Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Lord Hill

This past Saturday morning, I took advantage of the rain-less-ness and went to Lord Hill Regional Park. I think it was the first time I've ever gone there without getting extremely tired, or cramps, or something. But this was also the first time I've taken adequate food and water with me to the park. Maybe they're connected.

In other news, I've been playing with a free trial of Adobe Lightroom 3. So far, I really like it. It remembers all your edits - even after you close the program - so it's really easy to tweak or redo your changes. None of the changes are permanent until you export them to a new image file. I just got some prints in the mail of pictures that I had edited with Lightroom, and they look good. (The only problems I had were problems I've had with prints from other editing programs as well, so I'll have to figure them out but I don't think they're related to Lightroom). At Lord Hill this weekend I took some pictures in Camera Raw format. I'll share the results of those and give a more detailed account of my Lightroom experiences in a future blog post.

Here are the best, at least the best without any editing (I am going to experiment with some of the more contrasty ones in Lightroom before I publish them online).



The park has some very nice viewpoints! The only other time I made it to one of this park's viewpoints was on a morning of thick fog...which basically defeats the purpose.