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November 11, 2009, a Wednesday
Elephant Butte Lake State Park (South Monticello), New Mexico, USA
— Processed images, and watched a movie
Had my normal breakfast then worked up a blog entry. I started to process images in Capture One (C1), and discovered that I hadn't done more than a quick first downselect of the images I took in Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake. So, I'll have to do a much better job of editing the images to downselect before I can do my normal last stage of editing in Capture One (C1): assign a final file name, adjust exposure and white balance, and create a 16-bit TIFF file in ProPhoto color space. Before I started working on the major dowselect process, I processed 48 images through Photoshop in batch mode to covert the 16-bit PSD files with layers to 8-bit flattened and slightly sharpened JPEG files for a stock submission. These images were from the early parts of the blog that recently had final file names assigned as part of my Capture One work. I left around 9:25 and ...
Walked to the boat ramp and back.
I returned to the RV around 10:05 and did some computer work.
Had lunch around 11:55. I showered, then started to do the first downselect of images in Capture One (C1) from Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake. J left around 1:20 to go for a walk and returned at 1:40.
I went outside around 5:00 to watch the sunset. The colors weren't that exciting, so I didn't shoot. J came out and watched the sunset with me.
I went back inside and finished the first downselect of images in Capture One (C1) from Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake. I was sick and tired of doing it! It's a slow process of comparing similar images to determine which is sharper, then comparing similar compositions to determine which is better. The process is especially slow on my 15" MacBook Pro for the 21 mega-pixel files from the 1Ds Mk III! I was going to synchronize the hard drive with the RAW images with a backup drive, and I was surprised that Synchronize! Pro X was going to copy data from the "backup" hard drive to the "reference" hard drive — a synchronization is supposed to allow either hard drive to be modified and then the other drive is set to match. So, I switched to doing just a regular backup from the reference hard drive to the backup hard drive so that none of my work this afternoon would get undone.
We had dinner at 5:50 of leftover pork chops and potatoes and green beans.
After doing the dishes, I looked at the July 2008 issue of Outdoor Photographer. J had recently found it hiding in a closet, and I wanted a diversion from the computer. I was pleasantly surprised to read that Helicon Focus was available for the Mac. Helicon Focus automatically stitches together images taken with different focus points to create an image with increased depth of field. I first heard about the program shortly after it came out, and at the time it was only available for Windows platforms. I've taken some images with the intent of testing the software, and thought I'd have to run it in a Windows environment using Parallels Desktop for Mac. Now I won't have to mess with that. :)
We watched the movie Birds of America on DVD. It was entertaining, but not a "must see."
I was still wide awake after the movie, so I went back to the office in the RV and did some computer work. Then I went through the images I took in Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake and downselected them further in Capture One (C1). Then I checked out the Canon 1Ds Mk IV rumor page at Northlight Images. I followed some links on the site and came across a great tutorial on how to modify a Canon Tilt-Shift lens so that the tilt and shift motions are in the same plane. The lenses ship from Canon with the tilt and shift motions at 90 degrees to each other. Most of the time this isn't a problem because only one motion is needed at a time and it helps to keep the controls separate, but I had wished that I had both motions available on our recent visit to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks on November 3, 2009. I was using the shift motion on my 90TS to "look down" into the canyon without creating convergence problems, and I had also wanted to be able to tilt the lens to align the plane of focus with the formations.
Walked to the boat ramp and back.
I returned to the RV around 10:05 and did some computer work.
Had lunch around 11:55. I showered, then started to do the first downselect of images in Capture One (C1) from Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake. J left around 1:20 to go for a walk and returned at 1:40.
I went outside around 5:00 to watch the sunset. The colors weren't that exciting, so I didn't shoot. J came out and watched the sunset with me.
I went back inside and finished the first downselect of images in Capture One (C1) from Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake. I was sick and tired of doing it! It's a slow process of comparing similar images to determine which is sharper, then comparing similar compositions to determine which is better. The process is especially slow on my 15" MacBook Pro for the 21 mega-pixel files from the 1Ds Mk III! I was going to synchronize the hard drive with the RAW images with a backup drive, and I was surprised that Synchronize! Pro X was going to copy data from the "backup" hard drive to the "reference" hard drive — a synchronization is supposed to allow either hard drive to be modified and then the other drive is set to match. So, I switched to doing just a regular backup from the reference hard drive to the backup hard drive so that none of my work this afternoon would get undone.
We had dinner at 5:50 of leftover pork chops and potatoes and green beans.
After doing the dishes, I looked at the July 2008 issue of Outdoor Photographer. J had recently found it hiding in a closet, and I wanted a diversion from the computer. I was pleasantly surprised to read that Helicon Focus was available for the Mac. Helicon Focus automatically stitches together images taken with different focus points to create an image with increased depth of field. I first heard about the program shortly after it came out, and at the time it was only available for Windows platforms. I've taken some images with the intent of testing the software, and thought I'd have to run it in a Windows environment using Parallels Desktop for Mac. Now I won't have to mess with that. :)
We watched the movie Birds of America on DVD. It was entertaining, but not a "must see."
I was still wide awake after the movie, so I went back to the office in the RV and did some computer work. Then I went through the images I took in Denali National Park while camping at Wonder Lake and downselected them further in Capture One (C1). Then I checked out the Canon 1Ds Mk IV rumor page at Northlight Images. I followed some links on the site and came across a great tutorial on how to modify a Canon Tilt-Shift lens so that the tilt and shift motions are in the same plane. The lenses ship from Canon with the tilt and shift motions at 90 degrees to each other. Most of the time this isn't a problem because only one motion is needed at a time and it helps to keep the controls separate, but I had wished that I had both motions available on our recent visit to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks on November 3, 2009. I was using the shift motion on my 90TS to "look down" into the canyon without creating convergence problems, and I had also wanted to be able to tilt the lens to align the plane of focus with the formations.