Monthly Archives: February 2010
Print Montage at Photocamp Utah
- Start by putting together a printed montage of your work that can be displayed at Photocamp Utah. We will be displaying the prints of the attendees at this year’s Photocamp! Got skillz? We want to see them. Show us what you do best, your speciality, or favorite work that you are proud of!
Rules:
- Pull together your best work for us to see.
- One single print, largest size of the print allowed is 11 X 14 inch. We suggest you mount the print on matt board (please use 1/16″ thick matt board). Put as many photos as you would like, but they all must fit on the 11 X 14 inch matt board.
- Put your website address somewhere on the print you create so we can find you and see more of your work. This will also help in getting you back your print at the end of the Photocamp.
- If you frame the print, we won’t be able to display it. We know frames look nice, but we can only handle something as thick and heavy as described in the first bullet.
- While Photocamp is a great place to network, don’t abuse this opportunity by creating an advertisement or… well you get the idea.
There is more information listed at the Photocamp Utah website, and if you have any questions please join in the discussion in the Flickr group here.
Focused
Are you backing up?
Believe me, this is one screen you don’t want to see if your a Photoshop Lightroom user. Everything that came out of this event was positive for me but I’m pretty sure I’m safe in saying that for many people it may have not been such a positive outcome, let me explain.
I had just finished shooting my first bridal session a few weeks prior. During those two weeks I had done some extensive editing, ranking and organizing of photos. My lightroom catalog is set to prompt me to backup once a week. I’m pretty religious about backing up once a week but for some reason I told lightroom to skip the backup that week. About a week later I had done a photo shoot of Jaidyn for her 1 year old pictures. By the time the shoot was over I had well over 400 images to import into lightroom. I had a few minutes after the shoot so I started importing all the files into lightroom. This is where the fun begins… My youngest daughter was playing with her two cousins and decided for some reason that playing under my desk would be fun. An hour later I came to check on the progress of my import and was horrified when I found out they turned off my power strip (on accident) and shut down my computer right in the middle of the import. I immediately powered up my iMac and opened lightroom. All photos that had been imported were gone, no big deal. I started the import over and successfully imported all the images. After spending a few more days on the bridal photos I shut down lightroom and backed it up, Walla, this is the message that came up when it tried to start. Oh crap… I have a deadline on these bridals and don’t have time to redo all the editing.
As I started looking at my backup files I noticed that my lightroom catalog backup file was old enough that I would have lost everything that I had worked with on the bridal photos. This is where the good news happened. I have a dedicated 500GB external hard drive that I use for Apple’s Time Machine for my backups. I won’t get into how it works but to make this long story short I was able to recover a lightroom catalog file from Time Machine to a file it had saved just a few hours before from when my daughter turned off my power strip. I only lost a few days of editing instead of two weeks and was able to recover in a short amount of time.
I switched to a mac a few years ago and am very happy with that decision. If you own a mac and are not using Time Machine you need to, it’s very easy to setup and is a fairly good solution. It’s not going to solve all your problems but it’s a good start.
When is the last time you backed up your important data?
Nicole – Bridals
Canon 5D Mark II * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 320 * 1/100 seconds * f/4.0
Now that Nicole’s wedding was last week I can finally post her bridals that I shot last month at the Utah State Capitol building. The capitol is a great place to photograph, the lighting is amazing and the newly renovated building has some great architecture inside. I traveled to Idaho last week to photograph her wedding and will share those pictures once I get them processed. Below are a few of my favorites.
Canon 5D Mark II * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 400 * 1/80 seconds * f/4.0
Canon 5D Mark II * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 320 * 1/125 seconds * f/4.0
Canon 5D Mark II * EF-24-105mm f/4.0L * ISO 400 * 1/125 seconds * f/4.0
