Comments for Jeffrey Friedl's Blog http://regex.info/blog Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by MCV http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46332 MCV Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46332 Hi Jeffrey, Just chanced upon your blog post as the Zenfolio plugin expired after upgrading to LR4. Had forgotten it would do that. Anyway, had already donated $20 for the plugin as that's what you suggested and I felt you should rightly get paid for your work. Along with many others, I value your work and it helps me work with my photographs, so many thanks. To then read about some miserly lawyer (who probably gets paids thousands for his work) whinge about donating a few dollars for something he obviously uses and values, is simply bewildering. I was thinking about what disparaging name to call this person without having it censored but then I realised he had already done this for me - a lawyer! Best wishes, England, UK Hi Jeffrey,

Just chanced upon your blog post as the Zenfolio plugin expired after upgrading to LR4. Had forgotten it would do that.

Anyway, had already donated $20 for the plugin as that’s what you suggested and I felt you should rightly get paid for your work. Along with many others, I value your work and it helps me work with my photographs, so many thanks.

To then read about some miserly lawyer (who probably gets paids thousands for his work) whinge about donating a few dollars for something he obviously uses and values, is simply bewildering.

I was thinking about what disparaging name to call this person without having it censored but then I realised he had already done this for me – a lawyer!

Best wishes,
England,
UK

]]> Comment on A Few More Eclipse Photos from Kyoto by Jerry Collier` http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-21/1997#comment-46331 Jerry Collier` Wed, 23 May 2012 15:57:12 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-21/1997#comment-46331 I could look at the annular eclipse through a infrared R72 filter. Was the correct protection for my eyes, and I could see the eclipse very well in Los Angeles Area. I had the bright idea to photograph using Ilford SFX200 film, at various exposure settings. The film is infrared sensitive film. Processed the film got wonderful photographs of the sun but no eclipse. Congratulations on your photographs, the moral of my experiment, do not use IR film! I could look at the annular eclipse through a infrared R72 filter. Was the correct protection for my eyes, and I could see the eclipse very well in Los Angeles Area. I had the bright idea to photograph using Ilford SFX200 film, at various exposure settings. The film is infrared sensitive film. Processed the film got wonderful photographs of the sun but no eclipse. Congratulations on your photographs, the moral of my experiment, do not use IR film!

]]> Comment on A Few More Eclipse Photos from Kyoto by JasonP http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-21/1997#comment-46330 JasonP Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:23 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-21/1997#comment-46330 Wish I had proper equipment for this... what/how many filters were you using? I had what I had to hand, stacked +2, +4 and +8 ND filters of a size too small for my 400mm lens, manually set the camera to f/40, 1/8000, ISO 100... and still had to turn down exposure in LR to get a "clear" image. I attempted (as I do with practically every eclipse, solar or lunar, that I'm fortunate to see) to do a time-lapse, snapping a photo every minute. But, as usual I didn't have my tripod so it was hand held... and I now come to find out with 88 photos to merge that Photoshop won't auto-align... "not enough overlap" :( Oh well, in a year or two I'll get around to manually aligning all of them together. In the meantime, just two will have to do. http://www.flickr.com/photos/eaglekepr/7255320222/ <span class='jfriedl'>For the 300mm I had a 1/100,000th solar filter ($60 or so from amazon.co.jp), and for the 70-200 I stacked 8-stop and 3-stop filters that I had lying around. —Jeffrey</span> Wish I had proper equipment for this… what/how many filters were you using? I had what I had to hand, stacked +2, +4 and +8 ND filters of a size too small for my 400mm lens, manually set the camera to f/40, 1/8000, ISO 100… and still had to turn down exposure in LR to get a “clear” image.

I attempted (as I do with practically every eclipse, solar or lunar, that I’m fortunate to see) to do a time-lapse, snapping a photo every minute. But, as usual I didn’t have my tripod so it was hand held… and I now come to find out with 88 photos to merge that Photoshop won’t auto-align… “not enough overlap” :( Oh well, in a year or two I’ll get around to manually aligning all of them together. In the meantime, just two will have to do. http://www.flickr.com/photos/eaglekepr/7255320222/

For the 300mm I had a 1/100,000th solar filter ($60 or so from amazon.co.jp), and for the 70-200 I stacked 8-stop and 3-stop filters that I had lying around. —Jeffrey

]]> Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by Mike Nelson Pedde http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46326 Mike Nelson Pedde Wed, 23 May 2012 06:41:36 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46326 Just another quick note to let you know how much I appreciate the hours of work you put into your plugins. Haven't sent in the money to upgrade the Flickr plugin to LR4, but it's on the list. Consider it a true gift!! ;-) Mike. Just another quick note to let you know how much I appreciate the hours of work you put into your plugins. Haven’t sent in the money to upgrade the Flickr plugin to LR4, but it’s on the list. Consider it a true gift!! ;-)

Mike.

]]> Comment on “Publish” in Jeffrey’s Export-to-Facebook Lightroom Plugin by mark Farrelly http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook/publish#comment-46323 mark Farrelly Wed, 23 May 2012 04:11:49 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook/publish#comment-46323 Hi Jeffrey, I have done everything up to the authentication. Facebook page comes up and says I am logged ina bus business account and I need to change to my personal account? The plug in manager says Ckecking......... But it is on that for 10 min or so? What next. I'm on a Imac LR v:4.0 <span class='jfriedl'>I'm not sure what you're referring to with the "Checking..." thing, but perhaps <a href='mailto:jfriedl@yahoo.com' rel="nofollow">email me</a> a screenshot, or <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#log' rel="nofollow">send a log</a>. —Jeffrey</span> Hi Jeffrey,
I have done everything up to the authentication.
Facebook page comes up and says I am logged ina bus business account and I need to change to my personal account?

