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 photos because I've been busy.... such as with the new Lightroom plugin that I released yesterday, and with another portraiture/lighting practice session on Monday with Stéphane... but the main impediment to me looking at the photos has been my Lightroom curiosity with the second shot [...]

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 page.

My previous post showing some photos from Nagoya Station a couple of years ago brought to mind that I'd taken the shot above from a train while passing through Nagoya Station some years prior to that, on a shinkansen (bullet train) trip to Tokyo to visit a friend.

I remembered the shot, but I had no idea when it had been, but with Lightroom's Map module and many years of having geoencoded my photos, I could easily find the one other shot in my library that had been taken at Nagoya Station, and so here we are. (Prior to Lr4, [...]

As I've mentioned recently, I'm trying to get more skillful with formal portraiture, and to that end yesterday I had another practice session with fellow Kyoto resident Stéphane Barbery.

友達と一緒のポートレート撮影の練習、第二回目。前回と比べて、今回は道具は兆レーバルアっプしましたけれども、能力はまだまだです。 上は友達に撮ってもらった今回の僕です。

We had a ton of new lighting equipment but very little experience on how to use it, so our main goal was to just try all kinds of lighting setups to see what worked and what didn't work. I'll write more on that later.

We also tried to see what worked on the human level... there's so much more behind a good result than technical skill... you have to [...]

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 of losing their images and having no backups.

It was a lot of work and helped perhaps at best a few dozen people, but well worth the effort to help folks trying to recover years worth of memories. It was my only plugin to have [...]
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