Other Stuff

Disturbingly-Good

I’ve been playing around a bit with Adobe Firefly on my other site, [robotSprocket] and have been having fun with some of the AI-generated images there. However, I thought I’d spend some time and take a look at it from a photographic perspective. And, what I’ve found, is that it can be disturbingly-good at generating photos if given good prompts. For example, after feeding in some prompts related to the Pacific Northwest, I almost wonder why I spent thousands of dollars last year to drive the coast from Portland to San Francisco when...

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  • April 3, 2023
Site-related

Introducing Our Fine Prints Store

We finally did it! After years of putting it off, we finally launched a print store! You can now buy almost any photo on 75CentralPhotography.com by clicking the “Purchase a Print of this Photo” link above the photo of your choice. Or you can browse prints for sale in the Fine Prints store. We’ve added a few to start with, but the great thing is that if a photo isn’t already in the store, the aforementioned “Purchase” link on any photo will automatically create that product for you! As an introductory offer, we’re...

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  • February 25, 2023
Technique/Workflow

Demystifying Lightroom Sync

If you’re a user of Lightroom, you’re probably aware that there are—confusingly—two products called Lightroom: That said, just because there are two different Lightrooms, it doesn’t mean that you can’t configure them to play somewhat-nicely with each other. The solution for this is Lightroom’s sync capabilities. Lightroom supports sync between both applications, with some caveats. In this post, I’ll try to explain and demystify the workings of sync as it’s an oft-asked question on various forums online. The key things to remember are listed below (for simplicity, I will refer to Lightroom Classic...

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  • January 20, 2023
General Interest

Year-in-Review & 2022’s Most-Interesting Photos

I know I vowed to start blogging more and I kind-of have done so, but to be honest, most of my good content goes over on [robotSprocket] rather than here. But maybe that will change in the new year. Maybe. As for 2022, it’s the end-of-the-road and as I look forward to 2023, I wanted to take a few moments to look backwards at this year. As far as photography goes, this was a year of less photography and more enjoying. Enjoying life. Enjoying where I am. Enjoying my time with my wife...

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  • January 1, 2023
Site-related

Redesigns

If you’re a regular visitor to 75CentralPhotography.com, you’ve probably noticed that things are looking a bit different ’round here. Specifically, we’ve redesigned the site. That’s right, our old trusty design was getting a bit long-in-the-tooth, so we took a stab at a redesign that addresses some of the shortcomings of the previous design, such as 1) responsive layout weirdness, 2) inextensibility (I don’t think that’s actually a word, but basically the old design wasn’t super-extensible, so every time we added a new feature, it was more effort than it should’ve been and 3)...

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  • November 10, 2022
General Interest

2021’s Most-Interesting Photos

First off, apologies that a) I haven’t actuallly blogged here in over a year; and b), that this usual year-end retrospective is almost a month late. I suck. I know. 😛 As in years past, these are the 10 most-interesting photos I made and shared in 2021 as determined by Flickr’s obscure and mysterious “Interestingness” algorithm. 10. Going Downtown 9. Shadow Grove 8. Walk to the Sea 7. Twilight Graves 6. In the Mysterious Hills 5. Waiting for Last Light 4. Duality 3. Unstructured 2. Among the Red Rocks On the Range  

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  • January 24, 2022