Greetings. My talk and demo of Darktable was accepted to South East Linux Fest for June 8th 2024. I’ve got an introduction and brief overview of the features at 9AM on June 8th and a live portrait shoot and edit hands on workshop at 11AM using the tethering feature (yes some still use that), all times EDT.
The talk itself will be streamed on the conference’s YouTube channel after the show, if you want to support the conference or have it live there is a remote attendee option. The full schedule is here:
Thanks! I’ve given a talk on it here before and presented the Fedora Creative Summit this winter.
I think I’d like to do one at a photography conference one day as I feel like SELF, SCaLE and the like are all preaching to the choir a bit. However with the expectations of clients and professional photographers for instant delivery, cloud integration and now generative AI tools I’m not sure Darktable will be a hit in those circles. Not knocking Darktable at all but that’s a different audience than it was when I was really last involved in the early 2010s. The professional portrait and event world shooting has changed immensely. Client expectations for speed are no joke these days. Just this month I had a mother of a young woman contact me about graduation photos but not to hire me. She was surveying local photographers to see if the 4 day turn around time the photographer she actually hired gave her was too long as she thought. I told her I was about 5-7 days, maybe closer to 3-5 if I bumped her to the front of the line for a rush job.
In my experience 48 hours is the longest people will wait these days and I’m trying to overcome a reputation for being slow already! Lately I’ve just been relying on the Fuji film simulations to get me decent JPGs OOC and delivering those to speed things up. Feels wrong but people aren’t waiting a week for RAW editing anymore. I think the future in that market is really going to be some kind of straight to cloud, something like Stable Diffusion’s image to image touch up with near instant delivery to the client. Major photographers around me already farm out RAW developing/editing or basically just use presets.
Good thing I’m pretty competent behind the camera I reckon and a OOC JPG will do most of the time!
Anyway, that’s off in the weeds a bit! But thanks!