East Coast and West Country Seascape Portfolios added
East Coast Portfolio
(Flash)
East Coast Portfolio (non Flash)
West Country Portfolio (Flash)
West Country Portfolio (non Flash)
Adobe Lightroom - Switch back on the rating Toolbar
I could not get Lightroom to show the image rating toolbar. It should have been there but I have somehow switched it off. I worked with Lightroom for days before I thought to check the obvious and look under the drop-down menu options.
It is just a matter of turning it back on again in
the View menu.
High Barrow, Dartmoor - The Featured Image
There is something about the light which appears over Dartmoor on a cold morning in winter. This shot was taken just after a shower of rain. The Sun broke through just long enough for me to grab handheld. Dartmoor in the south west of England is a contrasting landscape of wild granite tors surrounded by ancient oak woodlands. I thoroughly recommend it as a photographic location.
High Barrow - Dartmoor, UK
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Have you found yourself moving back and forward between Aperture and Lightroom?
I certainly have. It's been a frustrating time.
The various releases have made Aperture more useful by removing many of the limitations such as the lack of offline image management and slow response times during some image updates. I particularly dislike the way that Aperture will sometimes show a blank screen and tell you that an image that you were in the middle of editing is now suddenly in an unrecognized format!
And yes I have tried the suggested rebuilding of my library and other tips. I use a top of the range Mac with huge RAM and a fast graphics card. This should not be a problem for Aperture.
Lightroom has now progressed to beta 4. It's interface is not as slick as Aperture and it lacks some of the very useful image searching and management functionality. It is however very fast and can handle large images with ease.
I really like Aperture's interface but have consistently found that Aperture just does not perform when used with large image files. My workflow includes scanned slides and negatives. This produces big files. Aperture just grinds to a painful crawl. Lightroom on the other hand can work with large files without any problem.
So I am now back to using Lightroom. At least I can
open large images and keep working.
Your views welcome.
Featured Image - The River Dart in Flood
The River Dart in flood. This image was taken at a place called New Bridge in Dartmoor.
I had to get my feet wet but the I think the effect was worth it. Another shot taken from the river bank rather than in the full force of the stream just did not do justice to the fallen tree. This and other images of Dartmoor and Devon can be seen in the The Dart in Autumn Portfolio
Lightroom - Solo and Multiple Panel settings
Single Panel Mode
To toggle between solo
mode and having as many panels open as you want you
need to option-click one of the panel headers (on a
Mac) or right click in Windows.
Multiple Panel Mode
Featured Image - Pin Mill, Suffolk UK
Pin Mill , Suffolk UK
The two figures in the
shot are real and I think add a strong focal point. I
have included it in my collection of East
Coast Seascapes as it was taken from the deck
of a boat on our way down river.
(Handheld with a Canon D60 500mm lens and 1/800 and
f7)