Current obsession: Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb pedal.

The long-awaited return of deja vu.

What’s Phantom Limb? The tl;dr: version: An always-recording, 15-60 second memory loop that feeds a menagerie of randomly-triggered, harmoniously-pitched, forward-and-reverse microloopers that then feeds into a long delay. The result? You play a riff and incidental cinematic music back at you.

Chapter 16: What the heck is Lightroom for iPad doing?

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

A big problem is that software gets updated, but the Internet doesn’t. There’s a lot of content out there about older versions of software that’s no longer correct and near impossible to weed through. And while the intent of Google AI is to eliminate this, at times it just makes it worse: Often there is no trusted source to go to.

Information about Lightroom for iPad is one such victim. How does it handle images imported from Photos or directly from your camera roll? Why is Lightroom auto-enhancing DNG files? And why do images look different than those imported to iPad Photos? After some experimentation, I think I have some actual answers.

Let’s do the time, warped. Again.

Universal Time through Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb looper.

Shortwave radio is full of fascinating oddities: pirate radio, propaganda broadcasts, numbers stations, etc. Recent my friend Dan showed me a site that creates a simulation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology WWV Universal Time broadcast from Fort Collins, Colorado. After some digging, I found that the real thing was available by telephone.

Chapter 15: Simplify your editing with curves in Lightroom for iPad.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

If you’ve tried editing color images with curves in the past—you may have given up. But it turns out editing true monochrome images in curves is much simpler than editing color. Instead of those five confusing curves, you’re usually only dealing with one: the Point curve. This article will show you how simple it it to control what you’re currently using the Exposure, Contrast, Brightness, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks sliders for in Lightroom. I’ve decide not to show images and the effects the Curves have. I think it will make more sense to focus on the grid and curves themselves.

Chapter 14: Using curves to restore blown highlight in Lightroom.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

Up to this point in my photographic journey, I haven’t been a fan of curves. But I’ve found this trick from Scott Davenport to be the most useful way to start the workflow of fixing blown highlights in Lightroom for both DNGs and JPGs.

tl;dr: How turning those burned-out highlights to the lightest shades of gray will make them much easier to work with.