Couple of (Photo) Quickies
Company in town, so light on the posting this week — but wanted to cover these couple of photography-related items:
— PDN 2006 Photo Annual Gallery, especially the Photo Books category.
From Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace. Just one example of powerful and wonderful, wonderful stuff here — well worth the few minutes you’ll take going through the whole thing. (It’s hard to stop once you’re in there.…)
— Adobe’s released the third beta of Lightroom, for those interested. I’m going to go with the Aperture path here at Osprey Design, but will definitely check out the new version of Adobe’s photo management/retouch/process/kitchen sink application.
The latter notation is from the Online Photographer, one of my favorite photo blogs, run by Mike Johnson, who’s been in the biz a long time. He’s highlighted a comment he got, that I’d also like to:
Is digital photography finally exiting its infant years? That a program originally designed for graphic artists, and not photographers, remains the preeminent software for photo editing shows the need for something like Lightroom. Photographers need software designed for photography, and it’s about time we got some. As amazing as Photoshop may be, its complexity and host of unneeded features make it a compromise solution. We don’t know yet if programs like Lightroom and Aperature are the answer, but at least the software makers are finally looking in the right direction.
As a graphic designer going into photography, I can agree with this — for the longest time I couldn’t understand why anyone would want anything other than Photoshop. It’s a great program, with enormous capabilities! But it’s also for jobs of one. Try 1500 of anything in PS and you’re in trouble. Aperture’s notion of stacks works especially well for me — but it’s great to see competition in this area, so the features and power in these programs will keep growing.
Thanks, Mike! Thank you, Photo District News. And Apple, thanks for Aperture, but get the auto-run ads off the front page of your website. They’re offensive.
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Posted by Giles, Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:30 AM.
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