since the first beta release. PS. Yes, this means the release is still not ready for prime time. New: Tethered Shooting, improved noise reduction. Tweaks: performance, import, watermarking
- Tom has also posted some resources for learning more...
- Sean McCormack posts his first look (and a new blog layout to boot!)
- Gene McCullagh takes a first look at the release on Lightromsecrets.com
- John Beardsworth looks at the noise reduction and process version gotchas
- Victoria Bampton does likewise...
- New Lightroom dips toe in video workflow... If you mean by workflow it does not ignore them so you can delete them by accident after it ejects the CF card.
- Rob Sylvan takes a look at the new stuff...
- Scott Kelby’s takes a look at the new release
- The Turning Gate released a new Lightroom/Flash slideshow utility for the new beta 2
For those not moving to the beta 2 yet (and I’m one of them - its beta for a reason)
- How to remove dust with Lightroom (via DPS)
- Timothy Armes has released a new Web engine for Lightroom. The focus is on provoking a maximum emotional response to your work.
- TheLightroomLab.com looks at a backup strategy for Mac users. And for Windows users. Psst. a good second solution. A Raid solution should always be first.
- Matt at LightroomKillerTips looks at reordering photos in a slideshow.
- Photoshop World in Orlando is coming up. Lots of Lightroom learning goodness is bound to go on.
- A new preset for Lightroom users from Jennifer Duffy.
- RawFightClub. A comparison of the output of Lightroom and Aperture. Take this with a grain of salt as the new LR has a very different/improved engine. That and I completely disagree with the author’s summary. The Aperture image looks like its been run thru a noise reduction plugin a few times and half the detail shed to get rid of that noise. To each his own...
- Matt Anderson has released a few Raw presets for the new Canon 1D MK IV camera.
- A few Lightroom tips compiled by Artsstock.com
- X-Equals offers the Lightroom PhD program
- Exposing to the right explained...
- For you Nerdy McNerdison’s looking for more metadata power, here is an interesting look at using Photo Mechanic vs Lightroom for serious metadata. PS. I have a copy of Photo Mechanic that gets used when I have 10 cards to download. LR only does them one at a time, but PM will grab as many as you have readers to do. Nice. (thanks to Adobe’s David Franzen).
Portraits
A few pictures:
This is the view from the top looking towards Mt.
Rainier. Awesome.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig!
Lightroom Tuesday!
PS. That is the official Irish Tartan he’s wearing. As to the Scottish/Irish mixology, Steen’s bagpipe teacher told us that its all good - the Scottish love to get in on the whole St. Paddy’s day thing. It’s not confusion, it’s friendly celtic co-option. Good enough for us!
A Few Pictures...
Its Lightroom Tuesday!
Huzzah!
Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere
into one place for your edification, perusal and
gain.
But hey, look at me yapping my mouth. Lets have at
it...
- DPS looks at how you can arrange files your way in Lightroom.
- 21 Reasons to use Lightroom from the Photography blog.
- Red Eye. Mostly for people who don’t understand off camera lighting ;->
- A look at Lightroom 3’s noise reduction.
- Using Stacks to unclutter your Lightroom library...
- Getting that Dave Hill look... (ps. are you Dave hill?)
- Some Lightroom presets for night owls.
- 5 Lightroom Quick Tips
- How Aperture 3 can solidify your Lightroom usage...
- X-Equals rundown: Harnessing Histograms, Preset Platform, The Digest
- Sherri Meyer’s Top 10 Lightroom tweets of the week.
- A few new presets for Lightroom from Jennifer Duffy Photography.
- PhotoFocus has a look at the Adjustment Brush Essentials.
- Printing with Lightroom from my friend Chris.
- Matt K’s Lightroom Killer Tips rundown: Hard Edgy Look Preset, Cool Crop Tips, When to use Presets,
- Digital Daily Dose has some printing profile tips...
- Lightroom Secrets looks at what they’d like to see in Lightroom 4.
- Free “Zeroed” preset from Lightroomers...
- Using the Graduated Filter for better skies...
- New Presets from Preset Heaven. And more for weddings...
Well folks, that is it for this week...
SmugMug WPPI 2010 Slumber Party
WPPI 2010
Mountain Bike Racing!
Its WPPI time! W00t!
I’m working in the booth
most days talking up all our new SmugMug Pro
features.
In the last year we’ve
delivered the following new features for our
wedding/portrait photographers:
- Easy Customizer (April 30, 2009)
- SmugMug User Groups (May 7, 2009)
- Be Social (July 1, 2009)
- Simple Uploader (July 1, 2009)
- Improved Viewing Styles (slideshow, journal and thumbnails all got a major overhaul) (July 10, 2009 and October 22, 2009)
- NiceNames and Improved SEO (August 13, 2009)
- Improved Sales History (September 11, 2009)
- Direct Deposit (December 11, 2009)
- Cart Cobranding (October 26, 2009)
- Bulk Gallery Settings (October 29, 2009)
- Bulk Replacing for Proof Orders (October 29, 2009)
- Improved Cards (including visitor-created cards for profit) (Nov 10, 2009 and December 11, 2009)
- Coupons (December 4, 2009)
- 30 New Themes (December 31, 2009)
- Contact the Pro interface (January 8, 2010)
- New Stats Reporting (January 8, 2010)
- Smart Galleries and Collections (January 27, 2010)
- Sales Tax Tool (February 5, 2010)
- Folders/Favorites and Event Marketing (March 6, 2010)
- Packages (March 6, 2010)
Thats a pretty impressive list of stuff that will really make a difference for our family of photographers. Go!
Scott Jarvie is with us in the booth. He has some
awesome picts with his bizzare Ray-Flash monster
setup he’s calling the Jarvie Window. Here are the
both of us:
Click to see embiggened on Scott’s site (or to see
more)
PS. If you’re at WPPI, come by the booth and see us.
I might be wearing my kilt again too. Also, we’ve got
a rocking party tonight, so swing by for an invite...
Lightroom Tuesday
My brother-in-law was racing, and I’ve always wanted to shoot a few pictures of him at his game, so I came out of the wilds a day early. It was a lot of fun, and after shooting in the dark of theaters, I was amazed to have all that light to work with. Wish I’d had my 70-200 lens with me though...
Here are a few for your perusal...
And this determined young racer...
