On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:10:32 +0200, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, unfortunately, Shotwell does not do this. As you said, it really only >> sorts by date. Really the only major advantage it has, is being >> preinstalled on Ubuntu. >> > > Shotwell is extremely poor - and some decent capability of browsing your > catalog, as in your examples, is fundamental if you shot even moderate > quantities of photos. In ten years of digital (right in these days, BTW), > I've built up a collection of more than 30,000 photos (one third should be > pruned, I've accumulated some delay) and you risk to be unable to find > stuff when you search for it. > > To be fair, most of my needs are met by it. No matter how limited. I have a fair number of pictures for the past few years, but I'm more than good with just casual browsing of my catalog. And, honestly, I just need something to help run a basic photo album style software. Preferably with archive features. Right now my main machine is a laptop that I've landed on from a bike wreck. > First, group shoots by subject - I often do many shots in a few > seconds/minutes of some subjects, slightly changing the composition. When I > have to shoot hand-held and I have no time for the tripod, I repeat some > shots to be able to pick the sharpest one (this is done by side-to-side > comparation and Lightroom has a "Compare" function for this). I would > really like to have a feature that gives an automated rating for the > sharpness - probably you still need to go manually for picking the best, > but a function to spot shots with blatant motion blur would be helpful for > a gross pruning. > > > Then I apply some presets to batch of photos (contrast/clarity, > saturation, sharpness, lens defect correction) - some parameters are > automatic (such as lens correction, with the exception for fish-eye > lenses), in other cases I use a sample photo in a set for fine tune and > then I apply cut & paste of settings to others - clearly non-destructive > editing is fundamental here. Pruning is done in multiple passes, usually > halving the set in the first two rounds. At the third / fourth round I > usually am able to give positive ratings to half of photos and pick those > for publishing. For the other half, I have to resume the process several > weeks later - I realized that I'm much more objective in judging the > quality when some time has passed from the shot time - probably because the > brain is still reconstructing the scene from other sources bound to the > fact that "you was there". > > For the rest of metadata - geotagging is done immediately, by means of a > plugin that pairs the shooting time with the GPS recorded track of the > trip. For tags, my workflow is insufficient - I apply them later, but I've > accumulated a good bunch of delay here. > > Note that the workflow basically never ends. Even months and years later I > find myself going randomly on old shoots, changing ratings, improving the > post-processing. > So, yeah, that is a much more involved process than what I do. My only aim is to have pictures I took up on Facebook relatively quickly. I would like a process where I get some printed on a more regular basis, but I'm essentially your prototypical amateur that has a few good prime lenses and a solid flash. Might take more pictures as my kids get older and in to any hobbies. > > For what concerns publishing, I've written my own little CMS with specific > support for publishing photos, which needs to be just published in a folder > (I mean, no database). I use the "Publish services" of Lightroom, > publishing to disk (Lightroom detects automatically when you have retouched > a photo after the latest publishing), and then rsync to copy them to my > server. Just curious, what features drove the creation of your own CMS? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
