Comments for Inside Lightroom http://inside-lightroom.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Inside Lightroom 2: The serious photographer’s guide to Lightroom efficiency by Don Ricklin http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/11/14/inside-lightroom-2-the-serious-photographers-guide-to-lightroom-efficiency/#comment-520 Don Ricklin Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:54:45 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=209#comment-520 Richard, I am glad to see that this is finally out! Good luck with sales. It is an excellent book. Best Regards, Don Richard, I am glad to see that this is finally out! Good luck with sales. It is an excellent book.

Best Regards,

Don

]]> Comment on Why do we back up so much? by Dan http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/11/why-do-we-back-up-so-much/#comment-518 Dan Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:59:42 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=173#comment-518 To be honest anything rated 0 or 1 in my book is either so bad it's useless or so mundane I could recreate it again within 5 minutes. One thing I hate is having multiple copies of the same shot a few seconds apart; open them in survey/compare and pick two or three at the most. If you need 100s of shots fractions of seconds apart you won't be reading this; if you're reading this you don't need 100s of shots fractions of seconds apart. To be honest anything rated 0 or 1 in my book is either so bad it’s useless or so mundane I could recreate it again within 5 minutes.
One thing I hate is having multiple copies of the same shot a few seconds apart; open them in survey/compare and pick two or three at the most. If you need 100s of shots fractions of seconds apart you won’t be reading this; if you’re reading this you don’t need 100s of shots fractions of seconds apart.

]]> Comment on Film Emulation Presets by Michael W. Gray http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/11/02/film-emulation-presets/#comment-490 Michael W. Gray Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:36:50 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=205#comment-490 Thank you for the kind mention. Michael W. Gray Gray Imaging & Photography Thank you for the kind mention.

Michael W. Gray
Gray Imaging & Photography

]]> Comment on Lightroom 2.1 by pepemosca http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/24/lightroom-21/#comment-205 pepemosca Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:51:55 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=196#comment-205 Thank you for the explanation! I was confused :) Thank you for the explanation!

I was confused :)

]]> Comment on Lightroom 2.1 will be released later today by Aric Hoek http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/22/lightroom-21-will-be-released-later-today/#comment-191 Aric Hoek Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:08:17 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=192#comment-191 Good hopefully just keeps getting better. Looking forward to your review. Good hopefully just keeps getting better. Looking forward to your review.

]]> Comment on Why do we back up so much? by David Knoble http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/11/why-do-we-back-up-so-much/#comment-175 David Knoble Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:41:55 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=173#comment-175 I realize I fall in the minority, but I while I really love my Leica M8, I also still use my M4 and M6 regularly. This means I still shoot film, black and white and color slide film. What this gives me is a reasonable 'hard' backup. I have no trouble deleting rejects and non-flagged images as I know that I can rescan it if need be. I guess this is a form of backup, but takes up less space than another hard drive. I am working through the same issues here with regards to digital. CD's and DVD's don't really have a great lifespan, but they may be good for keeping reject only backups. My current thoughts on a reject workflow include copying the rejects to DVD, deleting them from Lightroom and waiting. Then, if I ever have to access the DVD, I add the file back to the catalog. If I never access the DVD, then one day when it no longer reads I can throw it away with confidence. Just my thoughts! I realize I fall in the minority, but I while I really love my Leica M8, I also still use my M4 and M6 regularly. This means I still shoot film, black and white and color slide film. What this gives me is a reasonable ‘hard’ backup.

I have no trouble deleting rejects and non-flagged images as I know that I can rescan it if need be. I guess this is a form of backup, but takes up less space than another hard drive.

I am working through the same issues here with regards to digital. CD’s and DVD’s don’t really have a great lifespan, but they may be good for keeping reject only backups. My current thoughts on a reject workflow include copying the rejects to DVD, deleting them from Lightroom and waiting. Then, if I ever have to access the DVD, I add the file back to the catalog. If I never access the DVD, then one day when it no longer reads I can throw it away with confidence.

Just my thoughts!

