Editing Photographing Natural World Thumbnails (section)

== Photography ==

=== Setup ===

# Shoot each thumbnailed page separately. Not each sheet on which the thumbnails are drawn.
# Lens: Tamron 90mm / 200 ISO / 1/125 sec @ f/8 / metering set to <strike>aperture-priority</strike> manual<br />''(It has to be a macro lens.)''
# Flash: SB-900, bounced off <strike>umbrella</strike> ceiling in the N Rose studio. 1/4 power. Focal length set to 50mm, although not sure if this makes a difference here.
# Camera mounted on Gitzo GT2331 tripod. (see photo)
## Camera pointed straight down.
## Front legs not extended, set at middle notch. Resting on table.
## Back leg on lowest notch, extended a little bit. Resting on step ladder.
## The blue line at the end of the Tamron 90mm lens will be 14-⅛ inches from the artwork. (The blue line is only visible when the lens is set to manual focus.)

[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120428-01.jpg|320px|thumb|none|table top set up with camera and flash]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120428-02.jpg|320px|thumb|none|tripod leg settings; back leg set to lowest notch, front two legs in middle notch]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120428-03.jpg|320px|thumb|none|flash and umbrella]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120428-04.jpg|320px|thumb|none|artwork relative to the camera]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120428-05.jpg|320px|thumb|none|tripod legs and position of flash relative to the artwork]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120803-01.jpg|320px|thumb|none|Blue line on the lens is 14-⅛” above artwork. (The blue line is only visible when the lens is set to manual focus.)]]

=== Importing the images into Adobe Lightroom ===

* USB cable from camera to laptop.

[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120802-09.jpg|320px|thumb|none|Cable for tethered capture. <strike>5-pin Mini-B (D90)</strike> “High-speed USB” (D7100, not pictured) to USB.]]
[[File:Nw5-thumbnail-setup-120802-10.jpg|320px|thumb|none|Female-to-male USB 6′ extension.]]

* Turn on camera (and flash).

[[File:D7100-flash-settings-130930-01.jpg|320px|frameless|none]]


[[File:D7100-flash-settings-130930-02.jpg|320px|frameless|none]]


[[File:D7100-flash-settings-130930-03.jpg|320px|frameless|none]]


[[File:D7100-flash-settings-130930-04.jpg|320px|frameless|none]]

* <strike>On laptop mount DAMIEN-MG drive with “lightroom_drives.bat”.</strike> With desktop in the same room as the camera, connect the camera directly to the desktop computer.
* Open Adobe Lightroom on <strike>laptop</strike> desktop.
* Open the “comics” Lightroom catalog <strike>that resides on “//damien-mg/d_drive/Adobe Lightroom”</strike>.
(<strike>This will be located at “d:/Adobe Lightroom/comics” after running the batch file above.</strike> Again, location isn’t an issue when the camera can be connected directly to the desktop.)
* File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture…

[[File:Nw5-lightroom-tethered-capture.jpg|565px|frameless|none]]

* Naming: <strike>“nw5 s2 p03 v1”</strike> “nw5 s2 v1 p03″
** title and issue | scene | version | page
** Update: Put version after scene and before page so that the pages for each version are grouped together when viewing the files alphabetically.
** This applies to both the the EXIF title and the image filename.