Hi all. I am using Lightroom to help me try and organize some 3'+ years of photography work. I was an original Pixmantec user but never did use it much. Now I am going through my archives and could not imagine doing it without Lightroom. I am a long time photographer in the "autumn of my career". My younger wife is a successful makeup artist and I help with her career and do her promotion, marketing, and bookings. I also do some website design and webmastering and have had my own servers and been running websites since 1995. This allows me to be very particular about the photo work I do anymore and I prefer to work on my old images than take on jobs that are not fun, challenging or lucrative.
Going through and scanning all my slides and negatives is a major undertaking, but I really enjoy it. One of the great things about being a photographer is that "your work really is your life". Every time I open up a old folder of slides or negatives that I haven't looked through in many years it brings me back to that time in my life.
Lightroom has given me a great way to take old images that were never printed the way I felt they should be and make them look as I had always envisioned. I recently made a couple of big mistakes that made me crazy and cost me a lot of time but also forced me to learn more about the workings of the software. I still think that the image management is very confusing and blame that for a part of my recent mistakes, but I love most all the other features... even though most of them still have shortcomings that will hopefully be addressed in future versions.
Every day I learn something new and have found the Lightroom Forums to be a good source of information. I am sure that the knowledgeable users of the site can help me more and that in turn I might be able to help others as well.
I notice the site is heavy with Mac users.. I love Macs... they are beautiful elegant and loaded with features... but I use PC, mainly for financial reasons and because I like to build my own systems. I can build a PC for 2/3 the price of a similar Mac... might not be as pretty, or have all the widgets and beautiful interfaces but it gets the job done. I used Macs from 1996 - 2''1 and still have a old 533mghz G4 that I mainly use to check on browser compatibility when building websites... My best friend is a Mac-aholic so I am always up to date on all the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer... I may get another again someday. ;-)
Going through and scanning all my slides and negatives is a major undertaking, but I really enjoy it. One of the great things about being a photographer is that "your work really is your life". Every time I open up a old folder of slides or negatives that I haven't looked through in many years it brings me back to that time in my life.
Lightroom has given me a great way to take old images that were never printed the way I felt they should be and make them look as I had always envisioned. I recently made a couple of big mistakes that made me crazy and cost me a lot of time but also forced me to learn more about the workings of the software. I still think that the image management is very confusing and blame that for a part of my recent mistakes, but I love most all the other features... even though most of them still have shortcomings that will hopefully be addressed in future versions.
Every day I learn something new and have found the Lightroom Forums to be a good source of information. I am sure that the knowledgeable users of the site can help me more and that in turn I might be able to help others as well.
I notice the site is heavy with Mac users.. I love Macs... they are beautiful elegant and loaded with features... but I use PC, mainly for financial reasons and because I like to build my own systems. I can build a PC for 2/3 the price of a similar Mac... might not be as pretty, or have all the widgets and beautiful interfaces but it gets the job done. I used Macs from 1996 - 2''1 and still have a old 533mghz G4 that I mainly use to check on browser compatibility when building websites... My best friend is a Mac-aholic so I am always up to date on all the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer... I may get another again someday. ;-)
