While I ponder

[pecunium]

I am trying to digest the shooting in SF. For reasons personal I am not likely to watch the video (it's not that I'm squeamish, I just dislike seeing people killed).

In the meanwhile I've tried the uploading tool for Flickr. Meh. It truncates the photo info. Since I like having the photo info that's a "war stopper" for me. Which sucks, because I like all the other features. The ability to see the images (so I don't have to recall which file = which name), is great. Being able to edit the tags, descriptions, etc. before I upload things; so they aren't up there for all to see before I to all that, also really nice.

Being able to post to more than one set at a time is wonderful (because I am sort of lazy. At five-ten minutes per photo to get them uploaded, tagged, and described, going in and taking more time to sort them into sets, one set at a time, is just more hassle).

So, I either need to figure out a way to edit the data, so it does upload, or use the tool as a way to get the order right, so I can use the default tool flicker has.

That, or stop publishing shooting data.

Thoughts?

Comments

[rubin110.livejournal.com]

The Bart thing is pretty sad. I'm currently in Minneapolis visiting friends (I live in San Francisco). While reviewing some of the news information from said event, a friend here noted that he remembered Bart having security cameras. I found it rather interesting and odd that I can state from memory the location of the cameras at that station and how they're not going to contain any views of what happened, at least the important parts.

I've been skimming through most of your posts since I've subscribed to your lj, have you by chance posted a "This is my photo workflow" entry?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Not here, and not yet. I need to do one, and I'll post it at my photoblog, with a link here.

With one thing and another I a several weeks behind in posts to that site. Work is what it is, and really need to make a workflow for writing to that blog too.

:)

[rubin110.livejournal.com]

A quick question then, you're not currently using Lightroom or Aperture are you?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No. My default workflow is (in terms of applications).

Download, LightZone, Photoshop.

Lightzone is to edit, Photoshop is to resize/convert to .jpg/print.

In the middle there is various stuff to do with selection, editing, manipulation.

[rubin110.livejournal.com]

Well then, might I suggest giving the 30 day lightroom trial a go? :P

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

It helped me organize my photos, not lose original images by accidentally overwriting them through Photoshop, and speed up my old workflow since I'm not working with 3 different applications. From memory card to Flickr, the majority of my photos only touch Lightroom.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I might, at some point when I have the time to spend making the trial worth the time.

Things which make me like LightZone are the non-destructive edits of everything. No matter what the format of the original file the edits are done on the side, and applied at output.

If I weren't interested in having .tifs, for commercial reasons, I'd just use Lightzone to convert to flickr-sized .jpgs and have done, but I need a tiff.

Which means I have a slightly more involved workflow, with filing protocols, and the like, effectively setting up batches of work in each category. I really do need to write it up.

I am rarely working in more than one edtiting app at a time, and when I am it's because I am being irritated at processing time and multi-tasking in one program while another is crunching numbers.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Sounds like it may be an error in the base JPEG library the program is built on, or they just didn't build it to read all the data fields on the image. Which is kinda sad; an Open Source program certainly wouldn't have these flaws past the first release, because half or more of its users would complain.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, the problem is a limited field size for Exif Data. My baseline info is more than the field is built to hold.