Thursday 4/14/16 week 2

James is out of town visiting Cornell so I worked alone today. I had to wake up early in the first time in a while because I had a class first period. I forgot how bad first period was but once I began working on my project I had less trouble staying awake. After first period I went to IT and got them to instal Lightroom on the desktop computer that I use in the photo room. Lightroom, being a fantastic program, helped me to exponentially speed up my editing process. I was able to download all 1800 of my photos on to the desktop and sort through them one by one. My plan was to narrow down the amount of photos I took so I could focus on only the really good ones. So on I went, looking at every image. Every. Single. One. It took me hours but I finally narrowed it down to only 244 images. By the time James and I next meet up he will have done the same and we will look through each other's photos together and hopefully begin selecting which ones deserve to go in the book. In addition to looking through my photos I also continued to edit my star trails image that I took in Ossabaw, which I consider my best picture from the project. I used Lightroom to adjust the colors and light in the image. I significantly lightened the dead tree in the foreground and then transferred it to photoshop. Once in photoshop I went through with the healing tool and removed all of the spots that my camera creates when it takes long exposures. This took a long time, but not as long as it took me to edit out any light streaks across the sky from planes. The upside is that this image will surely make it into the book. Also, when choosing images for the book, James and I will be impartial towards whose images go in and whose don't. We will choose the best images regardless of who took them.