When I travel for a shoot, or work on organizing a new project in Lightroom, I often create a new separate catalog just for a particular set of images. The smaller catalog runs faster and keeps things simple. When everything is processed, I’ll then import the smaller catalog into my master catalog by going to: [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Post Processing category.
Night photography: Lightroom 3 process version 2010
Lightroom 3 was released yesterday and includes a completely retooled raw processing engine. I’ve been experimenting with the new raw processing for night photography, and the results are encouraging. The raw file processing engine from Lightroom 2 is now the 2003 process engine, and Lightroom 3 is the 2010 process engine (reflecting the year of [...]
Night photography: Burned orange 1966 Lincoln with flame job
Burned orange 1966 Lincoln with flame job — by Joe Reifer Technical details: Three exposures of 7 minutes were stacked for 21 minute long star trails (7 minutes at f/9.5, ISO 200). There is a 1 second interval between exposures — any longer would show gaps in the star trails. The Canon 5D Mark II [...]
Time change: Using Lightroom to correct the time on your photos
Daylight savings time started last night for most of us in the U.S. — did you remember to change the clock on your digital camera? I went to change the time on my point & shoot, and realized that I never changed it the last time. So all of my photos from last fall until [...]
Wolf Ridge Night Photography Gallery, and Lightroom Tips
Wolf Ridge, downstairs, San Francisco view — by Joe Reifer I’ve just posted a gallery of night images from Wolf Ridge in Marin. If you’re interested in taking a trip up to Wolf Ridge, check out Andy Frazer’s photography guide for this great location. A Few Notes on Organizing Your Photos with Lightroom, and Exporting [...]
Digital Night Photography: Test Exposures, Noise Reduction, and Image Stacking
A tree, trailer, fencing, and various geometric forms studied for 15 minutes — by Joe Reifer Technical Details Canon 5D Mark II with an Olympus Zuiko 21mm f/3.5 lens — the lens is very small, light, sharp, and has a manual focus scale. Long exposure noise reduction was turned off in the camera, greatly increasing [...]
Night Photography: Film Reads As Night, Use the Results for Digital Post-Processing
Various trucks, cans, detritus — by Joe Reifer 45 minute exposure at f/11 with Kodak E100VS slide film. Mamiya 7II with 43mm lens (21mm equivalent for 35mm cameras). The technique necessary to make a 45 minute exposure with a digital SLR would be either to: Shoot for 45 minutes with noise reduction on, and then [...]
An alligator and a minotaur take a ride in an amphibious vehicle
An alligator and a minotaur take a ride in an amphibious vehicle — by Joe Reifer Technical Details: This panorama was created by shooting four horizontal images hand-held with a Ricoh GRD II, and automatically stitching using Photomerge in Photoshop CS3. Photomerge did an excellent job except for one small area of the power lines. [...]
Night photography post-processing: A Warm Car on a Cool Night
(Night Photography Color Balance Comparison) — Photo by David Dasinger During the second afternoon of last week’s Pearsonville Night Photography and Light Painting Workshop, Troy Paiva and I critiqued 4 images from each participant — our goal was to help everyone make better photos the second night. Seeing all of the amazing work from the [...]
Digital Night Photography Article Collection
Dia-Log Truck — by Joe Reifer The exposure time for the image above was 9 minutes at f/8 — shooting 4 nights before the full moon required an extra stop of exposure that was gained by using ISO 200 instead of the more typical full moon exposure of 6-8 minutes at f/8, ISO 100. Two [...]
