Tag Archives: Lightroom
Pondering Portraits
My wife took this portrait of our daughter dressed up for her school leaver’s party. And while it may have been my wife who wielded the camera and pressed the shutter, I think of the end result as more of … Continue reading
Filed under Photographic technique, Photography, Portraits
Lightroom Sony lens profiles: Tamron to the rescue
I had all but given up on being able to use the Lightroom lens correction feature with my Sony 18-250 lens, finding myself a long way down the road to utter exifsperation. Hardly any coverage of Sony lens profiles in … Continue reading
Filed under lenses, Photography, Workflow
Exifsperated!
The release of Lightroom 3 was supposed to banish my barrel distortion blues. At last Adobe had plugged one of Lightroom’s most glaring omissions – the ability to correct for lens distortion – an area where it had been lagging behind competing … Continue reading
Filed under lenses, Photography
Jilting DxO
My love affair with DxO is over. It reached a passionate crescendo then came to an abrupt end. There is no going back. My hopes have been dashed and my heart broken. Last weekend I had an opportunity to put … Continue reading
Filed under Photography
DxO Special
As someone who has built their worfkflow around Adobe Lightroom, it never occurred to me that there might be any serious mileage, image quality wise, in looking at other RAW conversion software. Lightroom has established itself as one of the … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Workflow
Lightroom Catalog – post-crash recovery
Barely 6 months old, my Seagate FreeAgent 500GB external drive died on me a few days ago, taking my photo files with it. Its demise was quite sudden, following a short illness whose chief symptoms were that some files or … Continue reading
Filed under Backup, Photography, Workflow
DNG is bigger than Adobe
I took a detailed look at workflow a while back, concentrating on the choice of file formats for image capture, processing, end use and storage. At the time I was gravitating towards use of RAW plus XMP (sidecar) files for … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Workflow
