On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Doug Brewer wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I guess notions of efficiency, productivity, and overall image
management to expand creativity and profitability are not viable
for this user community.
that's kind of a big leap, don't you think?
It's not only a big leap, it's opposite what many of us have been
saying: Some aspects of Lightroom work contrary to the productivity
and image management of some people in some ways. It's just about
the mildest criticism one could offer, so I don't understand the
extreme reaction.
My statement is not a disparagement. Nor is it a big leap or "extreme
reaction".
By accounting my time, consumed disk space, finished output, etc,
adopting the overall image management system that applications like
Aperture and Lightroom provide has increased both the quality and
productivity of my work by 300-400%. Which has a direct impact on
profitability.
Most of the people on this mailing list make their living via other
means and are totally unconcerned with profitability and productivity.
You can hobby about, dickering with oddball RAW development, cheap
annotation and editing solutions. There's nothing wrong with that if
you're a hobbyist or part-time photographer.
It is unprofitable for me, trying to make a living, to waste time like
that. I set up my workflow with tools that do the work as efficiently
as possible, to the quality standards that I want. This gives me time
to be creative and get the work done.
The reason I use Lightroom is that I found it puts together in one
application everything I was hodge-podging together with a variety of
semi-compatible applications which were not doing it particularly well
or efficiently. It imposes no organizational structure on what I want
to do with respect to organizing my files, I do that myself. It
imposes no additional burden in management as it relieves me of having
to manage all the minutiae myself. *Every* exposure I make is
incorporated into the Lightroom catalog ... every single one, now, is
fully populated with all the essential IPTC metadata I need for the
business. Grading, sorting, making picks, rendering are all handled
quickly and efficiently, whether that is with one file or a thousand.
Printing is a piece of cake ... need to do an exhibition? Pick the 20
pictures, pick the template, and feed the printer while I read the
news. I can find everything of value now from today back to everything
I'd scanned into digital format since 1983, and every single digital
capture I've made since 2002 (that's around 280,000 exposures now). Etc.
IN the past two years since I moved all my processes to LR, the
percentage of annually consumed disk space has gone from 80%
intermediate renderings and unfinished work to 80% finished work. IN
2008, I produced more finished work by a large factor over 2007, which
was up by a similar percentage over 2006.
If that is not important to you, it is to me. Be happy in what you do,
I'm quite happy with what I do. ;-)
Godfrey
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