Samantha LaRue

This is one of my favorite animal photographers! She has an entire section of her website dedicated to the gear she uses, as well as blog posts on her lenses - http://scruffydogphotography.com/index.php/the-scruffy-dog-gear-2/

She also offers mentoring if you ever want to learn from her one on one.

Can you fill this out real quick for us? http://www.damiensymonds.com.au/thread1.html

If you mean just 12 GB of hard drive space, that could definitely be part of the problem.

On 9/2/2016 at 11:14 PM, Damien Symonds said:

Yes, it's a real blight on the profession.  I can't think of any other profession where people start a business and accumulate clients first, then gradually learn the craft later.

I'm not meaning to offend you personally, just making an observation about the industry as a whole.

i may or may not have done this. did the same thing with spinning/fiber arts too.  

just can't do anything the proper way. LOL!

Have you checked the focus on this yet? The little boys eyes seem OOF and I think thats the most important part, right?

10 minutes ago, newbornphotog said:

I had cloned and cropped in PS then I saved it as a PSD. When you said lighten the shadows I went back to that file... I thought the PSD was the raw file. Obviously it's different   Sorry

Glad ya'll got that cleared up

3 hours ago, mrswright5 said:

 

This one, I couldn't get her skin to not be blown without losing highlights (which made her face look flat and full).

 

You can add contrast back in when you move to PS. But in raw, preserve the details.

Some labs offer a "true black & white" that might help you out here. Worth looking into!

4 hours ago, Gabriela said:

I know but personal class always better , its the Raw class available right now? 

Yes, you can always sign up right here: http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingraw.html

There is a waiting still, I believe, for the Deluxe version - but you can get started reading right away. 

18 hours ago, dojson said:

It's unchecked (not showing hidden files). I guess I am confused. I have a photographer friend who does this same thing. Make adjustments in ACR, then from bridge, selects the files and drags them to a DB folder. It automatically adds the XMP files in the folder for him (like they are attached to the CR2 files). Mine USED to do that, but now I am having to manually go find the matching xmp file and then drag that manually.

Is there a reason why he can just drag the CR2 files and the xmp files follow? 

Does that make sense?

Oh gotcha! That makes sense.

17 hours ago, Nige said:

Hi guys

ive looked to se what aspect ratio star wars was shot in as if like to try to recreate that in a photo but of course everyone seems to be arguing about it on the web. Does anyone know the answer. 

Cheers

Which movie? I was able to look it up on IMDB for the recent one, but I'm guessing you could look up the old ones too.

For The Force Awakens: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/technical

You should be able to just open File/Windows Explorer or Finder and select them all and drag+drop them into the dropbox loader. Is that not what you've been doing? 

The XMP files are always separate from the raw files. It sounds like you might have been converting to DNG somewhere along the way if you've never had to deal with the XMP files before. 

Sometimes this pops up because you accidently saved it as "progressive" or one of those other weird JPEG versions. It also sometimes pops up because ROES is just dumb. 

Can you first try updating ROES, then try restarting your computer? And then try saving them again, making sure it's on Baseline/Standard?

On 7/26/2016 at 8:21 PM, Rhonda Haar said:

Can anyone point me in the correct direction or link on how to properly create a Facebook cover page and sharpening?  Thank you

On 7/26/2016 at 9:59 PM, Damien Symonds said:

As far as I know, cover pics are still 851x315 pixels.

For sharpening, browse these and see what you like.

While that is the correct size, I've had better luck cropping to that ratio (851:315) - and then resizing to 2048px on the long side. This seems to look better across all devices, whereas resizing to the exact size can make it look bad on mobile. 

 

20 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

This happens if you have unflattened layers when you save the jpeg file; or if your file is 16-bit instead of 8-bit.

i have honestly never noticed this!

I'm sure you probably checked this but - are you sure your PS is fully expanded? It looks like it might be off your screen just a little bit to the right since I can't see the "lock" on the background layer either. 

14 hours ago, Rob G said:

I should have said that it's running happily under Win 8.1. No reason to suspect that it won't do the same under Win10, which is what the new machine will have to have I suppose.

Thank you both.

I was thinking more along the lines of it being compatible with the new monitors you'll be purchasing. But your OS could play a role too.

Not one that I've heard. Perhaps Damien knows? I kinda like the popup because it's a good reminder for me to go back to look at my history and make sure that I yes did in fact save the PSD prior to resizing and making my jpeg. 

Also, this isn't usually an issue because most of the time I edit a bunch of PSDs, and then turn them into jpegs all at once via Image Processor. That pop-up doesn't appear when you do that since it only creates new jpegs in a separate folder. 

I think you've gotten sufficient years out of that one to warrant a replacement.  

http://www.damiensymonds.net/what2buy_cal.html

If you want to be more conservative, you can wait until your computer and monitors are all set up and then see if the calibrator still works properly. But where is the fun in that? 

1 minute ago, Christina Keddie said:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=horses+for+courses

You think you're so adorable, dontcha?

16 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

Horses for courses.  

What does this mean?

16 hours ago, Brettaney said:

Can I remove or lessen the glare on her glasses? I've looked through other glare questions on here and can't seem to figure it out!

Just make sure you've done all your raw editing first - including noise removal.

You posted 2 different pictures, can you post the "before" of the bottom one too? Make sure it's SOOR (all raw editing done, no PS work) 

Also, are you in the levels class? 

And could you have used something like Photos or iPhoto or other software to transfer your photos to your computer? 

When you say you checked the cards again - do you mean you had the cards themselves hooked up to your computer and you viewed their contents in finder? Or were you looking at the folders that LR stored the files in?

Do you have any images with a strong backlight? Yours are all very evenly lit, and I think part of the editing you're finding the most appealing is due to her dramatic lighting.

It looks like heavy haze to me...as in, done in camera due to the strong light.

(example of an old photo I took, SOOR)

11 hours ago, Pat said:

Well none of that worked.  Brian, the 4.5.8 version is the Mac version.  Windows is still 4.5.4, which is what I have.  I went ahead and downloaded and installed from the download rather than the disk, just because you never know.  I uinstalled, deleted the Datacolor folder, rebooted, and reinstalled.  Same issue.  I wonder if there are some registry settings that need to be wiped clean.  I'm going to see if I can contact DataColor support. 

You are not the first person to report this in the recent weeks. At least the third I've seen. I'm going to go pull up the other posts and see if I can find similarities. I think they may all be PC users at least.

Hmm, so the one I was thinking of was a Mac user. And the other 2 were slightly different issues. And then I found a 4th, but her toggle wasn't working when she flicked between profiles.