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Re: post processing

Tony Cooper
SubjectRe: post processing
FromTony Cooper
Date2014-03-14 04:34 (2014-03-13 23:34)
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:31:51 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Tony Cooper
In which case, you're handcuffed without it.

Savageduck
Only if I need any of those functions listed above.

That is exactly what "in which case" means.

LR can handle all else and more, including access to the NIK Collection, and OnOne (Which gives you Perfect Layers to use with LR).

Tony Cooper
Well, if you go out of LR to use a plug-in, that's about the same as going out of LR to use PS.

Savageduck
However, if all you have on your computer is LR5 and the NIK Collection, or the OnOne Suite, you still have a very powerful editing/adjustment tool without the intervention of PS. The competent LR% users is going to be able to survive quite well without invoking PS. That said, quite often I will go from LR to PS/CC, and since I am in PS I will use the various NIK plugins I need via PS.

I have OnOne and Elements 9. Given the choice of having just one of those two as a plug-in for LR, and not having Photoshop CS, it would be a no-brainer to choose Elements.

This is just a suggestion, but you really should delve a little deeper into the editing and adjustment capabilities of LR.

Tony Cooper
I shot over 400 images today at a mock disaster drill at a hospital. Processed the whole batch in LR only. I use what works for me in a particular situation.

Savageduck
Good. It's nice to have what you might need at hand.

The point is that I use what I need to use for the job at hand. I shot a mere 152 tonight at my grandson's baseball game, and pulled just a few keepers. Those will be processed in CS6 and stored in LR.

At the ball game, I shot rapid fire so a lot of the shots are where I'll pick just one and discard the rest. A lot were good shots technically, but just didn't contain the action that I wanted. So, the result is a small number of keepers.

These baseball games at 6:00 PM are a bitch for photography. For the first part of the game, I have to shoot directly into the sun. For the latter part of the game, the light is changing rapidly and it's a mixture of field lights and diffused daylight. For all of the shots, it's shooting through the "diamond gaps" in a chain link fence. I can't track the action because the lens is wider than the opening.

-- Tony Cooper - Orlando FL