ASMP Presentation March 21st
I will be doing a presentation for the ASMP on March 21st on Lightroom 4 workflows and concepts at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Should be a fun night of image editing, importing, exporting and socializing. The presentation is 2 hours from 7-9 with a little social mixer starting around 6:30. [...]
Where is my stuff
I am teaching a class on organizing (and finding) your digital assets at the Photographic Center Northwest on the weekend of March 2-3 from 12-4 each day. If you are looking to get a handle on your digital photographs I encourage you to sign up there are still a few seats available. We will be [...]
My first bike race
This past weekend while photographing for the Photographic Center Northwest’s Longshot event, I wandered over into the great neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle. One of my favorite outdoor stores (Second Ascent) was sponsoring a bicycle criterium race. The event was timed and with some fast riders so lots of laps. This was my first time [...]
A new lesson learned (Critique)
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a blind critique session. If you haven’t ever done one before you basically submit your work and a person or group of people provide feedback about the work. The interesting aspect of the process is that the feedback is done in isolation without any dialog between the [...]
Lightroom Collections Workflow
Adobe Lightroom has a number of options for you to manage your workflow. One of the best ways is through the use of collections. I was a folder organizer for a number of years even with Lightroom on my machine, but once I understood the value of collections, collection sets and smart collections I never [...]
Adobe Lightroom 3 Importing
I am currently teaching a Lightroom class and having a great time. Hopefully the other people in class can say the same. Because of the number of features and limited class time, I agreed that if there was a topic covered in class that any student wanted covered again I would create a video and [...]
Starry Nights Experiment Part 2
Sometimes in life your best laid plans can go to waste, and so you have a choice of lemons or lemonade. Several years ago, I visited the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and fell in love with the place. It is a great location just west of the Columbia River off Interstate 90 [...]
Composition basics matter even in snapshots
These two images are an example of why little things matter when we compose and create images. I selected these images because in many ways they are based on a just so-so image. I think they are good sketches of what might come from my work with motion, land and water, but they are not [...]
The ever changing top 10 favorite Lightroom shortcuts and tips
As I use Lightroom more and more, I have been trying to find as many of the keyboard shortcuts and usability features that directly impact my workflow. I know that keyboard shortcut are one of the many ways to really increasing your workflow efficiency. As with most of software programs, once the new discovery becomes [...]
Importing Collection Sets into Lightroom 3
Updated on November 28, 2011: I recently created a video to better show this process. I hope the video helps make it easier to understand this workaround. <—-Original Post—–> I was recently a conversation on twitter (with @aboutrc @iTwitThis @ErikVPhoto ) about an issue with automating folder creation within collection sets in Lightroom 3. The [...]
Shooting Smoke
As I continue to work on my four elements project I have started to think about how to represent the concept of air. Initially, my thought was to have the air be represented by smoke. The ever changing shapes within the smoke seemed like an interesting opportunity to work with patterns and textures. I also [...]
Where there is smoke….
I have been thinking about a new project for some time and finally have begun working on the process to create the images. I am still at a sketching phase for the project, but I am loosely thinking of the project along the lines of the four classic elements proposed by Empedocles. Empedocles proposed that [...]
