Memos From The Digital Darkroom

In all of the years I’ve been into photography, I’ve never tried shooting fireworks. It’s something I’ve been interested in, but  never got around to doing. This year I decided to change that by making a point to go downtown and shoot the fireworks show that launched the 2009 Portland Rose Festival.
When I arrived at [...]

One of the first things to understand about Lightroom is that it’s a cataloging software. That means that everything you do in Lightroom is recorded in a type of database.That’s why any edits you make in the Develop module are non-destructive - they can be undone at any time in the future.
The analogy I usually [...]

Lightroom is loaded with useful keyboard shortcuts. But sometimes keys get pressed by accident and strange things unexpectedly happen. Following is a list of the three keyboard shortcut problems I get called about the most.
T - The T key is used to hide/show the Toolbar that’s displayed below the main viewing area. Hiding the Toolbar [...]

Last week I was teaching a photographer basic Lightroom workflow. I notice that when she attached a media card reader to Mac G5, the iPhoto downloader opened at the same time as Lightroom’s photo downloader. As she closed the dialog, she mentioned that this happens every time she inserts a media card, even though she [...]