Like so many others I've been very busy. As such, I haven't spent a lot of time here. The main reason is I'm essentially rediscovering photography. Over the summer I started to feel like I was in a bit of a slump. I was shooting, but not getting anything too exciting out of it. I thought that when I went to Yellowstone in Sept., I'd be re-inspired. That was mostly true, yet much of what I shot didn't "pop" the way I thought it might. I've recently had an epiphany. It's actually a bit of a story. Perhaps journey is a better word.
During the summer I discovered that Adobe bought Pixmantec. I was greatly distressed by this. Pixmantec seemed to be a company that understood photographers and very quickly made a name for themselves. What I didn't know was that Adobe had been working on developing Lightroom, a new aproach to digital photography workflow. They wanted Raw Shooter for it's RAW conversion engine. It intriguied me enough to start playing with LR b3. I was amazed at what I could do with RAW conversion and disapointed at it's DAM capabilities. It was slow as molasses, but still showed a lot of promise. I was especially impressed by the control over individual colors that it offers. Then LR b4 was released. Much faster, more tools, but still really crappy DAM capability. Not even close to ACDSee.
