Archive for August, 2009
Sometimes thumbnails are just too small to let you see all the details in an image. If you don’t have a second display and you would like to apply a group of keywords while looking at the Loupe view of an image here’s an easy way.
Begin by setting up your Keyword Shortcut. You find this under the Metadata menu in the Library module. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-Shift-K on a Mac or Ctrl-Alt-Shift-K on a PC. This will present you with a deceptively simple dialog into which you can enter any number of keywords separated by commas.
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Well almost! Snow Leopard, the latest iteration of Mac OS X, is set to arrive on August 28th. Whenever a new operating system arrives we have to research our applications before upgrading. (Don’t forget that Windows 7 is coming at the end of October so our Windows colleagues will be facing this very soon as well.)
Luckily, it seems, that Lightroom 2.4 and the Creative Suite 4 applications will run under Snow Leopard. John Nack has posted an FAQ regarding the Creative Suite 4 applications on his blog. Click here for the PDF.
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We can all agree that Lightroom is in desperate need of a more sophisticated watermarking feature. Seán McCormack has posted an excellent tutorial today on his Lightroom Blog. He demonstrates how to use LR2/Mogrify to watermark your images and then bring those into a web gallery. Something you can’t (but should be able to) do in Lightroom natively. Head on over and enjoy.
Thanks for the tip, Seán!
Classic Black & White Infrared photography used film that was sensitive to wavelengths in the 700 to 900 nm range. These wavelengths are not normally visible to human eyes. This is part of what creates a fascination with the eerie beauty of infrared photography.
Modern digital cameras have filters over the sensor to block infrared wavelengths. This is a good thing when taking photographs in the normal light spectrum. Infrared wavelengths increase the chances of blowing out the red channel. There are cameras available without these filters. Additionally you can have your existing camera altered to capture these wavelengths.
If you don’t want to spend extra money on specialized cameras or alterations, you can simulate some of the effects of infrared capture in Lightroom. While there are many styles of infrared photography one of my favorites has the following three characteristics:
- The blues of the sky and water approach black
- Green foliage is snowy white
- The snowy white foliage has a ghostly glow
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