Lightroom: Headline vs Title vs Caption

What's the difference between the headline, the title, or the caption and what about the description?

The problem is that the difference depends on which standard is used. You would think that the IPTC would be the standard. IPTC or Adobe? Let's face it, Adobe is bigger and more important. IPTC is used by a few hundred organizations, Adobe (Lightroom and Photoshop CSx) is used by millions of people and I would not be surprised if millions of organizations would be using Adobe.

IPTC stands for the “International Press Telecommunications Council.” It's an organization based in London, UK. It's a study group of news agencies and various news organizations so they use some common standards to exchange data among them. There are problems with the IPTC standards. There are a few versions and they conflict with each other because they renamed some fields and made some other data obsolete. Then the next problem is that they have the “core” and the extensions.

2012 - Canon's Imaging Sales are Down 7%

As all companies listed on the stock market, companies have to release their financial statements every 3 month and what's the outlook. Canon did that on 24-Oct-2012. Here are some extracts that think are “important” about Canon's imaging unit. Canon's imaging sales are down 7.3% for the last 3 month ended on 30-Sep-2012 but imaging sales are still up 6% for the 9 month ended on 30-Sep-2012.

  • Despite efforts to achieve sales growth with the competitively priced EOS Digital Rebel series along with the EOS 5D Mark III and EOS 60D advanced-amateur models, sales volumes of interchangeable-lens digital cameras decreased from the year-ago period due to a delayed new-product launch.

Canon 7D: 1st/2nd image priority

The Canon 7D is already a 3 years old camera, so Canon gave it 2 Digic-4 CPUs, once of which is dedicated to the auto-focusing. Still at 8 frames per second, the Digic-4 has its limits. It's a battle of sharing the CPU cycles between the processing of the photos and the auto-focusing. So Canon decided to let you decide how should the camera prioritize the speed of capturing the photos vs the auto-focusing. This is controlled by the C.Fn III - 2 for the configuration menu > Autofocus/Drive.

Lightroom: Using the Sliders

Everybody knows that you can use the mouse to control the various sliders in Lightroom. Often, I find that using the keyboard is “better.” If I have the choice, most of the times, I will prefer the keyboard over the mouse.

  • I have a better control by typing a value, then using the ⇑ or the ⇓ keys.

LCD Reviews

The Canon 7D has gorgeous back LCD screen. Even 3 years later it's one of the best and one of the biggest around with its 3” LCD screen. There are very few cameras with 3.2” screens. The problem is that for reviewing the photos it's not that great, I can see the framing, I can see see which areas have the clippings, but let's face it, almost all photos look good on a 3” screen.

The question is what gets displayed on the LCD review screen? It's not the photo itself whether it is raw or jpeg. It is the preview of the photo that gets displayed on the LCD review screen.

The End of Facebook

It's not the end of Facebook, but it's the end of Facebook marketing for photographers.

By now, everybody must have heard about the financial problems at Facebook. On 18-May-2012, Facebook became a public company and started trading with the opening price of $42.05 per share on the first trade. Today, 16-Oct-2012, the share price is now: $19.48. That's a 53.6% price drop in just 6 month or in real terms 35 billion dollars lost.

Lightroom vs Silver Efex Pro 2

A project ends, another project starts. As a matter of fact, for me, the project doesn't finish, I stop it, whether it is complete or not, I decide. I have declared the Downtown Eastside Cats & Dogs project to be finished. Will I ever start it again? I don't know, but for now it's finished. So I decided to start another project to see how it will work. I'm not finalized yet, it's about the streets of Vancouver. Right now, I'm thinking about doing panoramas of the Vancouver Streets in black and whites.

In Lightroom, there are two types of people:

  • The people with bazillion of presets.

Lightroom: Building a Portfolio

I need to build a new portfolio. This time it's commercial and industrial. I have 2 catalogs. One with 19 thousand photos and another one with 146 thousand photos.

The official story is pretty simple:

  1. Select the 5 star photos
  2. If you don't have enough 5 star photos, just add the 4 star photos to your selection
  3. Ten minutes later, you are done!

The problem is that life, sloppiness, laziness, sleep, family… gets in the way of a perfect world.

  • The 5 stars may not match the content of the portfolio.

Right-Clicking and How the Internet Works

Yesterday, I was talking to Jean (a guy) who is a semi pro photographer, meaning that he sells photos and he has a “real” job to support his family. I'm not sure how it started, I think he read on some bulletin board about the right-click protection.

The right-click protection is a small script that runs in the web browser that removes the pop-up menu to save the image or to copy the link…

Then he went to rant and rave about how he took the photos of a “football” team.

Crashing on Purpose

I decided to crash my computer on purpose! The question is: “Why am I so dumb?” Am I a masochist? No, not really, I do not enjoy pain. I've been having many small problems lately. The biggest and the most frustrating problem was sound. No sound. Sound was working a few weeks ago. Then suddenly it stopped, actually it just became the buzz of a drone. Not the military drones that are in the news but the drones of the bumblebees, aka the male bumblebees. I tried everything to fix it...

So it's time to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything.

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