Black Diamond Productions

Innovative ways to display your work…

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Put your best work on canvas. I will be trying this in the near future for a few prints to see how it works in a home setting. Actually they will be for my office. I have heard nothing but good reviews of this company so it will more than likely be my first place to attempt to see what happens.

 

The other interesting option is what this company provides:

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Now I will be honest and say that more than likely I will not do this as what my main images are in the glamour market might not be the perfect type of photo for this application but the technology is definitely very slick. Well thinking about it maybe a super sexy image on this might be exactly what people what to curl up with at night.

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Shoot: Jenna

Just a quick sample shot from a shoot a did some time ago. Single light setup, Large Umbrella.

I have had so many changes to my workflow in the past year I think I should look at revisiting shoot ideas just to be able to redo the images in the new workflow to see the outcome and how it might vary.

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Cannot see your NEF images on WIN7? Here is the solution…

FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack

”A free collection of 32 and 64-bit RAW image decoders for Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Windows Vista introduced a modern and extensible imaging framework called Windows Imaging Component (WIC). The operating system comes with built-in support for several common image formats including jpeg, bmp, png, gif, tiff and HD Photo. WIC makes it possible for 3rd parties to add first-class support for image formats to Windows, complete with thumbnails in Explorer, preview and slideshow support in Photo Gallery / Photo Viewer and metadata search integration.

The FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack provides such platform support for additional formatsand turns Windows Explorer into a raw viewer, through read-only image decoders, simultaneously available in both 32 and 64-bit flavor for Win7, Vista and XP SP3. The codec pack contains 32-bit and 64-bit NEF and 64-bit CR2 codecs, along with 64-bit DNG and a lot more!

WIC-enabled image viewers such as Windows Live™ Photo Gallery, Windows 7’s Media Center and our own FastPictureViewer Professional "automagically" gain the ability to open and view new image formats, play slideshows etc, so does all .NET 3.x and WPF-based applications.

Unconvinced? Since the initial release last September we got tens of thousands of codec packs successfully deployed and thousands of websites pointing at us from all around the world, evenmicrosoft.com points to this page from their Codec Download Page, check it out!

Download RAW Codec Pack (32 and 64-bit) 

Download the FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack 1.67 (Standalone)
Version 1.67 (Feb 16, 2010) is a minor maintenance release (to keep codecs in sync with FastPictureViewer Professional).

Version 1.66 (Feb 06, 2010) adds support for Sinar CaptureShop (*.cs1) files and Mamiya ZD (*.mef) files.

Version 1.65 (Jan 19, 2010) adds partial support for old Canon EOS 1D and 1Ds files (no metadata).

Version 1.64 (Dec 26, 2009) adds support for Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, Canon PowerShot S90, Fuji FinePix S200EXR and Pentax K-x.”

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Where are my web templates in Adobe Lightroom 2.0?

So you have made a few very cool web templates for showing off your latest photos and since you have had so much fun with photography you decide to upgrade you old computer with a new one. You finally get done with the hours of moving to a new machine and you have reinstalled Lightroom. You go looking and your web templates are gone?

Where did they go?

Well here is the bad news – More than likely if you did not back up your USER file on your old Windows machine those templates might be gone for good.

Here is where to look in Vista and Win 7:

C:/Users/Your User Acct/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Templates

And you thought it would be located in your lightroom catalog? So did I till I lost them all and had to recreate them.

Remember to back up your templates! I would recommend backing up the entire Lightroom user folder under Adobe – Just in case!

Worst case you can just import them in the reinstalled version of Lightroom if needed but at least you have not lost all your hard work.

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