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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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Enjoy!
Full gallery here.
You might be also interested in photos of Meatball, taken on the same trip.
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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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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 [...]
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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Do you need a great camera to take great pictures?
My main shooting rig is a Canon 1Ds mark III digital camera, and indeed, with this terrific (albeit quite expensive) camera I have taken a number of well-regarded photographs, some of which have even sold for multiple hundreds of dollars. However, one of my very [...]