Comment: bird photography on the road

DM&MM
thanks, will try this if files are larger
Jim

Hi Jim and David and Michelle. Travel photography is also my thing. While I was a member for many years, I almost never posted photos. Having become a business member, I am doing it regularly.
Jim, very happy to talk gear and techniques for when travelling. I used to use Fastone and really liked it. Especially at the price. I swapped over to an ultrabook computer and now have the speed and grunt to keep Lightroom and Photoshop with me as I travel. I find this more convenient as I can do all the downloading,sorting and cataloguing as I go and then just combine the catalogues into my main computer when I get home. I hated trawling through hundreds of shots after I returned so this works for me.
While I love birdwatching, I vary rarely shoot them. Not sure why, probably because I wasn't prepared to get long fast glass.
Any thoughts on the new Lightroom just released? I really want to avoid "cloud " programs and the Adobe pricing is sure pushing us that way. Especially when I am miles out of town, I don't want to be relying on the cloud for my programs and storage.
David, I have another discussion going with you re changes in colour when I download to my blog. I just can't see how this can happen. I am wondering whether some sort of profiling might get applied with the current resizing? Seems unlikely however.

Aust Landscape Jewelery
The new PS is very good, they don't point out that the cloud is simply another option, local storage is the default. I hesitated for ages, then bit the bullet, a small monthly fee, and it is perfect. I use 2 x 2 gig external hard drives, shoot in Raw, view in Fastone, choose the best ones, then open in PS, alter, then Save As a .jpg. Once home, I transfer the files onto 2 x mass storage devices, one raid 10, the other Raid 0 (from memory)
I bought Lightroom, hated it, and eventually deleted it. It was a take over merchant, wanted to import, and database everything. You have to import before you can see anything, whereas PS can open a file in the middle of the mob, so to speak.
Definitely recommend the new PS, totally hassel free

I certainly like PS. Quite happy with LR as well once I get it sorted. I find I can view everything before I download however. When I put in a card loaded with images, thumbnail jpegs of all of them show in the grid view. I just select those I want to download into LR. I also quite like the way LR immediately knows and tells me if any of the shots I am going to import are duplicates of existing shots. I am very pleased tpo see that the new LR wil enable me to stitch panoramas when the individual shots have been taken in RAW. That will save me a lot of mucking about, especially when I am travelling.
My biggest fear is that as LR doesn't save altered images, if Adobe ever puts up prices too far for the CC version or dies something else and I want to leave Adobe, all the work I have done on images will vanish, I'll just be left with the original files. Adobe say they wont do this and if a user decides to stay at a particular point with LR, they will retain this if they don't wish to continue with the subscription. A leap of faith.
Mike