Comments on: Some Things Are Different Here

By: Adam Maurer

Adam Maurer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:55:16 +0000

How on earth do we get to the Flicker discussion groups from here now???

It used to be an easy to find link top right… now I cannot find it.
(Larry’s Blog is my browser homepage, and I jumped to the Flicker group easily from here)

By: larry

larry — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:51:27 +0000

@Jim,
The only significant “technique” I used on this photo was a polarizer. This is a photo of a property we sold about 4 years ago in the Seattle area. The owner was a professional photographer that single handedly built this lake, grounds and home. He was very intent on having the lake “look stunning”. My first series of shots didn’t meet his expectations because I’d not used a polarizer and had too many reflections off the lake. So I came back to re-shoot the lake and grounds. This guy taught me the importance of using a polarizer. For equipment I was using a 1Ds with a Canon 16-35mm. I also took 360s of this property and the owner was very disappointed that I couldn’t find a polarizer that would work on my Sigma 8mm fisheye that I use for 360VR.

As far as post processing this image, I did very little. As I recall , Lightroom adjustments only: a little curves adjustment, a little vibrancy increase and a slight bit of sharpening. Most of the look of this image is a result of the polarizer.

By: Jim Cook

Jim Cook — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:52:55 +0000

Larry, the photo in the title banner is beautiful. What really impresses me is its sharpness. Do you have a secret technique?

By: larry

larry — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:25:28 +0000

@Hojin,
Thanks for the book recommendation. I’ll add that one on the list.

By: Hojin

Hojin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:58:58 +0000

The new template is awesome. What about Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson. I think it’s a good read no matter what level of photography you’re at.

By: Carson Coots

Carson Coots — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:50:51 +0000

The new template looks awesome… It’s a new dawn for PFRE. Looks pro.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:17:21 +0000

@Rob,
Thanks for pointing out the issue with the permalinks. It turns out that the old blog had the permalinks named with date and postname similar to your suggestion so all the indexed and referenced articles disappeared when I first made the move. I’ve now restructured the permalinks the same as the old blog now so all the links to the blog from around the net work again.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:03:23 +0000

You’re right, It would be nice to be able to move the title around to work best with the image I’m using. I’ll put that on my list of things to do.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:54:54 +0000

Hi Larry,
I love the beautiful image in your title banner. Site was very useful before, and it is now. On top of all that, it now has a professional look to match its great content. But perhaps your title would pop more with some heavier contrast. Positioning wouldn’t be as good as is now, but if the title was lower, on top of the darker color of the water, it would pop a lot. Thanks.

By: larry

larry — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:09:21 +0000

Rob,
Thanks much for the tips on permalinks. Yea, noticed some new link features that were not in the administration panel of the old blog but the SEO implications had not sunk in yet. Thanks for pointing this out.

On the comment spam, I am using the Akismet spam filtering plugin that seems to be working pretty good… it’s handled 72 spam comments in the first full day here. But you are right, I still have a number of increased levels of comment control left… so far it is working pretty well, much like the old blog, no spam comments yet.