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Where I’ve Been – Introducing Adobe Carousel

September 25, 2011

So, yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted here on this blog. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook have probably noticed that I’ve been a bit quieter than usual lately.

Here’s what’s up: A little more than a year ago (just after [...]

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Northern Gardener Cover Article

November 10, 2009

Forgive me for a moment of shameless self-promotion:

My mom and I have collaborated on several articles for Northern Gardener magazine over the past few years. (She writes, I photograph.) This month’s issue features our latest collaboration, on holiday decorating, on the cover. If you’re in or near [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition)

September 13, 2009

I’ve changed my Lightroom workflow fairly radically this summer. In this article, I talk about some of the motivations for making this change, how I made the new choices I’ve made, some of the alternatives I considered, and why I rejected them.

In addition to my work as a developer on the Lightroom team, [...]

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How Thomas Hawk Might Influence My Lightroom Workflow

May 11, 2009

Update (September 2009): After much consideration and much writing, I’ve developed a new workflow that I’m quite happy with. Thomas’ workflow and some of the thoughts below were very influential. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

A few days ago, a friend sent me a [...]

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Worth Reading: Jeffrey Freidl – Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof

February 27, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered how your camera will respond to extreme light conditions (or, more importantly, extreme contrast in a scene), this article is a must read:

Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof (from Jeffrey Friedl’s blog)

Be sure to take the time to click through the “normalized to the base exposure” and “jpeg [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary

February 4, 2009

Do too many keywords in your Lightroom catalog have you spinning round and round?

Here are a couple of simple tricks I use to keep me organized with over 10,000 keywords in my catalog.

Organize Your Keywords with Category Headers

I’m a big fan of David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog. It’s a [...]

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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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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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I’m Back … and I’m Published

August 4, 2007

Sigh. Yes. I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged.

First things first. Yes, I’m alive and well. I’m still a geek. I’m still a photographer. I’m still working on Lightroom. And still having fun doing all of these things.

So far as I know, nobody I know was on the bridge when it [...]

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A Day at the Zoo

August 17, 2006

While back in Anchorage yesterday, we took a little time to go visit the Alaska Zoo. This was mostly for fun, but we did manage to capture a few interesting images along the way. I experimented a bit with split-tone processing in Lightroom with these two images. I’d love to hear what you think [...]

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About Eric

Hi, I’m Eric. I’m a photographer, blogger, and software developer 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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