Richard

July 4, 2014

Adobe Lightroom Shortcuts

Last week I mentioned common keyboard shortcuts that I use with Adobe Photoshop, today I thought I would share some of the common keyboard shortcuts I use with Adobe Lightroom.

Open Catalogue…Command-Shift-O (for Command use Ctrl for Windows users)

Grid View…G

Loupe View…E

Compare…C

Survey…N

Show/Hide Toolbar…T

Show/Hide Side bars…Tab

Full Screen Preview…F (note this is new for Lightroom and caught me out)

Next Screen Mode…Shift-F (in older versions this was F)

Add to Quick Collection…B

Group into Stack…Command-G

Flag…P

UnFlag…U

Reject…X

Star Rating…1 or 2,3,4,5

Develop Mode…D

White Balance…W

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014

Open Garden’s

Many of our local villages have open gardens events.

With our current garden, it is well designed and well established from all the hardwork of the previous owners but we are starting to put are own stamp on it.

The great thing about open garden events is you can borrow ideas and many of the owners are always keen to offer advice.

The local villages around here had a wide variety of gardens from more traditional lawns, wild areas, roomed gardens and even one had a wild meadow at the bottom.

After our walk round we finished off with tea and cake at the church.

June 30, 2014July 31, 2014

Photo of the Month – June

Nikon D200
Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 with Nikkor TC17
500mm, 1/100 Sec at f/4.8, ISO1000
Post Processed in Adobe Lightroom V5.4
On a MacBook Pro, OS-X 10.9.3

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014

So why did Adobe install another copy of Photoshop on my Laptop

With the recent Adobe updates, I find I now have three copies of Photoshop on my laptop, which with its limited disk space, is an issue. You think you would get option to replace or keep both in case you have lots of plugins.

With Adobe CC we were promised regular updates instead of the traditional release cycle of eighteen to twenty four months, instead we seem to have had this big new version dumped on our machines.

A lot bloggers are commenting on this, some of the best comments I saw was from Scott Kelby on his blog. It turns out we have had a lot of updates but there has not been much of a song and a dance about them.

Lightroom – So what did we get in Lightroom V5?

Heres the gist straight from Adobe’s release notes:

Release Notes

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.5

Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
Fujifilm FinePix S1
Nikon 1 J4
Nikon 1 S2
Nikon 1 V3
Olympus OM-D E-M10
Panasonic DMC-GH4
Pentax 645Z
Samsung NX3000
Sony DSC-RX100 III
Sony A7S (ILCE-7S)
Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II (ILCA-77M2)

New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.5

Mount	Name
Canon	Sigma 50m F1.4 DG HSM A014
Canon	Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Canon	Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 Dill VC PZD MACRO B0163
Fujifilm	Fujifilm Tele Conversion Lens TCL-X100
Nikon	Nikon 1 NIKKOR VR 10-30mm f3.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM
Nikon	Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR
Nikon	Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014
Nikon	Sigma 18-200 F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Nikon	Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 Dill VC PZD MACRO B016N
Nikon	Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD A011N
Pentax	Sigma 30mm F.14 DC HSM A013
Sigma	Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014
Sigma	Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Sony Alpha	Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013
Sony Alpha	Sony Alpha 28-75mm F2.8 SAM

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom5.5

Improved responsiveness in Develop module while Lightroom mobile sync is occurring.
Custom Develop module default settings were not syncing correctly to Lightroom mobile.
Initial rendition in Develop would sometimes appear posterized.
Undo function failed and applied a preset instead.
Scaling looked inaccurate when scaling to 200% in Windows.
Manual slideshows sometimes did not advance to the next slide as expected.
Aspect ratio changed when modifying the crop rectangle and when rotating the crop
Image flips between portrait and landscape after switching orientation while shooting tethered with Leica S cameras.
Fixed issue with Fujifilm X-T1 raw images appearing too bright at high ISO settings when using Dynamic Range 200% and 400%. Unfortunately, this fix may affect the appearance of existing images captured with this combination of settings. It is recommended that you (1) purge the Camera Raw cache via the Preferences dialog, and (2) review images shot at ISO settings higher than 1600 for unexpected brightness changes.
Fixed image quality issue (noisy result) when applying spot healing to floating-point (HDR) images.
Fixed issue with reading lossless compressed Nikon raw files (NEF files) from the camera models listed below. Previously, some images could be read but would appear as random noise, whereas attempting to open others would result in an error dialog. You will need to purge your Camera Raw cache via the Preferences dialog.
- Nikon D1
- Nikon D1H
- Nikon D1X
- Nikon D2H
- Nikon D2Hs
- Nikon D2X
- Nikon D2Xs
- Nikon D100
- Nikon D200

June 23, 2014June 22, 2014

Adobe CC 2014 now released

Last week we had lots of Adobe updates and along with the updates CC2014 was announced, so I promptly downloaded the new Photoshop and gave it a quick test from a studio shoot I did a couple of weeks ago.

