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I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom:
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 109 ways to slice and dice your photos, including things such as “Which photos have how much crop?” and “What photos are hidden within collapsed stacks?” and “What audio frame rates are seen in my videos?”.
Plus 106 more.
I started writing it a couple of weeks ago after first creating custom Lightroom camera-calibration profiles (mentioned in “Viewing Anthony’s New Shoes with My New X-Rite ColorChecker Passport”) because it was maddening to not be able to quickly identify what photos were using which camera profiles.
Now I can quickly get:
and via the “isolate” buttons see the relevant photos.
For reasons I can't quite understand, working on this plugin has been a deeply-intensive, morning-to-night affair, much to the detriment of my normal home and photo life.
Perhaps it's because I particularly like data display, and it's a fun challenge to really make the plugin functional and useful and elegant (or, at least as elegant as Lightroom's minimal plugin infrastructure allows). There are a lot of bells and whistles... many little touches that hopefully most folks will never notice because they feel natural and intuitive, but a lot of work has gone into the details. I'm proud of the result.
There are many more details and criteria on the to-do list, but I had to draw the line somewhere or I'd never get around to releasing the plugin, nor to returning to my regularly-scheduled life.
I'm looking forward to a bit of the latter soon. Anthony's birthday party (10 years old!) is tomorrow.
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Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Oops, Hold On a Sec...”
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Gotta' Go Back...”
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Forgot Something...”
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Reunited
I've been so busy all week I've not had time to look at the two big shoots I did last week, Anthony's sports festival mentioned in my fritzing lens post, and the temple ikebana event that I posted about here and here.
The little scene above unfolded as the sun was setting on the latter event, in the garden of the Shoren'in Temple (青蓮院) in eastern Kyoto.
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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.
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — image data
“Vivid”
only begins to describe these shoes
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 a few days ago.
I still need to learn how to use it and its software to its full potential, but it's easy enough to use to profile one lighting situation...
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — image data
X-Rite Color Checker Passport
via the camera-calibration profile made with this photo
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — image data
X-Rite Color Checker Passport
via the Lightroom-default “Adobe Standard” camera-calibration profile
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — image data
X-Rite Color Checker Passport
via Adobe's “Camera Standard” camera-calibration profile
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Mousing over the buttons shows the same image processed in Lightroom using three different camera-sensor profiles; they help convert the device-dependent camera sensor color data to device-independent color data, but each with its own different interpretation.
The blues differ considerably, but every color changes.
Of course, the first question one asks is “Which is best?” or “Which is correct?”, but I don't have enough data to make a judgment yet.
I could make a judgment if I could magically view the device-independent color resulting from these profiles, comparing to the actual color squares viewed in the original light. But remember, when viewing these images on your computer, you're looking at them after they've been squeezed into the chromatically-cramped confines of the sRGB color space, compressed into the bandwidth-saving information-losing JPEG image format, filtered through a conversion to the device-dependent color data your browser thinks is needed by your display, and finally tempered by the physical limitations of your monitor (e.g. in color and brightness).
In other words, you can get some sense that there's a big difference among the interpretations, but not much else. You can't even known whether you're seeing the full extent of the differences, because some differences visible with better monitors may simply not be visible with your monitor.
I'll do tests later with the well-calibrated better-gamut Eizo monitor I have on my desktop machine, but for the moment I'll just note that there is indeed quite a difference.
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Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 5000 — image data
Shunsoku
a name that implies you can run really quickly with these shoes
( a marketing ploy that, according to the one data point I have, works 100% of the time )
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 9000 — image data
Off To School
this is the last time I will see these shoes even remotely close to clean
(I'm not happy with the composition of the shoe shots... they're all off angle one way or another. I had forgotten to get the shots earlier, so was quickly trying to get some before he ran off to school. He was breakfasting on Fumie's hand-made French Toast a few feet away while I was snapping them.)
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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 know how it can be improved.
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Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/160 sec, f/2.5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Inquisitive Kid
checking out the carp at the Shoren'in Temple (青蓮院), Kyoto Japan
What a difference a day makes.
Yesterday I had such a wonderful, inspiring time at the ikebana show at the Shoren'in Temple; today was great until the evening when I had the mind-numbing, soul-sucking experience of spending four hours on half a dozen travel web sites trying to find reasonable tickets for Fumie and her folks to visit my folks this winter when Anthony and I are already visiting.
Through the process I became intimately familiar with global flight schedules, but was unable to produce an itinerary that combined the best flights for us... every travel web site I checked would invariably not offer the best flight on one segment, no matter what options I selected. To give you a feel for how desperate I became trying to build this Atlantis itinerary, I even tried the pure-Evil that is Orbitz.
In the end I got an okay itinerary at a relatively great price, so I guess I shouldn't complain. I also guess I should let my folks know that they'll finally meet my wife's folks. (I suppose, though, I've just done that with this post.)
In any case, the process left me devoid of life, so I quickly scanned through the photos from yesterday's ikebana (flower-arranging) show presented at the eminently classy Shoren'in Temple, grabbing the first half dozen photos that calmed my nerves, and so here we are.
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 5000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rio-chan's Arrangement
by Anthony's fourth-grade classmate
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/160 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Temple Hallway
always on the outside edge of the building
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 4500 — map & image data — nearby photos
I'd normally caption this as
“Pensive”
but since this is a kid, “Bored” is probably correct
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/160 sec, f/2.5, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Checking Email
with style
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/160 sec, f/2.5, ISO 3600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Photo Opp
by a very young kid in full-on kimono
Like yesterday's event, this post combines a number of photogenic elements... a nice temple, nice kimono, and nice flower arrangements. All have been featured many times on my blog, but for a few ideas to explore...
- Temples — my blog's “Temples & Shrines” category
- Nice kimon — see this, this, this, this, this, and probably a hundred others.
- Ikebana — here, here, here, and here, among others.