Doug Brewer wrote:
paul stenquist wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Doug Brewer wrote:
Larry Colen wrote:
I did some family portraits yesterday, and am going through and
sorting them out. After making a pass to throw out all the ones
that aren't perfectly, or even sufficiently in focus I wonder why I
could buy a pocket camera, with a dinky embedded processor that'll
find people's faces and focus on them, but I don't have something
in lightroom to find people's faces and looking at edge sharpness
(eyes, hair etc) rate how well focused that they are.
While I wouldn't want software to rate the artistic merits of a
photo, software that would rate and sort photos by various
technical criteria (focus, sharpness, exposure, ...) would save me
a lot of time in post processing. Sure, there are pathologic cases
where you're deliberately goofing with sharpness or exposure, and
there maybe some great photos that have some technical flaw, but
which are still great, but for most of what I do, it would be a
huge help.
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Sorry, Larry, but a big part of being a photographer is learning how
to edit.
A big part of being a photographer is knowing how to focus and set
the exposure of your camera, how many pros do you think still shoot
everything in full manual? I'm not looking for something that'll
edit everything for me, I'm looking for something that'll speed up
one of the most time consuming tasks, taking a pass through the
photos, pixel peeping to see which ones really are sharp enough to
blow up.
"Sharp" is a judgement call. No photo is perfectly sharp. And what
might be acceptably sharp for an action pic might not be acceptably
shapt for a static, posed photo. And that's just the beginning. You
gotta make your own calls. Software can't do that for you.
Paul
Paul said more nicely than I did.
Photography
sorry, premature mouseclick. One of the problems with writing on one
computer and reading email on the other, with one keyboard and mouse
between them.
Larry, I understand the frustration level, particularly now; I'm editing
photos and writing essays for a book and a presentation at GFM in a
scant few weeks, and I could use a shortcut or two myself.
Your aspirations and methodologies may be different from mine. They
probably are. But what I think is that each image deserves its own time
of examination, whether on the light table or in Lightroom. It's the
only way to get to know your images, and examining your images is the
only way to decide what kind of photographer you are.
If you let the computer decide which of your photographs are good enough
for you to see, you're losing out on a very important step in your
development.
Hope this makes sense.
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