On Thu, November 10, 2011 09:09, mac wrote: > Yes, the ease with which you can produce hundreds of shots with a digital > camera means it's a real problem at first to know what to bin and what to > keep. As you build experience, one of the most important things you get > better at is ruthless culling of your images, and keeping only the good > stuff. > > Out of focus and badly exposed shots are fairly easy to spot and bin; but > then you have to ask, "Am I, or anyone else, ever going to want to look at > this again, or to try to improve it by editing?" If the answer's 'No' and > it's not a photo that has personal sentimental value, bin it! > > Try shooting in RAW. Then transfer the files to your computer. Skim > through them, and delete the obvious junk. Then go through them again, and > flag or rate the images as Promising / Maybe / Nah, Not Really. > > Geeqie is good for this on Ubuntu if your not yet using a digital asset > management program like digiKam (KDE) or Shotwell (Gnome). > > Then work on or convert the stuff you think is worth keeping. (Shooting in > RAW and then converting everything to JPG for starters is just > inefficient.) > > Some cameras can save images to both a RAW file and a JPG simultaneously. > If you import them into Shotwell, it displays them as a single image > (Geeqie can do this, too) so that you can do the first-pass culling very > easily. If your camera can do this, try it for a bit to see what works > best for you. > > And join a local camera club or photographic society. It'll help your > photography a lot (even though you may be the only Linux user there!) > > mac > > > Thanks for the input Mac, I like the look of Geeqie, so will give that a go. My camera can shoot in RAW+JPEG so I will do that too...you're right, saves converting all the RAWs. Didn't realise that I could preview the RAWs for culling, so my thinking was maybe small, low quality conversion of all the RAWs for culling, but Geeqie solves that problem.
I take it you are a bit of a photographer? Got a personal site or are you an active Google+ photographer? -- Thanks and regards, Jon Reynolds (j0nr) ---------------------------- http:www.jcrdevelopments.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
