Tag Archives: Lightroom

Super Moon Over Manly

Super Moon Over Manly

Super Moon Over Manly

Nearly for­got about this; so fired up the trusty Canon 7D @ ISO160 F11 with my 70-300mm IS onboard. It was pretty cloudy, but man­aged to grab a cou­ple of shots.

 

The Clouds Begin To Roll In...

The Clouds Begin To Roll In…

 

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Cunard Royal Rendezvous — What Worked, What Didn’t?

Sydney Skyline From North Head

Syd­ney Sky­line From North Head

As I men­tioned I might, last Tues­day morn­ing, with my tri­pod strapped to my bike, and my cam­era, lenses, and Mac­Book Air stuffed into a back­pack, I headed up to North Head, Manly to shoot the pass­ing of Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and Queen Eliz­a­beth as the passed into Syd­ney Har­bour. Some things worked well, but I must admit that over­all I came away dis­ap­pointed with the fruits of my labours.

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Back To The Mac

A photo of my 17

My Mac!

This post has lit­tle to do with pho­tog­ra­phy, but it per­haps does answer some of the most com­mon ques­tions I have heard at trade shows, in forums, and the like… What’s your setup? What do you use? Many will lament the com­plete lack of pho­to­graphic merit in those ques­tions, but as a tech head, I will indulge my inner geek.

I recently started read­ing a great set of inter­views where IT per­son­al­i­ties give an overview of the hard­ware and soft­ware they use per­son­ally called “The Setup”. I really love the for­mat of these inter­views, being very breezy, not get­ting bogged down in the details, while still pro­vid­ing some great insight, tips, and hints for help­ful tools and soft­ware. I doubt I would ever be invited to fea­ture in “The Setup” but I will try to write this post in the same style.

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Ships In The Night — Cunard Royal Rendezvous

Panorama pho­tos of the visit of the Cunard Line cruise ships Queen Mary 2 and Queen Eliz­a­beth to Syd­ney Har­bour. Taken from North Head, Manly, with a Canon 7D teth­ered to Adobe Light­room 3 on a Mac­Book Air. […]

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Before & After — Moody Adam

Moody Adam Three
I recently sub­scribed to an excel­lent blog enti­tled “Seri­ous Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy” by Jeff Lynch. In par­tic­u­lar I liked his how-to posts, i.e. how to achieve a cer­tain pho­to­graphic result. So in that spirit, I want to share how I cre­ated the image above…

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Some More Quick Links

Snow Leopard

Can A (Snow) Leop­ard Change It’s Spots?

Those few hardy souls fol­low­ing my Twit­ter stream must be won­der­ing what’s going on with some bizarre posts. I have been work­ing away with giv­ing my web­site a fresh lick of paint, and test­ing the changes at www.jonathanbourke.ie. It’s com­ing along nicely, but it will be a few weeks yet. The new site, while look­ing sim­i­lar to the exist­ing site, will have a more con­sis­tent struc­ture to it and will greatly ease gallery posting.

In the mean­time, here are some inter­est­ing links I came across:

  • How To Get The Best Colour Out Of Your Pho­tos — Life­hacker again comes up with a great guide for pho­tog­ra­phers. This one is heav­ily color focused, and the Pho­to­shop wiz­ardry required.
  • How to get (more) space in a news­pa­per — I fol­low the @adrianweckler on Twit­ter, edi­tor of the con­sumer tech sec­tion in the Sun­day Busi­ness Post news­pa­per in Ire­land. He shares some great tips for PR peo­ple (and pho­tog­ra­phers) in this post bemoan­ing the qual­ity of photo’s sent to journalists.
  • Light­room Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion — I spend way too much time on my pho­tog­ra­phy tools, rather than using my pho­tog­ra­phy tools. This post on Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion in Light­room def­i­nitely falls into the first cat­e­gory, but what the hell, I’ll share this link from Matt Kloskowski anyway.
  • What I’d Love to See in Light­room 4 — Damn; and I am only get­ting started on Light­room 3 (and the 3.2 release is nearly upon us, bring­ing with it direct post­ing to Face­book!). Scott Kelby gets the ball rolling with his wish list for Light­room 4, then has to defend it, before oth­ers chime in with their sug­ges­tions.
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Do You Use Lightroom? WordPress?

Lightroom & WordPress user? Then check this out!

Light­room & Word­Press user? Then check this out!

Get­ting my images from Light­room to my web­site has always been a bit of an ordeal:

  1. Select images and export from Light­room to disk
  2. Log into word­press, and man­age media
  3. Upload new images, and dig around on your hard disk to find them
  4. Cre­ate a new blog post, or page, or what­ever, and then attach the images to them
  5. Profit?

If this sounds like you, then you absolutely need this Adobe Light­room Export plu­gin from Luc Renam­bot called “Dossier De Presse”. Read on for more details and a sam­ple gallery.

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Snapshots of Rome

Slowly but surely I am sort­ing and sift­ing my way through my back cat­a­log of images. This new gallery fea­tures some of my favorite shots from a two week trip to Rome in 2007. Dur­ing that time, we really got a feel for this won­der­ful city, and espe­cially it’s food! […]

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The State Of The DAM 2 — Adobe Lightroom

Screenshot of Adobe Lightroom 2

Adobe Light­room 2

In my pre­vi­ous post on Dig­i­tal Asset Man­age­ment, I briefly out­lined some of the entry level con­tenders for DAM soft­ware such as Google Picasa and Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. In the rest of this series, I will look at some of the heavy weights, the pro­fes­sional asset man­age­ment sys­tems. I will start with the one I use most —  Adobe Light­room. Not sure if this is a good idea as I it is the prod­uct that I am most inti­mate with, know­ing its strengths and weak­nesses. Let’s get started…

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Great Overview of 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop

Image of the Photoshop CS4 splash screen on launch.

20 Years of Adobe Pho­to­shop — But is it Still Rel­e­vant for Photographers?

Web­de­signer Depot web­site has a great overview of 20 Years of Adobe Pho­to­shop. While I have Adobe Pho­to­shop CS4; I find myself using it less and less, and I won­der whether it will remain as rel­e­vant to Pho­tog­ra­phers in par­tic­u­lar in the future. The touch up tools now avail­able in  Adobe Light­room / Apple Aper­ture and the like could very well ren­der Pho­to­shop to the realm of super spe­cial­ized tool for Graphic Artists and Web Designers.

That said, it really has been a phe­nom­e­non; so much so that it is often used as a verb:

That image looks photoshopped!

A result of that is that in pop­u­lar cul­ture it now stands for all that is wrong with mag­a­zine images of skinny mod­els. It is accused of being com­pli­cated, dif­fi­cult to learn and use, and extremely expen­sive. So much so that it must be one of the most pirated pieces of soft­ware on the internet.

Still amaz­ing soft­ware though…

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