Fotoshop by Adobé

I'm pretty sure anyone who uses Adobe Photoshop or reads magazines will find this video amusing.
 
Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Random Images

Some images I've just processed through my standard work flow or what is sometimes called the 'digital darkroom'. After I have imported my images into my catalogue tool, Adobe Lightroom 2, where I sort and pick images for post processing in Adobe Photoshop CS4. This is where I crop, clone and enhance colour if required and finally sharpen with the CS4 NIK plugin Sharpener Pro 3.

Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 16mm f22, HDR, B&W conversion with NIK Silver Efex Pro Click on photo for larger image view

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/640 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 @ ISO 200, 18mm f16, 1/250 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm Macro f2.8 @ ISO 200, 105mm f3, 1/3200 sec

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Speaking of Retro

Speaking of memories and the last post, I found this image while going through my Adobe Lightroom Catalogue, its of a cat asleep in 'cat' heaven. I captured this image on Phi Phi Island off Phuket Thailand in 2002. Go figure?? Absolute luxury and decadence is available for cats here too ;-)

Keywords for Photography

I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom its a photography software program developed by Adobe, designed to assist photographers in managing digital images and doing post production work. It is not a file browser but rather an image management application database which helps in viewing, editing, and managing digital photos. When you start to get a lot of images in Lightroom, you will want to search and categorise them for all sorts of reasons. Keyword lists for Lightroom are TAGS that are embedded in the EXIF data in images. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for storing interchange information in image files. The EXIF data can be viewed using image editing programs. Alos Flickr and other photo sharing online communities display EXIF data (if available) alongside images, that also means that you can peek at the camera settings used by professional photographers and this is a very valuable learning tool. So why use keyword lists in the first place? Well, auto completion is a good reason, as it saves typing. Also when you run through a specific structured list, it helps keep your keywords tidy. Photographer Nick Potter has created a set of free Keyword lists for Lightroom. The lists cover Geography, Animals, Colours, Natural Landforms and Bodies of Water. While not proclaimed as a comprehensive list, it id FREE and you need to buy a more comprehensive list from say, the Controlled Vocabulary created by David Riecks for example.

I use keywords and looking at your categories can tell you a lot about the photos you take. I end up with a list of categories, all which do contain from 5 to 30 sub categories along the following keywords

[Animals] - [Art] - [Buildings] - [Colour] - [Family] - [Festival] - [Food] - [Geography] - [Photography] - [Plants] - [Season] - [Sky] - [Sport] - [Technology] - [Transport] - [Water]

Of course if you want to sell your images as stock photos you could use these keywords to make your images more easily indexed and found by perspective buyers.