When shooting microstock I was constantly pestered by the apps to shoot the type of photography that was selling. The problem: I really didn’t want to shoot the subjects they were asking for. Even more, I realized that so many of those who were shooting for these services were producing shots that sold for a few cents rather than shots they really wanted to shoot. So people who really wanted to shoot flower photos that don’t sell well, found themselves shooting substandard people shots. I love shooting tombstones, but there’s minimal market for that. Photography for many microstock photographers had just become a low-paying, part-time job.
Chapter 5: The problem with JPG+DNG files on your iPad.
The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.
Connecting your iOS Photos app to iCloud creates one of the best photo editing workflows possible. This automatically stores the original file in the Cloud and keeps the edited file in the iOS Photos app. If you want to go back and re-edit the image, reverting gives you access to the original and then saves the new edit to Photos. Works great—until you get into JPG+DNG files exported to the Photos app from the Leica FOTOS app.
Image file format is a constant source of argument among photographers. If you shoot in DNG (Digital Negative) format, you can edit the raw sensor data for finer control in editing. So why wouldn’t you shoot RAW? Because the DNG files are huge and the final image is likely be converted to a JPG anyway.
With Rabbit R1’s release less than 10 days away, there are accusations that it’s not ready for prime time. Well, that’s antiquated thinking.
People fail to understand that Rabbit R1 changes the device model forever. Unlike your phone, Rabbit R1 will not have a new OS every year. It can have the equivalent of a new OS every day. Since much of what Rabbit does will happen through a virtual machine in the Cloud, the tweaks will not be in software update releases, but can be constant.
For the most part, you can run a Leica Q2 Monochrom on autopilot with the camera deciding the best setting for shutter, aperture, ISO and focus. Such sacrilege: turning an expensive, full-frame camera into a point-and-shoot. But hey, it’s my camera.
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