aaronloutsch

I was just there on tuesday coming back from a weekend wedding at Mono Lake. The smoke is definitely noticeable throughout the valley, and will make it tough to get any kind of clarity in shots. On the drive back, I tried taking a couple shots of half dome from olmstead point, and they're basically low contrast hazy garbage.

 

Unfortunately, the smoke is carrying eastward into the Mono Lake area as well. It's not as thick as in the valley, but enough to create a noticeable haze, so anyone looking for crisp landscapes should add the lake to the list of places to visit later.

Thanks for the responses so far.

 

Having used a couple major CMS systems (interwoven and vignette specifically), I agree with the interwoven suggestion, and that's kinda what I was hoping already existed in a stripped down form. My initial google search didn't pop up anything that seemed to obviously fit, so I figured asking the people who use them would be a much safer and quicker way to get a solid answer.

 

Thanks for the tips, I'll check out the ones suggested and do a little more in depth searching. If all else fails, I may have to fall back on the homebrew solution, though it's not a trivial amount of work.

Hello, I have an acquaintence (a friend of a friend) who shoots

quite a bit in her free time and has had a moderate amount of

success freelancing and selling stock to local organizations. She's

not a pro, and likely won't ever quit her day job, but over the past

year or so she has been acquiring more and more images in her

library, and is starting to have trouble managing them as well as

keeping track of what workflow steps she has done to each. After

talking to her a bit about this, neither one of us knew of any

software packages that solved her problem, and a brief internet

seach left us high and dry. So, I figured what better group to ask

than this one?

 

For those of you who use digital extensively (especially the pros

here who accumulate lots and lots of files), how do you manage your

catalogs and the workflow steps around them? Is it manual and

directory-based with your own home-made system? If so, how well does

it work for you? Is there a well-known system that we just haven't

heard about? Is there a software package that can index everything

in a DB and help you manage your workflow? Does it have any pitfalls

she should know about? Special strengths?

 

I think what she's looking for is something like a content

management system used on a lot of web sites, but customized to the

needs of a photographer. I told her that there must be something out

there already, but if not, I'd write her something. Given what she's

looking to do, it seems like quite a bit of work, and I'm hoping

that it wouldn't come down to that.

 

Any insight or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

in advance.

I've discovered a few stuck pixels on my digital by shooting two shots: one of a flat black screen and one of a flat white screen. IF you then take the two images into photoshop and increase the contrast dramatically, any stuck or dead pixels will definitely stick out.

I don't think there is, though I was looking for a way to do the same thing. So although this doesn't help you much, count it as another voice in support of a change if possible.