> On Aug 18, 2020, at 2:59 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am 17.08.20 um 23:34 schrieb Larry Colen: > >> I’d love to move on from LR6... > > What's wrong with it, apart from the broken maps feature?
The panorama stitching mostly works, but has a lot of problems. The HDR mostly works, but has a bunch of problems. There are a whole list of those issues. Things that I’d like to work better. There is a good chance that they have fixed them in later versions of lightroom. To be honest, it seems that my biggest objection to upgrading is the ransomware billing of CC classic. The restriction of only two licenses is a pain. It doesn’t work on Linux, and I’m getting fed up enough with Apple that if I could find a good lightroom replacement that ran on Linux, I’d switch back in a short moment. That was the short answer, coincidentally I posted a longer answer on facebook this evening: Some things that I wish I could automate when processing photos.... When I go out on a photo shoot, I seem to spend most of my time doing things that could be automated. 1) I often bracket my photos as a matter of course. Camera meters are stupid and will often correctly expose on the wrong thing causing the highlights to be blown out. While I like that lightroom takes raw files and makes a "raw file" hdr, I have to select each set, then wait for the preview and accept it. I wish that I could just point to a directory, have it find all of the sequential photos with varying exposure and create the HDRs out of the ones that work. 2) Group photos by proximity rather than just time. Lightroom does what it calls stacking, and it'll let you choose time windows to collect photos into stacks, but how about it also looks at the location info for a first level of sorting? It also has compass info on a lot of cameras so it could go based on which direction you look as well. 3) Panoramas. It would be nice to be able to point to a bunch of photos, say group them into things that would be logical for panoramas based on time, location, accelerometer and compass data, and create the panoramas for the ones that look like they'd fit together. It could also use this info to help it stitch the frames together. 4) Edge detection, eye detection, sharpness etc. It would be pretty straightforward to analyze photos for sharpness and note which ones don't have anything in focus. Similarly facial and eye detection is pretty much a solved problem, so it could sort things out based on if an eye is in focus. 5) cropping on birds in the sky It should be pretty straightforward to tell it to find a bird in the sky and crop fairly close. 6) Never mind facial recognition, I'd like OCR. When photographing things like racecars, it would be nice if it could just recognize the numbers and sort the photos based on car number. In a similar vein, it could be handy to have text automatically read and added as keywords. 7) Normalize overall exposure. The exif data has shutter speed, ISO, aperture etc. If you adjust the exposure on one frame, it should be able to make all frames the same nominal exposure, even if the ISO or shutter speed were changed. 8) Night time panoramas synchronizing the sky and foreground differently. It should be pretty straightforward, if you know something is a night time photograph, to "mask out" which are stars and which aren't. When you're stitching night tme panoramas, it would be nice to be able to stitch the stars and the "Not stars" separately. edit: 9) Lens profiles. Lightroom metadata will correctly tell me brand and model of the lens, but the lens profile feature has no clue. I have to select brand, and it doesn't even select out of the the lenses that have a compatible focal length. WTF? If I say it's a rokinon, and it is a 24mm lens, why are you guessing that it's the 50/1.4? 10) when merging photos (hdr or panorama) I'd like to be able to select particular regions to either make sure are kept in, or kept out, of the final product. It could be a meteor I want to keep in, or something random like a plane I want to keep out. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
