Christine Aguila wrote:
Hi Everyone: How goes the team? Finally, took care of some photography maintenance—upgraded to Lightroom 6 and updated my firmware on the K-3, finally. All went smoothly—though I had to call Adobe for a little download help with the laptop, and I have to say, Adobe’s customer service absolutely sucks. I was stunned.
I'm afraid that I'm no longer stunned when customer service sucks. If the phone call doesn't cross any oceans? Now that's a surprise.
Anyway, I had some frames to try the pano feature; the process is easy peasy, though my result wasn’t so good due to some sloppy shooting on my part. I didn’t get the overlap right in a few of the middle frames, which you can see below. This pano is a total of 6 frames—the file is humongous! It took 7 minutes to merge.
I've had a couple of hiccups with some of the panos that I tried processing. I expect that it was my fault rather than the software. I've heard that dedicated panorama software often does a better job, but LR6 makes it so wonderfully easy.
I notice a difference in speed with the upgrade, which is saying something since I still only have four gigs of RAM, and I play iTunes in the background while working on photos—LR 6 is a bit quicker over LR 5 with the two apps running. I really do need to increase my RAM, but I confess to being chicken—I’m afraid to unplug everything to install the RAM. Always worried I wouldn’t be able to get everything running right again. Any words of encouragement would appreciated :-). Later in the week I’m going to experiment with the HDR feature. Should be fun.
I have been very glad that I've been keywording photos that I've bracketed, it has made it very easy to go back and find them. I have been very happy with the LR6 HDR feature. The final file is pretty close to exactly what I want out of HDR software. The problem that I now have is the lack of adjustment range on the photos. I ran into it in wonky color balance with my K-5s dynamic range and LR not being able to adjust sufficiently. With HDR, I almost always end up with the highlights pegged at minimum.
If you want to do HDR panoramas, do the HDR files of each frame first, then stitch those together as a panorama.
You can see my very imperfect pano here :-). http://www.caguila.com/caguila/emilypanotest/content/_IMG0873-Pano_large.html
Very nice for a first attempt.
Work should be easing up soon, so it’ll be time for some PDML fun—and I’ve got plans! :-) Big cheers, Christine
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