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more elephants

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:07:00 -0500

more elephants

pretty neat elephant

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:56:00 -0500

pretty neat elephant

WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:25:50 -0500

Tumblring, of course.

nevver: Maximum Possible Indifference Diagram

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:36:25 -0500

nevver:

Maximum Possible Indifference Diagram

It seems that not only OS we are missing.

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:35:04 -0500

It seems that not only OS we are missing.

not too shabby look, but spectacular taste.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:15:00 -0500

not too shabby look, but spectacular taste.

Looks good, but not that good in term of taste.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:10:00 -0500

Looks good, but not that good in term of taste.

"If you are willing to take a chance, the view of the other side is spactacular. — Gray"

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:51:11 -0400

“If you are willing to take a chance, the view of the other side is spactacular. — Gray”

“gold”

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:35:57 -0400

“gold”

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:58:00 -0400

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”

- Iris Murdoch

Camera Raw and me

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:04:00 -0400

Most people tend to use Lightroom as their Swiss knife; it works great, it looks nice, it is like one stop service. Nonetheless I stick with Camera Raw & Bridgebfor a reason, no library. I prefer to organize things my way. This is how I process all raw file.

import by windows live photo; it works fantastic for me although it’s not the fastest, but I can management them to do exactly the way I want. Most of the time I group photos by period of time which live photo can adjust flexibly with single touch. Also, I can choose either leave folder name to be by auto number or my own, date YYYY-MM-DD format added automatically. For viewing, live photo is also the best all around IMO.
fire up Bridge and do all processing.
export to JPEG.
move JPEG to my server, //server/photos & move raw to //server/photos-raw
done.

the question later on is why do I have to separate raw and processed one. An easy answer is for usability. Most of the time when you have raw and JPEG all together. They are damn redundancy to watch or find whatever you want. Moreover, raw file is like 15MB each while each of JPEG is just a megabyte or so. It’s way faster to view and enjoy your work. I duplicate all raw and processed files for accidental sake.

This seems to be pretty solid procedure. If you are like me, try to understand things & never read help or manual. You might be in trouble. For me, it’s about dot xmp from Camera Raw. I hated all extra meaningless files like when you works with PC & Mac—PC’s thumb & Mac’s DS thingy. I always find the way to remove them all and of course, Camera Raw has an option for that called “Camera Raw Database.” For some reasons, I believed that Adobe would write this setting value in raw file’s header, instead of having dot xmp sitting next to raw one. I was deadly wrong.

Camera Raw basically stored all your tweaked setting into its database file located in %appdata%/adobe/cameraraw and surely these database are using file path and name to match. It’s faster and has no dot xmp junk in directory, but once you move the file, all tweaked setting values are trash. The way to save these settings is to export to dot xmp files. haha Thus you will have dot xmp along side your raw anyway, but you will never lose anything you’ve done. In case you’ve changed raw filename, please change that dot xmp name too.

As a result, I eventually lost all my adjustments for most of raw files, but from now on, my raw will sit besides dot xmp like a soulmate. poor me.

Beauty in messiness

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:33:45 -0400

Beauty in messiness

Sunny day at jatujak market

Mon, 31 May 2010 09:03:35 -0400

Sunny day at jatujak market

What a wonderful world, even in the desert, death area!

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:19:40 -0400

Incredibly beatiful landscape

Milky Way, huh?

Badwater

Go anywhere by our feet

The Last Light

What a wonderful world, even in the desert, death area!

How aperture size effects sharpness

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:21:00 -0500

original | 100% crop: f/4.5 | f/5.6 | f/8 | f/11 | f/16 | f/22 | f/29 {move mouseover each to see the image}

How come?

white NYC ;-)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:10:20 -0500

white NYC ;-)

Is RAW better about noise?

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:26:00 -0500

original | 100% crop: camera | DPP | ACR {move mouseover each to see the image}

Yes, it is, but (always but, huh?) you need to adjust by yourself.

Photo

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:34:00 -0500

Nikon D40 w/ AF nikkor 50mm f/1.8

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:44:12 -0500

Nikon D40 w/ AF nikkor 50mm f/1.8

spread wings and fly away

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:13:15 -0500

spread wings and fly away