1. Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom →

    I use Lightroom to exclusively managed all of my photographs and the only reason to ever launch iPhoto is to import albums that I sync onto the iPad or iPhone. It’s a process I’m not too fond in replicating and one that I now do less of thanks to a neat preset by Matt Kloskowski.

    Carry with you any album on your iPad by exporting it directly from Lightroom. It’s a huge timesaver especially if that particular album has more than 75 photos that you would normally have to first export from Lightroom and then import back into iPhoto if you used the traditional method.

    1 year ago  /  4 notes  /  Source: lightroomsecrets.com

  2. Presetpond: Sharing Lightroom & Aperture Presets →

    A neat community for sharing, discovering and downloading presets for 2 of the most popular photo editing software Aperture and Lightroom. Signing up is free and so is downloading any of the many presets that aim to spruce up your photographs. Bookmarked.

    1 year ago  /  2 notes  /  Source: presetpond.com

  3. You are a photographer when.... →

    I’m a member of the Nikon D90 Group on Flickr and a post was published where subcribers were asked to respond to the statement that “you are a photographer when…”

    There’s 2 pages worth of responses so far and I selected my favorite 10 in no particular order. What makes these special and comical is that some very easily apply to me.

    1. People expect you to take pictures at every event you attend and they expect you to do it for free.
    2. You change the light bulbs in your bedroom to get a better white balance.
    3. You get up at 5:45 AM when on vacation and then come back and sleep until just before sunset.
    4. When your camera gear is worth more then your car.
    5. When going on a trip you pack your camera bag 2 days before the suitcase and always leave space for the tripod.
    6. You look at photos and wonder what their ISO, f-stop, and shutter were and if they used Flash or not.
    7. When you wake up at 5am on a day off and can’t sleep because of all the beutiful light going to waste.
    8. When no one in the family recognizes you without a black box in front of your face.
    9. When you take good shot and in a hurry to upload on Flickr so that you get comments from your friends and contacts.
    10. You are a photographer when ….you buy a camera.

    1 year ago  /  Notes

  4. Manifesto →

    Some powerful words from Maureen Johnson in how the internet is turning into one giant commercial -

    The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid.

    Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free. Look at what other people are doing, not to compete, imitate, or compare … but because you enjoy looking at the things other people make. Don’t shove yourself into that tiny, airless box called a brand—tiny, airless boxes are for trinkets and dead people.

    Vincent Eaton’s also nails it when he says “I have found the only real way to “sell” anything online is this way: 1) Make (write) something of quality, 2) Let people know about it, 3) Repeat. It comes slowly, but it comes.

    Sounds incredibly simple but it’s true. The old school way of saturating people with a product the way PR folks do is the exact way to get one not to be interested in what you’re selling. If you want the public to like you, you have to first give us a reason to. It can’t all be about announcing that you’re amazing - you have to prove it.

    1 year ago  /  0 notes

  5. 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now →

    Lately I’ve grown really intrigued by the support for Extensions in Safari 5. I’ve always bought into the concept of trying to accomplish as much within your browser and while this functionality has already existed in Firefox or Chrome, I never cared for any of their implementation simply because I’ve always been a Safari person.

    But now I feel like I’ve been able to take back the web Apple’s way. While the go to place for everything Extensions has been this curated Tumblr site, I would prefer if it were more organized with each extension classified in their respective category like GigaOM did.

    Among some of my personal favorites based on frequent use are: Amazon Search Bar, Full-Screen YouTube, Share with Facebook, YouTube Downloader, LittleSnapper Safari, Safari140 and Weather.

    1 year ago  /  3 notes