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Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by curryst » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #126

jdavis703 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I have a DSLR (used to be semi-pro, now just a hobbyist). I use Lightroom and Photoshop on my iPad. I never touch my desktop anymore. Clearly, your workflow may require desktop software. But I believe it's possible to create high-quality work without a desktop these days.

Where do you keep your raw files? That would fill up an iPad fast. I know Adobe has cloud storage with their photography plans, but I can't imagine ever not having a local copy.

Not previous commenter, but I offload raws from my camera to my desktop, where they're backed up. I upload another copy to Lightroom (cuz more backups is always better). Then I edit from my iPad using their cloud storage.

And iirc, I have Lightroom set up to export a JPEG of the last edit for the photo to a directory. So I back up the edits too.

It's really a pretty nice experience. The new lightroom moved a bunch of stuff around and some of the more advanced stuff is hidden, but it's a lot easier to make quick, rough edits. I like hitting the auto-edit button when I'm filtering out photos that are trash, because sometimes photos I think I hate look a ton better with rough editing.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by wraptile » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 3:03 AM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #127

wraptile wrote: post #111

Pixelfed[1] is a free, federated and brilliant instagram alternative for photographers! You could spend those 5usd/month on hosting your own managed instance or just donating/supporting free, meaningful communities. 1 - https://pixelfed.org/

Is someone doing managed Pixelfed instances? I can't find anything. I figured the Masto.host people would be on it by now, but there's nothing on their site.

Unfortunately I cannot find any right now :|

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by aabbcc1241 » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 4:07 AM UTC

DocKitKat wrote: post #3

trymas wrote: post #2

> Photography Community Only for iPhone owners?

Pretty common for mobile apps to start on iOS only.

But why not an webapp from the beginning ?

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by jdavis703 » Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 5:24 AM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #126

jdavis703 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I have a DSLR (used to be semi-pro, now just a hobbyist). I use Lightroom and Photoshop on my iPad. I never touch my desktop anymore. Clearly, your workflow may require desktop software. But I believe it's possible to create high-quality work without a desktop these days.

Where do you keep your raw files? That would fill up an iPad fast. I know Adobe has cloud storage with their photography plans, but I can't imagine ever not having a local copy.

I only keep the RAW files for the final photos. Usually this is one or two files per “shoot.” So my cloud storage costs aren’t that high. Obviously this doesn’t work for everyone as there are lots of cases where you need to archive everything.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by jwhite_nc » Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 2:10 PM UTC

Renaud wrote: post #103

jwhite_nc wrote: post #101

I've been using the app since it was invite only and I gladly paid the yearly fee. Is the app perfect? No but what app is right out of the gate? I find the subscription the most useful feature of the app. Knowing there's a gate on the app ($$$ wise) has made my interactions with other photographers more worthwhile and genuine. There's currently one purpose here vs a million reasons other than photography on Instagram…

In what ways is this app better than Flickr's?

It's not better. Just different. The Glass app is geared around photographer fellowship giving that the conversation is driven by comments and not likes or upvoting.