{"id":1386,"date":"2009-12-04T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-04\/1386"},"modified":"2009-12-05T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T12:28:33","slug":"paul-barr-stonecarvers-garden-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-04\/1386","title":{"rendered":"Paul Barr + Stonecarver&#8217;s Garden + Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1386'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n  #post1386 { background-color: black }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"039746\" href=\"\/i\/PaulBarr_039746.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/PaulBarr_039746_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Water Basin Copyright 2009 Paul Barr -- Nishimura Stone Lanterns -- Kyoto, Japan\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"i039746\"\nstyle=\"margin-bottom:45px\"\ntitle=\"Photo copyright 2009 Paul Barr\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span style='color:#777' class='caption'>Water Basin<\/span>\n<div style='margin-top:10px; color:#555'>Copyright 2009 Paul Barr<\/div>\n<span style='color:#333' class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D3 + <span class='nobr'>Nikkor 24<\/span>-70mm f\/2.8 @ 42 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4, ISO 2800 &mdash;\n<a style='color:#383838' href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FPaulBarr_039746.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a  style='color:#383838' href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/PaulBarr_039746.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style='margin-top:100px'>As <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-03\/1385\"><span class='nobr'>I mentioned<\/span>\nyesterday<\/a>, Paul Barr and <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a return<\/span> visit to the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-12-02\/1383\">Nishimura Stone Lantern\nworkshop<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was more amazing than I could have possibly imagined. <span class='nobr'>It was overwhelming<\/span>. <span class='nobr'>I am so<\/span> exhausted (from it, and from not having slept last\nnight trying to build <span class='nobr'>a plugin<\/span> for Adobe Lightroom <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/picasa-face-import\">to import\nface-recognition data<\/a> from Google's Picasa photo app) that <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> not even\nunloaded my images from the camera.<\/p>\n\n<p>But Paul, who has never used Lightroom, wanted to give it <span class='nobr'>a try,<\/span> so <span class='nobr'>I\nloaded<\/span> his images and gave him about <span class='nobr'>a minute's<\/span> instruction, and let him\nloose. Having been inspired by some of St\u00e9phane Barbery's recent work\n&ndash; such as <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-10-26\/1343\">his\n<i>Jidai Matsuri<\/i> shots<\/a>, or what he <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.flickriver.com\/photos\/barbery\/\">posted on Flickr last\nnight<\/a> (is there <span class='nobr'>a way<\/span> to link to <span class='nobr'>a specific<\/span> point in <span class='nobr'>a Flickr<\/span>\nphotostream???) &ndash; Paul's experimentation tended along those lines.<\/p>\n\n<p>Paul was limited by a lack of understanding about the tool (Lightroom),\nand <span class='nobr'>a lack<\/span> of ever having thought along these artistic lines, but one of\nthe results before he, too, got too tired is really impressive, and with\nhis permission <span class='nobr'>I show<\/span> it above.<\/p>\n\n<p>I created a snapshot of his version, then lowered the vibrance way down,\nwhich quieted the colors considerably, and suggested that <i>that<\/i> would\nbe St\u00e9phane's version, but who knows? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<p>For context, here's another of Paul's photos of the same stone water\nbasin, from <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span> angle, without any post processing....<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"039749\" href=\"\/i\/PaulBarr_039749.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/PaulBarr_039749_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Copyright 2009 Paul Barr -- Nishimura Stone Lanterns -- Kyoto, Japan\"\nid=\"i039749\"\ntitle=\"Copyright 2009 Paul Barr -- Nishimura Stone Lanterns -- Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D3 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 50 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1600 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FPaulBarr_039749.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/PaulBarr_039749.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/>Copyright 2009 Paul Barr\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The garden behind the stonecarver's workshop was awe inspiring\nchin-dropping emotionally-overwhelming amazing.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-05\/1387\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was more amazing than I could have possibly imagined. It was overwhelming. I am so exhausted (from it, and from not having slept last night trying to build a plugin for Adobe Lightroom to import face-recognition data from Google's Picasa photo app) that I have not even unloaded my images from the camera.<\/p> <p>But Paul, who has never used Lightroom, wanted to give it a try, so I loaded his images and gave him about a minute's instruction, and let him loose. Having been inspired by some of St\u00e9phane Barbery's recent work &ndash; such as his Jidai Matsuri shots, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,2,13,23,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}