I'll be posting Iceland shots the next few days as I cannot use Lightroom. Turns out Iceland photos and processing were saved, thank goodness, but somehow much of my work from the past few years did not import in the restoration after my drive crashed. It's a loss of a lot of processing (focus for tomorrow is sorting out what is there and what is not). And all smart previews have disappeared. Grrr....so frustrating! So will use my processed Iceland shots for the next few days.
Thank you for your lovely comments on the ferris wheel and the northern lights. So much appreciated, especially on two such different images.
Here's an earlier post Junko made that shows another version of this area, and links to a picture Bill took of the context: https://365project.org/jyokota/365/2017-03-28
When I brought my LR over to my computer it took a while for me to figure out I had brought the pictures and not the catalog. I was having a minor heart attack. So I can imagine what you are going through. I have wondered it it wasn't smart to save at least your favorites as a finished product. You know export with adjustments and keep them there so that f you lost the catalog you would have thee pictures. I export my 365 as jpegs to a separate file so I would have those.
A breathtaking image. Those reflections are wonderful. I so hope you retrieve your 'lost' photographs. A painful and frustrating process you are going though, I can only imagine!
Fantastic reflection of this amazing landscape.
I had similar problems with LR a few months ago, I left everything until I'd got over the frustration or losing the work and I'm just processing my favourite images again when I have time, it's quite interesting to see how they look second time around!
Lovely stillness and depth of colour. So sorry for all your computer frustrations. I once lost all of mine so am paranoid about backups now. Once bitten, twice shy as they say! All the best to you in your sorting.
This scenery is so stunning, that you've made me want to go there. So sorry to hear about the mess of your LR. I hope you are not missing too much processing. Fingers crossed for you.
Oh Taffy, what an awful experience, you must be so upset about losing so much of your work. Are you able to download images you already have on Flickr and 365? This photo is just magnificent, so crisp and clear, a joy to look at.
@rosiekerr I think I've narrowed the problem to a glitch in that smart previews are being created but somehow not linked. It might be they go with a catalogue path that didn't get put together during restore, or something else happened. I found all the missing photos which exist only when the relevant hard drive is attached to my computer. And I have the processing work then too. But no smart previews so are 'missing' when the drives aren't attached. Any experience with this?
@golftragic I've been working to narrow in on the problem -- see what I wrote "Rosie" above -- do you have any idea what the problem might be? I now have the most updated version of LR and the smart preview build function worked when on another computer, but not on mine.
@tosee Thanks Tom -- I should have tagged you on my response to @golftragic and @rosiekerr -- it's a relief for me to know the photos and processing are okay now, and that I seem to have all my library dates preserved. Now to figure out how to combine them in one LR catalogue WITH the smart previews.
@inthecloud5 Thanks -- your words were encouraging to me today. I did relax knowing I had the original photos. That was how I think I could finally figure out what I did and didn't have -- as I mentioned to others above. It all seems linked to a faulty smart preview problem.
@joansmor You are smart to do that. I always export the ones I processed worth keeping, but do so in very small files -- under 3.0MB. So I'd have limited options unless I start exporting larger ones. What size do you export and save?
@taffy I'm sorry - I really don't. In all honesty, I never learned LR as a cataloguing tool, beyond using it to edit my photos. Any photo that I want to keep, I export as a jpeg into my pictures folder by year. Every year, I clear LR out. I was always afraid that I might want to get loose from Adobe or that, if something happened to me, my family would be lost inside the application. Such a Cassandra! Maybe try re-importing all the existing photos back into LR?? That sounds like a tremendous amount of work, though. Sorry, again, that I can't be of more help.
@rosiekerr No worries! I know there has to be a solution and am realizing as long as I have my photos and the library (so keywords would help me find them), I should be okay. Do you keep all your photos in one place or separate drives by year? I'm thinking of moving them onto one hard drive, but am overwhelmed with all the ones that I really should delete first!
@taffy PS (Joan may have a different answer) - I export the jpegs at 100% resolution, fyi. Every year, I clear out the year's jpegs (by day & month) and store them off of my hard drive, to free up space.
@lynne5477 Thanks! Yes, it was about as perfect a trip as can be! Everywhere we went there was so much to photograph! Our guide was fantastic and we saw things at the right time, which helped our photos, but also helped us as tourists avoiding crowds.
Beautifullly sharp and colors spot on. Beautiful reflections. I finally decided to get two much bigger hard drives and copy all my pictures onto one and then good synchronize to the second one. I got overwhelmed with going through all my old pictures and decided to just delete old ones when I have time and desire
@jgpittenger So interesting reading your decision. I'm about to make the same one myself. I'm going nuts with the different drives and the ones that aren't showing up when not attached. Ugh! And deleting is taking forever so I don't think I'll wait til that part is done. Don't know why you were dropped as my follower but glad you discovered it and re-followed! That's happened to me with several people (where I was dropped somehow) -- must just be glitches here and there in the system.
@cjphoto The light was perfect. It was quite an area to photograph and what we learned was the importance of getting low to the ground to get the full reflection with no lines from the ice flows.
I had similar problems with LR a few months ago, I left everything until I'd got over the frustration or losing the work and I'm just processing my favourite images again when I have time, it's quite interesting to see how they look second time around!
Beautiful panorama with that wonderful reflection.