As I said before, I’ve discovered Adobe Lightroom (who are polite enough to offer free 30 day trials with just a download – no craptastic registration or anything). I’ve been working my way through adobe’s PDF overview and have bought my first LR book – Beardsworth’s “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”. B&N had another one, but it [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
New Glass
Monday, March 17, 2008
I couldn’t help myself.
Last thursday at Tylers my friend Celeste let me take her picture at both 50mm and 30mm using my Nikon 18-55 kit lens. Since the kit lens is a fairly slow 3.5-5.6, the hand-held shot in low light was pretty blurry. But my goal was simply to see which focal [...]
Something new
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
So, on the recommendation of Jimmy Dorff from physics, I tried out Adobe Lightroom. Its amazing.
I’ve been using f-spot in gnome on linux. Its _ok_. But I really haven’t been happy with how you go through new photos and figure out which ones you want to keep. Lightroom does this astoundingly well.
Only problem is, I [...]
Rolling Hot
Sunday, March 2, 2008
I was roaming around Durham taking pictures again when I decided to have lunch at Elmo’s Diner. Since I was on 9th street anyway, I decided to shoot Fire Station #2 where Neal, my brother-in-law works.
Even better, I recognized his Blazer parked out back and called him on the cell phone. I got a couple [...]