Filed under: Published, software | Tags: Adobe, Lightroom, software, workflow
…or; 2006 Before Lightroom.
The good news is that one of my photos is going to be published in a book, the proceeds of which will benefit a local children’s charity.
The less good news was that the photo chosen by the publisher was taken over 3 years ago: back in the days where I was still finding my photographic feet and loooong before I had anything approaching a reliable and efficient digital darkroom workflow in place. And of course, I only had the lo-res version of the original shot to hand.
At one point, I thought I was going to have to wait for identical weather & lighting conditions and reshoot the thing
Cue several days of trawling through dust-covered hard drives, full of folders with esoteric names and the same unhelpful ‘last modified’ date, searching for the hi-res original.
Eventually I uncovered it, hiding in an obtuse little folder called ‘walk12′ and still named DSC_1648.CR2 or something equally unmemorable. Additionally, as you probably know, very few of my shots get published with no post-processing, so I had to try and guess at my ancient old Photoshop techniques to recreate the requested final shot as closely as possible.
How much easier this would have been had the shot been proudly catalogued, tagged and indexed by Lightroom; with even the RAW editing steps never forgotten, like some kind of post-process pachyderm.
All’s well that end’s well, of course; and I’m delighted & honoured that one of my shots was picked and will feature in a publication helping out such a good cause.
But I don’t want to go through that again in a hurry. Though I’m not sure I can face the prospect of importing all my thousands of old shots into Lightroom…
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