@matpacker @pratik @Jack I miss owning too - that's what started me on a quest to replace Lightroom. The problem is, there is nothing else on offer within the sweet spot of price and performance that Lightroom Classic (outright purchase) used to offer. So I appear stuck with subscription.
@canion @jack I'm fine using the Classic for at least a year although Adobe has stopped updating it with new features it added to CC. The monthly subscription is a bit too much for me at this time. @matpacker
@canion I concur, it's very frustrating. I've found other software that is nice to use, Luminar shows potential, but it lacks the sync, tagging/cataloging, and mobile apps. Apple Photos could certainly be a replacement, assuming one stays in the Apple ecosphere, but it lacks a load of features, and I'm not entirely confident on it's ability to handle a really large database of say 300,000 plus images.
@canion @jack@matpacker that said, how easy is the transition to CC? And hopefully, you get to backup your RAW photos on your desktop too, right?
@pratik @canion @jack I am using CC now, sync wise it's surprisingly quick, edits follow you around all devices in sync, I quite like "brushing" in edits on my iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil. I keep all my files on a local machine, as well as in the cloud. Once I have "completed" an edit on an image, I also export the final edit for storage in Photos.app, pinched that part of my workflow from Kenneth Reitz.
@matpacker Ah! Sounds simple enough and I would love the syncing across devices. I have now justify spending the monthly fee for something I use rarely. Or maybe I start to shoot more RAW on my phone. BTW I too export my edited images to Flickr and Photos.app. @jack @canion
@matpacker BTW here's my photos management flow that I wrote 4 years ago so probably I should update it but it's similar to Kenneth but maybe more wordy :)
@pratik if I wasn't shooting as much football as I am currently, and intend to continue doing, there's definitely no way I'd be paying the subscription!
I almost never shoot RAW on my iPhone, I've actually moved away from using my phone for what I deem a "proper" photo, and am now carrying a camera on me all the time, my daily carry is a Panasonic GX7, while my big camera is an A7R III. I occasionally take photos with my iPhone, however, they tend to be throwaways and are usually just captured to illustrate/demonstrate a point, or to report damage to our football facilities.
@pratik that's very similar to what I'm doing in essence. And I love this sentence, that's the difference between a Photographer and someone who takes photos.
Shoot a hundred, keep about 10, and show only 3 and soon people start thinking that all of your photos look like the 3 you show them. You don’t have to dispel that notion.
@matpacker Interesting. Incidentally, I upgrade my iPhone each year just for its camera. I use my DSLR mostly for long trips we go to. I want to use the RAW on my phone but somehow have never gotten into the habit of doing it.