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From the yearly archives: 2008

Lightroom 2.2 Is Out!

December 15, 2008

Lightroom 2.2 was released a couple of hours ago. Tom’s announcement covers all the gory details, but a couple of highlights are worth mentioning:

Canon 5D Mark II support (ooh, ahh … I want one! ) Canon PowerShot G10 support Camera Raw profiles added Bunch o’ bugs fixed
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WordPress Anti-Pattern: Don’t Remove Trailing Slashes in URLs

December 15, 2008

I’ve had an unusual burst of inbound links to this site lately, and it just occurred to me last night that there are no visible trackbacks or pingbacks.

Hmmm. After temporarily changing themes, temporarily disabling plug-ins that might interfere with trackbacks and comments such as Akismet (which is absolutely wonderful, BTW!) and No [...]

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Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

October 20, 2008

Update (September 2009): I’ve changed my workflow fairly significantly from what is described here. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made [...]

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New Northern Gardener Article

October 18, 2008

Those of you in and around Minnesota might want to wander down to your local bookstore in the next couple weeks so you can pick up a copy of Northern Gardener magazine. The September-October issue carries a new six-page article on landscaping technique written by my mother and photographed by yours truly.

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PhotoCalc: A Nifty iPhone App for Photographers

August 14, 2008

Adair Systems has released a handy little calculator for photographers. I’ve just downloaded it and I can already tell it will be very handy.

In addition to the calculators you might expect (exposure calculator, depth-of-field, and flash exposure), it can also tell you sunrise and sunset for your current location on any date [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Smart Collections and Worklists

August 4, 2008

Note: Last year, on the Lightroom Journal, I wrote about using worklist keywords to keep track of your keywording efforts. In this article, I look at some new and improved ways to accomplish the same thing with Lightroom 2.0.

I use worklists to keep track of work I want to do on [...]

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iPhone App Store Gotcha: Syncing a Phone with Multiple Machines

July 15, 2008

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve been experimenting with downloading apps on my iPhone. Mostly it’s a good experience, although I’m looking forward to the apps maturing a bit.

I got burned today by iTunes’ handling of downloaded apps and I thought I should share it with those of you who use multiple machines.

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iPhone 3G: First Thoughts

July 14, 2008

A friend and I went to the Apple Store in Seattle on Friday morning thinking we could pick up one of the spiffy new iPhones. Us and many hundred other folks. Rick and I looked at each other and decided we weren’t that hard core.

Rick is now off vacationing with his family in Wyoming [...]

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New Look for Site

July 10, 2008

Last night I updated the look and feel of my entire site. I want to give a big shout out to Chris Pearson, who developed the excellent Thesis theme. The look of all three components of my site (portfolio, photoblog, and this blog) is based on [...]

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Why I Wish the iPhone Was a Flip Phone

January 8, 2008

So we’re on vacation in Fiji. Our flight gets delayed, so I called my parents (who were picking us up) to let them know the new plan. Hung up. Stuck the phone in my pocket. Went for a walk. Didn’t think about the phone for almost an hour. Pulled the phone out of my pocket. [...]

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About Eric

Hi, I’m Eric. I’m a photographer, software developer, and sometimes blogger based near Seattle, Washington. I’ve been creating great software for desktop computers since 1983 and great photography since 1993.

Since 2003 I’ve combined those interests as a member of the Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Revel development teams.

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