Sob Story!
What a difference a day makes. This is what "Isles of the mist" location on Loch Garry, shown in the last four scenes, looked like the following day, with no direct sun, no mist, though still reflecting.. As flat as a pancake.
(Actually, here on digital, after a tweak to contrast in "curves", it looks a LOT better than the original slide ever did!)
However, the photo isn't the only thing that's feeling "flat". In fact I'm feeling rather sick at the moment, like, "This would be a good time to give up photography altogether"!
What happened? Well, this evening, I "Upgraded" my catalog backup in Lr Classic 9. (It's been telling me to do it for a while.) There's a big warning with it , "This operation Cannot be undone!" Also, it tells you to ensure you have made a recent backup.. Well I back up 3-4 times a week so, no problem there. Right? WRONG!
I never actually opened those backup folders to see what was in them, I just assumed when I clicked on "Back up now" it was backing up everything.. Now I find that from the time I went "Adobe subscription Lr", nothing since that date has backed up. Updating the backup has deleted those 18 months of work! That must be close to 2,000 hours worth!
I know everything more recent really has gone, because it now accepts imports from anything later, which it wouldn't do if they were still in the catalogue.
(I'm keeping things in perspective though, especially at this time with C-19, when FAR more serious losses are happening for many people.)
Thank goodness the original pictures/files are safe, but all my grading and processing from that date, appears to have completely gone.
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Sob Story!
What a difference a day makes. This is what "Isles of the mist" location on Loch Garry, shown in the last four scenes, looked like the following day, with no direct sun, no mist, though still reflecting.. As flat as a pancake.
(Actually, here on digital, after a tweak to contrast in "curves", it looks a LOT better than the original slide ever did!)
However, the photo isn't the only thing that's feeling "flat". In fact I'm feeling rather sick at the moment, like, "This would be a good time to give up photography altogether"!
What happened? Well, this evening, I "Upgraded" my catalog backup in Lr Classic 9. (It's been telling me to do it for a while.) There's a big warning with it , "This operation Cannot be undone!" Also, it tells you to ensure you have made a recent backup.. Well I back up 3-4 times a week so, no problem there. Right? WRONG!
I never actually opened those backup folders to see what was in them, I just assumed when I clicked on "Back up now" it was backing up everything.. Now I find that from the time I went "Adobe subscription Lr", nothing since that date has backed up. Updating the backup has deleted those 18 months of work! That must be close to 2,000 hours worth!
I know everything more recent really has gone, because it now accepts imports from anything later, which it wouldn't do if they were still in the catalogue.
(I'm keeping things in perspective though, especially at this time with C-19, when FAR more serious losses are happening for many people.)
Thank goodness the original pictures/files are safe, but all my grading and processing from that date, appears to have completely gone.
DSC04029_Lr9