After getting more used to Lightroom, I am liking it more. The images for the book were slides scanned in from a trip in 2000. There are little bits of lint or other crud. I’m impressed with the tool that works like a non-destructive spot healing brush. It instantly chooses an area to substitute and does it so well that I very rarely move the choice.
The slides have faded, so most slides have a magenta cast. I got rid of most of that when I edited in Photoshop to produce pictures for the web pages I did about the trip. I watched a video in which the guy used split toning to adjust colors, not just for tinting black and white, as I would have used it for. I have now gone back and used it to tweak colors in a few of the more troublesome shots. I like the ease at which the effect can be turned off and on. (I probably should use adjustment layers in Photoshop more often for that reason.) After I finish and order the book, I may export the Lightroom versions to use on the web pages instead of the ones I originally did. At least I can compare the two and choose the ones I prefer.
Maybe in the future I will have a greater sense of when I might want to use Lightroom.
Now that I am done playing with the tilt-shift lens and have sent it back, I am doing a bit with extension tubes and a ring light to see how they work with lenses I already own. I don’t have any photo project in mind, but just testing shooting a ruler at various magnifications and apertures.
My next real project is to scan in negatives from my 2001 trip to Seattle and Glacier National Park. First I have to find what I did with the film holder for my slide scanner. As I recall, Vuscan does a good job compensating for the orange mask. My guess is that Kodacolor will have survived the ravages of time better than did the Ektachrome.