So I had a portrait session with a jewellery artist today. The Sigma 24-70 is still holding up despite the front being a bit wobbly. Did the shoot and went to a cafe in Liverpool to process them. So I loaded Lightroom and imported the shots. They all had my information pasted into them, copyright, address etc. I went through and quickly rated ones that took my eye and then moved to the develop part. Things went very wrong here. Auto exposure was way way over the top so I skipped doing that. Instead I tweaked one and copied the settings across to the next few. A great thing is that it also can copy the healing brush. So if you remove a zit or a splodge of dirt on the wall in one shot you can in 10 shots. Very handy.
So once I was happy with the shots I moved to the web part. The inbuilt templates are very nice. Clean, professional, and nicely customizable. It will add your copyright watermark to images based on what you specify in the metadata, handy. Then I uploaded the shots to my site and emailed the link to my client. All done in under an hour. The result was that the client was impressed and loved the way they were presented.
So how is this any different to Aperture? Well, simply put, its faster. That alone is enough for me to keep using Lightroom. Of course Lightroom needs a better sharpening tool, but I can just nip to CS3 for that.
So once I was happy with the shots I moved to the web part. The inbuilt templates are very nice. Clean, professional, and nicely customizable. It will add your copyright watermark to images based on what you specify in the metadata, handy. Then I uploaded the shots to my site and emailed the link to my client. All done in under an hour. The result was that the client was impressed and loved the way they were presented.
So how is this any different to Aperture? Well, simply put, its faster. That alone is enough for me to keep using Lightroom. Of course Lightroom needs a better sharpening tool, but I can just nip to CS3 for that.
