photography: exchanging goals, experiences, ideas, and challenges

Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas,

and challenges

Kaj ArnöMünchen 20.1.2011

torsdag den 20 januari 2011

Overview

• Capture

• Share

• Process

• Store

• Backup

• Show

• Print

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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High-end editing: Photoshop CS4

• Print formatting

• Posters (help lines)

• HDR merge

• Shadows & highlights

• Complex cropping

• Transparent PNGs

• Complex format conversions

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Print design: InDesign CS4

• Photo Book

• But I don’t know whereto get the book printedso 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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Text & pics: OmniGraf"e

• Describing thoughts

• ”A picture is wortha thousand words”

• Combining text and pictures

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Presentations: Keynote

• ”Classic” presentations

• Detail-directed slideshows (seldom)

• Films (export as Quickview)

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Never: iPhoto

• Dislike: Duplicating pics

• Dislike: Condescending

• Dislike: Not 100.000 pics

• Like: Face recognition

• Like: Slide shows

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Sometimes: iMovie

• For HD !lms

• For YouTube

• Should iPhoto be thesource of the pictures?

• Invisible PNGs are cool!

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Other SW

• CameraWindow: For 7D

• Canon DPP: Not really

• Uploadrs: No, Lr2

• PhotoBooth: No, should I?

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Experiences: Printing

• Flyeralarm

• Folders

• Posters

• Business Cards

• Post cards

• What else?

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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?torsdag den 20 januari 2011

Order on the internal HD• Pictures/2011o = originals (CR2, full size)

• Crappy pics deleted

• Initial tagging done

• Moved to external HDwhen accessible

• Pictures/2011 = to be used

• Only ”the best” pictures

• In JPG, in much smaller size

• For synching with external devicestorsdag den 20 januari 2011

Order on the external HD

• Pictures/2011 = originalsand edits

• Should I do CR2 -> DNG?

• Copied to second externalHD so two digital copiesalways exist, at every pointin time

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Questions: Photoshop CS4

• What am I missing?

• HDR

• At minimum 10 mins!

• How often is HDRreally merited?

• Keyboard shortcuts

• How to create macros

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Questions: Shell scrips

• Bulk renames

• Bulk resolution conversion withImageMagick

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Questions: Flickr

• How to create sets

• What is a set, what is acollection

• How to structure thephotostream page

• How to structure otherFlickr pages on the web

• Which groups to join, why?

• What is the right number of pics per theme?

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Spreading pictures & ideas

• The.Everydayaesthete.comDer.Alltagsaesthet.de

• Fotocommunity.de?

• Which photo forums to join?

• A larger photo club in Munich?

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Questions: Your further ideas!

• What do I not understand to ask

• What are other good goals withphotography

• What are other means of achieving my existing goals

kaj@arno.!

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