> On May 13, 2015, at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
I know what you mean. I have had excellent customer service with some services, but in general, if I have to call utility companies it’s a genuine miserable experience. > >> >> 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. Yep, it’s a great option to have in LR 6. > >> >> 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. Yep, that’s what the tutorials suggest. I really like Julian Kost’s tutorials. Right after download was done, I went to the what’s new section and watched her tutorials on the new features. She does recommend if you do a HDR pano to make your HDR adjustments first, then merge the HDR adjusted frames as a pano, then tweak the pano more if necessary. > >> >> 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. Thanks! Cheers, Christine > >> >> Work should be easing up soon, so it’ll be time for some PDML fun—and I’ve >> got plans! :-) >> >> Big cheers, Christine >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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.
