This presentation was prepared as a base for discussion amongst a couple of photographers in Munich, meeting an evening to discuss why they take pictures, how they keep them in order, what their workflow is, and what software is in use.
Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas, and challenges
1. Photography: Exchanging
goals, experiences, ideas,
and challenges
Kaj Arnö
München 20.1.2011
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2. Overview
• Capture
• Share
• Process
• Store
• Backup
• Show
• Print
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3. Goals: Why take pictures?
• Capture beauty
• Aid memory
• Strengthen relationships
• Establish contacts
• Manage possessions
• Plan activities
• Save time
• Support life goals
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4. Where to use pictures
• Presentations (Keynote)
• Picasa, Flickr, Facebook
• Blogs, web pages
• Slide shows
• iPad, iPod, iPhone
• Print: Books, posters
• Photo frames
• As gifts
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5. Photo Life
Cycle: From
Capture To
View
• Shorten calendar
time
• Lessen effort
• Increase quality
• Reduce risk of loss
• Have more fun
• Be more creative
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6. Issue 1: Photos not in use
• Best photos not in use
• not available
• not identi ed
• not tagged
• not described
• not easily found
• not consistently
backed up
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7. Issue 2: Time misspent
• Too many new pics,
too little using old pics
• Too little ”marketing”
• Not sharing enough
• Wishful thinking on
editing ambitions
• Too much HDR
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8. Issue 3: Lack of IT skills
• Which software to use
for what purpose
• How to avoid tying work
effort to a dead end
• What format, what
resolution to use when
• How to acquire
ef ciency in routines, to
release the creativity
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9. My primary tool: Lightroom 2
• Tag pictures
• ***** best ones
• Delete crappy ones
• Adjust horizon, light
• Crop
• Upload to FB, fr, Picasa
• Move from internal HD to external HD
• Output in desired resolution as JPG
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11. Print design: InDesign CS4
• Photo Book
• But I don’t know where
to get the book printed
so that it has a ”spine”
• Blurb?
• Magazine design
• Don’t know where to print, if print < 100
• Business cards, invitations etc.
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12. Text & pics: OmniGraf e
• Describing thoughts
• ”A picture is worth
a thousand words”
• Combining text and pictures
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13. Presentations: Keynote
• ”Classic” presentations
• Detail-directed
slideshows (seldom)
• Films (export as Quickview)
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14. Never: iPhoto
• Dislike: Duplicating pics
• Dislike: Condescending
• Dislike: Not 100.000 pics
• Like: Face recognition
• Like: Slide shows
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15. Sometimes: iMovie
• For HD lms
• For YouTube
• Should iPhoto be the
source of the pictures?
• Invisible PNGs are cool!
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16. Other SW
• CameraWindow: For 7D
• Canon DPP: Not really
• Uploadrs: No, Lr2
• PhotoBooth: No, should I?
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17. Experiences: Printing
• Flyeralarm
• Folders
• Posters
• Business Cards
• Post cards
• What else?
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18. Questions: Lightroom 2
• How to auto-tag pics
• Upgrade to Lr3? Why?
• Should I upgrade HW?
• 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5
• 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
• How do I get more
ef cient at routines?
• How do I edit pictures in more detail?
• What should I attempt at editing in Lr?
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19. Order on the internal HD
• Pictures/2011o = originals (CR2, full size)
• Crappy pics deleted
• Initial tagging done
• Moved to external HD
when accessible
• Pictures/2011 = to be used
• Only ”the best” pictures
• In JPG, in much smaller size
• For synching with external devices
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20. Order on the external HD
• Pictures/2011 = originals
and edits
• Should I do CR2 -> DNG?
• Copied to second external
HD so two digital copies
always exist, at every point
in time
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21. Questions: Photoshop CS4
• What am I missing?
• HDR
• At minimum 10 mins!
• How often is HDR
really merited?
• Keyboard shortcuts
• How to create macros
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22. Questions: Shell scrips
• Bulk renames
• Bulk resolution
conversion with
ImageMagick
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23. Questions: Flickr
• How to create sets
• What is a set, what is a
collection
• How to structure the
photostream page
• How to structure other
Flickr pages on the web
• Which groups to join, why?
• What is the right number of pics per theme?
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24. Spreading pictures & ideas
• The.Everydayaesthete.com
Der.Alltagsaesthet.de
• Fotocommunity.de?
• Which photo forums to join?
• A larger photo club in Munich?
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25. Questions: Your further ideas!
• What do I not
understand to ask
• What are other
good goals with
photography
• What are other
means of achieving
my existing goals
kaj@arno.
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