I've been using Lightroom for a few years now. I generally like it. I wish some of the features (and even keyboard shortcuts) were more like Photoshop...but that's a bit of a different topic.
Until now I've mostly been using it to handle my digital family pics. File management, basic corrections and upload to Smugmug albums.
My wife has recently started a sewing pattern company as well as some more serious blogging. I've had to do several shoots so that she has pictures for her blog, as well as a separate shoot to get a specific shot of our daughter wearing a sample of the dress for the cover of the pattern. As she releases more patterns, I'm going to be doing a variety of shoots depending on what kind of pattern it is. Could be a woman's dress, kids pants, girls dress etc.
I've yet to find a great way to handle these separate shoots in Lightroom. I usually don't need to do a ton of manipulation. I shoot a gray test card in the lighting of the shoot. Using that method, white balance usually isn't a problem. I've almost found it easier to open each picture in Photoshop, adjust the levels, use the curves for any minor color correction.
Here is a link to her blog. http://gingerhousedesigns.wordpress.com/
I did not shoot the pictures in the first post currently on the site (This Friday: The Emerson Dress). I did shoot the rest of them, except for any that look like cell phone snaps.
From what I can tell, Lightroom just doesn't have these tools. I use Photoshop almost every day at work. Retouching, color correction for items that are on press etc. I've set up some actions, but going through a whole shoot that way is still cumbersome. I do enjoy features in Lightroom like being able to cull out the duds easily.
Also, talk to me about RAW. I've resisted it to this point because it was kind of useless to shoot my family snapshot stuff in RAW. We will not be making any prints from these shoots, I've had a few situtations recently where I've needed a closer crop, or I've noticed some artifacts I just don't care for due to the JPEG compression. Is it as simple as shooting a gray card at the beginning of the shoot, or do I need to get a color checker card?
I'll stop there for now...
Until now I've mostly been using it to handle my digital family pics. File management, basic corrections and upload to Smugmug albums.
My wife has recently started a sewing pattern company as well as some more serious blogging. I've had to do several shoots so that she has pictures for her blog, as well as a separate shoot to get a specific shot of our daughter wearing a sample of the dress for the cover of the pattern. As she releases more patterns, I'm going to be doing a variety of shoots depending on what kind of pattern it is. Could be a woman's dress, kids pants, girls dress etc.
I've yet to find a great way to handle these separate shoots in Lightroom. I usually don't need to do a ton of manipulation. I shoot a gray test card in the lighting of the shoot. Using that method, white balance usually isn't a problem. I've almost found it easier to open each picture in Photoshop, adjust the levels, use the curves for any minor color correction.
Here is a link to her blog. http://gingerhousedesigns.wordpress.com/
I did not shoot the pictures in the first post currently on the site (This Friday: The Emerson Dress). I did shoot the rest of them, except for any that look like cell phone snaps.
From what I can tell, Lightroom just doesn't have these tools. I use Photoshop almost every day at work. Retouching, color correction for items that are on press etc. I've set up some actions, but going through a whole shoot that way is still cumbersome. I do enjoy features in Lightroom like being able to cull out the duds easily.
Also, talk to me about RAW. I've resisted it to this point because it was kind of useless to shoot my family snapshot stuff in RAW. We will not be making any prints from these shoots, I've had a few situtations recently where I've needed a closer crop, or I've noticed some artifacts I just don't care for due to the JPEG compression. Is it as simple as shooting a gray card at the beginning of the shoot, or do I need to get a color checker card?
I'll stop there for now...
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