The Big Picture

One of my favourite sources for news photography is "The Big Picture" from Boston.com. Each month they publish some amazing shots from both key news events and some more random events. Always of an amazing quality, highly recommended.



Egypt - the wait




Dakar 2011

Other great series:
2010 in photos, part 1
2010 in photos, part 2
2010 in photos, part 3

Lightroom collections

Imported all my existing photos into Lightroom and consolidated over ten years worth of files into one massive, easily backed-up, folder. With 10 000+ shots its getting more important to leverage the full functionality of the Library module. Meta-data filtering is fantastic and I am sketching on a keyword structure that will actually work (hopefully).

In the meantime I'm using Scott Kelbys method for using collections to quickly sort through events and "keeper" shots. Apart from the proposed structure, the most important lesson I took away from this were the keyboard shortcuts - those really cut away a lot of boring time.

Scott Kelby: How I use Lightroom’s Collections

Photo books

Currently working hard at understanding DTP software such as Scribus to be able to develop better-looking photo books. First attempt was a success but revealed some shortcomings in the workflow, such as a poorly calibrated monitor :( The images came out a bit dark... Will try to get hold on a Spyder 3 to fix that.

Example of a nice book, if perhaps a bit overdone: Turkey

Now I also need access to a scanner to get maps and stuff into the library...

Night photography with a twist

Studying up on night photography now following my more or less first session outside a couple of months ago. Found this gem that is actually really neat but perhaps a bit nerdy:



Might there be some other "immaterials" that could be illustrated in the same way? Sleep patterns? Feng-shui whatever? Hmm...

Spotify music blogs

Finally found what seems like a decent Spotify music blog - Pansentinent. Having some fun with their playlists now, the stand-up comedy versions. Need to find some more good sources for music on spotify, shelling out a lot of money for it with a very limited discovery engine...

Black and white

Found some more on the theme of turning color images into black and white. I think I'll try using the "virtual copy" function in Lightroom to test this out. In the shots linked below many use a long exposure to soften up the sky, seems really effective...



45 more B&W architecture photos here

There is also an application named "silver e-fex" or something similar that many recommend... Need to check that out

Painful truth

HAH.