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Photo Workflow: Lightroom Sometimes Deletes More Than You Ask, But This Plugin Can Help

I've been busy lately on a couple of new Lightroom plugins.
Today I'm releasing “Workflow
Delete Options”, which helps address a couple of issues with how Lightroom handles delete requests.

In some situations Lightroom silently deletes more than you ask for, and in other cases, less. This plugin
lets you be alerted to these situations so you can make an informed decision about what to do.

Details and download link are on the plugin's home page.

The Effect of Shutter Speed on the Appearance of Flowing Water

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This article contains interactive aspects that are likely removed by most news readers. Please see this particular article directly on Jeffrey's blog for full functionality.

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Test 1:   2.5 sec 〜 1/60 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

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I posted some water-flow pics the other day in “A Drenched Visit
to the Kuuya-Taki Waterfall” (空也滝), taken during an outing in which
I'd hoped to miss the rain, but found a rare Kyoto thunderstorm. Since I
had my tripod with me, I did some tests on the effect of shutter speed on
the feeling of water flow.

Swabbing the mouse from side to side over the image above (and all the
images below) causes different frames of each test set to come up, with the
shutter speed in seconds showing in the lower right.

I would have liked to have all tests done with every major shutter-speed
increment between 30 seconds and 1/500th of a second, but I guess I was
just too miserable in the downpour to think that far ahead, and so the
collection is rather haphazard. I'll have to go back on a nicer day with
stronger focus.

Still, I made the tests, and they're at least partially useful, so here we are.

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Test 2:   0.4 sec 〜 1/250 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 3:   1.3 sec 〜 1/125 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 4:   10 sec 〜 1/125 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 5:   2.5 sec 〜 1/13 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which

The stick is not in the 2.5-second shot because it's the last photo in
the set that I took (though it appears first when sorted by shutter
length), and apparently it's at that point in the set that I decided it
was worth it to climb down and get rid of the ugly stick. So, it doesn't
appear in the next set, nor in the set that leads this post, which I
photographed after this set.

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Test 6:   1/5 sec 〜 1/200 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 7:   20 sec 〜 1/100 sec

(for some reason all at different apertures)
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 8:   8 sec 〜 1/15 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which


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Test 9:   5 sec 〜 1/20 sec
Animatable — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view different shutter speeds
写真の上をマウスであちこちにゆっくり動かすといろいろな露出時間の影響を見えます。

1)return true;var x=Math.floor((e.clientX||e.pageX)/BW);if(X==0)X=x;else if(x!=X){var which=x>X?i+(x-X):i-(X-x);if(which>=I.length)which=I.length==2?0:I.length-1;else if(which

The “flow” effect is directly related to the relative movement across
the frame during the exposure, so distance from the camera and water speed
play as direct a role as the shutter speed. Next time I go I'll have to try
the same scene from different distances (or with different zooms) to help
bring those important factors under the umbrella of “experience”....

A Drenched Visit to the Kuuya-Taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 30 sec, f/11, ISO 100 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Hearty Flow
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It's been ages since I've been out with just me and the camera, so I took some time for myself yesterday
to visit the Kuuya-taki Waterfall (空也滝) in the mountains of western Kyoto. I first posted about it
a year ago, and have since posted many updates,
such as here and here.

(As always, the “nearby photos” link under any of these shots brings up other photos taken over the years in the same area.)

It had been raining recently, so yesterday I hoped to get lucky with a
large flow of water over the falls, and also lucky to miss rain while I was
there.

I was not as lucky as I had hoped.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Heavy Downpour

while waiting it out under the roof of a dilapidated shack





Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 52mm — 1/10 sec, f/4.5, ISO 10000 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Corrugated Tin Roof

I had hoped for the best, but had prepared for the worst, so I had rain
gear, umbrella, etc., so I could still try to make some shots, but it was a
miserable time.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 34mm — 8 sec, f/9, ISO 100 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Wasn't Worth It

for this boring shot

Since I was there, I wanted to try to make the best of it, but I seemed to not be able to get into a groove. The shot below seems to completely lack a reasonable perspective, despite having been taken from a spot that
offered such a great view...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/20 sec, f/7.1, ISO 6400 —
map & image data — nearby photos

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The huge (6-story tall?) waterfall in the far background looks tiny, and so do the logs in the foreground. The big stone gate is almost invisible.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 60mm — 0.6 sec, f/9, ISO 200 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Principle
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The other day someone contacted me asking whether they could use one of my photos to illustrate a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."

The photo in question was of pretty bad quality, so while I was out
there I looked for an appropriate scene. I took a bunch of shots that I've
still yet to check out, but the shot above (and the shot at the start of
the post) are two attempts.

Continued here...