Posts tagged photography
Images Editors In Ubuntu
Jun 30th
One of my major concerns about making the switch from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 10 was my post processing image work. As a photographer, I rely on Adobe Lightroom to help organize, tag and add metadata and geotagging to my images. Then I will port them over to Adobe Photoshop and make some minor adjustments in color corrections, etc. As always, there are open source alternatives that compare to the big name software utilities.
After installing Ubuntu on my laptop and erasing Windows 7, I discovered a utility called WINE that emulates Windows. I am currently running MS Office 2007 and wanted to install Lightroom as well. It worked great, however, the images don’t render very well and would occasionally go black. NOT USEFUL.
In the next few weeks I will use and review these alternatives. I’ll have to discover a new workflow with importing, tagging, correcting and exporting and am really looking forward to it. My first attempt is a massive piece of software called DigiKam. More on that soon.
Of course I haven’t given up on my beloved Adobe products. I installed Windows XP on a virtual machine that is running inside Ubuntu (I love this stuff)
Photoshop and Lightroom are reliable as ever, regardless of where they are located. It is too bad that Adobe won’t support Linux directly and we have to come up with these workarounds.
The K&T in B&W
Jun 2nd
Starting off the black and white photo project is a visual on how the city of Katy got it’s name. The K&T train would take rice and cattle from Texas to Kansas City. Here’s a shot of the rail and rice silos.
Black & White 2010
May 30th
Photographer’s Weekend
May 9th
This weekend Daphne and I spent a lot of time together while WonderWife went to a ladies retreat at church camp. First up was the Katy Photographer Meetup where we walked around La Centerra. The challenge was a point & shoot shootout using only PnS cameras and not our big DSLRs.
thanks Don!
Daphne snapped away with her Olympus and I borrowed Jenny’s Canon. Afterwards we all met in the library to see everyone else’s perspective. I forgot to bring a card reader and we couldn’t view her images. I’ll post them online soon. We had to excuse ourselves early as we drove down to the Allen parkway and got front row seats to the Houston Art Car parade!!
This is an annual event down here and they do it TEXAS sized. Over 200 works of art rolling down the parkway over a few miles followed up by freaks & geeks on bikes and roller blades. These people know how to build some art! I can’t imagine the time, money and dedication that went into these beauties. The Grand Marshal was Dan Ackroyd who rode with the mayor of Houston, Annise Parker. Also spotted were former mayor Bill White and Larry The Cable Guy.
A few weeks ago we visited the Art Car Museum and Daphne snapped a photo of one of the participating vehicles as a work in progress.
and during the event itself:
As soon as my 400 images load to Flickr I will begin to upload hers as well.