{"id":2741,"date":"2010-11-23T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2010-11-23T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:44:53","slug":"four-mile-beach-reunion-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/four-mile-beach-reunion-lightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Mile Beach, Reunion, Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were out at Four Mile Beach north of Santa Cruz yesterday with my big brother, Embry.<\/p>\n

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I shot some nice photos, using my pocket Canon S90 in RAW mode, and editing the RAW images in Adobe Lightroom. The camera\u2019s RAW images have 14 bits per pixel instead of the default 8 that JPGs have, that is, so RAW images have, I guess, sixty-four times as many possible shades per pixel, which helps, especially in recovering stuff from underexposed or blown-out areas.<\/p>\n

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This is an interesting shot of scattering gulls, although weakened by being a detail of a larger shot. This is where having your four-pound SLR along could kick it up a notch. But I don’t geek it that hard most days. A flock of maybe a thousand gulls were sitting on the beach, all their little stick legs parallel lines above the sand. Caw, skirl, skree.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still getting used to using Lightroom, it\u2019s a different paradigm than I\u2019m accustomed to with my old Photoshop workflow. In Lightroom now, I shoot in RAW mode, save this as a \u201cdigital negative,\u201d\u009d or \u201cDNG,\u201d\u009d then tweak this image as much as I like in Lightroom, which has a very nice \u201cDeveloper\u201d\u009d module. The original bytes are unchanged, but you see previews of the tweaked image in Lightroom and you can export 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit JPG files as if you were making \u201cprints\u201d\u009d from the digital negative.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s your Thanksgiving turkey with barnacle garnish.<\/p>\n

Certain of the more heavy-duty Photoshop tweak tools aren\u2019t available in Lightroom, so once in a while I might export a TIFF and do a further tweak in Photoshop. But this isn\u2019t happening as often as I thought it would. I can pretty much live in Lightroom now.<\/p>\n

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I love Four Mile Beach, it\u2019s a favorite spot, usually fairly uncrowded. On big wave days you\u2019ll see a lot of surfers—the surfers are generally friendly or indifferent to mere beach walkers.<\/p>\n

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Embry spotted this cute little crab. For crustacean-ovores: the big California Dungeness crabs are in the supermarkets now, we got a bunch of them for a family dinner the other night. Really good.<\/p>\n

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My son\u2019s chickens are a little uneasy these days, but they\u2019re safe. It\u2019s great so see the granddaughters collecting their eggs. <\/p>\n

My father, the first of the four Embry Cobb Ruckers, loved William Saroyan\u2019s book, The Human Comedy<\/a>, and often quoted from a passage where a four-year-old boy finds a fresh-laid egg. \u201cHe looked at it a moment, picked it up, brought it to his mother and very carefully handed it to her, by which he meant what no man can guess and no child can remember to tell.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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The years flow by; the holidays come at us like tracer bullets. We advance towards the dark. And sometimes it\u2019s still sunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were out at Four Mile Beach north of Santa Cruz yesterday with my big brother, Embry. I shot some nice photos, using my pocket Canon S90 in RAW mode, and editing the RAW images in Adobe Lightroom. The camera\u2019s RAW images have 14 bits per pixel instead of the default 8 that JPGs have, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}