Author Archives: David

Orion Nebula With a Nikon D7000

It might not look like much. But one of those purple stars in the middle of the image is actually a nebula. The Orion nebula, to be specific. If you’re familiar with the constellation Orion, the middle “star” of Orion’s sword is actually a nebula, a big cloud of dust and gas. Compared to the images the [...]

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“There is a problem with the video file” No, Lightroom 4, The Problem Is With You…

I ran in to a situation yesterday where I was unable to import video files (MOV) from my iPhone 4. Lightroom would import image files, but at the end of an import that included video files, Lightroom would display the message “There is a problem with the video file” with a list of all my [...]

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Adobe Lightroom Doesn’t Recognize Duplicates Unless You Imported Images From Device Using Lightroom

I recently upgraded to Lightroom 4 and took the opportunity to also create a new catalog, mostly because of historical issues upgrading these types of catalogs in the past. Also, because my workflow involves editing images and then moving them to an archive and removing them from my primary catalog, I figured there were a [...]

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