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jgilbert on April 15th, 2009
I use Adobe Lightroom as my primary image management software on both the PC and Macintosh. One of my persistent frustrations has been the “creeping slowness” issue, especially on an extended shoot. For instance, on day one of my trip to Africa last year, my catalog had about 8000 images and was nice and speedy. [...]
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Check out this 360 degree panorama on a clear day from near the top of El Yunque National Rainforest, Puerto Rico. The day I went up there, there were no clouds and no rain, resulting in a view that apparently is very rare to enjoy. Altogether, I ended up with a 116 megapixel image, stitched [...]
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There is a great plaza in the northwest section of San Juan where skateboarders gather each afternoon to practice challenge each other to perform tricks. On my daily walks through the old part of the city, I made it a point to stop by each day and see if there were any shots to grab.
To [...]
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OK Adobe Lightroom Team, Apple Aperture team, are you listening? I’ve just spent the last 10+ hours doing something manually that belongs in your products (Lightroom & Aperture): Correcting the perspective and lens distortion of photos non-destructively.
Here’s the problem: I have about 30-40 photos that need to undergo this process:
Please, will someone out there do [...]
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Work continues on my photo sorting. Currently I plan a few different collections to share:
A geotagged photo gallery, offering an immersive tour inside the old city of San Juan
A “best of the island” gallery, oriented towards travel
An artistic gallery, slanted to my own perspective on the shapes and colors of Puerto Rico
Here is one photo [...]
On my trip to San Juan Puerto Rico, I decided to make my first formal foray into the world of geotagging. On advice of my friend Saadiq, I brought along a GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr, a small USB device that records your location and time. So far, I’ve managed to geotag nearly all of the photos on [...]
Photos from my three week trip to East Africa have been posted here. Please leave comments and let me know your favorites on Flickr.
A short photo essay to share!
For some reason, this photo sucks.
It seemed so intruging when I took it — deep vignetting and narrow depth of field due to f/1.4, rain, atmospheric colors, and geometric unity among the horizontal lines.
A little bit of editing to amplify these attributes, and now, crap.
Can someone smarter and more artistic than I am help explain [...]
Both are great products, but which one is better? This question comes across my desk every so often, so I figured I’d take the time to give this topic some serious treatment.
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