yOOrek's Rants'n Raves » Lightroom Plugins http://blog.yoorek.com The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:40:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Playing with Storyboarder http://blog.yoorek.com/2011/02/09/playing-with-storyboarder/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2011/02/09/playing-with-storyboarder/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:46:11 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/?p=813 Storyboarder is a nice Lightroom plug-in by Thimothy Ames that allows you to create ‘story boards’ like below from the selected photos.

Zürich street scenes

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2011/02/09/playing-with-storyboarder/feed/ 2 Zürich circa 2010 http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/06/03/zurich-circa-2010/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/06/03/zurich-circa-2010/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:21:04 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/06/03/zurich-circa-2010/ Just trying out my 35mm. The title will make sense in about hundred years or so. I always wonder how people will perceive the photos taken in the first decade of the 21st century. Just think how you perceive the ones that are old. And then do some mental time traveling.

Zürich circa 2010

Zürich circa 2010 Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Zürich, Switzerland, May 2010

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View On Black | White

• NIKON D700 • 1/500 sec at f/3.5 (0 EV) • ISO 200 • Pattern metering • Aperture priority • no flash • 35mm f/2 @ 35 mm •

• NIKON D700 • Shooting Mode=Single-Frame • AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D • VR=Off • Focus Mode=AF-C • AF Area Mode=Dynamic Area (9 points) • Primary AF Point=C6 (Center) • AF Points Used=C6 • Focus Distance=3.98 m • DOF=3.05 m (2.97 – 6.02) • FOV=54.0 deg (4.06 m) • Hyperfocal Distance=11.65 m • Light Source=Unknown • Flash=No Flash • Flash Mode=Did Not Fire • Flash Control Mode=Off • Flash Setting=Normal • Flash Type= • Flash Flags=(none) • Group A (Mode, Compensation, Output)=(Off, 0, -) • Group B (Mode, Compensation, Output)=(Off, 0, -) • Group C (Mode, Compensation, Output)=(0, 0, -) • File Type=NEF • Bit Depth=14 •

2010-05-24-1947-4858

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Copyright (C) 2010 yOOrek

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Here is a photo I took the other day. Used remote flash, camera left, triggered by CLS. After importing it to Lightroom, I converted it to B&W using SilverEfex Pro. Here is the result. I have a feeling that this software will become my friend for a long time.

Ms. F.

Ms. F. Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Wallhausen, Germany, July 2009

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• NIKON D50 • 1/60 sec at f/2.5 (0 EV) • ISO 200 • Pattern metering • Aperture priority • Remote flash • Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4D @ 50 mm •

2009-07-22-2119-2040-Edit-1

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2009/07/26/silver-efex-pro/feed/ 0 What a difference a well done preset makes http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:36:11 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/what-a-difference-a-well-done-preset-makes/ I came across a site, www.presetsheaven.com, that hosts quite a number of Lightroom presets. One of them, PH Naturally BW has been used to post process this photo. I also used Adobe Camera Portrait Beta 2 profile. Rather nice end result, wouldn’t you say?

On a slightly different note, all is coming nicely together for me on the photography front. LR2.1 has been released recently. I do not experience any problems with it whatsoever. LR export plugins are doing their job of uploading the photos to Flickr™ or Zenfolio very nicely. All my uploaded photos have proper title, complex, automatically generated caption, plus a discrete watermark is applied (and I am not talking about the copyright text in the right bottom corner). I have to admit that my photographic work flow has evolved into something I’m very happy and content with.

To make things even better, after the move, when unpacking some boxes I didn’t even realized still existed, I came across an old set of Cokin filters I used in my film camera days. And guess what? The filter adapter is 72mm (perfect for my Sigma 10-20), the stash includes couple of soft edge ND grad filters (recently I was thinking of getting them). A polarizer (although it is not circular polarizer so this is of limited, if any use on digital camera). And I thought they were all lost when we moved from the land of OZ to Switzerland.

Life is full of surprises.

Maya (B&W)

Maya (B&W) Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, October 2008

Maya before going to a coctail party in Zürich.

Post processing in Lightroom 2.1. Preset used – PH Naturally BW from www.presetsheaven.com/

• NIKON D50 • 1/400 sec at f/4.5 (0 EV) • ISO 400 • Spot metering • Shutter priority • flash fired • 18-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 70 mm •

2008-10-24-1949-23

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Lake Constance (Bodensee)

Lake Constance (Bodensee) Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Wallhausen, Germany, September 2008

Looking towards lake Constance I was struck by the nice contrast between the grass and the sky. Little help from LR2.1 and the graduated filter et voila…

• NIKON D50 • 1/250 sec at f/8.0 (0 EV) • ISO200 • Pattern metering • Aperture priority • no flash • 105 mm f/2.8 @ 105 mm •

2008-09-20-1528-28

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/10/02/lake-constance-bodensee/feed/ 2 Vertigo http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/09/20/vertigo/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/09/20/vertigo/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:30:16 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/vertigo/ Finally I decided to take a plunge and upgrade to Lightroom 2.0. So far it works for me. I do not experience the symptoms other users are describing. Perhaps LR gremlins will rise their ugly heads and bite me – who knows. The real icing on the cake as far as I am concerned, are the new export plugins by Jeffrey Friedl. If you are using LR and on-line photo galleries like Flickr, Zenfolio, SmugMug, Picassa or Facebook, these plugins are a must. In addition to simplifying the process of uploading photos to the hosting service, they enable you to construct complex titles and captions for your uploaded photos containing any combination of the EXIF or LR metadata. Just see below.

Vertigo

Vertigo Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Wallhausen, Germany, June 2008

Vertigo is the sensation of spinning or swaying while the body is actually stationary with respect to the surroundings.

There are two types of vertigo: subjective and objective. There is a subjective vertigo when a person has a false sensation of movement. In the case of objective vertigo, the surroundings appear to move past a person’s field of vision.

The effects of vertigo may be slight. It can cause nausea and vomiting and, in severe cases, it may give rise to difficulties with standing and walking.

• NIKON D50
• 1/320 sec at f/9.0 (0 EV)
• ISO200
• Pattern metering
• Manual
• no flash
• 10-20 mm f/4-5.6 @ 10 mm

2008-06-14-1556-30

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]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/09/20/vertigo/feed/ 0 A short explanation is required http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/07/30/a-short-explanation-is-required/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/07/30/a-short-explanation-is-required/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:22:56 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/?p=311 I believe a short explanation is called for. I was not very active lately, neither here nor on Flickr. There are several reasons for this, one is that I have been really snowed under at work (yes, some of us have to earn a living by going to the temple of the Mammon), second reason is that I was waiting for the release of Lightroom 2.0 in order to use the new captioning feature of Jeffrey’s Lightroom Export Plugin.

I always liked the feature in Lightroom where you could build the caption by assembling various tokens from photo’s EXIF or IPCT data when creating a web gallery. This was not available in the export plug-in. When I saw that Jeffrey added similar functionality to his plug-in, I rejoiced. Alas my joy was short lived. The new captioning feature was only implemented in Zenfolio version of the plug-in. The other versions, namely Flickr’s, would get it when Lightroom 2.0 was released. Now that LR2 is available Jeffrey kept his promise and made new plug-ins available for download.

I’ll be downloading LR2 tonight and, time permitting, I’ll start uploading some of my recent photos this coming weekend.
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So, it is all system go.

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