No prob, Jack! Not to worry! Cheers, Christine
> On May 13, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for apparently having given you some misguided RAM upgrade advice, > Christine! > > Jack > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 13, 2015, at 4:24 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? ;) >> >> 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. > > -- > 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.
