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It’s just wrong. Why am I putting ads on my photo galleries?
Anyway, it’s not difficult to do, but if I get enough interest I’ll post a step-by-step guide on how to add Google Adsense to your Lightroom gallery. Takes less than a minute.
Note to self: Next time create web gallery 768 wide. Use CSS to margin add in the right place. Can lower JPG res.
Photos to come, will be semi-offline for two days. It’ll be our third time in the area.
Check out the latest photos from my recent trip in Yunnan, China. The town is called Ejia, but it’s not really important because it’s not on any tourist map, and no Chinese tour company will take you there. You have to know one of the 600 people that live in the village. And again, it takes 10 hours to get there from the capital city of Kunming, which is only about 60 miles away.
A sunrise over a fogged-in valley between two mountain ranges in Yunnan, China.
All this for less that $0.30 USD. It’s like going to Whole Foods. We have tomatoes, broccoli, red peppers, and cucumber. Lunch.
I hiked up about 400 feet above where we were staying and got myself in (I believe) a little wheat field, set up the Italian tripod, manual setting, exposed for the sky, and shot six portrait shots.
PS CS3 stiches them together very well, much better than CS2. This is the result, just to give you an idea of what the rural part of China looks like.
I’ll be posting GPS coordinates soon.
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People asked some questions, I went out and relayed the questions to Chinese farmers, took photos and videos of things, and returned with answers.
After this latest trip to E Jia I took about 800 RAW format photos. Now I’m faced with the task of selecting a few, editing them, exporting, creating galleries, making prints, etc. I’ve found that by converting them to DNG format I can save space while keeping the RAW format options available.
Adobe DNG Coverter is a useful app to “compress” your RAW files down a little (but keep the RAW functionality) and at the same time is creating a standard for all those different camera types.
Some stats: DNG compressed (loseless) some NEFs down about 35%, and some CRW down about 18% (average of 800+ files).
I found a detailed web site explaining the benefits of DNG.
onOne’s Mask Pro 4.0 is hella cool. Masking software, I know, it’s been around forever, but I never used it until now (someone was showing it to me when it was still Extensis, and it was cool then.)
It has about a 5-minute learning curve, but if you watch their online tutorials, it’s very easy to use and works very well. Their tutorials are inline with what I would make if I were a developer trying to sell software. Anyway this app is very useful, well worth the $150+ USD.
I hope these two little apps will help me along with this major photo project.
We just got back from an impressive trip in the mountains of Chuxiong, China. I shot all pictures in RAW mode on my (aging digital) Canon Rebel and I’m excited to go through and see which ones turned out.
There are many stories, so I’ll start with this picture. The picture above was taken at about 7:40ish in the morning at about 5600 feet above a valley of fog, and is just an small example of the kind of scenery we experienced.
Also, I’m putting together a short documentary on “the making of sugar without the use of any electricity”, look for it in about a week. I hope it has an impact on people — it certainly did for me to watch it live in person. (Yes I tasted it, it’s hella good.)
All in all, I have thousands of pictures and hours of video, so check back soon to see an “untouched” part of the world.
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