is it because I'm a beginner i don't pp

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just interested in seeing what i can capture for now,but wondering should I be looking into doing PP?

I have aperture to organise my pics but don't feel the urge to mess with them at the moment.will it come to me,did it come to you guys?
 
If you are shooting JPEG, most DSLRs will apply some processing to them, you can usually customise how exactly. Shooting RAW gives you just the untouched image, in which case you have to apply some processing.
 
I reached a point where I was asking "why don't my photos look like these?", and a large portion of the answer was "Lightroom".
 
Even some of the well know or famous togs need to put their photos through a program like LR or CS to 'touch' them up a bit. The better ones will need very little as they get it bang on for most shots.
 
O/T
I know 'aperture' is for MAC computers. But I use Windows and whenever I upload my photos from my DSLR I just put them into folders, ie nephew birthday / march walk with dog / sister birthday party 2012.

Is there some 'better' way then of organising photos? I am interested in this.

thanks
 
Magic_x_uk said:
O/T
I know 'aperture' is for MAC computers. But I use Windows and whenever I upload my photos from my DSLR I just put them into folders, ie nephew birthday / march walk with dog / sister birthday party 2012.

Is there some 'better' way then of organising photos? I am interested in this.

thanks
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Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture also organise your photos into a catalog structure, so they are far more than just tools for post-processing, like Photoshop is.
 
Magic_x_uk said:
But I use Windows and whenever I upload my photos from my DSLR I just put them into folders, ie nephew birthday / march walk with dog / sister birthday party 2012.

Is there some 'better' way then of organising photos? I am interested in this.

thanks
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I used to have mine as

My photos
---Blah birthday
---Blah2 birthday

But once you start getting more albums, things get out of hand extremely quickly, and searching for things takes ages if you're looking for a specific thing.

Took a few hours to sort my photos in Lightroom but now it's like this

My photos
---2009
---2010
---2011
------05.20 - Blah birthday
------12.25 - Christmas!
---------Web
------------pic.JPEG
---------Processed
------------pic.JPEG
---------pic.CR2
---------pic2.CR2

There was a thread where people posted their folder structure but I can't remember what the thread title was called.
 
Yeah there was.

Actual organisation comes down to personal preference. Most common ways are either by date or subject.
 
One of the first things I did when I got my camera was get lightroom.

Easy to use and it can save all those 'ARG ALMOST!' Photos :P
 
another vote for lightroom.. couldnt live without it now

as for PP.. even a very small amount can just give your photos that little bit of a pop.
 
Espacially flash photos.

My speedlite is manual only. So flash recovery is my best friend.

If your not shooting with any intention of PP, then L JPEG would give identical images...
 
As I do astrophotography I use PixInsight 64bit on the mac rather than paintshop pro.

PI is developed for astrophotography but also works well on non-astro. It's style of working is less artistic, more image processing.

One of the fastest image processing programs I've seen. Routinely deals with 200MB images for me.
 
You'll find as you get on you'll want to develop a style; something that is very hard to carry between images without a consisten aesthetic feel from your processing methods. Like Raymond Lin always used to have a very vibrant, punchy but natural look to his images, Jaime Ibarra has his unmistakeable cross-processed/split-toned look etc.

You could generate a style without it, but generally cameras are designed to get as much information into the image as possible, not to make a great photo; that's down to the photographer or retoucher :)
 
I don't PP because I find it boring so tend to get large backlogs of photos which I wait for a rainy day to batch process through LR. I tend to go for a fairly minimal PP approach with a fairly neutral and natural style but slight saturation and contrast boost.

I don't like going too far with the th Pp side of things.
 
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