Comments on: I Need Your Advice

By: Marko

Marko — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:28:22 +0000

Dear Mr. Kelby:

I was looking for a way to contact you, this seems like the simplest way – I am sorry I step out of the subject here…
A couple of nights ago, in a rare clear-sky occasion in my town (Zagreb, Croatia), I experimented with photographing the moon in the sky. From my balcony. Influenced by the advice from your books, right after I took a “sattisfactory” photo of the lighted half of the moon, I tried to over-expose the situation so I can play with HDR and perhaps add the dark side of the moon later to the original photo. I took a couple of over-exposed pictures of the moon and (later on the camera, not by eye) noticed a green ball with blueish edge on one side and a red glow around it in front of the moon, a couple of seconds later next to the moon, then a bit further away…
My wife and I discussed what this might be and came to a conclusion that it is some kind of light aberation (probably caused by an inexpensive lense). Nevertheless, it does look pretty nice, I bet some UFO enthusiasts would mistake it for an UFO.
I am hesitant to post these photos on a wider internet forum and attract thousands of eager “UFOlogists”… Any chance I can send them to you and get your opinion? Or, perhaps, you might suggest the correct address for such an inquiry?
Needless to say, the photos have not been tempered with, at all.

Thank you.

Marko

By: Les

Les — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:22:01 +0000

Scott,
I am working with Lightroom 1 but will be upgrading to Ver 2 soon.

If I am importing photos from a card that consists of images from two shoots or two subjects that I want to each have a separate folder in LR how do I separate the images?
Thanks,
Les

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:25:01 +0000

Hi Scott,

I have a Nikon D200. I have just finished reading both volumes of your ‘Digital Photography’ books. I have following questions:

1) When you mention about the white balance, you stop at mentioning to go to the preset white balance, but what about the settings, do you keep it at ‘0′ or go up or down? If you stay at ‘0′ why? If you go up or down why?

2) Why would you use ‘+/-’ and not ‘meter’ for exposure control and vice versa? Are there any special circumstances in which you use one and not the other?

Thanks in advance for your time. BTW, enjoyed your books.

Muhammad

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:22:28 +0000

Hi Scott, can you suggest how I might clear up the grain in a lot of my photographs that were digitised from film? I’m told the scanner used is picking up the grain of the film.

Cheers. Happy New Year

By: ewf

ewf — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:59:30 +0000

Scott you are such a looker. How much do you earn a year from all this?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:50:40 +0000

Hi Scott, I’m new to Photoshop and digital photography. At present I’m working through your CS3 book. I have many images from a trip to England and Ireland, they were taken with my film camera before I bought my Canon 40D. The films were scanned and put onto disc as tif files but as I look at them they are all grainy. The photographer that did this for me said he scanned them as detailed as he could which meant the scanner has picked up the grain of the film, I wouldn’t know. What would be the best steps I could take to improve the images, bring some crispness to them?

Cheers,
Jonathan

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:44:45 +0000

Hi Scott, I’m very new to Photoshop and I’m working through your guide to CS3. I have a lot of images that were scanned from film from my old camera. They are tif files but due to the high resolution scanner the images are grainy. I was told that this is the scanner showing the grain of the film, I wouldn’t know. What steps would you suggest I take to help reduce the grain and bring my images into their own and taking into account I have quite a lot of images like this from my trip to England and Ireland.

By: seb

seb — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:27:32 +0000

i’m just starting off in photojournalism and i wondered if you had any tips on how to get to pro standards i know its more speeed in photojournalism to get the big money
but any tips would be very useful
like any tips on picking tips up : )
or anything i will be very happy with
you should include a photojournalism section in your new book
cheers
seb

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:59:22 +0000

Hi Scott, looking at your Toolbox I notice you have the 1.4 converter for your VR zooms. Shooting with the 70-200, how is the quality with this converter? I have mostly the same equipment as you and shoot mostly weddings.. I was thinking of getting one of these converters for the 70-200.. I’m not entirely sure that I need it. How do you feel about 1.4 vs. 1.7 ?

Many Thanks,

Felix

By: Tracey

Tracey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:46:57 +0000

Hi Scott,

You are quite right about the introduction thing. i had never read an introduct before, until it was put as a subtopic in chapter 1 directly beneth the chapter title. This way people are affraid they will miss something if they don’t read it. It also started me to readind intro before I buy the book. Hope this helps.

Tracey

By: francisco moll

francisco moll — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:19:53 +0000

Scott: A suggestion; would be great if you could dedicate a small chapter on Photoshop Brushes. Which ones to use on what type of projects, how to use them…all you can about this essential tool.
thanks!

Francisco Moll

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:58:13 +0000

With respect to Lightroom 2 – when i view the folders panel, the folders are in alphabetical order including all the sub folders, how do I collapse the folders panel to show the folder by parent without the sub folders?

you book Lightroom 2 is fantastic.