I’m writing this post because I feel like I’ve discovered the fountain of youth folks, I mean PM has been around for a while now and I’ve just discovered and incorporated into my workflow and I feel great, one happy customer. Gone are the days of having to wait for a freaking preview to build in order to check focus. Once you ingest(import) your images into Photo Mechanic 5 you’ll in a wink of eye will be seeing your images in a large view and will be able to check for focus in a snap. Yes, you read correctly ― lightning speed. Photo Mechanic 5 is an application whose sole purpose is to cull and organize your images in lightning speed. Well, that’s what my workflow has become now, a transition from chaos of past to peacefulness of the present. Now all of a sudden your creative juices are flowing and you can work in peace. Wouldn’t it be nice when you open up Lightroom and import a folder that your images are keyworded, labeled, starred, and all the crap images not even showing up. Personally, Lightroom has become an application of stress and tension, not because I don’t know how to use it, that’s another story and I hope you’re not in that boat, but just culling through the images, selecting, labels, stars, keywording, and we haven’t even started to edit. Does that make any sense? I think not, right. All those cameras and what about the lenses we acquire and after all that gear acquisition, we go ahead and sabotage our workflow by not getting the best software for our needs. You buy cameras that are worth hundreds to thousands dollars – Ricoh GR, Pentax, Nikon, Canon, Fuji X, and I won’t even mention the “L” word. ” Ouch, you I gotcha right and that’s usually when I say “babe, they’re loading, you know it takes a little bit of time, lets grab some lunch and come back to that later.” Gosh I hate this!įolks, its about time you start treating yourself as a professional seriously. Are you familiar with the phrase from your better half, “honey, let’s see the pictures you took of. Often times we come back with a few gigabytes of images ― 2,3, or 4 gigs and going through this process in Lightroom is flat out tedious and agonizing. If you’re a Lightroom user then you know full well what I’m talking about. Notice the last word “ wait.” Why must we wait? Should we passively just accept that’s just the way it is ― well nope, it doesn’t have to be that way, there are solutions to these kinds of problems, it has a name and its called Photo Mechanic 5 and its here to rescue you from Lightroom’s achilles heel(its weak point) ― importing images that just take to damn long. Snap, chimp, snap, chimp, repeat that process a few times, get home, load card to the pc/laptop/card reader, click on Lightroom, import photos, and now we wait. Now lets fast forward to the process at hand. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that, it should be other way around, we have to be the master of our software, our gear, our strobes, we’re in control, we’re the thinking being in this equation. We hate software to become the slave of our software, don’t we. We make images and we must see them as fast possible. Parting from this premise, photographers have a common thread, and I believe all photographers probably will agree with me on this. If its a new camera, let us say, the new Ricoh GR, then we want it now and can’t wait for the dealers to have their copies so we look elsewhere perhaps another country, Amazon and Ebay are always slave to our wants and needs and so it goes. Well, I don’t see a problem with that, we want what we want right and time is money as they say or if not money, quality time with our loved ones. Basically technology has helped us evolve into this kind of insatiable and impatient being. Now, us, as members of this world are plague with impatience, we click on the browser and the page must load now, it has to load now, its why we pay for fast internet and so forth. As a preamble to this “software is usually developed to solve a problem or make a function better,” that’s the basic premise of software. I make images, then have to go through the process of selecting the ones I want to edit and you the rest, not to mention I forget to label things, keyword, in short, a freaking nightmare sometimes. Well, its what regular photographers do as well. First, the tools I’m presently using to get from “A” to B.” A lot of specialized professional photographers shoot hundreds of images and then have to go through the process of culling them, keywording, labels, etc, nothing new here right, its the way of the photojournalist, its what they do.
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