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I released two new plugins for Adobe Lightroom today, my Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher. They're what my old "Tree Publisher" plugin should have been, with many extras. They allow you to replicate the folder or collection hierarchy in Lightroom out to local disk, and optionally even FTP the results somewhere. I was never happy [...]
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Still busy working on Lightroom plugins, so just a short post today on the next phase of the Setsubun festival last week at the Heian Shrine. After demons representing the ills of the past year were banished, the next step was wishing good forutune for the next year with another bean-centric event. I posted about [...]
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Continuing from this weekend's Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine in Kyoto, with nasty demons representing the ills of the past year, being banished in the hope of a better year to come... I captioned the third picture with "Door, slightly misleading" because, as you can see in the final photo, what look like door [...]
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Today was the Setsubun festival at the Heian Shrine, so I walked over to snap some pictures. I'll post and write more another day, but today just a few photos. (For an introduction to the event, see my "Setsubun and Mamemaki: Driving out the Demons" post from four years ago.) The picture above is from [...]
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Wow, time flies... now that there's a Lightroom 4 beta out, I'm really ramping up the work to upgrade my Lightroom plugins appropriately, and have barely had time to come up for air, and so I was a bit surprised when I noticed today that it's been five days since my previous post. So, here's [...]
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Picking up from my "Badass Japanese Archery: Now It's The Ladies' Turn" post the other day, here are some more of the very colorful young ladies at the shooting platform. As described in "Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer's Shot", each archer goes at her own pace, but each group of a dozen starts [...]
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In yesterday's "Colorful Ladies' Wardrobe" post we looked at some of the young ladies preparing for their turn at traditional Japanese archery at the rite-of-passage event described in "Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer's Shot". Before and after their turn they were as lively as you'd expect a bunch of twenty-year-old girls to be, [...]
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My recent coverage of the traditional Japanese Archery event described last week in "Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer’s Shot" has so far covered mostly the guys (such as with the previous post, "More Badass Japanese Archery"), but there were about as many gals as guys. Most of the time I was at the [...]
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During the Japanese-Archery event last week that I've been posting about, after the 2,000+ young adults did their thing, a few dozen instructors also got to shoot. I don't know how they were chosen to participate... perhaps it's only the instructors of the kids who hit the target? Anyway, as last week's "Total Discipline: Anatomy [...]
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Continuing with the rite-of-passage Japanese-archery event I've been posting about (第62回 三十三間堂大的全国大会) , after being driven out by the oppressive crowds at the shooting range, I spent some time with the more-manageable crowds in the greater temple compound. I took the three shots above before having ventured into the scrum at the shooting range, but [...]
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This post is of interest only to Lightroom plugin developers. Round about Lightroom 3.2, Adobe added support for intercepting "lightroom://" URLs, but have not documented it yet, so I'll do so here. It's particularly useful as part of an OAuth-authentication procedure. What You can have your plugin automatically respond to certain "lightroom://" URLs if they [...]
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I went to the tooshiya archery event for the first time, held annually at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto today. The official name of the event is 「第62回 三十三間堂大的全国大会」. Mostly it's for ranked archers who have turned 20 years old this past year (and there were 2,132 that took part today), but this was one [...]
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In the comments of a recent post about GPS receivers, it was suggested that the GPS receiver in the iPhone was useful for keeping tracklogs. I had bad experiences with iPhone location services when I tested in 2009, but perhaps my test wasn't good, or perhaps the old iPhone 3 wasn't good, so I thought [...]
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A bit more than a year and a half after releasing Lightroom 3, Adobe today has released (the first?) public beta for Lightroom 4. Get it here: Lr4 Beta at Adobe Lightroom 4 has lots of new big-ticket goodies, including a book module, map module (with geoencoding!), soft proofing, more video support, and a new [...]
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This year has gotten off slowly for me, having woken up January 1st with a cold and all, but with "Inspired Artistic Temple Shot" and its followup, "Simple Temple Sliding Wall", I seem to have a black-and-white theme going, so I'll continue that today with a post about charcoal, from last year's visit to Japanese [...]
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Now that Nikon has announced its next flagship pro SLR, the Nikon D4, with much flowery prose but few hard details, discussion and debate and speculation and flames and praise have filled camera circles. This post is long, but here's the two-sentence summary for the "tl;dr" crowd: As with most any technology release (hardware or [...]
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Nikon announced their new flagship SLR, the Nikon D4, to much anticipation made long unfulfilled by last year's tragedies (Japan earthquake, Thailand flooding). I would, of course, love one, but with a price in Japan close to US$8,000 and Santa not scheduled for another 11.5 months, it looks doubtful. Anyway, I'm in the process of [...]
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Rarely does a photo take my breath away, but this rendition by Paul Barr does it every time I come across it. I don't know what it is about it, but if you'll excuse the pun, I'm really drawn to it. Paul recently got an iPhone 4s, and to compliment its camera he loaded a [...]
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Adobe has just released Lightroom 3.6, a free upgrade for Lightroom 3.x users, which I mentioned the other day as having new camera-calibration profiles. In addition to assorted bug fixes, it also has new lens-correction profiles for more than 35 new lenses, and support for a bunch of new cameras: Canon Powershot S100 Fuji FinePix [...]
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This is a followup to April's "Important Note for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop" post about camera-calibration profiles for Lightroom (and Adobe Camera Raw). It seems that the Lr3.6 beta that Adobe recently put out includes a new version ("Camera Standard v4") for the Nikon D3, D700, and D300 that has been [...]
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