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Lightroom backup and rename issue fixed in version 4
I was recently asked by a friend of mine about an issue she was having in Lightroom 3 with her workflow. She had made the decision to convert her images to DNG files on import and wanted to use the...
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My first bike race
This past weekend while photographing for the Photographic Center Northwest’s Longshot event, I wandered over into the great neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle. One of my favorite outdoor stores...
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Where is my stuff
I am teaching a class on organizing (and finding) your digital assets at the Photographic Center Northwest on the weekend of March 2-3 from 12-4 each day. If you are looking to get a handle on your...
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What did I do here?
I have recently taught a couple of workshops that focused on digital black and white photography. For both workshops we worked with Nik/Google’s Silver Efex Pro 2 and onOneSoftware’s Perfect BW. Both...
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Pan and focus
When you spend a good deal of your time photographing from a tripod, you can find your panning skills a little rusty. Learn to pan is way more about muscle memory than anything your brain can come up...
View Articlethe Contact Sheet
On of the areas that I have missed about digital photography from my film days is the contact sheet. For those of you who never shot film, a contact sheet was created by taking your negatives and...
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Practice, Practice, Practice
I recently broke down and purchased longer telephoto lens. I had rented a couple for a trip to Yellowstone last fall to try out, but I wasn’t really shooting that much in Seattle that required a longer...
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Colors at sunset
Last weekend, I hosted a workshop out on Whidbey Island. After the workshop was over, everyone stuck around for one more sunset shoot. We headed down for a quick stop at Ebey’s National Reserve and...
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Lightroom Video Channel
Over the weekend, I created a Lightroom Channel on Vimeo. In the first couple of videos, I talk about the Development Module and some of my pre-workflow thinking before I start editing an image....
View ArticleImage Editing Preflight Workflow Checklist
I sometimes get asked about how I get started in the editing of a image. So over the past weekend, I created a quick video that talks about how I think about an image and some of the concepts that I...
View Article10 Tips for Lightroom Develop Module
Tips about using the Adobe Lightroom develop module. Vignettes Radial Filter Targeted Adjustment Tool Power of the Alt/Option key changing the end panel graphic spot healing split toning for black and...
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Color changes a story
As storytellers, we have a lot of options for telling the story. When telling a story the color of the image can really change the mood and experience of the photo. When you look at these three image,...
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Simple changes in point of view
In photography, we can not control everything. It is one of the best parts of the medium. However, we should always make sure to try and be aware of the things in the image we can control. One of the...
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Guest Blog Post @EverydayHDR
I got a wonderful opportunity to do a guest post for the EverydayHDR website. I had been thinking about how some of the film development techniques that were used forever in film development are some...
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Just one thing to be better
If there was just one thing you could do to make your photography better would you do it? I would be willing to bet that if you were to print more of your photographs you would put yourself on the fast...
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Join me for great black and white workshop
Hey there is still time to come out and join me for a fun weekend of black and white photography. We will start the workshop off by talking about what makes a great black and white photograph. We will...
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Where there is smoke…. - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
I have been thinking about a new project for some time and finally have begun working on the process to create the images. I am still at a sketching phase for the project, but I am loosely thinking of...
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Shooting Smoke - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
As I continue to work on my four elements project I have started to think about how to represent the concept of air. Initially, my thought was to have the air be represented by smoke. The ever changing...
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Importing Collection Sets into Lightroom 3 - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art...
Updated on November 28, 2011: I recently created a video to better show this process. I hope the video helps make it easier to understand this workaround. <—-Original Post—–> I was recently a...
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The ever changing top 10 favorite Lightroom shortcuts and tips - Daniel j...
As I use Lightroom more and more, I have been trying to find as many of the keyboard shortcuts and usability features that directly impact my workflow. I know that keyboard shortcut are one of the many...
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Adobe Releases Lightroom 3.4 and ACR 6.4 - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
Adobe has released the Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 updates. These updates have been in a release candidate state for about a month with the final release happening earlier today (April 27,...
