OK, I mentioned that I would post about the clarity slider and what the new negative clarity can do, and this is it. There’s not much I can say that a photo can’t say. The slider goes from -100 to +100 rather than 0 to +100 as in Lightroom 1. The negative clarity manifests itself [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Lightroom 2 Clarity
Posted in Story, tagged clarity, editing, lightroom, portrait on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First major disappointment with Nikon
Posted in Story, tagged auto-focus, macro, nikkor, nikon, rant, tokina on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the D300 (and perhaps others), third-party lenses such as Sigma, Tamron, and Tokina will only recognize one lens for the AutoFocus Fine-Tune adjustments. I am so bummed. Most of the time, the Nikkor lens for a given focal length or function will perform at least as well as any comparable third-party lens, but the [...]
Lightroom 2
Posted in Photo, Story, tagged lightroom, macro, preset on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another notch! The improvements over the 1.x line are amazing. What amazing colors! But, that’s just the beginning. This is fun. Just wait to see what the negative clarity can do for portraits!






