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Photographic magic
Jul. 4th, 2009 11:13 amThanks for your suggestions on photo processing programs. I ended up going with Adobe Lightroom 2.
After a friday-night binge with the software, in which I culled through, tagged, described, and refined about 800 photos in about 5 hours, I can say that it's totally addictive. The "develop" feature is amazing. I can take shitty pictures of interesting things I took under less than ideal conditions and refine the hell out of them until they're quite good. If they're good to begin with, you can make them really sizzle.
You have to be careful with focus though or you'll start to feel like an overworked superhero, surrounded by a massive crowd full of people whose lives need saving. I'm trying to focus my retouching efforts on the photos that get me the most value for doing so. Otherwise I'll never get through.
5 hours * 11000 photos / 800 photos = 68.75 hours, which sounds like an extremely long time to be in front of the computer. Hopefully once I'm more proficient with the program, it will go significantly faster.
After a friday-night binge with the software, in which I culled through, tagged, described, and refined about 800 photos in about 5 hours, I can say that it's totally addictive. The "develop" feature is amazing. I can take shitty pictures of interesting things I took under less than ideal conditions and refine the hell out of them until they're quite good. If they're good to begin with, you can make them really sizzle.
You have to be careful with focus though or you'll start to feel like an overworked superhero, surrounded by a massive crowd full of people whose lives need saving. I'm trying to focus my retouching efforts on the photos that get me the most value for doing so. Otherwise I'll never get through.
5 hours * 11000 photos / 800 photos = 68.75 hours, which sounds like an extremely long time to be in front of the computer. Hopefully once I'm more proficient with the program, it will go significantly faster.
