Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas, and challenges
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The document outlines the goals and processes of photography, emphasizing the importance of capturing, sharing, and managing photos effectively. It addresses common issues like underutilized photos, time management, and technical skills, while recommending tools like Lightroom and Photoshop for editing and organizing images. Additionally, it explores practical applications for pictures in presentations and printing, as well as questions regarding improving photography practices.
Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas, and challenges
- 1. Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas, and challenges Kaj Arnö München 20.1.2011 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 2. Overview • Capture • Share • Process • Store • Backup • Show • Print torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 3. Goals: Why take pictures? • Capture beauty • Aid memory • Strengthen relationships • Establish contacts • Manage possessions • Plan activities • Save time • Support life goals torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 10. High-end editing: Photoshop CS4 • Print formatting • Posters (help lines) • HDR merge • Shadows & highlights • Complex cropping • Transparent PNGs • Complex format conversions torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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. torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 12. Text & pics: OmniGraf e • Describing thoughts • ”A picture is worth a thousand words” • Combining text and pictures torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 13. Presentations: Keynote • ”Classic” presentations • Detail-directed slideshows (seldom) • Films (export as Quickview) torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 14. Never: iPhoto • Dislike: Duplicating pics • Dislike: Condescending • Dislike: Not 100.000 pics • Like: Face recognition • Like: Slide shows torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 15. Sometimes: iMovie • For HD lms • For YouTube • Should iPhoto be the source of the pictures? • Invisible PNGs are cool! torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 16. Other SW • CameraWindow: For 7D • Canon DPP: Not really • Uploadrs: No, Lr2 • PhotoBooth: No, should I? torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 17. Experiences: Printing • Flyeralarm • Folders • Posters • Business Cards • Post cards • What else? torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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? torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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 torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 22. Questions: Shell scrips • Bulk renames • Bulk resolution conversion with ImageMagick torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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? torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 24. Spreading pictures & ideas • The.Everydayaesthete.com Der.Alltagsaesthet.de • Fotocommunity.de? • Which photo forums to join? • A larger photo club in Munich? torsdag den 20 januari 2011
- 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. torsdag den 20 januari 2011