The last week was interesting, productive, and frustrating, all at the same time.

I was in Toronto for SecTor, a conference that’s somewhere between Blackhat, DefCon, and something more mainstream like RSA, after which I was in Vancouver for a few days of R&R, shopping, and of course, some shooting.

Actually, I had planned on doing a lot more shooting than I did. My preparations were a bit rushed, and I wasn’t really able to put together a shot list for the ...read more

No productivity post today… unless you are a photographer who uses Lightroom, or can think far enough outside the box to apply this to your own situation, or just happen to want to take better pictures for friends and family. On Twitter I recently followed @Michael_Zelbel – and one item on his site was ‘10 things I learned about photography‘. It’s a quick read and worthwhile to see what others consider interesting, if only for the fresh perspective. One item caught my ...read more

Lightroom has always had the ability to watermark images with the contents of the ‘copyright’ field. To see the field, switch to Library mode look at the Metadata panel and make sure ‘IPTC’ or ‘All’ is selected; then scroll down to the copyright field. But the control of the font from within Lightroom is absent! You could try Jeffrey’s Lightroom Configuration Manager , but it will only alter the font…. as a bonus you do get a lot of tweaks besides the ...read more

I took the K20D out for a spin yesterday, despite the rather overcast light. This morning I was wondering if my copy of Lightroom had been updated to handle the K20D profile, and stumbled upon a pair of presets in this thread:http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/post-processing-software/42221-k10d-k20d-lightroom-presets-20081120-a.html

The result is a little over the top in terms of vibrance and clarity settings, but it is an interesting effect when the natural light is so washed out.

Here is a sample image:

Enjoy!