July 2009

LR2 Mogrify Version 3.10 Available

by Victor Augusteo on July 25, 2009

The plugin we all know and love is updated. The new version is pretty much the same as the old one, but you are able to set % of width/height instead of pixels on the watermarking to make sure the watermark scales with landscape/portrait.

Version 3.00, 23rd July 2009

  • Added support for inner borders!
  • A checkbox in the outer border sections allows you to manipulate the four borders at the same time.
  • Automatic update has been improved (although you won’t see the effect until the next version…)

Version 2.20, 14th July 2009

  • Border widths can now be a percentage of the longest/shortest side.
  • Problems related to the saving of presets containing multiple borders have now been solved (I hope!).

Source: Timothy Armes Blog
Download: LR2/Mogrify

Video Tutorial: HDR Landscape with Lightroom

by Victor Augusteo on July 24, 2009

Couple of days ago I posted several photos from Lake Mackintosh, Tasmania and received quite a number of good feedback from my friends and the online community. Numerous people asked me on how to post process the photo. So here I am, presenting to you, my FIRST video tutorial.


Download Link: HDR Landscape with Lightroom (6mb)

What do you need?

You just need to have lightroom 2.0 upwards and the “PH in the city” preset.
I totally forgot where I downloaded it and couldn’t find it at Google. So here it is.

Download Link: PH_In_the_city

Why does this picture look interesting?

I, for one, believes interestingness depends on the eyes of beholder. But in this photo you can find several composition techniques.

  1. Rule of third. Actually three of them. The wood, the mountain, and the skyline (1/3 of the frame)
  2. Symmetry. Reflection of the mountain and sky creates this effect.
  3. Frame. From using vignettes.
  4. Foreground and Background interest. Landscape has to consist of background AND foreground to be interesting. in this case, the wood and pebbles as foreground, the mountain as midground, and the sky as background.
  5. The serene feeling of the perfect still lake :)

I hope you benefit from my teaching, and please leave a comment :)

Photoshoot from The Nut, Stanley, Tasmania

by Victor Augusteo on July 24, 2009

I know, the name sounds like something naughtier. But trust me, this nut is beautiful.

The Nut, Stanley - 1/400s f4.5 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing

The Nut, Stanley - 1/400s f4.5 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing

The Nut, Stanley - 1/80s f9 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing - 3 Brackets combined

The Nut, Stanley - 1/80s f9 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing - 3 Brackets combined

The Nut, Stanley - 1/125s f8 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing

The Nut, Stanley - 1/125s f8 ISO400 - Photomatrix + Lightroom Processing

So, as always, which one do you like the most, and which one do you want the tutorial to be written?

Photo Gallery of Lake Mackintosh, Tasmania

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Lightroom Catalog Folder Error

Lately my photos has been filling up my 320gb hard drive (around 55 thousands photos) so I decided to move them to my 1tb external hard drive. I moved them conventionally with Windows Explorer. All is well until I opened Lightroom and noticed all of my folders are marked missing. And to make things worse, [...]

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