Variations on a Theme II

Admittedly, I have spent too much time lately playing with Lightroom presets, as evidenced by this post and my earlier post of an abandoned building in Crystal, Colorado.    I find that using presets is a great way of discovering a hidden side to some images, including this image of a plant from Alcatraz Island, California.  The image above is my favorite interpretation, though I like the alternate interpretation and original images below as well.

Here is the original image:

The Turning Gate Lightroom Web Galleries

If you use Lightroom and need to throw together a gallery quickly, or if you’d like to create a photography website without learning HTML or hacking Gallery to do your bidding, you should check out the great set of Lightroom web gallery templates from Matthew at The Turning Gate.

Matt’s (donationware) templates provide everything you need to assemble a professional-looking photo gallery or a whole website.   Check out his demonstration gallery to see all of the various templates in action, including the “meta templates” that draw various light-room generated galleries together into a coherent website.

I’ve used the Slimbox Gallery for a number of private quick-and-dirty web galleries.  Also, I use the Monoslideshow Gallery to generate the XML for the Monoslideshow Gallery on the Splash Page of AndrewKelley.net