twmeyer

Hey... Will Paul Buff's Cyber Commander transmitter trigger the Pocket Wizard MC2 receiver? I have Einsteins and Digibees and would like to control output of all four from the camera. Digibees aren't compatible with the MC2, and neither the PW TT1, nor a standard PW Plus II transmitter will fire the CSXSC Buff receivers. So will a Cyber Commander fire the Pocket Wizard MC2 and is the strobe with the MC2 then controllable by the Cyber Commander? Thanks... t

<p>East coast (kind of) response to this old thread. Not much has changed. Except maybe things are worse. <br /><br />I can't decide if Instagram is raising the portrait bar, or Facebook is dumbing down portrait standards (or both, simultaneously). <br /><br />I know the filter catalog of most cell phone apps are making the issue of "quality" an extremely hard one to pin down. The crappiest photo ever can be run through some insane preset filter in Awesome Camera app and people will be be all over the "Like" button on Facebook... <br /><br />On the other hand, there are a lot of great portraits on Instagram. One thing is sure: It's hard enough to bid $450 to drag $10K worth of camera/lens/lighting halfway across the county, and then hear they found someone who will do it for $200... t</p>

<p>you can't produce a single, unified white balance of an image of a scene that is lit with multiple and widely different color temp light sources. <br /><br />If you have green/blue window light and orange tungsten light illuminating the scene in one image, you'll either split the difference, balance for one or the other, or convert the scene to monochrome. <br /><br />If the scenes are lit with one light source, but their color temp varies from frame to frame, your in camera white balance won't matter, if you're shooting raw files, which can be white balanced in post... t</p>

<p>and once you get comfortable with Lightroom, correcting hundreds of files from a wedding will be much faster... t</p>

<p>here's the whole book, with text page in place, bigger for your viewing pleasure... t</p><div></div>

<p>I haven't used target collections, because I assemble collections as I make images and build them up over the years. Just started Book projects in the last couple of months, seriously inthe last two weeks.<br /><br />Then I go to the Book module, set the parameters I want, Standard Landscape, Softcover Premium Lustre, Logo Page On, left blank right one image.</p> <p>After I had this trouble manifest several times, I started working with presets for text pages to see if that would help... didn't. Tried to set a page preset with linked padding at 40pt... only works partially (some pages are created with "fit" images (flush, two edges), and some with my preset linked padding that gives a white border on all sides (40pt). So that didn't work, really. Created a type style preset too, that produces sporadic success.</p> <p>All of which should not have anything to do with a disappearing text page (page 25, in a book with default content of 26 pages)... t</p><div></div>

<p>Yeah something's wrong. I just created a new collection with 6 images in it, went to the book module and it displayed images from three different collections. It appears to be confusing book sets. Damn. I just know a re-install is not going to go well.</p>

<p>also (I'm getting tired of saying that), when I look at collections, and select a particular one in Library module, it shows the collection as I assembled it. If I stay in that collection and change to the Book module, all the images change to completely different images that are not in that collection and are in a totally different book. Reverting to Library module while in that collection then displays all the correct images for that collection.<br /><br />also (sigh), tried creating the disappearing text page again, then did a "duplicate book", then renamed it and changed modules. Returned to the book module and the page is gone from both copies of the book.</p>

<p>Thanks Barry. Have you ever seen LR give the status of "collecting information"? I've got a very fast machine... 16gb ram, i7 processor, SSD... but it's done this twice in the book module right after I delete a book... it immediately shows "collecting information" and takes about 5-10 minutes to finish. I can import 16gb of images faster than that. This text shows above the status bar that indicates task process status, top left corner.</p>

<p>"buggy and weird"... I concur.</p>

<p>Book module is adding an image to a collection three times now, that was <em>never</em> added to that collection by me, and I've removed it three times and it keeps adding it back to that collection. It's a tif file in a <em>different</em> collection, in a <em>different</em> book. <br /><br />Meanwhile, it's ignoring the custom type settings I saved (reverting instead to Myriad Pro), ignoring the saved custom page layout (Left blank, Right one photo, Linked Padding, 40pt) and it deleted the book I have already created, named and published with all those and more, precise settings. <br /><br />Delightful... t</p>

<p>Another oddity. The description of that preset "Standard Landscape" defines it as having 26 pages. Page #25 is apparently <em>required</em> to be blank, and cannot contain text. Apparently... t</p>

<p>Wow. <br /><br />So I saved it as a new book, and it assembled different (apparently random) and <em>fewer</em> images than were actually in the displayed book/collection when I executed the command, adding an image from a completely different folder/collection/book and removed all the text, text settings and the layout settings from the displayed book I was trying to save. F**k me. <br /><br />"Diminishing return" is the phase that came immediately to mind, with a few extra adjectives... t</p>

<p>Hm. It was gone again this morning, after uploading and ordering last night. Previewing the book at Blurb shows it uploaded as designed, with all pages intact.<br /><br />I just added it back (it's page 25 in a standard landscape (8x10) soft cover, premium lustre), then I dragged page 24 over to where 25 was (the yellow line between leaves 25 and 26 (26 is the Blurb logo page)). The text on the page disappears, and 24 remains where it is and page 25 goes blank.<br /><br />And Andrew, just changing the output to PDF disappears the last <em>two</em> pages, displaying only 24 pages, including the Blurb logo page... so I think you're on to something. <br /><br />The template that arrived by default must allow only 24 pages. I'm producing a series of books with 11 images in each. Consequently, they all have the same number of pages (25), which is why this problem is pervasive, insidious and inherent. Grrr.<br /><br />Now I need to save these as custom layouts? Which takes me to that problem of saving it as a new book, which I hope will let me delete the original that is based on that limited template...? Back to work. I'll post again if this produces a fix. <br /><br />Thanks, Andrew ... t</p>

<p>if it bugged any one, besides me... t</p>