http://www.lukechapman.com.au Brisbane based photographer and general nerd Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:40:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lukechapman.com.au/2011/11/thoughts-photo-technologies/#comment-57 Jacey Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:40:52 +0000 http://www.lukechapman.com.au/?p=90#comment-57 Holy shzinit, this is so cool thank you. Holy shzinit, this is so cool thank you.

]]> http://www.lukechapman.com.au/2011/11/thoughts-photo-technologies/#comment-3 Mark Greenmantle Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:33:28 +0000 http://www.lukechapman.com.au/?p=90#comment-3 As I see it, it levels the field for more photographers to be able to focus in post production only, and amateurs will likely make a LOT of use of it. Adobe are just making tools to cater to all skill levels. It does not give amateurs the people skills, business knowledge, ethics, and of course real photography skills and talent to thrive as a professional photographer. I know that when I do my upgrade from CS5 here, I'll be looking at running those algorithms across some of my high speed gig photography shot in manual focus in ultra low light. It looks to me like the Lytro camera is still a fairly long way off being consumer friendly and the results don't really appeal either. I am sure the multimedia kids will have a field day with them for the possible animation uses they will offer though. They could be rather cool for jewelry retail websites as animated gifs through the range of the depth of field. I know that personally I will keep reverting to trusting my 'old school' photographic skills I developed over years of shooting an ancient Nikon FM2 that was all manual. As I see it, it levels the field for more photographers to be able to focus in post production only, and amateurs will likely make a LOT of use of it. Adobe are just making tools to cater to all skill levels.
It does not give amateurs the people skills, business knowledge, ethics, and of course real photography skills and talent to thrive as a professional photographer.
I know that when I do my upgrade from CS5 here, I’ll be looking at running those algorithms across some of my high speed gig photography shot in manual focus in ultra low light.
It looks to me like the Lytro camera is still a fairly long way off being consumer friendly and the results don’t really appeal either. I am sure the multimedia kids will have a field day with them for the possible animation uses they will offer though. They could be rather cool for jewelry retail websites as animated gifs through the range of the depth of field.
I know that personally I will keep reverting to trusting my ‘old school’ photographic skills I developed over years of shooting an ancient Nikon FM2 that was all manual.

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