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Light Table vs. Album - How do you use them?

I have been using Aperture for some years now, but I never have come across a problem where I thought "Wow, a light table - that is the solution!"

Usually all my projects start with collecting the images in an album - or a smart album / filter /flags - and then creating books, slideshows, webpages, or screensavers from them. Occasionally I started with a light table - just for the novelty of it - but usually ended up with a cluttered mess of images spread out before me and no clear plan how to proceed from there. So I am curious - what are typical workflows that require light tables instead of albums, and what is the advantage of using a light table instead of a more ordered Aperture item?

Thanks for any input!

Léonie

Aperture 3, Version 3.2.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2012 1:38 PM

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Lt.Tuvok

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Posted on Mar 21, 2012 2:01 PM

On my school (for photography) we have to use lighttables for organizing photos from

documentary, reportage and journalism. We learn to layout the photo's so that you keep fascinated or focussed on the subject. For example, vary in portrait or landscape orientation, vary in composistion, color et cetera.

When you view multiple photo's in a row that looks the same it can be boring.

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Mar 22, 2012 7:55 AM in response to léonie

And what do you do when you suddenly have to go through a bunch of slides and the last light table you had is long gone?

😁

Mar 22, 2012 8:16 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Yep!

But now there's an app for that: I use Flashlight.

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léonie Author

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Mar 22, 2012 8:10 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

I'll use my slide projector - it still works - or I'll make a trip to Florda and ask nicely if i may borrow your light table - looks nice 😁

Mar 22, 2012 8:36 AM in response to Kirby Krieger

(good thing you added the link. I thought you were holding a flashlight up to your face and looking at each slide that way)

Not sure how many slides you're gonna fit on an iPhone screen at one time but if you have a few hundred slides to go through I think you're gonna be there a long time! Now if they have this for an iPad that would be the perfect excuse to buy one. "Really I needed to get in order to sort through my slides!"

And Léonie as far as the slide projector goes unless you have more then one it gets hard to compare slides that way. "Do you like this one, pause click, Or this one? Not sure ok again, this one, pause click or this one?" Gets old real fast 😉

However if you are down this way let me know. As long as the 'light table' hasn't been shipped off somewhere you're more then welcome to use it! And with the strange weather the pool is open already so as long as you don't mind swimming with the dogs .....

And I can throw some gator on the barbie!

léonie Author

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Mar 22, 2012 8:48 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

What a gracious invitation! Some day I'll act on it for - be warned!

And I wan't mind the dogs in the pool, but the gators I prefer on the barbecue, not in the pool - how do you serve them? With corn on the cob or baked potatoes? I'll bring a salad and Jever Pilsner.

Cheers

Léonie

Mar 22, 2012 8:55 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Frank Caggiano wrote:

Not sure how many slides you're gonna fit on an iPhone screen at one time but if you have a few hundred slides to go through I think you're gonna be there a long time! Now if they have this for an iPad that would be the perfect excuse to buy one. "Really I needed to get in order to sort through my slides!"

You're in luck. Luminance is set by swiping finger up/down.

Slide Projectors:

A few years ago you could buy used ones by the dozen, pennies to the dollar. Probably still can.

Shipping to Hamburg:

The Gomez Bright-box™ _is_ a shipping container. Brilliant!

Barbie:

Cypress-smoked Gatarmatruff! (I heard deep in the swamps of northwest Florda they make a local version of Turducken: gator stuffed with armadillo stuffed with truffles, wrapped in palm fronds and slow-smoked in sand pits. Otherworldly good.

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