Speaking of things I want to use the iPad for…

I was thinking about ways I’d like to be able to use an iPad (or other table-style devices as this market area grows out) — I want to be able to load my photos into Lightroom and then sit down with the tablet and do my parsing, keywording, captioning and other metadata. The tablet form seems to be a great way to work through a day’s shoot and edit out dings, rate the photos, do the captions and keywording, and all of those things the “first pass” through a roll of photos imply; in fact, a wireless connection to my library and the ability to browse through and dink with the images seems a natural; you could do pretty much everything BUT the actuall image processing on it (and some day, maybe that, too).

Now THAT would cause me to get an iPad; I keep meaning to work on my keywording. If I could do that while sitting on the couch or when I have downtime waiting for other stuff to happen? It might actually get done!

 

 

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  • steveH

    I did pretty much that exactly last week. Spent the week shooting along the Mendocino coast area, and uploaded selected pictures from each day's take to my iPad. Made it easy to check on what I'd got, and whether or not I needed to reshoot something.

    Doing some of the checks at dinner, I had several people come over to check out the device, and the pictures. An excellent, convenient way to present them.

  • Marten Veldthuis

    Nice thought. Another reason why this might make sense: photoshoots where you're shooting tethered into Lightroom/Aperture. As a photographer you probably still want the big screen to examine details, but I could totally imagine handing e.g. a creative director an iPad to look at, instead of putting him behind a Mac somewhere. Or walking up to the subject with an iPad, not requiring him/her to walk over to the big screen to show him something.

  • Marten Veldthuis

    Nice thought. Another reason why this might make sense: photoshoots where you're shooting tethered into Lightroom/Aperture. As a photographer you probably still want the big screen to examine details, but I could totally imagine handing e.g. a creative director an iPad to look at, instead of putting him behind a Mac somewhere. Or walking up to the subject with an iPad, not requiring him/her to walk over to the big screen to show him something.

    • steveH

      I did pretty much that exactly last week. Spent the week shooting along the Mendocino coast area, and uploaded selected pictures from each day's take to my iPad. Made it easy to check on what I'd got, and whether or not I needed to reshoot something.

      Doing some of the checks at dinner, I had several people come over to check out the device, and the pictures. An excellent, convenient way to present them.