The plug in manager says Ckecking………
But it is on that for 10 min or so?

What next.
I’m on a Imac LR v:4.0

I’m not sure what you’re referring to with the “Checking…” thing, but perhaps email me a screenshot, or send a log. —Jeffrey

]]> Comment on Jeffrey’s “Export to Facebook” Lightroom Plugin by mark Farrelly http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook#comment-46322 mark Farrelly Wed, 23 May 2012 02:14:20 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook/#comment-46322 Hi Jeffrey, I am from Australia, Melbourne. I have version 4.0 of lightroom. I am starting a business page on facebook. I can publish photos from lightroom to my personal page but I can't get them to my business page, is there a way of doing this? Lightroom 4.0 won't let me change the account authorization. I'm about to through my imac out the window, please help me. Mark <span class='jfriedl'>This is covered in <a href='http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/faq#fbfan' rel="nofollow">the FAQ</a>. —Jeffrey</span> Hi Jeffrey,
I am from Australia, Melbourne.
I have version 4.0 of lightroom.
I am starting a business page on facebook.
I can publish photos from lightroom to my personal page but I can’t get them to my business page, is there a way of doing this?
Lightroom 4.0 won’t let me change the account authorization.
I’m about to through my imac out the window, please help me.

Mark

This is covered in the FAQ. —Jeffrey

]]> Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by Marcina (Bellingham, WA) http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46321 Marcina (Bellingham, WA) Tue, 22 May 2012 23:09:17 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46321 While I have nothing to add on the Metadata front, I will say I'd like to know if Mr. Insidious Extortion's "downhill from there" emails ever reached the entertainment heights of This Guy: http://regex.info/blog/2006-05-10/191 <span class='jfriedl'>Hard to say which was better, but in the recent case, as part of his efforts to highlight how smart he is (and therefor how stupid I must be not to see things his way), I got a full list of the guy's extensive degrees and accomplishments. He was a lawyer and had already learned all he would ever learn, so I left it at that. —Jeffrey</span> While I have nothing to add on the Metadata front, I will say I’d like to know if Mr. Insidious Extortion’s “downhill from there” emails ever reached the entertainment heights of This Guy:

http://regex.info/blog/2006-05-10/191

Hard to say which was better, but in the recent case, as part of his efforts to highlight how smart he is (and therefor how stupid I must be not to see things his way), I got a full list of the guy’s extensive degrees and accomplishments. He was a lawyer and had already learned all he would ever learn, so I left it at that. —Jeffrey

]]> Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by Madhu http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46319 Madhu Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:40 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46319 In a world long gone by, I took on Y! Unix messenger development (as a hobby). Been there, done that, and got the flames for "non official" work. In the end, I decided to delete nasty emails and assume that they were sent to the "official devs". That might work for you :) In a world long gone by, I took on Y! Unix messenger development (as a hobby). Been there, done that, and got the flames for “non official” work.

In the end, I decided to delete nasty emails and assume that they were sent to the “official devs”. That might work for you :)

]]> Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by Paul Cunningham http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46318 Paul Cunningham Tue, 22 May 2012 19:12:39 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46318 I would guess that person doesn't remember the days when there was no shareware, and no donationware. You have my sympathy, but more so, that person has my pity. If it's on the Internet it must be free, right? Also I notice he didn't bother to send you the $100 he mentioned... I would guess that person doesn’t remember the days when there was no shareware, and no donationware. You have my sympathy, but more so, that person has my pity. If it’s on the Internet it must be free, right? Also I notice he didn’t bother to send you the $100 he mentioned…

]]> Comment on Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development by David K. http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46317 David K. Tue, 22 May 2012 19:10:11 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2012-05-22/1998#comment-46317 Since I don't use Lightroom, I have not made use of your plugins (although based on how people reference them, I probably would if I used it). However, I have made heavy use of another service of yours: the Japanese-English online dictionary. I used it almost daily during my years of Japanese study in college, and even now I still use it every now and then. I've thanked you for it once before, but since you could use a bit of a boost right now, I'd like to say it again - it was (and probably still is) the best electronic Japanese-English dictionary out there, even compared with the dictionaries that cost money. I don't really have any advice to offer on the plugin development situation. It just reminds me of that saying, "give them an inch, they'll take a mile." Do what you have to do to protect yourself and your time. That you're sharing your coding talents with the world at or nearly for free is already incredibly generous. People tend to forget that there's a person on the other end, I suppose. Since I don’t use Lightroom, I have not made use of your plugins (although based on how people reference them, I probably would if I used it). However, I have made heavy use of another service of yours: the Japanese-English online dictionary. I used it almost daily during my years of Japanese study in college, and even now I still use it every now and then. I’ve thanked you for it once before, but since you could use a bit of a boost right now, I’d like to say it again – it was (and probably still is) the best electronic Japanese-English dictionary out there, even compared with the dictionaries that cost money.

I don’t really have any advice to offer on the plugin development situation. It just reminds me of that saying, “give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.” Do what you have to do to protect yourself and your time. That you’re sharing your coding talents with the world at or nearly for free is already incredibly generous. People tend to forget that there’s a person on the other end, I suppose.

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