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Fall Colors

Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week

by Sherri on December 4, 2009

Residents of Hart Memorial Park along the Kern River, Bakersfield, CA. This image was developed using a combination of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 & Adobe PS CS3.

These are some of the birds that the couple in the previous photo were feeding. There were so many of them, they were really hard to photograph. I did manage to get one photo of them (this one) that I like.

Normally, I would try to isolate one bird verses shooting a group of them, but that wasn’t an option here. So, I zoomed in on the bird in the front (left) and used a shallow depth-of-field to throw the background out of focus.

Okay. Let’s get on with the main reason for this post – the “Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week.” Here they are in random order. NOTE: Please feel free to link this post to your site. The more folks that receive these tips the better!

Happy Lightrooming and have a great weekend everyone!

@terrylwhite Great deal on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 $129 OFF http://bit.ly/8wJv1p.
@AdobeLR Tom Hogarty (@LR_Tom) answers your Lightroom 3 beta questions on EXIF and Beyond – http://bit.ly/4Jou1a.
@LRSecrets New Article: Metadata Presets http://bit.ly/8hTiZs.
@xequals Obsessive about watermarking your images? Master watermarking with Rob Sylvan – http://bit.ly/35wE7G.
@TheLightroomLab Keyword Sets Make Repetitive Keywording Push Button Easy in Lightroom – http://bit.ly/6FlDh2.
@xequals More Lightroom Painter fun in this workflow too – http://bit.ly/6wAeiu.
@heninger Its that day of the week – Lightroom Tuesday – tips, tricks & tutorials 4 the Lightroom-minded http://heninger.org.
@xequals New on X-Equals – Mad Stacks Yo! – Stacking images in Lightroom – http://bit.ly/5uuR0v.
@bbeazely Fading a Lightroom Preset http://tinyurl.com/yk75yzo.
@TheLightroomLab Some great comments & questions on using 2 External Hard Drives in LR http://bit.ly/4Wy8Wr.

Reminder – Don’t forget to join the NEW Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Group on Facebook. If you have any questions, comments, information etc. pertaining to Lightroom, this is a great place to post it. Visit the following link to join http://tinyurl.com/mzyqu4.

In case you missed my previous “Top 10 Tweets of the Week” posts, you can view them all by clicking on the Top 10 Tweets of the Week category on the sidebar of this Photo Blog.

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Print Specials, New Images, Personal Use Licenses & More

by Sherri on November 23, 2009

Oak leaves floating in a puddle. This is one of our most popular nature images and is currently featured in our "Print Specials" gallery.

We have been busy, busy, busy adding new images, galleries, products and more to our Website and we are really excited to announce it to YOU! I’m going to keep it short and give you a quick overview of what we have been up to. I will elaborate on it later.

Print Specials

We have added a new Print Specials Gallery. You can order prints from this gallery at a special 20% off through November. NOTE: We will be adding more images to this gallery after Thanksgiving.

Personal Use Licenses – We were having so many requests for Personal Use Licenses, we decided to add it our product list. These licenses are great for those of you that might want to use our images for your own personal use, at a very affordable price. For examples of allowable uses please refer to our Products & Features page.

New Images

We have added a bunch of new images to our New Images Gallery.

NOTE: All images are available for immediate purchase.

New Business Fan Page

Another way to keep up to date with what’s going on around here is by becoming a Fan of Sherri Meyer Photography.

That’s all for now folks. As mentioned above, we will be adding more images to our Print Specials Gallery after the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week

by Sherri on November 13, 2009

Fall colors along the North Fork of the American River, with the Foresthill Bridge in the background, Auburn, CA. I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 & CS3 to develop this image.

Are you ready for 10 more great Lightroom tips? I sure hope so. Because that is exactly what you are going to get.

Here are your Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week in random order. Please feel free to link this post to your site. The more folks that receive these tips the better!

Happy Lightrooming and have a great weekend everyone! [click to continue…]

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Fall Hike Along the American River

by Sherri on November 6, 2009

Sherri & Cocoa hiking along the North Fork of the American River, Auburn, California. This image was developed using both Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 & Adobe Photoshop CS3.

It’s been a couple of weeks since we took this hike. The color down in the canyon was looking pretty good then. This weekend, we are returning to a different location along the American River for more Fall photos. I’m really looking forward to getting out again. I’ve been tethered to my computer too long in one stretch.

I should have some new Fall nature images up next week for you all to see.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week

by Sherri on October 30, 2009

Fall color along the North Fork of the American River, Auburn, California. This image was developed using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.

Wow. It’s true. The older you get the faster time flies. I can’t believe it’s been two weeks, since I posted my last Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week post!

Last week, Adobe Photoshop announced their Beta version of Lightroom 3. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but a lot of folks have and they have been tweeting about it – A LOT! [click to continue…]

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Fall Has Arrived in Our Neighborhood

by Sherri on October 15, 2009

Fall in rural Auburn, California.

This image was captured yesterday, during our first Fall photo shoot of the year.

Jeff, our dog Cocoa and I went on a 3-mile walk in our rural Auburn neighborhood. It had just stopped raining and everything looked fresh and clean. There were photo opportunities everywhere!

First, I spotted the tree, because I was on the hunt for Fall colors. But, it alone wasn’t enough to create a good photograph. Then, I noticed the horse in the background. I decided to create a unique composition, by focusing on the tree limb and using a large aperture to throw the horse out-of-focus.

Who says you have to drive long distances to find great Fall subjects? They are as close as your own backyard!

More Fall images from our neighborhood coming soon!

Y‘all Come Back Now Ya Hear?

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Frozen Leaves

by Sherri on February 2, 2009

Frozen leaves, Auburn, California.

These leaves were just too pretty to not get noticed. I found them lying in a ditch in my neighborhood, during my early morning walk.

To get this color effect, I used the “Direct Positive” preset in Adobe Lightroom 2.1. I also set the “clarity” to +100 in the development module.

This photo was also shot on my Nikon D300 at ISO 6400. This was a low-light situation and I didn’t have a tripod with me. So, I decided it was another good opportunity to experiment with the higher ISO’s on the Nikon D300.

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2008 Holiday Print Specials

by Sherri on November 14, 2008

Chemung Mine, Bridgeport, California

This holiday season, we are doing something a little different. Starting now and running until the end of December, you can order prints of any photos in our on-line galleries at a special 20% off price. NOTE: The prices you see listed by each photo are the regular prices. The discount will be deducted automatically, during the checkout process.

To take advantage of this “special offer,” please visit our Ordering Information page.

Happy Holidays!

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Leaf Peeping in Plumas County

by Sherri on October 14, 2008

Sometimes the best laid plans don’t pan out. That was the experience Jeff & I just had, during our fall colors trip to Plumas County last week. [click to continue…]

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Pond and Reflections

by Sherri on March 4, 2008

Pond and reflections, rural Auburn, California

There are a lot of ponds in the Auburn area, but this is one of my favorites.

Many common species of birds seem to claim it as one of their favorites as well. But, every year in the spring, the pond also gets visited by a not so common bird, the Green Heron. It is a beauty of a bird that lives in this pond for weeks at a time, before moving on.

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