Wayne Melia

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<p>Jeff: thank you! Gotta love it when a question gets a direct, focussed response. Great people make a great community.</p>

<p>I took the plunge, and got a new computer; now on Win 8.1 vista 32. Got programs installed and data, including photos migrated. Now I want (I think) to go Adobe CC for the DAM capabilities. From a demosaicing and conversion point of view, I intend to (learn and) switch to LR for future photos because NX2 is a dead end, although it still works, and I intend to keep it for access to my sunk efforts. I realize there are other options (free Raw Therapee, DXO, Capture, etc.), but I think I want to commit to Adobe as the industry standard, includes parametric local adjustments, and integrated DAM capabilities.<br> I have done (enough that I don't want to lose it) work keywording some of the photos. The keywords are in the NEF's, and not recognized outside Nikon software. I do have the NEF codec that enables viewing of the embedded jpgs, but iptc and xmp data is not recognized by my Bridge (CS2 vintage), windows photo viewer, or windows file system (tags do not show). Tiff's or jpg's created by CNX2 from the nefs DO exhibit this data, btw.<br> So, aside from creating and saving tiff or jpgs from all my nefs, how do I get this data into LR, so I can use it for DAM of my existing nefs? I don't spose LR will do it without mass converting (well wrapping them in) to dng, will it? I don't think I want to go the dng route anyway, preferring the sidecar option. Plus, as I mentioned, I want to have easy access to my already processed nefs with CNX2.<br> Is there a program that will crawl through my nefs, identify the keyword and iptc data, and generate appropriate xmp files that LR can use? Or is this train of thought totally off the rails? ie are xmp files with only this data a figure of my imagination?<br> I hope I have explained coherently enough for your understanding, and thanks in advance for replies.<br> I posted <a href="/digital-darkroom-forum/00cMyn"> a similar DAM question</a> Feb 2014, and received generous response, but my situation is different now.</p>

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<p>oops; not4/3; sorry, don't know how to completely delete</p>

<p>Andrew Rodney; thank you. Your continued contributions to digital darkroom education are appreciated.</p>

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@Mike Marcotte Nov.07, 2014 09:38 am -- very fine<br><center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17095017-lg.jpg"><br>Victoria harbour</center>

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<p>I can't decide from hour to hour what makes a good photo. I like some in the morning, come back in the afternoon and wonder WTF? Like music - a tune will grab me sometimes and annoy me other times.<br /> In order for any photo to elicit a reaction from a viewer, it has to be noticed among all the images we are flooded with. That takes a hook of some sort. but cheap visual tricks don't have staying power. <br /> Some critics and/or coaches say that you have to have something to say, and know what it is before you start. I dunno. Brad prefers questions; is that different? I don't know, but I sure like his photos.<br /> Fred says there are good photos he doesn't like. That implies there is some standard by which they are good, doesn't it?<br /> I came to this thread hoping to sort out some of my confusion, and it's not working! Is this some sort of cruel joke just to confuse me? I don't know why --- there's no challenge in confusing me.<br /> I recently read a quote by a photography blogger (can't remember which one) of a musician who said roughly : <em>"there's a lot of ways to start making a song, from a rhythm, a guitar riff, bit of melody, lyric, etc. .. and it really doesn't matter much where you start."</em> Same goes for photos was the implication of the quoter.<br /> Maybe the question is a fool's errand like '<em>tree falling in deserted forest making any sound?' </em>that just doesn't matter.<br> Then there are family photos that are records of people and occaisions that are meaningless to others, but are more important to some than any other photos in the world just because they exist as records. </p>

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