My photography.

[virtuamike]

I thought lightroom was more of a digital dark room RAW development tool? No? Have you taken a look at RAWtherapee? It doesn't hold a candle to lightroom but it's one of the few freeware RAW development tools that seems OK.

I use LR to catalog my shots too. I should've tried to stay organized way earlier. It's a good way to quickly develop a shot, but for anything critical I prefer to do things in PS.

 

[mb]

No you haven't.

Well he didn't say how big the print is or what phone it is. Some cell phones can take very nice pictures with good lighting.

 

[Xstatic1]

OP - have u thought about maybe doing a "photo a day" type of thing on the personal web site u're looking to create? u'd already be set with the first 25 days from these awesome pics! 🙂

 

[Locut0s]

OP - have u thought about maybe doing a "photo a day" type of thing on the personal web site u're looking to create? u'd already be set with the first 25 days from these awesome pics! 🙂

Yeah I have thought of something like that. However I don't take nearly enough photos for it to be photo a day 😛 More like photo a month. What I will probably have is a large intro image that will be changed maybe once a month or so. That or have it load randomly from amongst a set of my favs.

Thanks for the interest!!

 

[Sephire]

If you are shooting RAW you gotta have Lightroom.

 

[zCypher]

hey Locut0s, just clicked through your page and most of those shots look pretty awesome to me!

 

[_Rick_]

pop and wow.

I think "pop and wow" has been overdone and makes many images look commonplace.
A good photograph doesn't pop, but slowly offers up its brilliance.

Of course, that's entirely a matter of taste, and post-production is still mandatory, especially if you have raw sensor data and a reasonably well-calibrated sRGB screen handy.

Well, the latter is nice, if you keep your pictures digital, anyway -- if you print, you basically need to get your screen to conform to your printer, which usually ends in madness and ultimately guesstimation.


What's actually more useful, is a set of filters: polarizers and graduated neutral density being the ones of particular interest. If you're thinking about taking more time to get the right shot, those are a great tool to enhance your overall capabilities.

Myself, I've had my mothers old Leica R3 repaired for Christmas, so I'll try to get some film through it. There's something that feels so right about priming the shutter by hand, and the huge, split-screen viewfinder 😀
But, lately I feel like I lack the inspiration to take photos - I lost the ability to not dismiss the mundane, so I don't see what's so special about it, anymore. It's a bit frustrating.

PS: damnit, necro-baited, but I'm not just going to trash this post 😀