Finally, it's done...

[compilerbitch]

I've finally finished processing the landscapes from my trip to the arctic this summer. If you've looked closely at my LJ, you'll have seen most of the images already, but there are another 17 images you've not seen before. The whole thing is sitting in a photo gallery on my web site here.

So, without further ado, here are all the new ones:



Beyond





West from Base Camp




Boulder Field




River Bed




Jellyfish




Planet of the Apes Valley - 2




Planet of the Apes Valley - 3




Planet of the Apes Valley - 4




Planet of the Apes Valley - 5




Planet of the Apes Valley - 6




Breccia Flow




Breccia Overlook




Pat's Cove




Sea Ice - 2




False Hills




Dagger




False Sky



This batch of photos are a little unusual for me, in that I processed them in Adobe Lightroom rather than my more usual Photoshop. I seemed to get roughly equivalent results, but I think I was processing images several times faster, which on a project like this probably makes a lot of sense. I also used Lightroom to generate the Flash gallery linked above, and to automatically generate the images for LJ. It seems really good at that kind of thing. I'm a little worried about it maybe being a bit too easy, so I won't deliberate so much with images, but these all seem to look pretty good. I think I'll fiddle with it a bit more and then decide.

Next project will be a book. I did have a play with the Blurb book creation software, but I found that it blew considerable chunks, so I am going back to using Adobe InDesign and rolling my own. I'll probably have it printed by Lulu because they can handle PDFs generated by InDesign without any difficulty.

Comments

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I felt that I needed to almost start from scratch nearly every time, but most of the settings ported across from image to image fairly well in practice and it was MUCH faster than Photoshop. That many images would normally have taken me a week of spare time.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I guess it's because Lightroom is designed to just fiddle with photos, nothing else.