I only used the features I am used to so did not notice any major changes yet but i’ll be giving it a better test later.

We also had Adobe Lightroom V5.5 and updates to Lightroom Mobile with is now being available for iPhone users.

June 20, 2014June 18, 2014

Day Trip to Whitby

So what else have we been up to. Well last week to have a break from all the work we had been doing at home we had a quick blast up the east coast and over the Humberbridge to Scarborough and Whitby.

It was a great day and despite the weather forecast for rain we managed to miss the bad weather, though we did have to ford across some flooded roads, but what better way then on a BMW GS motorcycle.

I took the little Nikon V1 with me and grabbed the odd shot with the 30-110mm lens (90-300mm.

June 19, 2014June 18, 2014

Lincolnshire Show 2014

This week its the Lincolnshire Show, one of the UK’s largest agricultural shows. In the main ring we had all the usual displays from show jumping, motorcycling displays and even a parachute display team.

Its always fun to look round the livestock tents, we had a good look round the rare breeds and especially the chickens as we hope to get some this year.

One the best places to visit is the tent of the Lincolnshire Beekeepers Association, we hope to join them soon once we have the bee hives up and running.

They even had a live demonstration of beekeeping. We had a good look round the show hive which has the frames all behind glass so you can see the bees up close working in their natural environment, and we played spot the queen and spot the drone. The queen is larger then the rest and has attendants, the drones which are the males are the large bees that do not do anything. As a few commented like most males!

The weather forecast was a little uncertain so I packed a waterproof in my ruck sack and for the photography carried my little Nikon V1 with the 10mm (28mm field of view) lens which performed quite nicely.

June 17, 2014June 15, 2014

Whisby Babies

So what else have we been up to on our week off. Well we fitted some trips out and one of them was to Whisby Nature Reserve as previously mentioned.

The highlights of the day was definitely the Grebe family, but there was plenty of other action to see. The Black Headed Gulls were breeding on a number of the islands and occasional glimpses of the chicks could be seen with our spotting scope and long lens equipped SLR.

One of the surprises was this Oystercatcher, I saw my first many years ago on the Isle of Skye but since they I have gotten a lot more interested in birdwatching and have spotted the odd one in Lincolnshire.

We had a family of Mute Swans who did not seemed too bothered by the dive-bombing seagulls when they got a bit close the the gull chicks hiding on the islands.

One thing we never have a shortage of in Lincolnshire is as well as the gulls is the Canada Goose and many of there young were visible.

A pair of Tufted Duck’s were also to be seen, only one pair and I could not spot any young.

But the highlight of the day was definitely the Grebe family. The male worked very hard catching fish and bringing them back to the young and the female, only taking the odd fish for himself.

Altogether a great days photography.

June 16, 2014June 14, 2014

Quilt Show

So the last two weeks has been a bit blogging light, so what have we been up to?

Well its been a mix of trips to things we enjoy, Quilt Shows, Fabric shops, a small motorcycle tour as well as lots of work done back at home.

We started the holiday with a trip to the quilt show held at Spalding in Lincolnshire. As is usual at events like this there are no photography rules to prevent people stealing the copyright of some of the quilt designs but there are still opportunities for a few photographs.

While Caroline went round the stalls I practices my candid photography, getting a few nice shots in the process. Camera of choice was my little Leica M8 with the Summicron 35mm lens, which on the Leica M8 is a 46mm field of view.

June 11, 2014

No Blog Wednesday

As you may have noticed its been a bit quiet on the blog front this week. We have been on holiday so its been up and the east coast and round North Yorkshire on the Motorcycle.

We ended up in Whitby and enjoyed ourselves immensely, somehow we managed to miss the bad weather though we did have to ford some rather deeply flooded roads at times, but thats the fun of owning a GS, you can generally get anywhere.