Recent content by SnapperMatt

I'd guess its not the card - the file appears to have been corrupted after you copied it to your PC. The reason I think this is because the explorer preview is fine which would suggest the file was fine when that was generated. As to why the file may have become corrupted, the most common...

Just a quick comment on this... It is fairly common for people starting to use raw to be initially disappointed with the output and to feel it is lower quality than a jpeg. I was. The reason for this is that the jpeg you get from the camera is the original raw file, together with the...

Excellent news! Glad its sorted as well as possible

Yes, try restoring that one (as described in my last post) - this should be the most up to date version with all your edits up to the backup date. Any imports and / or edits made between the backup and the crash will not be in there though so you will need to re-import the images and re-do any...

Good news on the original images being safe! Given that you should be able to open the latest backup you had of the catalogue before your crash. In your screenshot you can see the backups folder they are stored in - but I guess that if you have re-installed LR, this will only have backups in...

One thing I'm not clear about is exactly what files you have and what files have been recovered or kept. Do you have all your original image files? Either on your current disk or in a backup - or have some of these been lost? Also, did they wipe the drive in your PC or have they put in a new...

Strange... Can you check how many lrcat files you have? When you first ran the reinstalled copy of lightroom it would have created a new one and if you then imported your original files into the new folder they would all have no edits on them. Is there perhaps your old catalogue somewhere...

I think you can do 'File\Open catalogue...' and select one to open it It sounds like you have created a new catalogue with the new install and then re-imported the images to the new catalogue. Hopefully if you open an old one it will have all your edits - you may need to point it to the...

The lightroom catalogue file holds all the edits: this will be called <something>.lrcat I have always saved mine to a specific place, but it looks as though the adobe default location is in 'My Documents'. Hope this helps

Does the lens have a focus limiter that has been accidently set on? Some lens have this to limit the focus range when desired to stop too much focus hunting. Can be a bit confusing and worrying when you don't realise its been set.

Lightroom 4 has the map module that allows you to do this. You can drag images off of the filmstrip onto the map and LR4 will automatically geocode them to match where you dropped them. Obviously this requires you to know the correct location and then search for and find it in the map module...

Hello all! Thought I'd have a first go at this Most of this is dodging and burning using a neutral grey layer with overlay blend mode (paint on it with black to darken and white to lighten using a low opacity brush (I used about 10%)) to try to lighten the inside the arch a bit and darken...

The 430 EXII can be used as a slave and triggered remotely using a master flash / trigger. The 580 EXII can act as a master, but the 430 EXII can't. The integrated flash on My 40D cannot be used as a master flash, however the 60D product specs here list the flash modes as: "Auto, Manual...

Agreed. I firmly believe we (all of us, not just photographers) should, sensibly and reasonably, stand up for our reasonable rights when they are threatened, but with those rights come responsibilities - in this case the responsibility to respect another's reasonable and legal right to refuse...

Thanks for clarifying.