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Composition basics matter even in snapshots - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art...
These two images are an example of why little things matter when we compose and create images. I selected these images because in many ways they are based on a just so-so image. I think they are good...
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Starry Nights Experiment Part 2 - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
Sometimes in life your best laid plans can go to waste, and so you have a choice of lemons or lemonade. Several years ago, I visited the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and fell in love...
View ArticleAdobe Lightroom 3 Importing - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
I am currently teaching a Lightroom class and having a great time. Hopefully the other people in class can say the same. Because of the number of features and limited class time, I agreed that if...
View ArticleLightroom Collections Workflow - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
Adobe Lightroom has a number of options for you to manage your workflow. One of the best ways is through the use of collections. I was a folder organizer for a number of years even with Lightroom on my...
View ArticleFirst look at some Lightroom 4 changes - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
While there are a lot of great new features in Lightroom 4 that I’ll be discussing in the coming months, there are some small things that I have noticed in my first few days of working with the final...
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Always run a nozzle check - Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
I have an Epson 7900. A huge beast of a printer that I do almost all of my printing. I was recently testing some paper from the Canson company. For my platinum printing, I print on a paper called...
View ArticleSoft proofing in Photoshop - Technique | Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
Soft Proofing One of the hardest parts of printing is getting prints and monitors to work together. In this video, I do a quick overview of the soft proofing process in Adobe Photoshop which can help...
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Soft Proofing in Lightroom - Technique | Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
Soft Proofing in Adobe Lightroom A video introduction to soft proofing in Adobe Lightroom. You can catch my soft proofing in Photoshop video here. The post Soft Proofing in Lightroom appeared first on...
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Lightroom Library Workflow - Technique | Daniel j Gregory Fine Art Photography
I was digging around on my computer and found a video I recorded a while back on how to use some of the tools in Lightroom’s Library Module to help you keep track of your photos. The goal of the video...
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Doding and Burning in Photoshop - Technique | Daniel j Gregory Fine Art...
One of my favorite ways to do dodging and burning in Adobe Photoshop is to use an Overlay blend mode layer. The process is super easy to do, easy to see where you applied the effect, and best of all...
View ArticleQuick summary of rendering intents used in printing
When printing, one of the biggest areas of confusion in the print options dialog box surrounds rendering intent. The rendering intent are a process of making decisions on how to deal with colors that...
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What does color correct mean?
Color correction is one of the first steps in editing an photograph. When I am working with people, I get asked what makes something color correct? Does that mean the colors are real? True? Accurate?...
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Color correction cheat sheet
Learning to print in color is about using a system of opposites to balance the photograph. This is the same process in the analog darkroom and in black and white printing. You add light to make it...
View ArticleQuick tip for becoming a better printer using nothing more than a sharpie
One of my favorite ways to work on printing is to make a quick draft image and then hang that on the wall. Stand back and think about all the things that you want to change in the image. Then grab a...
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Dealing with noise in an image
Noise is a result of how the digital sensor capture process deals with variables in light levels. The noise is caused by unwanted signal information on the camera’s sensor. Each sensor has a base...
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Understanding why sky is red from forest fire smoke
Some of the images from the American West have been surreal during the massive forest fires happening this summer. I have seen a few too many posts in social media talking about how those are fake...
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Working with Black and White Adjustment layers to edit color photographs
Quick four-minute video on using black and white adjustment layers to edit color images in Photoshop. When they are thinking black and white, most people use the black and white adjustment layer in...
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Do you sign your prints?
It is important to sign your prints, whether you print them yourself or have someone else do it for you. Most buyers will expect that the print includes a signature somewhere on the image at the time...
View ArticleUsing printing presets in Lightroom to save your print driver settings
One of my favorite tools in Lightroom is the use of presets to save common settings. In the Print module you can save Template Broswer presets. These presets not only save the module settings but can...
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