Comments on: Some Links, Inspiration and a Flickr Group

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:48:57 +0000

The other night my wife was watching a new series on the STARZ channel call “Head Case” and in the waiting room of the doctor’s office, there are two of Jill’s images on the wall, one of the Baboon and another of a crying child.

The only way I recognized them was of the link to Jill Greenberg’s web site from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips. I think my wife was impressed when I pulled up the web site and showed her the rest of Jill’s images.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:48:57 +0000

Hi everyone, hearing Jill’s work is done mostly in-camera with lighting is a sure sign that I have A LOT MORE TO LEARN.

I can answer James’ question about moving your pics to an external hard disk and having LR still work. At least, I can tell you what I do:

When I import images from a photo shoot or wedding, I put them in their own sub-folder such as “c:/pictures/Sypher Wedding”. I then run my back up software which is set to back up my c:/pictures folder. After I’m completely finished processing all the images (and I’ve been continually backing up at the end of every work session) I essentially have two complete copies of my raw images, .psd’s and all the work done to them. I delete them manually from my C: drive. After that, they show up in Lightroom in red, so with my external disk turned on, I right-click on the lost folder (red text) and browse for it on my external drive. After that, Lightroom can find it any time the external drive is running.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:46 +0000

Hi all,

Flickr is great, but it would be even nicer to see the before/after preset picture and the name of the preset.

Cheers

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:53:37 +0000

Matt,

Yes Jill greenburg effect would be great. I suspect thought that she is shooting with fantastic lighting and a very expensive camera.

I have another question, how would I continuiously move my images from my computer to an external hard drive and have lightroom still work. ie I will download them to my computer, process them, once I am done, shift them to the hard drive.

I have a feeling it will be to do with different catalogues, but can’t work it out.

Cheers again for the blog

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:10:13 +0000

Matt-

So since you work with Mr. Kelby and I can’t get his blog here at the office (Firewall) what is in the newest Lightroom release?

“I Just Saw the Next Version of Lightroom, and…” – Jan 23, 2008 – Scott Kelby

Can you give us an update so we all know what to expect?

~Cheers~

By: William Chinn

William Chinn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:42:53 +0000

Adobe: 30-60 second videos? Isn’t that the original premise behind the Lightroom Killer Tips. If you collect them like I do, likewise for PS CS3, then you have a great library of hints, tips, and ideas. Thanks for all of the above. Just wish the iTunes postings could keep up with the direct blog downloads..

By: Crash

Crash — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:37:52 +0000

Awesome blog Matt! I would also like to see some sort of tutorial in regards to the Jill Greenberg effect.

Thanks.

By: Clayton Bozard

Clayton Bozard — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:17:03 +0000

She is a wonderful photographer! I agree that most of the effect seen in Jill’s photographs is done in Camera with use of off camera flash. Looks like some retouching of the skin has been done possibly as well. If the lighting is good then you can archive the look with very little post with lightroom!

http://www.strobist.com is a great place to start with obtaining info dealing with off camera lighting. Zack Arias has a workshop also (that i have attended) that deals with using off camera flash. http://www.onelightworkshop.com Zack also has a message board up on his site that you can get help, ask questions, ect…

Thanks,
Clayton

By: mattk

mattk — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:49:24 +0000

I third the Jill “effect” request. Honestly, I think much of it is lighting and that is what I’d really like to see a write up on. Once the lighting is there I bet we can achieve the post processing feel that she has with a few sliders in Lightroom. I really think most of the work is done in the camera here though so if anyone knows more about it please post.

Thanks,
Matt K

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:29:28 +0000

As usual, thanks for some great information.

I second the request for some details on how to achieve the look on Jill’s site.