Images of the quarry at St Peter's Village in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
My sister has been talking about St Peter’s Village for some time now, and with the kids just starting vacation, I was looking for something quick and easy to do.
After taking a scenic 30 minute drive, we parked and walked up the small little hill to the quarry, and from there I took these quick images.
Images of the quarry at St Peter’s Village in Chester County, Pennsylvania.Images of the quarry at St Peter’s Village in Chester County, Pennsylvania.Images of the quarry at St Peter’s Village in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
In image processing, I went with a higher saturation and vibrancy then normal, to emphasize the colors from the paints and chalk that have dripped down over the rocks from the graffiti art, but the greens of the trees became to “hot”.
I took the color image and converted into a Black and White layer, and from there I cut a mask to enhance the colors of the rocks.
Certainly not the image I had in mind when I stood there, but I kind of like it.
[18:38] - On Green Valley Road, about 150 yards from the last image.
Logan did his best, but the early afternoon at the Brandywine Food & Wine Festival had wiped him out, so I dropped him at Home, and went back out the door for my second event of the day.
[approx 17:30] – Driving south on Rt 162, the traffic seemed a little bit heavier, but as soon as I got to the intersection of Doe Run Road (Rt 82), I knew it was going to be a long wait…
[18:03] – It took me about a 1000 yards and 30+ minutes until I could grab my cameras and start recording things around me and Posting them to Facebook.
[18:03] – About Halfway between Rt162/Rt82 intersection and Green Valley Road. If you look carefully, there is a car/van turning around.[18:26] – The top of Green Valley Road just a head! You can see the traffic from the other direction. – Images taken while waiting in line for the Chester County Balloon Festival.[18:38] – On Green Valley Road, about 150 yards from the last image. – Images taken while waiting in line for the Chester County Balloon Festival.[18:44] – On Green Valley Road, almost there!! Damn, can’t Post to FB… No signal… and my battery is low… – Images taken while waiting in line for the Chester County Balloon Festival.[19:08] – I can finally see the entrance to Plantation Field and hear some music!
[19:13] – I am second in line to turn into the Parking area, but a car of people just pulled out yelling there were not going to be balloons tonight!
[19:21] – I need at least a beer after this… Then I’ll decide about what to do…
This morning, I started to “stitch” together a panoramic photo that I had taken the other day in Dowlin Forge Park, right here in Downingtown.
It is a series of (28) Canon RAW files (cr2) that were taken with a Canon T5i/700D, imported into Lightroom 5.3, and merged into a straightforward panorama image in Photoshop CS 6.
The actual merge of the (28) 16-bit files took about 3-4 minutes, which was A LOT better than last time, where I had to break-up the (42) files into groups of 10, merge them into one file, and repeat until all the files were merged.
Once the merged file was in Photoshop, with all 28 layers showing, my new machine was not even breathing too hard. Even with Lightroom and several Chrome instances, I was still only pushing 85% physical RAM and the CPU spiked at 15%!
From there, I tried to “Save As” a Standard Adobe PSD, and got the standard error dialog, showing the 2GB file size limitation.
Nothing new there…
Then I tried a “Save As” as an Adobe TIFF file, and this time the computer took a great deal longer, 5+ minutes, before there was an error, and during that time, Photoshop created a 10.6+ GB file tmp!
10.6 GB Adobe TMP file
To date, this is the single largest file that I have “Saved” in Photoshop!
Finally, I tried saving the file as a Standard Adobe PSB file, which is still a large file at 3.3+ GBs!
Main Adobe PSB file w/o Flatten
Time to Flatten some Layers!
With the Main PSB file open, I Flattened the Layers into 1, and did a “Save As” a PSB and then Re-Opened the Main PSB file, Flattened, and “Save As” again as TIFFs, and was very happy to see both files sizes were nearly identical at 638 MBs!
Comparison when Flattened
Conclusion
I conducted this test mostly out of personal curiosity and to see if files have remained consistent since the last time I did this experiment.
I expected the file size to go up, mainly because I was using 27-28 MB files created with the Canon T5i/700D vs 8-9 MB files with the Canon XTi.
If I were to estimate, the same 46 shoots done in 2011 could easily reach 6 GBs as a PSB file, and maybe create a 20-30 GB temp file at the same time.
Be sure that you have enough scratch disk space before you start.
It should be obvious that if you know a file is going to reach over 4 GBs, save it out as a PSB and go from there in the rest of your workflow.
The current maximum file file for an Adobe PSB is 4 exabytes – 300,000 x 300,000 pixels – 350 x 350 feet, which should keep you.
It is also nice to see that after Flattening, both PSB and TIFF files appear to be the same size.
Personally, I would keep the TIFF files, mostly because TIFF is NOT a proprietary file format, and in the future, if I want to move the file into another program, it will be easier.
Although I wrote my first post on PSB vs TIFF several years ago, I have yet to find out what IS all the Un-Saved data?
Duplicate “colors?” Non-Human readable code?
If you happen to know, please let me know.
I’m just very curious!
And finally, it should be noted, just like last time, the 2 PSB files do NOT show up in Lightroom, so you have to remember that they are there.
The TIFF file that was created, after Flattening all the Layers, DOES show up in Lightroom.
Adobe Bridge CS6 (5.0.2.4 x64) is able to show the Flattened PSB and TIFF, but NOT the larger Un-Flattened 3.3+ GB PSB file.
Hope you enjoyed my little file size observations.
If you have any questions or answers, please let me know!!
Looking through Rudolph & Arthur Covered Bridge (1886)
I have been playing with the idea of publishing a photography book for some time, and after my experience with producing Madison’s 10th birthday gift, I decided to make a first real attempt.
So what was my first real book going to be about?
Looking back at my recent history, it only makes sense that I do something about covered bridges, and I already had the content from the presentation I did back in October 2012 for Citadel bank.
This time is going to be easier from the standpoint that I only had a limited number of pictures, and a layout with the text.
So after a couple of hours, I was able to put the following together using the simple Adobe Lightroom module, and uploading to Blurb.com.
I invite you to take a look, and let me know what you think.
With this first book done, and I’m sure that I’ll revisit at some point, I am beginning to put together some ideas on themed books.
This time, using Blurb’s SmartBook application to put together my next adventure, namely because it seems to offer far more options and controls than what is available in the built-in Adobe Lightroom module.
In the meantime, let me know what you think of the book!
