Comments on: Photokina 08

By: Lucy (~Solarina)

Lucy (~Solarina) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:01:26 +0000

Wow congrats Natalie, that sounds really exciting! But also must have been a bit scary, without the formal sitdown audience I mean, did you get any hecklers?!

Oh did you get any/many freebies?! (yes im asking all the important questions arent I…)

Is Capture One easy to get, or do you have to buy it? Ive been trying to kick myself into using RAW but no programme I have now is letting me and Im being a bit lazy about it! Seriously though, congratulations again!!

Lucy

By: Miss Aniela

Miss Aniela — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Ah haha no, just commenting on what was available at the Kolnmesse. I’m sure the rest of the city, and the country, have alot more to offer :))

Having said that, I do like sausages - and yes i also love Polish sausage.

By: Franziska

Franziska — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:08:14 +0000

I used to work at the Photokina many many years ago when I worked in the photo industry and I’m glad to see that not much has changed.

I’m disappointed with your comment about the German cuisine, there is more to German cooking than sausages or strudel, however, German sausages are much better than British ones I do like Polish ones, too!

By: Miss Aniela

Miss Aniela — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:25:34 +0000

Hi Nico,
Companies compete with each other, but they also gain from working round/accommodating each others’ fortes and selling points. Microsoft sell PCs, but in my experience there’s not exactly a stigma in using a Mac machine in a Microsoft environment - even at Photokina itself.
The fact that I currently use a Mac is not an issue. I don’t endorse/ represent neither Apple nor Microsoft, hence I don’t feel there is the issue of being a ‘convert’. I am not a ‘Mac user’ as much as I’m not a ‘PC user’, I’m simply a computer user - and contrary to your last comment, these programs came to me in Mac versions.

What were you up to at Photokina then?

By: nico

nico — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:03:59 +0000

Interesting stuff. Although I was at Photokina I’m sorry I missed you.

You have, recently at least, been a Mac user; are you now a convert? Do you feel you have to be? I’m sure these apps won’t be cross platform so did you feel a bit hypocritical as a mac user promoting things that already exist in other forms, even given your assurance above?

By: Miss Aniela

Miss Aniela — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:01:32 +0000

Not sure how about the blur in the team pic - it’s a low res image (i resized it quite small) and we’re all pretty much have a meagre share of pixels - need to replace that image i think!

On this particular occasion I was hired to talk about my own work as an artist, but with the added perspective (as part of the ‘work’) of selling two products.
I haven’t been ‘acquired’ by anyone. I am not hired exclusively by Microsoft or told to express anything I don’t genuinely feel myself. I was given the independence to devise my own presentation based upon my work (showing as much as I want, as in the Pro Summit) and left to myself to get my head round products and work them into my presentation in my own personal way, and feasibly, ie., the programs are not trying to replace Photoshop (as they do not perform the kind of manipulative processing as Photoshop provides) and I could make it clear that Photoshop is central to my process, even though it’s an Adobe product.

As for the Sony macro -
I heard about the macro diopters but never got one, I did hear they reduce the quality of the image.
People have also been recommending shooting tethered, I know I will try it, though it will take away the spontaneity of shoots, reduce my wandering radius and be impossible outside (especially when my laptop currently needs to be plugged into the mains all the time else it turns itself off - needs new battery/adaptor methinks).

By: Arty Smokes

Arty Smokes — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:50:54 +0000

Ooh, you’ve been acquired by Microsoft have you? Natalie is officially a Microserf! (I guess everyone on flickr will be when MS finally buys Yahoo).
It must have been quite strange to be promoting software that you’re not known to have been a fan of before, but I guess this is new stuff. Is it really any good?
On that discussion about cameras on your flickr, I was going to mention that one thing that could help you get over the loss of your Sony’s flippable LCD, would be to shoot tethered to a laptop. Sounds like Capture One would be just the ticket for doing that. (The pros say that once you shoot tethered, you’ll hate the “miniscule” LCD on even the largest DSLR).

By the way, I just found out that you can actually screw on some macro diopters to your old Sony camera, and it’s a helluva lot cheaper than buying a proper macro lens for a Canon. I think your blog strips out links, so just such Amazon.

Sounds like you were pretty busy at the show, but I hope you had a good chance to go and look at the displays and demos elsewhere. From what I’ve read online, an awful lot of new products were seen in public for the first time. I imagine it would be difficult to walk around and not start building a huge wishlist.

Anyway, thanks for the news. I love how in the team photo, you’re just a little blur in the middle.

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:01 +0000

I love the pictures that depict your experience at Photokina which was a major event for the world of photography (i wish I could have been there, but I was super very busy with work and all). The words spoken on your blog were very well written–as always–and you brought me into the moment that you had through the written word.

All I can say is that I’m in awe with what you have done with your life. You achieved so much in such a short time and I have to say this unequivocally that I really do admire you. I truly do admire you. I admire your talents, down to earth personality, creativity, and the way you carry yourself on Flickr and much, much more.

You are special and a treasure to the arts community. Natalie, you personify art and goodness.