Hi Christine! Cool pano... I need to try that out myself soon. I also just did the LR6 upgrade... From LR 4... And had to bump up my OS to 10.10 from 10.6(ish?). I wish I could report that everything went off without a hitch, but... I think I'm past the worst of it now. I'm sure you'll do fine if you add RAM. What could go wrong? ;)
I have tried the HDR feature in LR6, though, and it is very interesting. I've been doing some architectural work for a client recently, so getting the HDR feature in LR was a major motivator for doing the upgrade. I'm hardly a connoisseur of HDR, but it seems to me that I'm getting very similar results in the merge as I do when I take the -1 exposure & run it through some basic adjustments... Down on highlights, all the way up on shadows, plus a few others. I'm going to continue to play around with it & see... I did read somewhere that using fewer files for the HDR merge (in LR) is better than using several. Also warrants experimenting with, I think. And Larry - I also came upon a work-around for getting past the limited adjustment range in those HDR images: export the merged file as a tiff, re-import into LR. Bingo, sliders are re-set, and you're off? Haven't tried it myself, but there you go. -c On May 12, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> 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. 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 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. You can see my very imperfect pano here :-). http://www.caguila.com/caguila/emilypanotest/content/_IMG0873-Pano_large.html Work should be easing up soon, so it’ll be time for some PDML fun—and I’ve got plans! :-) Big cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
