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(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Camera Stuff' CategoryAbout cameras, equipment, and postprocessing techniques Adobe has officially announced the highly anticipated "Version 1.1" upgrade to their Lightroom photo-workflow application, four months after Version 1.0 was released. Lightroom creates a whole new world of organization and expression for photographers, one that fulfills many needs the user might not have even realized where there. Yet, once the user settles in, they find themselves invigorated into wanting even more organizational and creative functionality, and this free upgrade is a step in that direction. There are many new features in 1.1, some of which have been previewed already (including the new sharpening controls released in [...] 
View full post » For some reason I thought that the cherry trees in Japan generally bore no fruit, so it was with some surprise that a cherry almost hit me in the head while I was standing under a tree today. Sure enough, there were a few very small cherries (the size of large peas) here and there on the branches. It was windy and hard to get a picture of anything, but I did taste one and it was bitter-sweet, which reminded me much of what the normal wild cherries I had as a kid. I was under a cherry tree by [...] 
View full post » "I think Lightroom will be to photographers what Photoshop is to photographs." -- Reid Thaler Digital Photography Review forum post May 23, 2007 This excellent quote succinctly clarifies the difference in focus between Lightroom and Photoshop. I only wish I had come up with it! View full post » I've come to the conclusion that as a general rule, photographers are horrible writers. I haven't surveyed an overwhelming number of books on photography, but most I've seen range from "pretty bad" to, well, the most poorly-written book I've ever seen, on any subject (Bryan Peterson's "Understanding Exposure"). The only well-written book I've seen on photography is Stephen Johnson's On Digital Photography. The reason for this, almost certainly, is that these photographers are missing one of the two wholly unrelated skills that non-fiction writing demands. They know what to present because they have knowledge of the subject matter, but they [...] 
View full post » When a digital camera produces a standard JPG image file, it does so after internally processing its sensor's raw data. This processing includes the mathematical application of various settings for exposure, white balance, sharpness, color saturation, and other algorithms that massage the image data in an attempt to achieve a particular look. Many cameras offer "scene" settings that can impact how this processing is done. For example, a "portrait" setting may reduce the amount of sharpening applied. Raw When shooting in a raw format, this processing is taken out of the camera, and left to your image-processing software. I [...] 
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