G Photography Tips

LR & NX, originally uploaded by Gun Sydney.

This is s very dilemma situation for me. Recently I've downloaded Adobe Lightroom 1.0 and tried it out. It's such a wonderful program. And as it advertised, it's the program created by photographers for photographers.

The interface looks very easy to use. You can find any things in just a few clicks. And with those very easy to understand tutorials, I can get use to this program in a matter of hours. And the work flow of it will cut your Post processing time in half.

HOWEVER!! it got one very very big flaw. It ignores all the in-camera settings such as Saturation, colour moodes or Sharpening. Which make colour of the picture so dulllllllllll and occasionally make the picture very noisy. (Only happen on RAW file though, still perfect on JPEG files. But I shoot only raw nowadays. :S)

Nikon Capture NX, on the other hand is soooo clumsy. Take ages to make modification in RAW. All the user interface and work flow is just well, how can I put it nicely... "Suck".

But NX got the U-point technology that can adjust the area on the picture in seconds. IE, add brightness to the shadowed face which will not affect the other area at all. And all in all, it's got the pictures right colour and contrast. It also remove those ugly Chromatic Abberation (CA) automatically. You can add a nice punch to the pictures in a short time (if you have fast computer). You can click on the picture below to see the differences.

If I really want to use LR then, I guess I just have to convert all the NEF files to JPEG in NX and then import to LR. That is soooo inconvenient.

My only advise now for you guys is that, if you shoot JPEG then move to Lightroom. It's a very good and cool program. But if you're Nikon RAW shooter then, stick with NX.

Adobe, you are a very big company. Please get this right.