In what capacity do you use lightroom?

[adrianlambert]

Professional: Advertising/Commercial
Professional: Wedding/Portrait
Non-Professional: Keen Amateur
Non-Professional: Cashed up novice!! ;-)

 

[DonRicklin]

Welcome, Adrian,

Interesting way to start your forum life here. Seems like there might have been one or two more categories to you poll, but we can fly with this.

Please fill in your Signature with pertinent system, OS and LR version and gear info.

Don

 

[Brad Snyder]

None of the above:

Event shooting for a profit, but not a living ....

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Interesting idea for a thread!

 

[Steve_R]

In my capacity as hobbyist (although I did do a wedding once) - used to use RawShooter and so I was fortunate to get the v1 lightroom for free! Must upgrade to v2 soon!

Cheers

 

[Ben Jenssen]

All of the above

I actually could tick off on all four.
Not the "cashed up" part, though.

 

[stasber]

None of the above:

Event shooting for a profit, but not a living ....

Pretty much ditto really - make a bit of cash from it some of the time (I shoot dance/music performance) though mostly I'm there with the 'hobbyists' with some good contacts that allow me to shoot what I like generally


Good thread idea - especially for a first post - welcome!

 

[ATJ-renamed]

Which option would a professional nature photographer choose? What about a photojournalist?

 

[DonRicklin]

Which option would a professional nature photographer choose? What about a photojournalist?

Added those two!

PLus a couple 'Generic'!

Go for it!

Don

 

[adrianlambert]

Thanks Don, sorry to all for leaving out so many important options. I wanted to get a feel for where lightroom stands in the photography world in terms of a professional utility. I decided to buy lightroom for my personal work but professionally our studio uses C1Pro which i think has a slightly smoother workflow for the way we operate. Personally, I'm loving the power and speed of LR even on my mac mini at home. It's much better suited to a medium size image collection than any of the others on a mac. And somehow, it feels more like a darkroom than the others...

 

[DonRicklin]

Thanks Don, sorry to all for leaving out so many important options. I wanted to get a feel for where lightroom stands in the photography world in terms of a professional utility. I decided to buy lightroom for my personal work but professionally our studio uses C1Pro which i think has a slightly smoother workflow for the way we operate. Personally, I'm loving the power and speed of LR even on my mac mini at home. It's much better suited to a medium size image collection than any of the others on a mac. And somehow, it feels more like a darkroom than the others...

You are welcome. Seems there aren't a lot of Nature or Journalist Photogs responding, anyhow!



Don

 

[biswasg]

Seems there aren't a lot of Nature or Journalist Photogs responding, anyhow!

Like me, there may be other keen Amateur Nature photographers who had to tick off "Keen Amateur" as there is no category for Amateur Nature. In any case seems there are more amateur photoenthusiasts as members of this forum than professionals OR that more amateurs take time for such a poll!
Cheers

 

[Nomad]

I guess I fit in the "professional whatever" group, though my background is primarily in web design ...

I currently use LR in my job as creative director for a travel company. My company uses a lot of photography but I'm not the photographer. Our images come from a wide-range of sources -- everything from professional photographers who send us huge TIFs or DNGs, to amateur photographers who send us 1.5 mb jpgs, to images from several stock photo services when that's our only option.

One of my jobs is to catalog and edit our photos to suit a variety of needs: different sizes of jpgs for our web site, larger format TIFs for print ads and brochures, PNGs and JPGs for flash slideshows and desktop presentations, you name it. I also have to integrate our library of "old school" images that go back as far as 1' years in with our latest photos, so there are a lot of scanned prints, scanned negatives, early generation Photoshop images, jpgs, tifs, and even BMP photos that still are in use. My long term goal is to use LR to "simplify, simplify, simplify!" our photo cataloguing and editing process. Whether or not that's even possible remains to be seen, but I'm working on it.

 

[pjamedia]

Iused to use RawShooter and so I was fortunate to get the v1 lightroom for free! Must upgrade to v2 soon!

Cheers

Exactly the same story here, although I upgraded to v2 - well worth the move! - I would definitely not go back despite some of the issues which still exist in v2! (poor performance, stop start, clunky etc)

PJA