I wanted to assemble a specific photographic project for an issue of The Lipka Journal. I went back through my Lightroom catalog and found the images I wanted to use. I selected, edited, perfected the images and even put them into the first draft of the Journal.
Once I saw them, I was not the least bit happy with them. Something happened to the images between Lightroom and InDesign. I tried to figure out what the technical problem was, but after looking at the images I finally figured out what was wrong. What was wrong was me.
I went back to Lightroom and sought out more images and discovered that I visited that same beach twice. I stumbled upon the first set of images and used them without doing a more exhaustive search. The second set of images was much better than the first and that’s what made it into the Journal.
A lesson learned twice over. Your first visit to a place may not provide good images. A further investigation gave better images. Your first search of the Lightroom database needs to be something more than cursory. When selecting images of the same place make sure that you select the correct images.
Double extra bonus points lesson learned. When editing this post, I thought there was something else to learn here. It is this; the more you photograph one place the better your images will be. I came back the second time and made better images. I’ll work up this idea in a future blog post.
See what I mean. The Project is entitled The Big Picture in the February Lipka Journal. Click on the link at the top of the page to reach my website where you can download the latest free PDF copy of The Lipka Journal.
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