USEFUL APPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS and USING ADOBE LIGHTROOM ON THE iPAD and iPHONE

USEFUL APPS: There are a number of useful applications for the phone and iPad for photographers, among them TPE (The Photographers Ephemeris) and PhotoPills. Both provide information on the transit of sun and moon for a given location but much, much more. We will touch on TPE but spend more time with PhotoPills.

Another useful app for night photographers or for anyone interested in the night sky is Sky Guide

LIGHTROOM:
There are a number of Lightroom users in the KIPC, but it is likely that most use the desktop version, LrC, Most do not use the cloud version, Lc. In this session, we will explore the Lc version.

I find Lc useful for the following reasons:
a) I can sync selected photos to Lc and from there share them with Facebook and Instagram, among others.

b) Photos from the iPhone are automatically loaded into Lc and appear in Lc on the iPhone, the iPad, and on the desktop. (They are stored on your desktop in the Pictures folder or wherever you have specified. They are also stored in the cloud.) They can be edited in Lc and then shared to Facebook, Instagram, or emailed. Since they are stored in the Pictures folder (or wherever) on your desktop you can readily import them into a LrC catalog in the appropriate folder (a huge advantage).

c) Once the photos are in Lc you can assemble them into an ALBUM. That album can be used as the basis of a slide show or made into a portfolio on the web. See, for example, johnkotz.myportfolio.com.

NEW VERSIONS OF ADOBE PRODUCTS
For those using Photoshop and Lightroom, you should know that Adobe made a massive dump of updates on Monday. (Lightroom, LrC, is now in Version 10. and the cloud version, Lc, is now version 4.0.) We will touch on one new feature, but you should check out what is happening on lightroomqueen.com.

Note that if you upgrade Lightroom, it will ask you to change the name of your catalog!