I just started to use Lightroom a little while ago (3.6).
Can anybody recommend any books or links that might help
me get more out of LR and everything it has to offer, especially
from a bird photographer's point of view?
Thanks
Doug
I just started to use Lightroom a little while ago (3.6).
Can anybody recommend any books or links that might help
me get more out of LR and everything it has to offer, especially
from a bird photographer's point of view?
Thanks
Doug
I thought the Scott Kelby book was helpful. Lots of good tips to put to immediate use.
If you are like me - too lazy to plough through a weighty manual - you might find it useful to subscribe to the Kelby Training videos (www.kelbytraining.com). There is a lot there on Lightroom - like 4 x 1.5 hour training sessions, plus a whole bunch of stuff on the new LR 4 and Photoshop and lots more. A year's subscription is under $200 and works out good value in my opinion.
Gerald
Another option, which I use for LR and CS5, is lynda.com . I think you can get an introductory trial (and you can use any of the videos during that time) for free to see if you like it.
Thanks, I'll check everything out.
Lightroom forums is a great place to ask questions, and search for those already asked.
http://www.lightroomforums.net/
Definitely upgrade to Version 4; it is a light year leap.
Kelby's LR4 available digitally is an excellent book to go through very slowly and do all of the exercises too.
Cheers, Jay
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"Nature Interpreted" - Photography begins with your mind and eyes, and ends with an image representing your vision and your reality of the captured scene; photography exceeds the camera sensor's limitations. Capturing and Processing landscapes and seascapes allows me to express my vision and reality of Nature.
I've been very disappointed in Lightroom 4. I definitely like some of the new features like local adjustments, but the I find the recalibrating of the exposure controls, doesn't suit me, and it is dog slow compared to version 3. Version 3 had the snappy: you pressed a key and whatever you asked for happened. On the same hardware, version 4 waits for a couple of second son almost every operation. E.g. I press R and 3 or 4 seconds later the crop tool shows up. I press the right arrow and the picture previews very slowly, and it still isn't done when the progress indicator finishes. It's several seconds more before I see the final sharp image. Very disappointing. :-(
Cheers, Jay
My Digital Art - "Nature Interpreted" - can now be view at http://www.luvntravlnphotography.com
"Nature Interpreted" - Photography begins with your mind and eyes, and ends with an image representing your vision and your reality of the captured scene; photography exceeds the camera sensor's limitations. Capturing and Processing landscapes and seascapes allows me to express my vision and reality of Nature.
I've got beefy enough hardware that it really shouldn't be struggling and as I said, Lightroom 3 performed just fine on these same systems. I notice the slowness on both my MacBook Pro 17" (SSD + 8GB RAM) and on my Mac Pro (3.33 GHz, 6-core, 12 GB RAM, SSD + RAID). Either should be well more than enough for Lightroom.