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Blogs about photography stuff. Covering everything from reviews of gear to stories about photography situations. My forum to contribute and request information from the photography community as a whole.
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 |
Casey Hollowy Photo Shoot 2 Finished
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Had another shoot with Casey Holloway over the weekend. We got a lot done and she was, as always, extremely easy to work with.
The overcast sky was great for shooting and it was wonderful that the rain held off. We managed to get through 5 outfits over the course of the 5 hours or so that we were shooting. Below are some of the best shots.
To see more shots from this weekend and other shoots with Casey, check out the flickr gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamparkerphotography/sets/72157609833046527/
bubbles in black and white
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| Saturday, May 16th, 2009 |
Free Up Space, move old image files to an external drive.
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Ok, so there is a balance between having your files on hand for whenever you might need them and running out of hard drive space.
I was sitting at 4GB of hard drive space left free and thought it was about time to move older pictures onto another drive.
Since I break down my images into year and month I can not only keep my folder structure in line, but I can easily select the least likely images to be used and move them to another location.
There are two factors with Lightroom that make this so easy to do. First, if you move a folder, lightroom will gray-out the folder letting you know that it isn't there anymore. Then you can tell Lightroom the new location of the folder and then everything will be good to go. Secondly, when the external drive isn't connected the preview images can still be used. This means that if you have 1:1 previews on that you can basically continue to browse your entire library.
By moving 2001-2007 to a remote drive I freed up 30+ GB, room that I'll fill up in the next year.
Let me recommend Disk Inventory X to all mac users. This will graphically show you how your hard drive is being filled. It can show you the areas that lightroom is using and what areas would free up the most disc space if you moved them.
You can see how much space Lightroom takes. That yellow block is Lightroom catalog file.
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| Saturday, May 16th, 2009 |
Improve Lightroom Performance, get more RAM
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So I am a Lightroom user and I plan to be a future 5D Mark II user as well. I have been worried that the move from 8 megapixels to 21 megapixels would be too much for my computer to handle. So I started to investigate what my options were to ensure I could continue to working on my shots quickly for a long time to come.
Ok, so my main computer now is a 13 inch macbook that I got in the spring of 2008. While this had initially been working fine for Lightroom, it had started to become sluggish and I knew that if things didn't change then I would never be able to work with larger RAW files. So what were my options?
What Factors Affect Lightroom Performance
So first I want to take a second to discuss some of the factors that affect the performance of Lightroom and why.
Hard Drive
Hard drives can affect performance some and it has to do with how fast Lightroom can get access to your files. A drive with a faster spin rate will read/write images faster and Solid State Drives (SSD) can also improve that read/write speed.
This is typically a factor in slow Lightroom when a drive is close to full because finding space to write content is harder to do with a full drive.
Processor
The processor can play a huge difference when working with RAW files. This is because your computer has to work hard to take that sensor data and turn it into output for your monitor. The larger the RAW file size, the more work the processor has to do. The faster your processor is, the less time that it will take to do that work.
The processor also come into play a lot when you are using the develop module since your computer has to apply a lot of changes to an images for those development changes to show up.
Memory (RAM)
I mention a fast hard drive will help speed up Lightroom but you're going to get nowhere near the speed that your memory will give you. The problem is that when you run out of RAM, your computer has to start using the hard drive to save that information. So, the more memory you have, the more you can do before you have to move to the big/slow/ugly hard drive.
replacing the memory in a mac
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009 |
Lightroom Workflow Webinar by Photographer's Edit
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A friend and fellow photographer Rhonda Dixon clued me in to a free webinar being offered by Photographer's Edit, an online image editing service. Their objective was to show how they work through images and how they are able to quickly and efficiently process a large number of images.
Here are the main points I took from the series.
Cut Down On Ratings
I've heard this point made before but was bad at implementing it. I used 2,3,4 and 5 stars all to mean different things. The process of culling images and setting all those ratings usually means that I analyze every image 3-4 times. For a shoot of 300+ images that can easily mean several hours just to rate images.
Photographer's Edit suggested (as others have) to just have a pass/fail system with the belief that you either want to use a picture or you don't and there is no middle ground.
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| Saturday, April 4th, 2009 |
Advertising On Facebook
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So, as a small local business there are two main ways to expand your client base. They are referrals and advertising. Last month I decided to launch some advertising and now, with over 1,000,000 online impressions delivered, I want to share the results as well as the thinking and process behind the campaign.
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