Your photography arsenal

[Dolby]

When I started getting interested in photography, I was horrified at the amount of image manipulation programs people used to perfect their photos. After a while I thought I'd try it out and now realise you often need to make minor adjustments.

Just wondering what you guys have software wise to adjust or manipulate?

Apart from Picasa 3 (which isn't too bad), I have :

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
Portrait Professional 9
Noiseware Community Edition
Photomatix 4.2

 

[bwana]

Aperture - 95% of my work can be done in that alone now which makes life much simpler (and cheaper). I do use a fair number of plugins though.
Photoshop - which I mainly use for upscaling (Genuine Fractals) and the occasional mega pixel push
Photomatix Pro - HDR

I also download PhotoMechanic trials on a regular basis just to read those damn ipt files.

I think thats about it.

 

[SubliminalThought]

I use:

Lightroom - sorting, cropping, small edits
Photoshop - bigger edits
XnView/Faststone - Browsing

 

[koffiejunkie]

I do almost everything in Aperture. I don't fiddle with HDR and panoramas anymore, so my licensed copies of PTGui and Photomatix are gathering dust. I use the noise-ninja plugin for Aperture but really only if I shot something at 6400 ISO or up and I need to give someone a full size copy (like sometimes when I take pictures at work events). And I use the flickr export plugin.

Other than that the only app I use a fair bit is PhotoLinker, to do geotagging with. I still prefer it to the interface in Aperture.

If I was shooting for a living, I might have more things but I really don't like editing images.

 

[bwana]

If I was shooting for a living, I might have more things but I really don't like editing images.

Ironically I now shoot more jpgs than I ever did and need less in the way of software.

 

[Dolby]

Aperture looks good ... R1,400.00 though :/

Does it do HDR?

 

[koffiejunkie]

Ironically I now shoot more jpgs than I ever did and need less in the way of software.

I guess I should have made the word "might" in bold.

 

[Dolby]

Oh - I see you get an HDR plugin AND a Portrait Professonal plug in.

Seems it could do everything I want actually :/

 

[bwana]

Aperture looks good ... R1,400.00 though :/

Does it do HDR?

Significantly cheaper than Lightroom but it's only available for OsX.

There are plugins that handle HDR but I still prefer Photomatix.

 

[dD3]

whats the difference between aperture and lightroom ?

 

[bwana]

whats the difference between aperture and lightroom ?

$100.00

 

[dD3]

so everything you do in aperture you can do in lightroom ? and vice versa ?

 

[Dolby]

I need R60,000.00 to start my 2011 a very happy chap ....

R25,000.00 for one of those big screen Macs
R3,000.00 for software (Aperature, plugins, DSLR Remote)
R15,000.00 for a 7D

And remaining R17,000.00 for a macro lens, a prime lens and a telephoto lens :/

*dreams*

 

[koffiejunkie]

so everything you do in aperture you can do in lightroom ? and vice versa ?

More or less

 

[bwana]

I need R60,000.00 to start my 2011 a very happy chap ....

R25,000.00 for one of those big screen Macs
R3,000.00 for software (Aperature, plugins, DSLR Remote)
R15,000.00 for a 7D

And remaining R17,000.00 for a macro lens, a prime lens and a telephoto lens :/

*dreams*

And here I am doing everything on a 13" macbook pro.

 

[dD3]

And here I am doing everything on a 13" macbook pro.

and that makes you a legend !!

 

[bwana]

and that makes you a legend !!

Nope, I'm just too lazy to cart around anything larger.

In fact if they ever come out with an iPad version of Aperture I'll probably leave the laptop at home too.

 

[satanboy]

I need R60,000.00 to start my 2011 a very happy chap ....

R25,000.00 for one of those big screen Macs
R3,000.00 for software (Aperature, plugins, DSLR Remote)
R15,000.00 for a 7D

And remaining R17,000.00 for a macro lens, a prime lens and a telephoto lens :/

*dreams*

Fap Fap

 

[BigAl-sa]

My arsenal consists of two cameras, several lenses, several camera bags, a tripod, a monopod, a beanbag, a flash, a 4x4 bakkie...

Oh, you meant my retouching arsenal

I use Canon's DPP and sometimes Raw Therapee; Paintshop Pro (v9 or v12, depending how I'm feeling); and my most used plugin is MV's Contrast Mask.

I edit every photo that I want to use as I use RAW and my camera's neutral style with no sharpening (I can do a better job than the dof software in the camera).

 

[bwana]

I've started using my iPad quite a bit for viewing photos as I'm taking them - taking chimping to the extreme.