Photography: Exchanging goals, experiences, ideas,
and challenges
Kaj ArnöMünchen 20.1.2011
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Overview
• Capture
• Share
• Process
• Store
• Backup
• Show
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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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