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Hi I am Kate Jordahl and this is about projects and workflow using Camera Raw and Lightroom. We are going to look at 4 different project.
I use Lightroom in all the aspects of my work and I find it a very flexible tool and very
exciting to use and I want to share some of my projects using this software.
well with jpgs. And my last project is an infrared converted Nikon with the NEF raw
file to Nikon Capture NX2 software to tiff to Lightroom for adjusting and organizing
and printing. Lightroom works very well with these different programs, especially Photoshop,
and it is the heart of my workflow for all my photographs and projects.
My first project is Völklingen, an ironworks factory that I photographed in Germany. This
place was very inspiring. It was so beautiful with this old factory slowing returning to
nature. Völklingen was an active ironworks factory until 1980s. It is now a World Heritage
Site
and when you go they give you a hardhat and let you wander around the factory. These were
photographed with a Nikon D700 DSLR. They were captured as raw files, which is what
I encourage all of you to do. They were downloaded through Lightroom and back up on an external
hard drive in the field. When I got home, I used Lightroom to rate and make global change,
and then I went into Photoshop to make more fine adjustments. Here is an example of what
a file might look like when I brought it into Lightroom. Here is the file cropped, then
I brought it into Photoshop and using layers and curves in Photoshop I did the next level
of adjustments and then I have the final print. So, the images are organized in Lightroom,
global and some fine adjustments are done in Lightroom, more elaborate adjustments are
done in Photoshop and then brought back into Lightroom for printing.
"Song Within" is another one of my projects. It is a book project I did with Dreaming Mind
Studios. "Song Within" is a book is was inspired by the "Art Spirit" by Robert Henri and
it is silver gelatin print with letter press in a dual spine triptych so each time you
turn a page the sequence changes. These were Hasselblad scans that would become tiffs that
were brought into Lightroom to organize. I then used both Lightroom and Photoshop to
adjust and Photoshop to create a digital negative that I printed onto silver paper. So in this
book project, I would scan the negatives, I organized the scans through Lightroom then
they were brought into Photoshop to be adjusted. If I have to do spotting, I tend to do my
spotting in Photoshop. So here is the file and here is the improved file. From here I
make a digital negative onto Pictorico (a clear film you can print in an inkjet printer)
and then the digital negative is printed on to silver paper to make "Song Within."
My next project is "Skies for Mom" This is a project I did with my iphone. I brought
the iPhone photographs into Lightroom and used the power of Lightroom to access metadata,
the information inside the file. My mother died in June of 2011 so for one year after
everyday I took a picture of the sky in her memory, and thought of my mom. At the same
time I photographed with my iPhone, I took those images, interpreted them into a scarf.
Eventually this will be an installation of the scarf and the sky images. I will make
large contact sheets of the images in Lightroom and I can organize the images by date using
the data inside the images in Lightroom. This is an ongoing project using Lightroom organizational
power, its ability to print contacts sheets. I have also used Lightroom to make a small
movie of the skies.
Secret Garden is another project I am working on. It is inspired by the children's'
book by Frances Hodgson Burnett "The Secret Garden." I will be photographing my "secret
garden" Golden Gate Park. I using an infrared converted Nikon and using Nikon Capture to
translate the files into tiffs and organizing the tiffs in Lightroom. Lightroom cannot handle
the extreme color of the infrared tiffs, so the Nikon software translates to get the feeling
I want. Here is the color that is available in the tiff, here is how Lightroom would interpret
this, so I go in the Nikon software, lock in the color and then use this in Lightroom
to adjust the photographs. This will be a book project with the story of the "Secret
Garden" and celebrate our beautiful Golden Gate Park.
So I use Lightroom in many ways. I download my cards, to rate and sort my photographs,
to find data inside my files to organize my photographs, and to work cooperatively particularly
with Photoshop. I print from Lightroom and make websites and slideshow from Lightroom.
Some of you have seen my "Journey to World Heritage" exhibit or website. Most of the
work for this was done through Lightroom. It is an amazing program! As you continue
your journey with Lightroom, we will find ways for you to integrate the power of Lightroom
in your workflow. (Music by Gary Lamb, "The Garden at Giverny" from "Imaginations" with permission)