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Spring is in the air

yOOrek — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:15:43 +0000

I know I haven’t been very active recently. I’ve been snowed under post processing the ‘Herold Sessions’. That’s what I call my photo sessions with my daughter and her horse where I take in excess of 200 photos inside 1.5 hours. It is funny how we tend to look differently at the photos. I talk about colors, depth of field, sharpness and she talks about the way horse’s head is positioned, which way his ears are pointing etc. etc. etc. It’s like we are from different planets.

Anyway I thought I’ll post a single photo from today’s session when I managed to photograph something other then equine/human subjects. Taken with Nikon D50 and Nikkor AF-S DX 18-70mm f/3.5~4.5 G IF ED lens at 18mm, 1/250s @ f8, ISO200, manual exposure. Postprocessing done in Lightroom.

Spring is in the air Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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2008-05-04-1603-03

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Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1

yOOrek — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:34:25 +0000

Source: Lightroom Journal:

The Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 updates have been posted to the following locations: Lightroom(Mac, Win), Camera Raw(Mac, Win). The updates provide all of the changes included in the original Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 releases but also include corrections for issues described below and in previous blog posts. The Camera Raw plug-in will also be available later this evening via the Adobe Update Manager and the Lightroom update can be located by choosing ‘Check for Updates…’ under the Help menu.

Let’s hope this time they got it right. I’ll wait few days before I install it.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.4 Troubles

yOOrek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:32:55 +0000

According to a post on Tom Hogarty’s blog here, there are some serious issues. So serious as a matter of fact that Adobe recommends that user should remove 1.4 and go back to 1.3. I checked my installation and so far I have only a handfull of files that were affected by the EXIF date bug. I can live with this. I have decided to wait until Adobe will release a bug fix and take small break from post processing my files. This should give me some more time for photo taking itself. Here is a quote from Tom Hogarty’s blog -

The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided. For those not in immediate need of the updated camera support available in Camera Raw 4.4 or the DNG 4.4 Converter, it’s recommended that you also continue working with the 4.3.1 versions. (Mac, Win) This decision is based on the following errors that have been discovered with the recent update:

EXIF Time Stamp Error: There is an error in the EXIF time stamp update technology that causes Lightroom to believe that the files are out of sync with the correct time stamp as displayed in Lightroom. Any ensuing metadata update will attempt to incorrectly modify the EXIF time stamp in the original raw file itself. This is the only metadata field that Lightroom will write to an original proprietary raw file. This error will not impact the integrity of your image data. The Camera Raw plug-in also will incorrectly change the EXIF time stamp in files converted by the plug-in. The information written to the XMP sidecar files or XMP metadata in the converted files will remain correct.

DNG Conversion Error(Windows Only): With the latest version of the Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 applications, Adobe has included technology to verify that the image data in a DNG file is unchanged from when it was originally converted to DNG. Unfortunately, when converting to DNG using Lightroom 1.4 on Windows, the application will write an incorrect verification tag to describe the image data. When Lightroom attempts to work with those files in the Develop module, the application reads that incorrect tag, believes that there is something wrong with the raw data and will present an error. Rest assured, there is nothing wrong with the integrity of your image data or metadata. For those that have already converted their files to DNG using Lightroom 1.4(Windows only) we recommend using the DNG 4.3.1 converter to convert the DNG files you’ve created with Lightroom 1.4.

Olympus Conversion Error: There is an error in converting Olympus JPEG files to other formats in Lightroom 1.4 and the Camera Raw 4.4 plug-in.