Comments on: Photo Management http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-management technology, gaming and gadgets Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: zerolight http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45227 zerolight Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:43:24 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45227 Yup. Not for everyone. One of those things though, once you spend a lot of time with an SLR, it's hard to go back. There's shots I took of dolphins leaping at Sea World that were impossible on a point and shoot. And similarly, shots I missed at the Waterworld ride that I could have got had I brought the SLR. Probably why I keep my kit small... no outboard flash, f1.8 50mm and 28-125IS, small bag, nothing else. Not into two backpacks of gear. :) Yup. Not for everyone. One of those things though, once you spend a lot of time with an SLR, it's hard to go back. There's shots I took of dolphins leaping at Sea World that were impossible on a point and shoot. And similarly, shots I missed at the Waterworld ride that I could have got had I brought the SLR. Probably why I keep my kit small… no outboard flash, f1.8 50mm and 28-125IS, small bag, nothing else. Not into two backpacks of gear. :)

]]> By: IanD http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45209 IanD Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:54:22 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45209 It's the size and cost and the frequency of my photographs. Maybe one day but not at the moment. It's the size and cost and the frequency of my photographs. Maybe one day but not at the moment.

]]> By: zerolight http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45191 zerolight Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:12:35 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45191 Oh, I dunno. You have an eye Ian... I wouldn't be surprised to see you with an SLR in the next couple of years. Oh, I dunno. You have an eye Ian… I wouldn't be surprised to see you with an SLR in the next couple of years.

]]> By: IanD http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45190 IanD Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:15 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45190 Cheers for the comments guys. Zero nails the issue in that I need to export to see the image changes - non destructive image editing in Lightroom is very nice until you want to see the changes elsewhere. I'm going to go with exporting my fav's into iPhoto and live with the duplication. It's not like I take that many photo's anyway, or indeed have that many 'good' photo's. Just like everything quite clean and simple. Cheers for the comments guys. Zero nails the issue in that I need to export to see the image changes – non destructive image editing in Lightroom is very nice until you want to see the changes elsewhere. I'm going to go with exporting my fav's into iPhoto and live with the duplication. It's not like I take that many photo's anyway, or indeed have that many 'good' photo's. Just like everything quite clean and simple.

]]> By: zerolight http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45188 zerolight Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:08:39 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45188 Do you need to keep them in Lightroom? I import photos from my camera as RAW images into Aperture 2. I then weed out the rubbish, tweak any pictures that need it, then export them out as high quality jpegs and import them into iPhoto for permanent storage. I delete what's left in Aperture when I'm done. I'd follow the same process if I used Lightroom. iPhoto is my preference for general browsing of photos and works well as long as I remember to tag, but Lightroom and Aperture are much better for editing them. Of course, if you need the masters, and therefore like the non-invasive editing, then Aperture and Lightroom are the way to go. Henry, the problem with your suggested solution is that Lightroom, like Aperture, doesn't make any changes to the actual photo, instead changes are applied in realtime when an image is opened from stored meta data, and are only made permanent when an image is exported from Lightroom/Aperture. Therefore, his images would only show their adjustments whilst viewed in Lightroom, which is fine if that's his primary library. That's really the reason I export my images after tweaking them... then I can view them anywhere, with adjustments made. I guess that's the real barrier to being able to view images from a common Library if you use Lightroom and Aperture. Double Twist for example will pull in photos from locations all over the Mac, but anything from Lightroom and Aperture won't have their adjustments applied. Do you need to keep them in Lightroom? I import photos from my camera as RAW images into Aperture 2. I then weed out the rubbish, tweak any pictures that need it, then export them out as high quality jpegs and import them into iPhoto for permanent storage. I delete what's left in Aperture when I'm done. I'd follow the same process if I used Lightroom. iPhoto is my preference for general browsing of photos and works well as long as I remember to tag, but Lightroom and Aperture are much better for editing them. Of course, if you need the masters, and therefore like the non-invasive editing, then Aperture and Lightroom are the way to go.

Henry, the problem with your suggested solution is that Lightroom, like Aperture, doesn't make any changes to the actual photo, instead changes are applied in realtime when an image is opened from stored meta data, and are only made permanent when an image is exported from Lightroom/Aperture. Therefore, his images would only show their adjustments whilst viewed in Lightroom, which is fine if that's his primary library. That's really the reason I export my images after tweaking them… then I can view them anywhere, with adjustments made. I guess that's the real barrier to being able to view images from a common Library if you use Lightroom and Aperture. Double Twist for example will pull in photos from locations all over the Mac, but anything from Lightroom and Aperture won't have their adjustments applied.

]]> By: TalkRhubarb http://www.iand.net/archives/2009/03/08/photo-management/comment-page-1/#comment-45186 TalkRhubarb Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:24:59 +0000 http://www.iand.net/?p=1103#comment-45186 You have tried the iphoto -> preferences -> advanced and deselected the "Copy photos to library" option? Or am I missing something? You have tried the iphoto -> preferences -> advanced and deselected the "Copy photos to library" option? Or am I missing something?

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