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Thursday, January 22nd 2009
This blog has been dormant for about three weeks, so sorry to anyone who was expecting regular posts. My blogging tends to come and go.
The reason for the outage has been a fairly huge, crazy project that I started on some time after new year: Moving all my Raw photos into Lightroom. (Up until now I have only used it to organize my developed JPEGs.)
Until now I have used the Canon software Raw Image Task to turn my CR2 files into JPEGs. I liked the fact that it produced the same output as the camera itself in JPEG mode.
But it got to the point when Lightroom had so much going for it I just couldn’t keep making myself use the, by comparison, useless Canon software any more.
Here are all the things that made me switch:
I’m sure there were other reasons too that I can’t remember right now.
The only thing I find negative with switching to Lightroom is that I can’t reproduce the look
that the camera outputs. But this may change given some time, since Lightroom allows you to import and use different base profiles for the Raw conversion.
Anyway, here’s what this little moving importing project entailed:
Well, now all that is done. I’m going to keep my JPEGs around for a while before I clear the space on the hard drive, just because that is the kind of thing you usually regret doing if you don’t think about it for long enough first.
Have some HDR shots from the Xmas holidays that I might post here. Uploading to Flickr at the moment.