]]> Comment on Why do we back up so much? by Richard Earney http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/11/why-do-we-back-up-so-much/#comment-174 Richard Earney Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:33:05 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=173#comment-174 I am assuming that there is a distinction between Rejects and Zeros. My first task is always to weed out the Rejects. I simple press the Caps Lock key (to auto advance) and go through a shoot. Anything that is a reject gets an X. I review the rejects before deleting, then they are gone - deleted from disk. The question is whether the Zeros are bad enough to Reject, or worth revisiting. I suppose the answer is if you are ambivalent about them then they should go! I am assuming that there is a distinction between Rejects and Zeros. My first task is always to weed out the Rejects.
I simple press the Caps Lock key (to auto advance) and go through a shoot. Anything that is a reject gets an X. I review the rejects before deleting, then they are gone - deleted from disk.

The question is whether the Zeros are bad enough to Reject, or worth revisiting. I suppose the answer is if you are ambivalent about them then they should go!

]]> Comment on Why do we back up so much? by AndrĂ© Berg http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/10/11/why-do-we-back-up-so-much/#comment-173 AndrĂ© Berg Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:40:22 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=173#comment-173 Seeing that I'm not a pro, I'm not discarding my livelihood when I delete photos. So I'm not afraid of doing so. But regardless of this, I don't see the excellent "reject" mentioned here, or by Scott, even though he speaks of deleting the "really bad ones". For my part, the most used "flag" is neither stars nor the pick flag, but the reject flag. There's nothing I hate more then clutter, and my bad photos, the ones I don't consider giving a star or a pick flag are exactly that; clutter, rubbish, garbage -something to be away and done with. The good ones; not just the mere keeper's, but basically the "picks", they usually end up in a Collection where they are easy to find. And with all the labeling, sorting (and searching) options available in LR, there's usually no problem finding that "one" shot, it being a photo of the reflection of golden leaves mirrored in a mountain lake a couple of years back, or the photo of my kid on her 412 day smearing that chocolate cake all over. As for keeping a backup, sure I do. I import my shoot, delete my rejects and then let Time Machine (OS X) work its magic. (I see no need to let the rejects neither take up place on my hard drive (why should they, they are rejects!), nor on my backup media (they are still rejects!) Seeing that I’m not a pro, I’m not discarding my livelihood when I delete photos. So I’m not afraid of doing so. But regardless of this, I don’t see the excellent “reject” mentioned here, or by Scott, even though he speaks of deleting the “really bad ones”.

For my part, the most used “flag” is neither stars nor the pick flag, but the reject flag. There’s nothing I hate more then clutter, and my bad photos, the ones I don’t consider giving a star or a pick flag are exactly that; clutter, rubbish, garbage -something to be away and done with.

The good ones; not just the mere keeper’s, but basically the “picks”, they usually end up in a Collection where they are easy to find. And with all the labeling, sorting (and searching) options available in LR, there’s usually no problem finding that “one” shot, it being a photo of the reflection of golden leaves mirrored in a mountain lake a couple of years back, or the photo of my kid on her 412 day smearing that chocolate cake all over.

As for keeping a backup, sure I do. I import my shoot, delete my rejects and then let Time Machine (OS X) work its magic. (I see no need to let the rejects neither take up place on my hard drive (why should they, they are rejects!), nor on my backup media (they are still rejects!)

]]> Comment on Instant JPEG from Raw by Richard Earney http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/09/25/instant-jpeg-from-raw/#comment-163 Richard Earney Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:15:56 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=164#comment-163 You need to feed this back to Michael Tapes at his address. It is a useful tool! You need to feed this back to Michael Tapes at his address.
It is a useful tool!

]]> Comment on Lightroom 2.1 RC released by Richard Earney http://inside-lightroom.com/2008/09/19/lightroom-21-rc-released/#comment-162 Richard Earney Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:14:22 +0000 http://inside-lightroom.com/?p=157#comment-162 Lightroom 2.1RC already contains the ACR 4.6 code. So it is already up to date. ACR is a separate plugin and cannot be installed in Lightroom. It is for Bridge and Photoshop. Lightroom 2.1RC already contains the ACR 4.6 code. So it is already up to date. ACR is a separate plugin and cannot be installed in Lightroom. It is for Bridge and Photoshop.

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