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Arisia (bellydance) photos
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/105385377744489605309/albums/5895484642052347617
That URL should get you to the album. Let me know if it doesn't work. Also let me know if there's a picture of you up there that you'd rather wasn't on the Web.
I'm a little frustrated by the changes Google has made to how photos are handled - essentially all the useful functionality that was in Picasa/Picasaweb is gone now. I'm sure its auto-correct functionality is great for hobbyists who just want to blast whatever comes out of their camera onto the Web but it's a gigantic pain if you are an actual photographer.
At 154 published shots this is the largest collection I've put together (I think). The original set was somewhat larger; I'm trying to follow Steve Simon's dictum to shoot more when I have the camera in hand. Lately I've not been as good about that.
This collection was also the first managed exclusively with Adobe Lightroom. The software is clearly focused on doing the things that photographers usually do, such as fixing white balances and exposure. It even lets you work directly with the color histogram, which Photoshop does not, and it has a better set of tools for managing collections of photos. Its one big failing seems to be in the area of content manipulation - you get a "spot removal" tool, which does a tolerable job at the most basic pixel-wiping but that's really it. I'll almost certainly continue using Lightroom for most things, but I might try tossing the best images over to Photoshop for fine-tuning.
This particular shoot was affected by Arisia's decision not to provide pipe-and-drape to give a proper background mask, and by a lighting design that left harsh shadows in many places. I did what I could about the latter and used the former as part of the art - there are shots in the collection of the dancers and their shadows in deliberate juxtaposition.
Everything is an experiment; everything is a learning experience.
That URL should get you to the album. Let me know if it doesn't work. Also let me know if there's a picture of you up there that you'd rather wasn't on the Web.
I'm a little frustrated by the changes Google has made to how photos are handled - essentially all the useful functionality that was in Picasa/Picasaweb is gone now. I'm sure its auto-correct functionality is great for hobbyists who just want to blast whatever comes out of their camera onto the Web but it's a gigantic pain if you are an actual photographer.
At 154 published shots this is the largest collection I've put together (I think). The original set was somewhat larger; I'm trying to follow Steve Simon's dictum to shoot more when I have the camera in hand. Lately I've not been as good about that.
This collection was also the first managed exclusively with Adobe Lightroom. The software is clearly focused on doing the things that photographers usually do, such as fixing white balances and exposure. It even lets you work directly with the color histogram, which Photoshop does not, and it has a better set of tools for managing collections of photos. Its one big failing seems to be in the area of content manipulation - you get a "spot removal" tool, which does a tolerable job at the most basic pixel-wiping but that's really it. I'll almost certainly continue using Lightroom for most things, but I might try tossing the best images over to Photoshop for fine-tuning.
This particular shoot was affected by Arisia's decision not to provide pipe-and-drape to give a proper background mask, and by a lighting design that left harsh shadows in many places. I did what I could about the latter and used the former as part of the art - there are shots in the collection of the dancers and their shadows in deliberate juxtaposition.
Everything is an experiment; everything is a learning experience.
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also in LR5: amazing perspective/upright correction tools. you don't photograph buildings much, but i'm loving it :)
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(Also, I'm wondering if you saw my "Hills" entry, which was kind of your fault or dedicated to you, take your pick.)