The technique challenge for motion blur has been on my mind this week, but I've been focused on learning to use Lightroom. Total bust tonight as I'm doing something basic wrong when I open it to work on a photo...too tired to figure it out, so decided to go back to Aperture and do something I knew how to do! This was from a few nights ago, using my 70-200 zoom as I faced east toward the city skyline on a beautiful night. Since then we've had fog, rain, and snow.
This is awesome! :) Love the colors, lines, lights...all come together as a terrific abstract! Sorry for the difficulties you're experiencing with LR though. That's a bummer.
@voiceprintz Thanks JT -- kind thoughts must have come my way. So, the one photo I wanted to tweak was not open to it at all. BUT, a different photo did let me tweak it -- in the end, I was able to practice some more of the LR processing techniques, but wow, it was discouraging for about an hour with the photo I started with. I have no clue what was different between the two, but clearly I was doing something basic that was blocking me.
@taffy I used LR to successfully tweak the shot I posted tonight. Fun! But it feels like there's lots to learn! I'm glad you DID meet with some success. Kind thoughts always work their magic! :)
I had similar problem couple of days ago when LR would not let me edit 2,shots I had uploaded. I went to another days pics and edited and when I went back to the 2,uploads it allowed me to edit. Don't ask me why! I had opened a new folder for 2015 and thought it was something to do with that but it is now ok. Last night I tried to find your photo I had faved where everyone was talking about LR but I could not find it. After ages checking out all your photos I gave up thinking I must have dreamed faving the shot!
The geometrics and glassy colors are a beautiful delight for the eyes! You do every technique so well, I can hardly believe you've found something that stymies you! Good luck...you'll master it, I'm quite sure!
@taffy Taffy I have had this happen a couple of times now and was not able to figure out why - but then I could edit a different one. I hadn't previously edited, deleted or done anything to the images in question and didn't figure out why it happened. However when I went back later I was able to edit. This is a fabulous image.
@anwan It was one of those 'magical fixes' -- I gave up on the one photo, went to another and it worked. Went back to the first one and think I need to undo all history and start again, and it would be okay. It was a photo I'd reimported after using Photomatix for HDR combination. All in all, totally frustrating, but that was before I thought of quitting the one photo and trying another. I just kept trying to toggle things to figure out what I had clicked to freeze it. Rebooting would have been smarter!
Very abstract. You could be looking down from your high flat with otherhigh rises around you as I thought immediately I looked atit but you would have had to be in a helicopter! I Like this shotwhich gives a different perspective of the city at night. Don't get too tired , rest/sleep is essential
@kelly2 Actually, it is looking down from the 33rd floor. I pointed the lens straight down Washington Blvd which formed the golden lights just to the right of center and the light trails from the cars. Then, the two sides are skyscrapers that are east of us, on the other side of the main expressway through Chicago. Thanks for the visit and comment, Irene!
FAV -- this is completely wonderful! I love how you captured so many boxes in the lines -- not just the typical lines that zoom inward. The colors are particularly appealing, too! So glad you are thinking about Lightroom, because I haven't even BOUGHT it yet. But will, before our class.
I have never had that particular thing happen to me with LR, it's interesting that a couple of you have. Did you try rebooting? ;D