Digital Darkroom Software Review: Lightroom CC, part 2 – Lightroom CC (2015)

Program:  Lightroom CC (2015) Platforms Tested Available:  Mac, Windows Price: $9.99 per month (with Photoshop CC and Lightroom Mobile); Lightroom 6 is also available, without PS & the other CC stuff and without some updates, for $149 or $79 to upgrade from LR5 Installation: Must first download and install the Creative Cloud. From there, you can try or …

Digital Darkroom Software Review: Lightroom CC, part 1 – Lightroom Mobile

Program:  Lightroom Mobile Platforms Tested Available:  iPhone, Android Price: “free” as part of the $9.99/month CC Photography plan (with Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC and some other goodies) Installation: its a usual download from the app store, but it won’t work without a Creative Cloud membership and one of the monthly plans. With my 30 day trial of …

Digital Darkroom Software Review: Darktable

Program: darktable (1.6.3; updated to 1.6.7 late in the review process) Platforms Available Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like). Easy. darktable is probably the closest to Lightroom that you’ll find in the open source space. With the exception of user-definable albums (they’re called Film Rolls in darktable, and they’re …

Expired Ansco, meet R3 Monobath (4)

The Ansco was/is a beautiful film. I’m glad to have another roll to shoot… I think I’ll stick it in the freezer for now, and use it for something special. And the R3 Monobath is an excellent, easy developer. I look forward to using it again… I should probably pick up a couple of rolls …

Expired Ansco, meet R3 Monobath (3 – problems)

So 50 year old Ansco still has some life in it and the R3 works very well and is super easy to use, but I encountered three problems. A couple are obviously user error, probably all of them are. Please. If you have any advice or suggestions, please please please pass them on.

Missy Prince – Selektor III (unboxing)

A week or so ago, I mentioned that I might start shooting and sharing video of the unboxings that I do of different photobooks and whatnot. Well, here’s my first attempt (really, it’s the second, but that one was a bigger fail even than this one, if you can imagine…): https://youtu.be/0CA3F8OaoR0

Digital Darkroom Software Review: RawTherapee

Program: RawTherapee (version 4.2.1) Platforms Available Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like). Easy. RawTherapee is a very powerful Raw file converter/developer… And I’ll just leave it at that. If you don’t believe me, just dive in to the RawPedia, the most thorough and easy …