Lightroom

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I like lightroom.

There are better DAM ( Digital Asset Managment) software.  My personal favourite is Media Pro by Iview... which was bought by microsoft... who just sold it to Phase One to be bundled with capture one

There are better Raw convertors ( Capture One comes to mind)

There is better image manipulation software ( Photoshop)


But, in my mind, the package that Lightroom is, makes the drawbacks livable vs other software.

I have not upgraded to the latest version yet.  I need a machine with more horsepower then I have to make it sing.

I used to spend most of my time in Media Pro, and then drop into photoshop to make proofs and selects for my clients ( and my own work)

Now I find I do the same, and more in lightroom.

I am finding that I am also doing less in photoshop then I used to.  My images may look a little less polished, but they feel "realer" to me.

When I look back on some of my more photoshopped images I ask myself if I was just "polishing a turd"... a stinker of an image still stinks, not matter how much photoshop you do it it.

These images are just corrected in lightroom, no photoshop...

The model is Vanessa taken at a posing workshop I was holding