I have an update on the nasty publish/selection bug that been plaguing some Lightroom users of late, in the selection shown in the grid is sometimes wrong.
It seems that the bug exists only when Lightroom is started with a section in the Publish Segmented Grid (“Modified Photos to Re-Publish”, etc.) is closed. So, if you ensure that all segments are open, then restart Lightroom and maintain them open, your grid-selection experience should be bug free.
Example showing two sections, one open and one closed
clicking on the little triangle to the left of a section label toggles between opened and closed
The opened/closed state of each grid section is globally shared among all collections, so opening all four possible sections (New, Modified, Deleted, and Published) once takes care of it everywhere.
Bug or not, you can always trust the selection shown in the filmstrip, so until this workaround is confirmed for sure, it's best to keep the filmstrip open so that you can notice any divergence.
This seems to be a big breakthrough in understanding this bug, and I know that Adobe is aware of it (because they tipped me off to the workaround to begin with), so I have hope we'll see a fix sooner rather than later.
I really hope “sooner”, because being able to close a grid section is the only thing that makes the segmented grid useful in large collections. I wish the current grid header would be sticky to the top of the screen as you scroll so that you know what section you're in if the header doesn't happen to be visible. I have some collections with more than 100,000 items, making a visual search utterly impracticable. Even a relatively small collection of 2,000 photos makes for 300+ rows of thumbnails to scan; very unfun unless you get lucky.
I wonder whether it'd be better overall to just get rid of the Segmented Grid, instead adding a “Publish Status” item to the Grid Filter.....
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/60 sec, f/14, ISO 5600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Either Or
Either Aeron is really tall, or I'm really short.
( or I'm lying on my back on the ground, as I sometimes do to get the shot )
I popped up this morning to the bamboo grove in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto (嵐山竹やぶ) for a little project with Aeron. I hadn't been there since last December, for the dramatic lightup event they have every year.
After we were done, I took advantage of having a wide angle lens with me so lay down on the street for some skyward shots. Here's another view looking up from the ground, without Aeron's head...
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/60 sec, f/14, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/50 sec, f/2.8, ISO 160 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flat Bunny Project?
stuffed-animal version of the Flat-Stanley Project
at the Heian Shrine (平安神宮), Kyoto Japan
I'm still overwhelmingly steeped in Lightroom plugin development of late, but did get out with the camera a few times over the weekend. On Friday I met some friends visiting Kyoto, and in the shot above one is taking a photo of a stuffed bunny at the Heian Shrine (平安神 宮), as part of a project for a friend's daughter, showing the bunny in various situations around Japan.
Over Saturday and Sunday, I took a family trip to Iwakuni in western Japan to visit some relatives, and as part of the trip stopped by Miyajima Island (宮島) and its famous Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社) for a few minutes, my first visit since 2007.
This time it was an impromptu visit after dusk (low light) without a tripod, so I probably didn't get much, but I grabbed two shots for this post. Here's someone having a bit of quiet time on the seawall...
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/4, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Moment of Solitude
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社)
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/200 sec, f/1.4, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Nightfall
The next day in Iwakuni City, while looking down from a bridge, I saw potential in the geometric shapes of this scene:
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 38mm — 1/125 sec, f/6.3, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Isolated
below the Kintai Bridge (錦帯橋), Iwakuni City, Japan
I'm not sure what's lacking, but it doesn't quite have the oomph I'd hoped.
All the photos above are of someone's back (I'm getting “back” into the swing of shooting, get it?), but here's one just to see some faces. These kids asked me to take their photo, but had no interest in getting a copy... I guess they just like posing:
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Just for the Fun of It
( whoever they are )
at the Nanzen Temple (南禅寺)
Sensationalist headlines are always a problem in American media, but now I'm seeing it in Japan as well. As I write this, Kyoto has partly cloudy skies and chirping birds, but Tokyo 400km to my east is getting absolutely shellacked by powerful Typhoon #26 of the season.
Yet, it was with surprise that I saw this headline on the Japan Times (major English daily in Japan) web site:
This “largest in a decade” surprised me, so I immediately switched to back to current data about the typhoon, screen captured here for posterity:
The maximum wind of 50 m/s (112mph) is powerful, but doesn't seem to be the most powerful I've seen even recently, much less in all the last 10 years, so the headline perplexed me.
Going back to the article, the first line of prose gives the answer: “The strongest typhoon to reach Tokyo in 10 years...”. Ah, I see. Someone apparently decided that an honest headline wasn't attention-grabbing enough. Sigh.
Incidentally, Typhoon #18 that caused flooding in Kyoto (among much else) a month ago was much weaker wind-wise, but for whatever reason was amazing water-wise, producing “once in a generation” rain over wide areas.
Anyway, the next few hours should be quite lively for the folks in Eastern Japan, so best wishes for them....
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rich October Sun
at the Shoren'in Temple (青蓮院), Kyoto Japan
I paid a visit today to the Shouren'in Temple (青蓮院) in Eastern Kyoto for a repeat of the Ikebana (生花; flower-arranging) event that last year produced all these posts:
· Serene Photos to Calm the Nerves
· Cute and Colorful Scene at the Shoren’in Temple
· More Pleasantness From The Shoren’in Temple Ikebana Event
· Revisiting Flower Arrangements at the Shoren’in Temple
Today's visit won't produce so much, but this post is a first run at some of the shots I took...
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/2000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sundrenched Moss-Covered Roots
of a huge 800-year-old “Natural Treasure of Kyoto” camphor tree
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 52mm — 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Display Maintenance
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 15mm — 1/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Stone Bridge
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/100 sec, f/9, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Main Garden
The light was really harsh today; somehow, it was better last year.
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flowers Suffering
from severe axial chromatic aberration
(just a camera-geek joke)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 160 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rich Light
nice smiles
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Water Basin
festooned for the occasion
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/30 sec, f/5.6, ISO 140 — map & image data — nearby photos
Viewing Flower Arrangements
in the garden-viewing room
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 28mm — 1/60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 125 — map & image data — nearby photos
Two Arrangements
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 58mm — 1/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
That Water Basin Again
with less sky reflections on the surface of the water
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/50 sec, f/2.8, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Passages
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Weathered Handrail
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Side Passage
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Garden-Viewing Room
from above the garden
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Cliché Bamboo
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bell
with a suspended log for a striker