Little River Canyon Run and Meet

[dmcmahan12]

Glad to hear you guys and girls had a good time. Will make the next one for sure.

[AWDani]

Originally Posted by MoreGarageSpacePls

Kristyn and I had a great time! Enjoyed meeting a bunch of new people too! Rob, you did a fantastic job getting some shots there at the end. I'm definitely up for going back sometime. Hope you guys had fun at 302, we had to get on back to take care of some stuff at the house or we would have stopped by

Cafe 302 was rained out so you didn't miss out!

[HPEVOX]

Video still being processed so quality should improve with 720p processed. Just took a few clips here and there. Original video was 17 minutes long so had to cut a lot. Ray gets to be the main star of the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8atYC843Rc&feature=plcp

[Samir]

Originally Posted by VR4Rob

Did a few 'creative edits' of some of my favorites from the day.

Very nice! What software did you use to get these results? I'd really love to batch process all my stuff to look like this prior to upload.

Originally Posted by LagoGarda

:-) winner

Sweet! Now, you owe us all a sample.

Better yet--you cook for us at the Canyon next time and we'll each throw in a few bucks.

Originally Posted by HPEVOX

Video still being processed so quality should improve with 720p processed. Just took a few clips here and there. Original video was 17 minutes long so had to cut a lot. Ray gets to be the main star of the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8atYC843Rc&feature=plcp

I don't know why, but your car sounded like a Mustang to me the whole time. For most of the video, I thought you had actually put the camera on a Mustang.

What size is the raw clip? If it's under 3gb, upload it here so we can check out the whole thing in full high-res glory:
http://newpics.huntsvillecarscene.co...nyonRunandMeet

[jasgrider]

Originally Posted by Samir

Very nice! What software did you use to get these results? I'd really love to batch process all my stuff to look like this prior to upload.

Pretty sure he did all his changes in Photoshop. I hit them with just the Camera Neutral preset in Lightroom for my camera. I <3 shooting stuff in RAW because it is so easy to change or even save a pic that looks marginal. (Not that any of these needed saving, they were all very good and just need a crop and normalization)

[Samir]

Originally Posted by jasgrider

Pretty sure he did all his changes in Photoshop. I hit them with just the Camera Neutral preset in Lightroom for my camera. I <3 shooting stuff in RAW because it is so easy to change or even save a pic that looks marginal. (Not that any of these needed saving, they were all very good and just need a crop and normalization)

Lightroom is the bomb. I don't even have computing power that can run it, but it can really help with high-volume publishing like what I do--batch processing, automatic cataloging and archive management, and an upload plugin to publish things quickly and easily. Maybe one day.

[VR4Rob]

Yeah they are done in Photoshop (CS5 specifically, content-aware FTW). No way I could do batch processing and make them look like that. Several things are removed (road imperfections, powerlines, etc) and the color corrections are really dependent on the picture.

[Samir]

Originally Posted by VR4Rob

Yeah they are done in Photoshop (CS5 specifically, content-aware FTW). No way I could do batch processing and make them look like that. Several things are removed (road imperfections, powerlines, etc) and the color corrections are really dependent on the picture.

And that's the main reason I can't batch process--it's just not automated enough. Lightroom can do quite a bit in a batch process, but it's still not 'fire and forget' yet.

But the day it is, I can tell it to retouch every photo I've ever shot and replace the uploaded copies with the new ones.

[GrantH]

It won't ever get where you can batch process raw files or jpg for that matter to a point where they auto-correct white balance perfectly and sharpen the proper amount. It just won't happen. Every picture I've ever shot for you since I have started, has been opened in elements and corrected one by one.

[Samir]

Originally Posted by GrantH

It won't ever get where you can batch process raw files or jpg for that matter to a point where they auto-correct white balance perfectly and sharpen the proper amount. It just won't happen. Every picture I've ever shot for you since I have started, has been opened in elements and corrected one by one.

I used to think that way until I've saw some of the tools that exist in-camera now--auto oof detection in a burst series, in-camera selective coloring, etc. I think there will come a day when you can batch process stuff very quickly. It's how instagram has made its mark, and I think things will continue to go that way. It won't be 100%, but 'good enough' rules publications now, not perfection.

[GrantH]

you may can auto process but you don't gain your own style that way. you can auto-tune everything batch already in CS5, but unless you want a boring "correct" image, you gotta fine tune.

[Samir]

In my opinion a style is derived more from the framing and other parameters of the shot than the post-production of the shot. Going back to the film days--it's not the darkroom that made or broke the shot, but the negative that it started from. I look at the 'digital darkroom' in the same way.