Dance Hall Rock and the Ensuing Turmoil

This is more of a rant than a description, but if you use Lightroom you may want to read this in it’s entirety.

 

I have spent a lot of time processing thousands of photos in Lightroom and found myself in quite a pickle last week.

 

There is an option in the catalog setting that allows you to embed your develop settings into your Jpeg, Tif, Png and Psd files. Unfortunatley, this option doesn’t work!!!! As plain as the wording is, this option is faulty. Here’s what happened. When I went to copy my files to my Lightroom drive I found that there wasn’t enough space on the drive. So I copied the files to my desktop and I processed 25 photos from my last trip to Escalante. Later I cleared some of my older trips files to my backup drive and then copied this new trips files to the Lightroom drive. I opened Lightroom and assigned the location to the Lightroom drive, then when I relaunched Lightroom to my dismay all of my develop edits where lost. After spending several hours on the phone with Adobe tech support, I was told that the function didn’t work because I have an older version(5)of Lightroom and that I would need to update Lightroom for the function to work properly. What a cop out!!! Why would I need to update my LR? didn’t the function work when it was released. If it wasn’t, why did Adobe release it to the public. It’s simply deplorable that a function this important was overlooked upon release!!!!! SHAME ON YOU ADOBE!!!!!!!!!

 

OK, I feel better now. Haha :)

 

Luckily there is a workaround that has taken me about a week to fix. You can right click a folder in the Lightroom library and select save metadata, which is what the option in the catalog settings is supposed to do. There is another option that says “Automatically write metadata to XMP” which creates a sidecar file that rides along with the original RAW file. I suggest that if you use Lightroom, you should select this option which for some reason is off by default. This process is quite time consuming especially when you have 200,000 photos to update.

 

I have written this commentary In hopes that this doesn’t happened to you. ;-(

 

OK, Now, on to the "Tale of the Take" ☜ Coined by Phil Kuntz. Thanks Phil. You da man. :)

 

This is a shot taken at Dance Hall Rock. Bill and I really wanted to see the pothole with the cottonwood tree growing out of it, and timed it so that the tree would be peaking with fall color. We were a little too late for full fall color and after spending an hour and a half combing the area we were unable to locate the exact spot. We did however find some other interesting spots and planned to return later that night to shoot the Milky Way over it. That night the sky clouded over and we had to abandon our plan for a cool nightscape here, we did however find a couple of other cool potholes. :(

 

Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have a great evening everybody!! :)

 

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