Last week, we had 2 days we did not break freezing and a low of 3 and 7 Fahrenheit. Naturally, I went to the creek and here are some of the shots I got.
Folders, Coding and Keywords
I have folders for my images on both the external hard drive and in LR. On the hard drive, the Raw images are sorted under either shoots by year and month, by trip, or subject. The “shoots” folder contains the mix of images taken during that particular month. In LR any new images are imported…
Import and Image Selection
In the beginning, while still learning much about editing photos, I decided to keep an untouched version of the image files. Today, I still do a dual import: one to an external hard drive and the other into LR where I can be ruthless in the selection of images. Knowing I can go back any…
General Information
In sharing my personal workflow, I want to invite you to think about your current workflow, to analyze it, to experiment a bit and, in the end, decide to either stay with your method or to make adjustments that streamline it for your needs. I will not go into descriptions of how to import, how…
LR Virtual Copy
LR has the wonderful feature of a virtual copy. Sometimes, while editing an image, I wonder which might result in the better photo. I can go back in the history and choose a point where I am still clear about my process, create a virtual copy and then continue with the differing ways of editing….
Triple D Game Farm
A number of my animal shots were taken at the Triple D Game Farm (currently all Cougar, Fox, Tiger, Canadian Lynx and Tundra Wolf). When I looked online, most places I found have photography as a side business and primarily cater to hunters. Triple D caters to artists – photography, painting, sculpting and film I…
Cumbres & Toltec RR
The night of 9/23 it snowed. Though not planned, when I saw the snow in the morning of the 9/24, I decided to run up to Chama and get some images of the train in the snow. Here are 2:Then, just last Friday, they had a Moonlight Run. I was wondering what kind of images…
Clarity Slider
I have a tendency to sometimes play around with an image to see what happens if …. In one of these instances, I discovered a cool application of the Clarity slider. Here is an image that I edited in my usual way: The setting for the Clarity Slider is +92 on the above image. When…
General information about my style of editing
I use Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 for my editing. Generally, I keep it to a minimum. Currently, I do no composting, that means taking parts of one image and pasting it into another. I see this often done with the moon. I grant that it can make an image very dramatic, yet…