screaming monkey research

More playing with Lightroom 2.0.  Very pleased with the things you can do with it.  All the photoshop tweaks I’d do to photos I can just do in LR2.  And it looks better.

A selection of Mars images picked for artistic rather than scientific merit.

More Light room 2 testing, originally uploaded by SMR Labs.

I love the output sharpening in LR. No round trips to CS3. Just select screen and standard and it comes out great. I cannot believe that I didn’t buy photokit sharpener (which this is based on) when it is proving to be so simple to use.

Flower, originally uploaded by SMR Labs.

Just trying out how to post a photo from Flickr.

Bought the Lightroom 2 upgrade today.  Decided to do a Louis Dobson style over the top sunset image.

This is an old Lake Maria image.  A few things here.  This is more than just a vibrance/saturation push.  I’ve toyed with the new adjustment brush.  (I think I need a tutorial.)  I just punched up the exposure on the boat and dock.  The boat looks okay but the dock is over done.  The clarity slider is a wonderful thing.

Tools feel a little blunt right now.  I’m sure I’ll get used to them.  Just the ability to do a minor exposure touch up in lightroom without having to round trip it (read: develop the image into a psd or layered tiff) to photoshop is a great thing.

There is also output sharpening courtesy the good folks at Pixel Genius. Nice to be able to select output sharpening based on intent and just have it happen. For this image I just selected screen and standard sharpening.

Oh!  I almost forgot!  The new DNG profiles that are designed to give you colors closer to the default camera settings are really nice.  I’ve no idea how close they come to the Canon styles but they are a definite improvement over the existing ACR profiles.

Haven’t posted kitty portraits in a while.

Vo was less enthused than Rushmore.

G9 again.

I think these are G9 images.