Lightroom Keyword bug solution

August 20, 2008

Adobe had released a fix for the problem in transferring keywords when you update to Lightroom v2.0, previously reported here.

“Keywords from Photoshop Lightroom 1.x not included on export from Photoshop Lightroom 2.
When you update your catalog to Photoshop Lightroom 2, the Include On Export keyword tag option is not selected, so if you export your photos from Photoshop Lightroom 2, your keywords are not exported with your photos.”

solution: Lightroom fix

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Archive using Bare HDD BlacX dock

August 18, 2008

Photographers needing to archive large numbers of images have taken to plugging in bare Hard Drives, cataloging the contents, and then storing them in a cupboard or off-site.

Hard drives are said to be more reliable and cheaper than CD/DVDs.

But its been a precarious activity, with the need to create your own bespoke set of data and power leads in order to temporarily connect the drives.

Now Thermaltake have created a set of special BlacX docks to easily achieve just this.

They accept 2.5 and 3.5 SATA drives up to 1tb and can be bought on Amazon USA for around $35 - $45.

link: Thermaltake

link: Blacx on Amazon

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Digital Imaging Summer School

August 16, 2008

Back in July Adobe held a Digital Imaging Summer School in Amsterdam, featuring Mikkel Aaland, Arjan van Bruggen and Ton Fredriks, talking about Lightroom and a touch of CS3 too. Well you might just not have been able to get there, but the kind folks have made several videos of the classes available to watch.
(Note: Ton presents in Dutch and Mikkel presents in English)
Digital Imaging Summer School - Session 1 Clip1 [Ton Fredriks 6 mins]
Digital Imaging Summer School - Session 1 Clip2 [Mikkel Aaland 50 mins]
Digital Imaging Summer School - Session 1 Clip3  [Ton Fredriks 35 mins]

Ton Fredriks Photoshop CS3 Extended [29 mins]
Mikkel Aaland (Part1) [26 mins]
Mikkel Aaland (Part 2) [23 mins]

link: Adobe Digital Summer School

link: Lightroom Adventure 2 in Tasmania - Gallery

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Lightoom Mask revealed

August 16, 2008

Having trouble using the new masks in Lightroom 2.0, such as when you’re using the Adjustment brush or Graduation tool?
James Duncan Davidson gives you some tips on how to see what you’re doing, in this short O’Reilly article.

link: Viewing Your Masks

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Photo Editors - a new generation?

August 16, 2008

Rob Haggart, a photo editor himself, has interviewed Ryan Schick who is the photo editor at Condé Nast’s Portfolio.com, where he sources all the daily news pictures and develops larger photo essay projects.

Ryan embraces new technology  and uses Instant Messaging facilities to communicate on a daily basis with photographers. He also finds photographer’s blogs a great way to keep up to date with their latest thoughts and projects, because their news feds are directly available in his web browser (just like here on Prodig). But he’s also impressed by the photographer who has taken the long-term investment strategy of developing personal relationships with his or her editors.

link: read the article in full

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interview: Tom Hogarty

August 12, 2008

Martin Evening has interviewed Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty, over on Lightroom News.

link: Tom Hogarty interview

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iPhone web sites for photographers

August 10, 2008

A photo editor let us know about this…

“A wicked-simple website solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed for photographers and creative professionals, Small Folio let’s you create a web presence that looks great on one of the hottest mobile devices.”

Requires PHP, no database, and comes with a Photoshop action for preparing images. Cost is $49.

link: Smallfolio.com

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Nikon P6000

August 7, 2008

Nikon has unveiled its competition to Canon’s G9, the Nikon P6000. Available from 12th September Nikon manage to translate a US $499.95 into £429 for the UK (umm my exchange rate calculator makes that £254!)

It’s packed full of features, such as an equivalent 28-112mm lens, 13.5 megapixels,  GPS, and ethernet connection. BUT its RAW format is proprietory and requires Windows Image Component to be able to use it. So Vista users are OK but the rest of us are stuffed until they release a codec so we can convert imported files to DNG.

link: Nikon P6000 specification

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Does new Canon MkIII firmware give reliable autofocus?

August 5, 2008

Rob Galbraith, in a 1,700 word essay, compares the Canon EOS 1D Mark III’s autofocus performance of firmware v1.1.3 with  v1.2.3

link: Rob Galbraith article

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