Digital photography: love it or hate it? (Trees And Things)

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography workflow

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:05:47 EST

I was under the impression that the latest version of iPhoto was pretty robust. The first serious photo management software I used was Adobe Photoshop Album which was, at the time, pretty much the equivalent of iPhoto. Both used databases that were inadequ

Coelacanth: Re: Digital photography workflow

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:10:26 EST

iPhoto didn't support RAW until recently, so I couldn't use it. It also was very slow with large libraries, and copies all images into it's own directory structure, which is annoying if you want to upload selected images (though there are uploaders f

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography workflow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:17:43 EST

I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't have a backup hard drive any more

Mostly because it's still to hard to do. I know you said you "press one button," but that act requires you to think about pressing the button and al

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography workflow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:58:40 EST

I have a nice workflow going (Mac-based)...

How about iPhoto? I haven't used it other than to play around a bit at an Apple store, but it seems ideal for photo management and light-duty editing. Am I missing something about i

skeeter1: Re: Digital photography workflow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:11:45 EST

* The third trick is to have a good storage/backup plan.

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head. I've got two memory cards for each digicam (one uses SD cards, the other CompactFlash cards), and an external USB hard drive (Western

joshv: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:21:03 EST

Yeah, I at least learn something from the 90% of the pictures that I take that are crappy. I'm not a huge fan of "accidental art" though, to me a blurry picture is just that, a blurry picture.

thefadd: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:59:47 EST

I actually enjoy taking "bad" pictures where the settings or lighting or something else is purposely wrong or random. It teaches me something about all the things that go into a shot and how they interplay to make a shot I do want. Also, it challenges my a

joshv: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:43:15 EST

There could be something wrong with the camera, or its settings. It sounds like there is a white balance issue. If you are taking pictures without a flash in low light, poor white balance is a common problem with point and shoot digitals. There

joshv: Re: Digital photography workflow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:32:11 EST

"I think there's a similar discipline to taking digital as to shooting film, it just takes place later in the process. If I shoot 5 shots instead of one to make sure I get the right exposure, etc., then I try to throw at least 3 of them away at the R

Coelacanth: Re: Digital photography workflow

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:41:17 EST

I have a nice workflow going (Mac-based) with iView Media Pro and Photoshop CS2, quite similar to what you describe. I shoot RAW, and it takes me about a minute per shot to convert, process, tag, etc. unless I'm doing something special to a photo (or

skeeter1: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:31:31 EST

I often find myself wishing I had brought my camera. But I just never remember to do it.

Jeez, I know the feeling. How many times I've been out and didn't have a camera with me, I couldn't tell ya, and I have no excuse for that.

snwodttam: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:15:05 EST

I guess I'm kinda the odd-man-out here on this thread for a couple of reasons.

One, I don't really take pictures. I don't really know anything about how to do it other than point and click, and so most of the pictures I take turn out crap. I

skeeter1: Re: Digital photography: cheap or not?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:42:53 EST

"The digital camera is clearly superior. Then consider that recent digital SLRs (DSLRs) out-resolve the 1Ds and outperform it in other important ways such as color depth."

There's quite a bit of truth to that. A friend of mine has been usin

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography: cheap or not?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:26 EST

There's nothing that beats Kodachrome 25 for a great picture

That's not exactly true anymore, though it certainly was true for most of the history of digital photography. And it's still true if you're on a tight budget.

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:57 EST

Well, I just made the full on transition to Linux a few months ago...I guess I need to give F-spot a whirl

F-spot, to put it mildly, sucks ass. It is, unfortunately, like too many other Linux programs: just not up to modern s

zyxwvutsr: Re: Digital photography workflow

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:19:59 EST

I love the convenience factor, but the very volume of pictures I take ends up working against me. When I end up with three or four hundred pictures, I don't want to take the time to organize them on my computer (or spend the money to p

skeeter1: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:07:35 EST
Off topic, but port1080 started it,
"Something like cleaning, which you used to do twice a year, now had to be done at least once a week once you got a vacuum cleaner...
Yes, I have a few vacuum cleaners (5, IIRC), but still only clean about t

thefadd: I still prefer 35mm

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:31:44 EST
...but until christmas my best camera was a canon eos rebel. now that I've got the digital rebel, we'll see. I'm still more of a nikon guy since that was my first 35mm camera but their better cameras are out of the range I want/need to put into a camera.

joshv: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:00:59 EST
Well, that's the format I prefer - those who disable scripting and flash because they think it makes them safer on the web will just have to suffer.
Lightroom will also generate HTML only galleries. Here's an older one I created: http://www.everythink.org/pictures/Christmas%202007/index.html = "Sorry, this photo gallery requires that scripting be enabled on your web browser and that the Adobe Flash Player

port1080: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:46:59 EST
Well, I just made the full on transition to Linux a few months ago, so unless Lightroom works with WINE (which it doesn't, just checked), Lightroom is probably out of the picture. I guess I need to give F-spot

joshv: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:29:39 EST
I had the exact same problem until I bit the bullet and tried out Lightroom. Now I can download my pics from the card, import them in lightroom (tagging them with appropriate meta data in the process), scan through the imported photos, quickly tag th

joshv: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:25:10 EST
I am head over heels in love with my Canon 20D. It's a great little camera. It's getting a little long in the tooth, featureset wise, but until something dramatically better (or cheaper) comes along, I see no reason to replace it.
If you are

port1080: Re: Digital photography: love it or hate it?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:20:54 EST
I have mixed feelings about digital. I love the convenience factor, but the very volume of pictures I take ends up working against me. When I end up with three or four hundred pictures, I don't want to take the time to organize them on my compu