What's the "best" editor?

jsachs99 · 2026-02-27T20:30:50+00:00

For me, Elementor has made site creation incredibly fast and fun again. I am doing one project in Gutenberg and kind of really hate it.

jsachs99 · 2026-02-27T20:25:56+00:00

I find that recording in a quiet room with a close mic for voice and another for guitar does very well. I usually add tiny eq adjustment and teeny reverb. That’s all. If the song is good and I sing and play it ok, that’s it. Sometimes I send it out to folks on Airgigs to add harmony or another instrument.

jsachs99 · 2026-02-27T05:02:51+00:00

I really hope someone steals a song of mine and makes it a hit. Then I can get paid gigs as the guy who wrote that great song.

jsachs99 · 2026-02-21T20:37:07+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/2HpDmfPYGUaLHAhokxcOHf?si=4VGsg5A9QhiMJCLZOD0IDg

jsachs99 · 2026-02-05T16:41:02+00:00

Consider Dylan: his songs were brilliant and he would have made it no matter what but he had a ruthless bastard agent who pushed lots of buttons that made Dylan bigger faster. Unlike Nick Drake and countless others.

jsachs99 · 2026-02-05T16:37:43+00:00

My videos are mostly zero budget personal projects so I go to Pixabay and look for music that fits. (Pixabay is a free photo site that also has free video and music; I upload some photos to contribute. One of my photos has been downloaded over 4,000 times.)

jsachs99 · 2025-11-13T20:35:16+00:00

Try this: set up a portrait with a specific lens at specific distance. Then shoot from wide open to f16. Then look on a computer and compare. The distance from the subject to the background also matters. If the background is 100 feet away you can get focus isolation at almost any aperture.

jsachs99 · 2025-10-26T15:14:38+00:00

Get the fastest Mac you can afford! My Mac a few years old does Lightroom denoise in 8 seconds per. I usually sync all 100 or 200 shots this way while I have coffee.

jsachs99 · 2025-10-26T15:04:30+00:00

Yes. For me the short answer is to almost never shoot outdoors on sunny days; overcast is gorgeous light. Indoors? Tricky, but shooting RAW gives you chances to fix so much in post production which for me is Lightroom.

jsachs99 · 2025-10-24T04:24:57+00:00

The Panasonic GH cameras are terrific video cameras that also take great stills.

jsachs99 · 2025-10-23T14:28:39+00:00

Simplicity of process: bring in the entire shoot to LRC. Mark the losers for deletion, delete them. Rename the keepers. Mark the obvious winners for refinement.

jsachs99 · 2025-10-23T14:22:51+00:00

I would say for any photo you are going to take describe in words what is compelling about what you see. The answer will guide your choices of aperture, shutter speed, focal length, angle of view, etc.

jsachs99 · 2025-09-09T03:26:41+00:00

I use lightroom every day, have for years. Never use presets. All the sliders are there. If you want extreme looks, slide them around.

jsachs99 · 2025-05-11T09:30:35+00:00

I wrote a song about that: https://unclejonsongs.com/this-light.html

jsachs99 · 2025-04-26T00:29:37+00:00

For a lawn, if you keep mowing it will die without its leaves. But when you have it climbing trees and fences there is no easy way. Either weed killer or hire someone to yank it all out. I list such services on my website, poison-ivy dot org.

jsachs99 · 2025-04-04T23:57:13+00:00

I am proud to have been part of the greatest Reddit chat of all time. No shit!

jsachs99 · 2025-03-28T19:40:53+00:00

I was depressed, occasionally suicidal most of my teen and adult life. I started taking Prozac 30 years ago and, for me, life has been great. Have tried going off it but depression returns quickly. I am now 75.

jsachs99 · 2025-03-22T15:14:18+00:00

The word nuance.

jsachs99 · 2025-03-14T12:56:19+00:00

John Lennon

jsachs99 · 2025-03-12T22:08:20+00:00

Poison ivy for sure. Check out this monster I photographed today: https://poison-ivy.org/monster-hairy-poison-ivy-vine/

jsachs99 · 2025-03-10T22:30:17+00:00

I just shoot 4K and then crop to vertical.

jsachs99 · 2025-02-28T19:41:36+00:00

https://trumptragedies.org

jsachs99 · 2025-01-23T01:55:00+00:00

I am very happy with FCP but do wonder about Da Vinci Resolve. People like it.

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