So, I’ve always had a bad habit of shooting a lot of frames and not taking the proper care to sort through them. I’ve invested in an Adobe Creative Cloud (this isn’t sponsored, don’t worry!) account so that I can setup a proper workflow using Adobe Lightroom. I’ve tried other RAW editors in the past, such as RAWTherapee, Pixlr, and Darktable (and a couple of others that weren’t good enough for me to remember, apparently). As I’ve said before, I’m no expert. I’m not a protog (though I wouldn’t turn down a chance if one arose), but even amatuers need a way to sort, prepare, and process their work. Lightroom is, for me, the ultimate tool to accomplish preparation, processing, and sorting. Lightroom allows me to import all of my photos I wish to work with, rate them, flag them, and do very quick adjustments of exposure, saturation, contrast, sharpness, etc. Prom season is upon us and I did a shoot for some family; I was able to sort through 360 frames, narrow them down to roughly 50 shots that were decent, and adjust all of those to perfection in the course of roughly 1.5 hours. It made for an incredibly streamlined experience. Everything ran very well on my Surface Pro 3 (intel i5, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD model, so the more powerful of the two i5 options, but not a powerhouse by any stretch).
Anyways, I’ve been working on sorting through some photos I took nearly a year ago when I did some work out in Western Australia. I’ll post some of those soon. Just a forewarning, my photography skill has increased greatly since then, so some of my photos aren’t very high quality. I also wasn’t shooting RAW at the time, and I was still using my nearly-a-decade-old Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi, which is nearly useless over ISO 400.
Paraxial Approximation Photoblog 