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Adobe has just released a free public beta for Lightroom 5. Adobe's Lightroom blog has the announcement where you can see the list of new features, and also a list of resources (essentially other people writing about the release). In particular, Victoria Bampton's What's New post is always a good reference. (Unfortunately, Adobe mistakenly schedule [...]
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I'm adamant about keeping my blog content what I want to share; I hope others will happen to like it, of course, but I don't "pander for pageviews",* despite having been called an attention whore by a random Internet anonymous coward the other day. So, I don't often pay much attention to my blog's pageview [...]
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I used to enjoy reading about cool photography-related things on Fstoppers.com, but that was before I realized that their business model is apparently built on systematic wholesale copyright violation. They regularly publish large numbers of copyrighted photos without permission from the photographer. They just take what they want to pad their site, building their user [...]
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I got myself a GoPro HERO3 camera, and I've got to say, I'm solidly unimpressed with GoPro (the company, Woodman Labs) so far. You have to access their web site before you can use the camera, but the web site is mostly down.... server doesn't respond for most requests. [There's an update below on this...] [...]
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This post continues the story started in "A Somewhat Lackluster Day of Photography at Kyoto’s Shouzan Resort", last touched upon yesterday with a bunch of wigglegrams from the garden. The only other time I came (as seen two years ago in "Photo Shoot Among the Fall Colors at Shouzan"), I hadn't realized that it was [...]
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Time Machine backups fail if you replace a symbolic link to a directory with an actual directory. (In my case, the symbolic link was to a directory on another disk.) The solution is to perform a Time Machine backup after deleting the symlink, then create the actual directory. Time Machine backups will then work. Prior [...]
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This post contains more "Wigglegrams" made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day. Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse. The first [...]
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So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls "wiggle stereoscopy", but I hereby dub "Wigglegram". (Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.) My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control [...]
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I mentioned in my previous post that I'm not generally a fan of the wide-angle lens, so I find the photo above somewhat annoying, but also somewhat attractive. I can't decide. The next two items likely fall into the same category for many folks.... two-frame animated GIFs that give a "3D viewer" feeling, like those [...]
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In tidying up some of my blog infrastructure today, I came across a short post that I wrote in 2007 but had not published, so I'll go ahead and share it now. I'm used to the sometimes-odd views one sees in Google Maps due to differing photos being stitched together or other random oddness, but [...]
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I did something yesterday that I'd never done: I went out shooting with two camera bodies. I often go out shooting with one body and many lenses, changing lenses upwards of 70 times on a long and interesting outing, and this works well for what I like to do, but when I added the Nikon [...]
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I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom: → Jeffrey's "Data Explorer" Lightroom Plugin ← It lets you group photos by metadata (e.g. "what lenses did I use with these photos?") just like Lightroom's built in Library Grid Filter, but the plugin supports many more criteria. As of its initial release, the plugin provides [...]
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Anthony (almost 10 years old) needed new shoes, so we took him to the store and let him pick what he wanted, and this is what he got. The colors are shockingly vibrant, so I thought it would be a good chance to try out the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport introduced to me in this comment [...]
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I've never used Tumblr, but it's apparently popular. They recently changed their API in a way that apparently rendered other Lightroom plugins useless, so I wrote a simple one: Jeffrey’s "Export to Tumblr" Lightroom Plugin Since I know nothing about Tumblr, I'm not sure how well it'll fit with a Tumblr's workflow, so let me [...]
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(If you can't see the photos above, try viewing your screen from an extreme angle, perhaps from way above, and the image should somewhat appear. Or, scroll down...) (カメラのレンスのミスのせいで上の写真はだめに成りましたけれども、アドベLightroomというソフトで半分まで立ち直る。) Fourth-grade Anthony had his school Sports Festival today. Wanting to keep my baggage to a minimum, I chose the Sigma "Bigma" 50-500mm Zoom for the day. [...]
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You might not particularly notice it the first time you see the photo above, but once I point it out, you won't be able to miss it: my skin has a decidedly green tint. 質が悪い蛍光灯を使うと、肌は緑ぽいになってしまう。 This is a classic side effect of fluorescent lighting not specifically designed for photography, which is apparently what Stéphane and [...]
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A week ago, I posted about another portraiture practice session with Stéphane Barbery, but then I lost my computer to the repair shop for two days. I've gotten it back, but have yet to look at the photos of me that he took, beyond the first two photos. I've not looked beyond the first two [...]
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I've just released a new Lightroom Plugin, "Creative Commons", which allows you to inject license information into exported copies of images that you want to release via a Creative Commons license. クリエイティブ・コモンズ・ライセンス対応のアドビLightroomのプラグインを開発しました。 The plugin is avaialble here: Jeffrey’s "Creative Commons" Lightroom Plugin That adds to the thirty-something other plugins available on my Lightroom Goodies [...]
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Back in Lightroom 2 days I had a plugin to extract JPGs from a Lightroom catalog's preview cache, something really useful when trying to recover something if you had somehow lost the master images. It wasn't my most popular plugin, obviously, because folks would use it only when trying to recover from the double disaster [...]
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Today's post is a followup to "Last Chance For the All-You-Can-Feast Beer/BBQ at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto" from the other day. Anthony and I went again last night, and in the interest of science and to record history for posterity, I documented everything that I ate or drank with grainy iPhone snaps. 昨夜、ホテルアバンシェル京都の焼き肉食べ放題に行きました。 めっちゃ食べて、めっちゃ飲んで、めっちゃ楽しかった。すべての飲食物は撮影して(iPhoneで、御免)、この記事で見せます。80キロ192センチの私は５キロアップしました！ As [...]
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