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- Subject: Adobe Lightroom
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:48:14 -0500
I was going through the series of images I shot last night, at the local
botanical garden, with my Nikon D100. They have this Chinese garden section
and, every year, they put together this beautiful (shoën) Haloween festival
with decorated pumpkins and all, but especially this amazing, illuminated 3D
Chinese sculptures exhibition. They have this small artificial lake
surrounded by traditional pavilions, built by genuine Chinese craftsmen with
genuine Chinese materials according to traditional Chinese building
techniques. It's really special. I guess Montreal is not the only city with
a Chinese garden. I think Vancouver has one and, I'll bet, plenty of other
cities in the US and Europe. Of course, the whole place exudes an incredible
peaceful and serene atmosphere, offering a sharp contrast from the hussle
and bussle of the city.
Anyhow, what's special about this exhibition is that many of the sculptures
are setup, well...right in the middle of the lake. It thought it was quite
spectacular to see these colorful and ethereal figures hover over the water
at night, with their shimmering reflections -- I was speechless. (I might
decide to post the images on the PhotoshopExpress web site if anyone's
interested?)
Back to my computer, I've uploaded the images and imported the whole thing
in Lightroom v2 for viewing. I must have shot about 130 photos -- I couldn't
shoot anymore because the kids were fed up and my fingers were quite frozen
(about 32F / 3C last night, here).
I made sure each frame was in the right orientation (don't have one of those
fancy newer D700...) in Library, after import. Then I went into Slideshow.
Wow! And say that I wasn't even viewing the images on the best monitor there
is, you know, just a Samsung 2693HM. But it sure doesn't hurt that it's
calibrated and profiled with good tools. I've been using PANTONE's Munki
Create lately, with surprising results, I must say -- amazing little device
for the price, especially when you consider the PANTONE digital libraries
they bundled with it, and that nice Create application, if you're into color
harmonies for artistic creation like me (BTW, I think the marriage of
X-Rite, Gretagmacbeth and PANTONE is going to make sense after all...). Long
preambule, I know, but, viewing these images in Lightroom, in Slideshow,
well, was pure eyecandy. Such a pleasant experience it is to see each image,
come up in succession, slowly merging into the next, effortlessly, on a nice
neutral gray background, framed with a nice, discrete, couple of pixels
white border, with a subtle drop shadow, added for depth. Yellows, blues,
turquoise, blues, violets, greens, reds, mauves, the traditional Chinese
color palettes have this quite unique personality. Hmmh! Have we got it
good with digital imaging. When I think about it, I sure don't miss the days
of the darkroom. I'll admit, I am impressed by how good software has become
over the years -- thank you Mr. Adobe. I must admit, too, that I now better
understand why some of my students are so adamant about Lightroom; they tell
me they hardly launch into Photoshop now that they have Lightroom. It
doesn't matter how much I try to explain how they can use Photoshop, they're
just hooked on all the convenience of doing zillions of tonal and color
adjustments wholesale in Lightroom.
In all fairness, I can't talk for Apple's Aperture because my G4/733 just
chokes on it. But I'll bet Aperture does an equal fine job at managing
digital imagery like Lightroom does (don't want to sound like I'm pushing
Adobe's product).
Looking forward to my next "digital" outing.
MfG / Roger
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