May 2019 marks the beginning of a new milestone for me. Although good photography is largely about the skills of the photographer however there are a few other issues that need to be considered: Resale value of existing equipment – selling it before its worthless Ability to carry heavy DSLRs and space for travel New Features – focus peeking, zebras, dynamic range, and overall image quality I feel Canon has not kept up with Sony and Nikon is not even […]
As of May 2019 I use FastRawViewer to cull my images prior to importing them into Lightroom. I do this because Adobe is unable to provide consistent performance within Lightroom. Workflow as follows: Insert Card or attach Camera – FastRawViewer will start the following instructions are all within FastRawViewer Shift C to copy the card to FastRawViewerStaging area which is a folder I set up and made a favourite Star or Rate each image as desired. Images without a […]
Note: If it asks to download the latest software, be aware that when the update installation process starts, it looks hung, there is a button at the bottom right that you have to press to ‘continue’ however the button text is almost invisible. Also ensure the Monitor is using the correct calibration preset – in the following examples I left it at Calibration 1 – next time rename it. Monitor: SW320 Calibration software 1.3.4 now working with I1Pro. Plug the […]
Set camera to Aperture Mode ISO 100 Manual Focus Highest Aperture Number on lens – F16 or larger number Photograph Monitor with a white screen (say blank word document) so that the monitor is out of focus, only dust will then be visible Examine image – preferably by importing into LR
Use the info panel and move the cursor to the desired location of the flare. Note the x,y coordinates. Create a new layer filled with black (Option Delete), Filter>Render>Lens Flair>Movie Prime and then Option Click on the preview window and enter the x,y coordinates. Then change the blend mode to Screen.
After recovering as much detail as possible in LR, PS will be required to complete the process for any blown highlights. The objective is to pull grab on to even the slightest bit of contrast within the blown highlight and increase it – which by definition is to make the greys darker. First create a detailed Luminosity Mask selecting only the blown highlights. This is best accomplished by using Select > Color Range > Highlights then setting the fuzziness to […]
These steps create a luminosity mask protecting the shadows: Open the Channels Panel in PS CMD+Shift+Click the RGB Channel which selects the brights. CMD+Shift+Click the RGB Channel again and more darker areas are selected (leaving only the shadows) Cmd+Option+Shift+Click selects only highlights Cmd+delete key fills the selection with Option+delete (FG/BG) or Shift+delete key for fill options.
Command/control click the first mask in the Layers panel to load it as a selection (Cmd click on a Mac) Command/Control Shift click the second mask in the Layers panel to add to the existing selection (Cmd Sh click on a Mac) (At this point you will see marching ants around both selections. Don’t deselect.) Layer > Layer Mask > Delete Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal Selection
Copied from: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/15/how-to-make-new-t2-secured-macs-boot-from-external-drives Apple’s security processor gets in the way when you’re trying to use external drives to boot from. Fix this now because if you wait until you need to restart from one, you’ll have problems. A bundle of external drives atop a Mac mini The T2 chip that Apple has been adding to new Macs does many things to help your computer be more secure —but one of them is an issue. By default, Macs with the T2 processor […]
Every Year I plan to create a new LR Catalogue pointing to an empty clone of my Images Directory Structure then fill in images for eventual merging back to the master catalogue. The following Unix command will create a copy of my directory structure in /Areca-T2/LR JG Pics to Desktop/Temporary\ Stuff – just the folders not the files. rsync -a /Volumes/Areca-T2/LR\ JG\ Pics /Users/jeffg/Desktop/Temporary\ Stuff –include \*/ –exclude \* The Folders in Temporary Stuff can then be moved to […]