> On May 13, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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? ;)
HA! :-). What could go wrong? Everything! :-) It’s another chore I have to attend to; I know that because as Godfrey has said, tending to computer tech speed is a part of general maintenance, and it does make a difference in the user experience and productivity—and I agree with him on this. Lately, I’ve been having all sorts of thoughts about tech and the future of tech, but I’ll save those thoughts for another day :-). > > 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. When watching the Adobe tutorial, Kost only had the +, -, and middle frame, and merged these three bracketed frames, so I my plan is to start with the bracketing feature to see what the results yield. I’ll let you know how my test results turn out. > > 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. Yep, tiff is the way to go when doing this kind of work. Cheers, Christine > > > -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. -- 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.
