On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> >> iPhoto seems to be the lowest effort way to run a slideshow in some loose >> approximation of what I want, but I am now confirmed in my opinion that >> iPhoto sucks. Maybe, someday, I'll put in the effort to find something that >> sucks less. > > Maybe if you bothered to learn a little bit about how to use it, it > would work well for you. You took the long way round to get what you > wanted, at the very least.
Using iPhoto tends to be a painful, unpleasant experience. But it's entirely possible that if I keep doing something I don't like, I might eventually enjoy it. > >> I don't tend to spend a lot of time looking at my own photos, particularly >> not ones that aren't in whatever book I'm currently using to show off my >> work. As such the vast majority of photos in the slideshow were ones that I >> hadn't looked at for a while. As such it was interesting to look at a bunch >> of my work with a relatively fresh eye and was pleasantly surprising to see >> quite a few that I actually liked. > > I tend to spend a lot of my time looking at my own photos. Looking at > other people's photos gives me inspiration and occasionally an idea or > two. Looking at my photos informs me of what I'm doing > photographically. > > How else do you know whether you have achieved what you want with your > photos without studying them intently? I phrased that wrong. Once I'm done with a photo, I don't tend to spend a lot of time going back and looking at them just to look at them. I look at them intently when I'm processing them, but when I'm done with them, I'm pretty much done with them. There is probably a fair amount that I could learn by going back and looking at photos that I took months and years ago, but it's just not something that I think of as a fun thing to do. I was recently chatting with someone about photography and he also mentioned that for him, it's all about the process. Once he has the pictures, they don't mean a lot to him, he just enjoys the process of making photos. The implication being that, like me, he wants to make great photos, but he doesn't have much desire to sit around looking at his own photos once he's done with them. My point is that months, or years, after working on, or last looking at, a photo it is much easier to judge it objectively, looking at it with fresher eyes. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
