Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-10-03 Thread P.J. Alling
On 10/1/2014 3:34 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: On Sep 22, 2014, at 13:23 , Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-10-03 Thread Charles Robinson
On Oct 3, 2014, at 11:18 , P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/1/2014 3:34 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: On Sep 22, 2014, at 13:23 , Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-10-01 Thread Charles Robinson
On Sep 22, 2014, at 13:23 , Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month, they come in bursts of several hundreds

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-10-01 Thread Charles Robinson
On Sep 22, 2014, at 15:44 , Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: I don't actually delete those I don't get to, though. They remain in my archives in case I want to wander through them and see if there's something I missed worth processing, now and then. I do this too. However, last

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-10-01 Thread David Mann
On Oct 2, 2014, at 8:34 am, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: Simple solution: Get yourself a 512-meg SD card and you'll only be able to shoot about 1 roll of film before you're done. I should try that just for fun... I think I have a 32 or 64Mb one somewhere. Which reminds me, I'd

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-30 Thread Igor PDML-StR
(different imports or generation of different web-galleries), it's inefficient, and occasionally LR gets stuck. Again, thanks to all for the thoughtful discussion and helpful ideas! Igor On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-30 Thread Mark Roberts
In the words of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Murder your darlings. Use that delete key and use it often. Get rid of your substandard (below *your* standards) shots and move on. The more you do this the better your work will become, the less you'll shoot and the less you'll need to delete.

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-30 Thread David Mann
I've never been able to throw out photos, even the 99% that are crap. It's not so bad with the digital stuff as the 2Tb of storage I have will probably last me forever, but I am still trying to convince myself to do something with all of my old prints. Cheers, Dave On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:11

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-24 Thread Larry Colen
Candice just sent me this link to a tutorial on combining LR catalogs http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/lr3-merging-individual-lightroom-catalogs-into-a-master-catalog-/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-23 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 22 Sep 2014, at 23:55, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2014-09-22 15:23 Larry Colen wrote (unless they are rated 1 star, no redeeming value) pardon me for a philosophical detour — are stars a measure of goodness, or is it a 1-5 scale of really bad, somewhat bad, neutral,

I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month, they come in bursts of several hundreds, and then I don't have time to select and process them. Back in the earlier film

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Attila Boros
anyway. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month, they come in bursts of several hundreds

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Attila Boros
By the way with digital, you can still take it to the lab and have it processed for you. You might not like what you get back, but I've had that problem with minilabs back in the day. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Attila I was expecting somebody to make this type of a comment. I thought of that myself: 1. First, I found the labs and the masters within those labs that were suitable for me. 2. That was the limit of what was available to me (physically, as I didn't have access to a lab myself, or

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Attila Boros
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: BTW, as for the time, - for me even just the process of copying, importing photos into LR Don't wait for this to finish, start the process and do something else while it's running. and doing the selecton process -

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month, they come in bursts of several hundreds

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Zos Xavius
drive I buy, I have to buy a 2nd so I at the very least have some redundancy. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Larry Colen
Igor PDML-StR wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! There are aspects of film photography that I love, particularly the rhythm of shooting. However I love digital. With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Larry Colen
Zos Xavius wrote: So what do you do when your LR catalog hits over 100k? You just keep adding? I'm at the point where I want to just delete everything and pare it all down to just portfolio worthy stuff. I have months worth of shots to sort and edit and quite frankly I'm really not looking

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread John
On 9/22/2014 2:23 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few days a month, they come in bursts of several hundreds, and then I don't have time to select

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread John
. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs only a few

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Ken Waller
Deleting is one of the best ways to improve your photography ! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Zos Xavius zosxav...@gmail.com Subject: Re: I hate digital photography! So what do you do when your LR catalog hits over 100k

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread steve harley
on 2014-09-22 15:23 Larry Colen wrote (unless they are rated 1 star, no redeeming value) pardon me for a philosophical detour — are stars a measure of goodness, or is it a 1-5 scale of really bad, somewhat bad, neutral, somewhat good, really good? since they are stars, like one gives to

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Sandy Harris
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: pardon me for a philosophical detour -- are stars a measure of goodness, or is it a 1-5 scale of really bad, somewhat bad, neutral, somewhat good, really good? Originally, a measure of quality. The first star ratings were

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Zos Xavius zosxav...@gmail.com wrote: So what do you do when your LR catalog hits over 100k? You just keep adding? I'm at the point where I want to just delete everything and pare it all down to just portfolio worthy stuff. I have months worth of shots to sort

Re: I hate digital photography!

2014-09-22 Thread Stan Halpin
of the higher rated shots. 6. Try to avoid commitments in the first place! stan On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Yes, I hate digital photography! With a digital camera, I am producing to many photographs to be able to deal with. Even though I take photographs