So it is not the same day as it was yesterday when I talked about shooting the basketball event at our church but it is close. I stopped shooting at 2:40 and went through 446 images. I knew I would some more images after the closing ceremonies and awards but there would not be that many. So after some quick work in Lightroom I whittled it down to 88 images to be tweaked if necessary. About 20% need to be edited with some form of adjustment other than basic white balance and sharpening. SOme needed a good bit of fill light but for the most part it was pretty well what the camera captured.
Once that was done it was an export and upload to Animoto to see how things went.
It is only at 360 as I it is going to be projected on large screens and it has a high frame rate so any quality problems from the low resolution will not really be noticed.
Good morning to this special Sunday morning post. After you review the post you will know why I put it up this morning.
I was on Facebook the other night and was reminded by a friends post about haveing seen Louie Giglio presenting his Indescribable talk. I first was made aware of Giglio at a Chris Tomlin concert in Columbus OH during his "How Great is Our God" tour. Take the few minutes to watch these five short videos. You will be blessed and humbled at the same time. It's... Well... Indescribable!
Tonight wrapped up our annual missions conference at church I was to have an Animoto video of shots I had taken on Sunday which was the start of the conference. I had take 199 shots on sunday of the event and pared it down to 101 of which I used 97 in the video. As I was hand holding with the 5D Mk2 most of the time I was on burst so as to increase my sharpness average. Obviously there were a lot of duplicates that were either blurred or just dupes that I did not need.
Yesterday I was busy on other items and had delegated today to get this done in an hour or two. Well that did not go according to plan at all. Figuring I was not going to be working with the local adjustment brush very much, I thought I would dump the images onto the Drobo and import them into Lightroom. Nice plan!
iMac
My desktop is an iMac first gen... Here just take a look. Ok? Seen enough. The killer in this computer is the 2 BG of memory that tries to keep up with the number crunching in Lightroom's database system. It is not pretty at all.
Sorry, for the WinPeople, the spinning beach ball of death as it is known in Mac speak is the same as the twirling hourglass in Windows. It means the system is being jacked by your memory and the hard drive is trying to pretend it is RAM. When I bought the iMac it could not address more than three GB and Apple sold either 2 or 4 GB. I didn't want to pop the extra cash for four gig when I would only get one more. Besides it would not have helped.
MacBook Pro
Compare that to my MacBook Pro and there is a significant different. Yes the processor is faster but the logjam on the iMac was the virtual ram the hard drive was trying to play. The MBP has 8 GB and fly's with Lightroom.
All that to say that it took waaaay longer than I expected and the service was to start at 6:30. Animoto took it's sweet time tendering the hi-res version but finally did. Got the DVD files downloaded, burned the DVD and stuck it in the DVD player to see if it would run. Now our normal DVD player is in a box as we are refinishing the family room/studio and the VCR/DVD player-burner is real finicky when it comes to DVD's. So not knowing if the video was going to work or not, I hopped on the Harley and off was off to church at 6:45.
I got it up to the techTeam and they dropped it into the DVD player, pressed play and the opening screen came up. YES!!! It was going to work for the end of the program.
So two things came out of today. The first being to trust your work when your workflow is sound. The second is that I will be ordering a 27" iMac next week with 8 BG. Why not 16, two expensive right now. Two 4 GB chips leave two slots open for another set of 4 GB later if need be.
This is not going to be long today as I am busy running around and I will be off to attend David Zisers Captured By The Light Tour over in Detroit tonight. More on that tomorrow though.
So I saw this little reference on page 142 of July’s Rangfinder magazine and it was referencing Adorama’s online training video series. It is called AdoramaTV. Video, Free, What’s not to like. So I headed over there and there is a very nice presentation by Mark Wallace providing information on photographic tools and techniques, some technical and some not but all very good.
I have imbedded the first episode in the blog but you can Google it at Digital Photography 1 on 1 (click here) or go to iTunes but you will want to choose if you want the AppleTV, iPod, or iPhone versions to watch.
I had planned on doing something much different on todays post but I have seen a couple of Geico commercials the last couple of days that are just too funny that I thought I would turn this into a Funny Friday.
There is always a first for everything. This evening it was preparing a video for the blog post. I really had no intension of making it a post about this. It's not like I got up today and said "Doug, I think you should make an exploded view of a CMOS sensor and then make it into a video you can put up on the blob." Click on the video to take a look.
We were watching some evening TV when I wondered over to the compute [ Sidebar you Honor: The computer is still in the family room rather than the office as it is yet unfinished, but that would be another post all together.] and started pecking.
I had this scan of a CMOS sensor that I knew I wanted to include in a training slideshow I have been working on for some time. Why a training video? Two reasons; First it forces me to learn more than I need to about a subject, and secondly it might help someone else if I ever actually do some training which I would enjoy doing. Seeing as how I have been involved with some form of training for the past thirty one years.
Ok, Back to the video. I took the scan that I had and dropped it into Keynote (that would be the Mac form of PowerPoint only better) and proceeded to recreate the elements as separate groupings so they could be animated at a later time. All in all it took about two and a half hours to generate the slide.
It is now past bedtime so I am going to depart stage right.
E-mail is a wonderful this... Except when you let it go for a week. That has been my problem last week and now I am paying the penalty. There is so much e-mail bombardment, spamming, phishing, and worms that I most often just select through and delete the junk, sort the important stuff and read what I can of the rest. Long messages and chain e-mail (even from friends and family) I just don't have time for. Videos and links I will give a quick look see and make the call.
This video is one such item. Sent to me by my sister-in-law, it is cute and uplifting.
Posts
