Enjoying the first snowfall... - a photo on Flickriver

...inside the greenhouse at Cantigny
Wheaton, Illinois
January 12, 2012

These were my first photographs where I attempted to use Lightroom, as opposed to my standard-for-three-years Capture NX.

Sigh. Capture NX won. It's probably because I know how to use it, but there are at least three reasons why I fell back to CNX:

1. I can resize the image and sharpen it while still in Capture NX. I don't see where I can do that in LR. I can sharpen, but sharpening a full size file and a web image are two different things.

2. There is a nice selection tool in CNX that did a much better job darkening one of the images (essentially a burn tool). LR, not so good. The tools are there, but CNX did a better job in one particular case.

3. That same selection tool let me easily paint vignettes (basically the burn tool again). Frankly not sure how to do this in LR. I'm sure I can, but I knew how to do it in CNX. Yeah, there are the presets, but I can paint them pretty fast with CNX

So, Lightroom will be what I use for my Canon S95 for now. I'll get the hang of it and maybe eventually use it more for the Nikon stuff.

And all you LR folks ready to leap to its defense? Meet me sometime and let me show you how I can do some things in CNX and you show me how to do it in LR.

One thing that bugs me about LR...this importing stuff. Don't have to do that in CNX.

LR has a cool clone tool and noise reduction is nifty, as are a couple of other things. So it'll be Confused Jim for a while.

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Taken in: United States / Illinois / Wheaton / Courthouse Square (show map)

Taken on: January 12, 2012

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Camera:	Nikon D90
Aperture:	f/25.0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	100mm (35mm equivalent: 150mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Return not detected
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	PaintShop Photo Pro 13.00
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