Monday, Sept. 19, 2022
I’m waiting for Mom to get her knee replaced and the hospital wifi didn’t work with my usual Encrypt VPN. So I checked Jack’s wiki for a recommendation and am now running on ProtonVPN and it’s working great!
Moving edited photos from a Capture One Catalog to a new Session
I’d imported some travel photos to Lightroom and never edited them there, but I had edited a handful of them in Capture One after making Capture One’s Catalog aware of the images where they lived. (This was before going all-in on Capture One Sessions for new photos.) I wanted to physically put those Catalog photos in a new Session of their own and finish editing all the rest in the batch, but I didn’t want to lose the edits and metadata I’d already worked on. The way to do it is to make the new Session but don’t import any photos to it. Then, in the Catalog in Capture One, highlight all the images you want to copy to the new Session, click Export > Export Original Files… and set the Export To location to the “Capture” folder of the new Session. Now you can go back and tell Lightroom to forget about that original folder of images, tell the Capture One Catalog to forget about them, too, delete the originals in the Lightroom folder, and keep working on your fresh copies in the new Capture One Session. (Be careful and triple-check your work, though.)
Peter Turnley on Robert Doisneau’s organized photo archive
From Hit The Streets 69: Paris: The Early Years with Peter Turnley — Valérie Jardin:
He taught me something fundamentally important: that if you really do believe that at its core that photography is about stopping a moment that you want to share with yourself and others for now and for time, you have to be able to find the photographs, otherwise they don’t exist. And he had a rule: he would never go to bed before he had numbered every negative and captioned every photograph that he made every day. And he had the most organized archive of anyone I’ve ever seen. He could find any photograph that he made in literally 30 seconds.
I found this old podcast episode by googling “Peter Turnley podcast interview”. (Valérie Jardin has since stopped making “Hit The Streets”, sadly). I used to like to listen to podcasts about digital photo gear, then film photography and film cameras, but now I just want to hear about people who make photos for a living and how they see things.
Peakto
A while back I saw Derrick Story write about Peakto:
Finally! Your Entire Digital Catalog in One Place with Peakto - TDS Photo Podcast
Photography cataloging software has evolved a lot over the years. And as we move from software to software we often have to leave our older images behind. No more! Thanks to a breakthrough app called Peakto (for Mac), you can browse pictures from Aperture to Capture One, all in one interface, plus leverage the power of AI to search and sort.
A tool that can browse photos across the Finder, Apple Photos, Capture One, Lightroom, and other photo apps would be just what I want! I gave it a shot tonight and saw a lot of potential, but had to cancel. For me it was too buggy to even trial for very long. Unpredictable, inconsistent behavior in the UI when selecting photos to examine, not opening photos in context in Lightroom, etc.
When it gets better it’s going to compete with apps like Photo Mechanic and I can’t wait. I will surely sign back up eventually.
September 15, 2022 photography Capture One Lightroom Classic
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022
Step into Jean-Luc Godard’s office — recreated at Fondazione Prada
Le Studio d’Orphée is open from Wednesday to Monday each week, but devotees will have to time their visit carefully to catch Le Livre d’image, which is shown each day at 5 pm for a lucky five viewers.
Sharing a Project Between Lightroom and Capture One
I keep thinking about whether I’m digging myself deeper by going all-in with Capture One for new photo imports, or whether I should still rely on Lightroom Classic as the One True Catalog that gets metadata, and then just use Capture One for development. This video helps, but I still don’t know what I want to do:
Lightroom & Capture One Together: How To Share A Project Between Applications | thomas fitzgerald