Hi to you all from a UK fishing photographer

[Henry Gilbey]

Darryl,

I used to love working with RawShooter, nothing I have seen since has ever come close to the speed of it……..and like you I was gutted when Adobe bought them out and we lost future camera support. So yes, had to stop using RawShooter when I upgraded from 1D MK11 cameras to the 1D MK111 ones.

Tried Lightroom straight away, I really like the RAW processing “look”, but I can’t stand the fact that it tries to force me to create a database when I have already got all my images catalogued and keyworded in a way that has worked well for me for years now…..plus the slow speed of Lightroom put me off. Seems that PCs do not like a programme accessing and creating huge databases all the time.

I use Photo Mechanic as my editing software – keywording, editing shoots, viewing images, renaming, sorting etc. (RAW and JPEGs etc.).

Tried Bibble for a while as a RAW processor, a fairly good programme, but very “buggy”, would keep crashing with large folders of images etc, drove me mad eventually.

Have been with Adobe Camera RAW for a while now – I keep reading that is is not designed to be used for large numbers of images, but it works just fine for me – taking into account that I have done my editing etc. in the far faster Photo Mechanic. ACR I reckon is very good – not as fast as the “old” RawShooter, but seems to be great at RAW processing. Sharpening etc. done in Photoshop/NIK software.

And ACR uses a good old fashioned folder tree which I like a lot because I have a system that works just fine here.

[Darryl Lampert]

Hi Henry,

Thanks for the detailed answer.  I also tried Lightroom when it came out and hated it, perhaps I must give v2 a try although like you I hate the fact that it uses a seperate database. I will give Photo Mechanic a bash and see what it’s like. Thanks, Darryl

[Henry Gilbey]

Darryl,

Photo Mechanic is a great programme, but it is purely for editing purposes – it can not process RAW files like ACR does.

The way I see it at the moment is that Adobe Camera RAW gives me the “look” I am after, exactly the same RAW processing engine as Lightroom they say, but without all the extra database nightmare etc.

How about the 2nd Lions test yesterday ? What a game………..heartbroken !!

[olle bulder]

Welcome Henry, love youre Bass pics. Season is just starting here and i hope to get some good ones this year.

All the other pics are also really nice offcourse 🙂

[Henry Gilbey]

Olle,

Thanks so much for that, really kind of you to say so – I have a thing about (sea) bass fishing and photographig, I love everything about it – when it goes off photos wise I reckon (sea) bass fishing can look staggeringly good. I have a vast and ever growing library of bass fishing material, can’t get enough of it !!

You guys have some good bass fishing over there I believe ? I keep hearing reports of some nice fish…….

Anyway, better start charging batteries and packing camera gear up, off to Iceland tomorrow to photograph a bit of salmon fishing, but mainly some potentially awesome wild brown trout fishing – fish to over 10lbs were taken the other day, so it could be mildly fantastic if things go our way………..bring it on as they say. Will put stuff up on my blog if we get internet connections.

[Darryl Lampert]

Darryl,

Photo Mechanic is a great programme, but it is purely for editing purposes – it can not process RAW files like ACR does.

The way I see it at the moment is that Adobe Camera RAW gives me the “look” I am after, exactly the same RAW processing engine as Lightroom they say, but without all the extra database nightmare etc.

How about the 2nd Lions test yesterday ? What a game………..heartbroken !!

Henry, yup I downloaded a trial of Photo Mechanic and see that it can’t process RAW – no problem, I also use ACR.

The 2nd test was nail biting!

[Michael Phillippe]

Henry,

I will add my welcome as well. I think you’ll find this forum a great place to share information and get advice. Speaking of which…

I live in Pennsylvania, which is great for fly fishing, but just happen to have an office in London as well. I’ve been starting to research places where I can get a day fishing when I’m in the UK over the weekend. Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Michael

[Morsie]

Henry – love your work mate. Agree on Lightroom but have stuck with it in the face of the devil you know………

Rugby discussion on a US fly fishing/photography site, now the world is becoming

[David Anderson]

I saw the last 2 minutes of the Saffies/lions game – a heartbreaker !

World rugby is VERY interesting at the moment.. 😉

www.dsaphoto.com

A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

[John Bennett]

I used to love working with RawShooter, nothing I have seen since has ever come close to the speed of it……..and like you I was gutted when Adobe bought them out and we lost future camera support. So yes, had to stop using RawShooter when I upgraded from 1D MK11 cameras to the 1D MK111 ones.

I to miss Rawshooter 🙁

In hindsight I swear Adobe bought them not to blend/better their software but to get rid of them, before launching lightroon. I mean why would thousands/millions shell out for lightroom, when RS was available

[Henry Gilbey]

John – could not agree more, I have always presumed that Adobe killed off RawShooter because it was a threat. I do like various Adobe products, but the speed of ACR or Lightroom for example can still not touch how fast RawShooter was.

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