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Cory Photography with Tom and Pat Cory |
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Newsletter, March 2008 |
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Cory Photography Newsletter 30 March, 2008
In this edition you will find:
Lightroom Report Frogs Leap into the Tennessee Aquarium Sleep/Park Airport Locations Predicting Airline Ticket Costs Other Newsletters 2008 Workshop Schedule Hunt’s Specials for our
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We're practicing our Spanish for our Costa Rica/Panama trip which is about to begin and is why this email newsletter is actually early. We are looking forward to some nice warm weather with lots of beautiful flowers and birds.
By the time we get back, it should start to feel like spring here. We're looking forward to that too. Our Smokies workshop is almost filled and we are excited about our Picture Chattanooga workshop which we haven't done for awhile. There is so much to see where ever you live—you just need to get out to explore it. If you haven't visited Chattanooga for a while, this is a great opportunity. On this workshop we get a chance to photograph after hours at the aquarium, have special help at the zoo, and visit some private places that visitors to Chattanooga usually don't get a chance to go. There is also quite a bit of instruction along with our hands on help in the field. For more information on this workshop please contact Betty Miles at the Tennessee Aquarium at ebm@tnaqua.org.
Several of you have mentioned that you are interested in our Iceland tour. It should be a wonderful trip and we hope that you will be able to join us. If you think you might want to join us, please contact Jacque@strabotours.com.
Hopefully by our next newsletter we'll be able to tell you our schedule for 2009.
You may find a few of the links below don't work yet. I updated our website but I can't get the FTP program to upload it for some reason and I don't think I'll get it resolved until we return from our trip. Thanks for your patience.
Enjoy the rest of winter and think spring.
Best, Tom and Pat
Lightroom Report
We are still enjoying using Lightroom. Having all the development tools right at your fingertips is fast and intuitive. It still has a few bugs, but Version 1.3 is better than 1.1 or 1.2 were. It will be interesting to see when 2.0 comes out. I suspect soon. You still need one of the other Photoshop programs if you intend to do some serious cloning or other image manipulation but for tweaking images, it works great. Lightroom was optimized for RAW files but virtually all is the same for JPEGs. One of the great things about it is the non-destructive editing which only applies your updates when you export a file so your original image remains intact. We were not using a cataloging system before going to Lightroom so figuring out the best way to set up folders, keywords and metadata has been interesting. Putting the files in folders and adding keywords is a snap. But we recommend that before you import all your files to Lightroom that you put a fair amount of thought into just how you will want to be able to retrieve your images and set up your files, keywords and metadata so they will work well for you and be added as automatically as possible. The hardest part for us has been how to manage multiple copies of the same image, that is, the files that have been exported either as full files for additional editing or printing and smaller files optimized for projection. We have a lot that were modified in the past before Lightroom and sorting that out has been challenging. We're still not totally happy with what we've come up with. If you already use a cataloging system, I'm not sure that it would be worth the conversion because it's not as robust as some of the other products, but if you haven’t made the leap and are to the point that keeping up with your images is getting difficult and you want to do it simply, Lightroom would be worth looking into. |