While in New York during spring break this April, we took an opportunity to visit the 9/11 Memorial. The time there impacted me such that I was moved to write an photographic essay on the Memorial. When I read it, I remember, very vividly, that day. It seemed like an…
Pages for Black and White with the Fuji X-Series Settings for Great Black and White with the Fuji X100s – Part I Settings for Great Black and White with the Fuji X100s – Part II (here) It’s a long time coming, but I wanted too finish the discussion I started…
These were images I shot early in the morning as the sun was beginning to rise over the horizon. I used the 28mm ASPH f/2.0 lens on my M9-P. I used it wide open which resulting in some natural vignetting. This particular lens has such little distortion and tremendous color…
Using SUSE Linux is wonderful for secure and stable web platforms. Recently I was installing SUSE Linux on a Dell Optiplex GX520 and I kept getting a really odd error: isolinux: Disk Error 01, AX=0201, Drive 80 As it turns out, this is due to the SATA drive which is…
Installing Linux can take longer than windows, no doubt, but once finished, linux provides a very sound platform for web servers. I use linux for some of my work and I also use Dell computers. Recently I was installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 and I ran into a…
This article covers the Edited Lists section of the Smart Collections Workflow and is part of the complete Smart Collection Workflow for Lightroom. Getting interrupted during an Edit session of a group of images is inevitable, especially when you have children! This group of Smart Collections will provide you with…
This is the first official update to the LRG Complete Advanced User’s Guide. Several new items have been added including a chapter on using Digital Image Downloading. Highlights include: A Chapter on using and testing Digital Image Downloading Using Google GMail directly with SMTP Email Updates and New Worksheets in…
There has been siginificant discussion on incremental backups in Lightroom and the need for that ability. I have a solution easy to implement that should work well. If we could add a metadata tag that was the date and time last edited, via development of some kind, or additional of…
We need to know where to give Adobe feedback on this first beta release of Lightroom 2. They have setup a special forum at this location in order to take feedback: follow this link to get to the forum. By leaving comments, we can all contribute to the improvement of…
Adobe did a great job with continued upgrade support, even when you keep an old version on your machine. After installing version 2.0 beta, I found an interesting and very good side effect. All my settings, templates and presets from version 1.3 were available in 2.0! This makes testing the…