Comments on: Some Thursday Inspirational Links

By: Diego Jose

Diego Jose — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:33:02 +0000

Hendrik’s site is beautiful and a joy to browse in. Great photos. Thanks for sharing Matt!

By: Martin Perreault

Martin Perreault — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:12:25 +0000

Hi!
Been following your site for a while. You gotta love RSS for that.
I felt compelled to write a quick comment about the links you mentioned in your post. You mention some of the photos from Hendrik may be a bit too racy for some viewers. I hardly can imagine how anyone could see any of the photos from Van Der Veen’s portfolio racy. I looked for them, and it’s pretty basic stuff photography wise. There are no nudes, very soft lingerie stuff in there - I mean, we see a lot more racy in every day advertising for jeans. Personaly, in our day and age, if anyone feels offended by any of the photographs on that website, they seriously don’t belong on photography websites. Artistic nudes, the exploration of the body’s curves and figure, is old as art itself and will always be present in photography. By adding a Disclaimer such as the 99% VS 1% disclaimer in your post in relation to photos as soft and accessible as the ones on Van Der Veen’s website, I believe you invite people to look for those images and judge them. I understand the reasoning behind your disclaimer, and I command this nice gesture and your positive intentions of wanting to be fair and cool with your readers, but I cannot help but think this was simply unnecessary and, since you are promoting the use of a software aimed at photographers, it makes even little less sense to have such a disclaimer. Just my two cents! Peace.

By: Jason Joseph (N.Y.C.)

Jason Joseph (N.Y.C.) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:01:13 +0000

Matt,

This is off topic but I cant seem to find any way to contact you other than here….

I’m curious if you could speak a little about sharpening AND Print sharpening in Lightroom, when working in conjunction with photoshop.
I tend to do my processing in LR and then also do some selective skin softening and further retouching in CS3….. I do sharpen … and add some clarity ( which I feel lends a certain sharpness and crispness ) in LR… but then Bringing the file over to photoshop… If I sharpened in LR DO i further sharpen in CS3? If so then what about print sharpening in LR?
Spare me and I’m sure countless others who must also be curious about this, from endless tests… and please shed some light on this subject!
Please!!

Much appreciated,
Jason Joseph N.Y.C.

P.S. Do you have an email address for readers?

By: scott jones

scott jones — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:56:22 +0000

Thanks for the tips, but I must say the navigation on the Andrew Wheeler site is a mess. Took me forever to figure it out and then the clutter just made me give up. Just thought i would give some honest feedback. Images looked nice though.

By: mattk

mattk — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:22:23 +0000

Hi Ron,
Check out this link. Thanks,

Matt K

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/video-printing-on-a-black-background/

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:31:50 +0000

Hey Matt,

is there a way to make the page black on the print module instead of white?

i know you can do it in the web and slide show module. I use acrobat to print the file to and i could open PS and do changes there im sure. But i want to save time and just print in acrobat and email it off to client as a secured doc without doing all the PS stuff.

Ron

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:22:55 +0000

Hi Matt, Many thanks for sharing these links. It’s always amazing how many artistic photographers are around…. and to browse over such portfolios is always a pleasure and … the basis for new creativity

Thanks and take care.

Gerry Pacher