Monthly Archives: March 2010

I Hate Flash…

I Hate Flash...

I Hate Flash…

Why? It scares me, it defies me to con­trol it, demands man­ual con­trol for best results. And mostly, it beats me… so much so that I bought this book, this flash, this cam­era, and finally, this lens to wres­tle back con­trol at the darker points of the my pho­to­graphic adventure.

If I am hon­est with myself, I don’t know how to use it cor­rectly, and have the pho­to­graphic evi­dence to prove it! This post from Photocritic.Org might just put me on the path to flash redemp­tion, and cure me of my past sins..

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The State Of The DAM 2 — Adobe Lightroom

Screenshot of Adobe Lightroom 2

Adobe Light­room 2

In my pre­vi­ous post on Dig­i­tal Asset Man­age­ment, I briefly out­lined some of the entry level con­tenders for DAM soft­ware such as Google Picasa and Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. In the rest of this series, I will look at some of the heavy weights, the pro­fes­sional asset man­age­ment sys­tems. I will start with the one I use most —  Adobe Light­room. Not sure if this is a good idea as I it is the prod­uct that I am most inti­mate with, know­ing its strengths and weak­nesses. Let’s get started…

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