Comments on: Three Essential Photography Tools

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:04:29 +0000

Michael: You should be able to plug your camera or SD card in, open Aperture, and click the Import button. That will allow you to import from your HD or from an external SD card.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:43:37 +0000

How do you get your raw files into aperture. Do you use a certain plugin or convert them. I tried importing my first set of photos from my d40 and aperture (2.0) did not import the raw files. I went into image capture and dragged the raw files to my desktop, but they would only open in Bridge, Photoshop, Iris or the app that came on the cd for the d40.

By: Fazimoto

Fazimoto — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:27:06 +0000

I’ve been playing around with qtpfsgui. Nice for playing around with what seem to be random effects, but I need to learn more about this before I can get it to do what I want.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:07:39 +0000

I feel the same way as Alec. To me, workflows are unnecessary. I take pictures and store them in subfolders of my Images folder. I hate the way Aperture and iPhoto manage pictures, when you have too much stuff in them, they start to become slow and bulky. I prefer Lightroom, it’s fast, beautiful and well integrated with Photoshop, a must have for serious picture editing.

And finally, I don’t really understand the point of having a graphic tablet to edit pictures. Can you explain me how it can be useful?

By: Alec Feld

Alec Feld — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:21:47 +0000

I don’t like workflows. It’s another term for restrictive bullshit.

I take photos. There’s no process or order or direction or any intrusive nonsense.

Pop in the memory card. Sometimes I’ll import all to Lightroom, sometimes I’ll view the images and trash them, sometimes I’ll grab individual photos off the card, edit those, and wipe the card.

I don’t believe in saving shit photos. I keep photos I upload to Flickr or print and that’s it. I don’t care if I’ve taken 200 or 20,000 photos over a course of time, the shit ones are just wasted space.

Workflows don’t work. Interference doesn’t help.

As for the accessories, I find none of them truly necessary or essential. I could easily live without Lightroom and Photoshop. Sure it’s nice to have them, but barely necessary. I’ve never seen the need to use a tablet for photography.

By: David

David — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:19:46 +0000

Nice post Michael. Those tablets you mention look pretty sweet. I might want one.

@Andre Haha, true :b

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:04:23 +0000

Adobe Photoshop Elements is an extremely viable alternative to CS3. There are really not many features missing from Elements, and it’s over $700 cheaper.

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:03:09 +0000

#4: A camera.