Mine is pretty similar except that I use Zoner Photo Studio for culling and cataloging instead of Bridge. I export those I want to work on to Photoshop. Zoner has some good editing tools but I'm too used to PS to change.
I have Lightroom 5.7 but, try as I might, I can't warm to it. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Tue, Jun 20, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I don't use Lightroom. I work with Bridge and Photoshop. My workflow is > complex. I look at the photos I've taken, and I render the ones I like. > If I like one a lot, I print it. > > Paul via phone > > > On Jun 19, 2017, at 9:33 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Good detailed description Larry. Some good ideas here. > > > > I won’t go into my workflow now nor attempt a complete compare/contrast. > > But I do note a couple of things: > > 1 - your Lightroom workflow as described is pretty much all about filing > > and storing for ease of retrieval. > > 2- You say > >> I'll make gross technical adjustments that apply to groups of photos, > >> and only rarely tweak specific photos > > > > The major departure of my workflow from yours is that for me no image > > rises above a 2 rating until I have spent at least a few seconds looking at > > color, contrast, sharpness, noise and other aspects. If I have worked on an > > image and/or don’t think in needs much if any additional post processing, > > then it gets a 3 rating. Once I have finished with a day or week or month’s > > worth of images, I go back to the 3 rated ones and decide whether they are > > worth additional time, good to go as they are, or maybe overrated and > > reassigned a 1 or 2. If I am doing a themed gallery (e.g., "My Trip to the > > Store” or “Memories of My Friend Mrs. Smith”) I may dip into the 1s and 2s > > if I need to find an image to tell part of my story but would mostly work > > from 3s and above. > > > > The thing I most like about Lightroom is that is does not force any sort of > > workflow. So you can do it your way, I can do it my way, and we are each > > taking advantage of the capabilities in the program that matter to us. > > > > stan > > > >> On Jun 19, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> A friend asked about going through 7500 photos from his trip to the UK, so > >> I wrote up my workflow for him. I get teased a lot for treating my > >> shutter like film was free, but this is what works for me. By throwing > >> away 550,000 photos, I end up with a hundred good ones. > >> > >> On the remote chance someone is interested in how I do it and it would be > >> helpful to them, here's an outline of my workflow > >> > >> The premise that for the first several passes quick decisions are better > >> than right decisions, so if you can't decide whether something is worth > >> keeping, just keep it and move on. > >> > >> I also (to a first approximation) don't throw files away, because I've had > >> my two star files be the best recent photo of a friend who recently died. > >> > >> My nominal rating system is: (total 560k photos in lightroom) > >> 0: unrated (90k) > >> 1: significant technical errors (2600, most could be deleted, many have > >> been) > >> 2: nothing particularly wrong, but not worth looking at (314k) > >> 3: good enough to post on the web (152k) > >> 4: good enough to spend money on a print (3k) > >> 5: My absolute best work (38) > >> > >> Note that I don't post everything that is a 3 star, nor do I print every 4 > >> star. I probably have another 50-100 that I should bump up to 5 stars. > >> > >> workflow, first load the files onto the system with basic keywording, > >> before any basic rating. > >> Import raw files into lightroom (shooting jpeg is like throwing away your > >> negatives, and with lightroom and cheap hard drives saves you nothing) > >> > >> I have a directory structure of 6 month top level directories, directories > >> for each month, and directories for each logical photo session. > >> > >> /Volumes/photo_c/photo4/pictures_2017a/1701 > >> in 1701 I have > >> 170103_jan_eriksson > >> 170103_power_line > >> 170104_macro_test > >> 170104_tail_lights > >> 170106_covered_bridge > >> 170107_tv_van > >> > >> Note that each top directory for each shoot is named with the date, and > >> some short description. This way in addition to LR cataloging, I also have > >> a logical directory structure in case I ever change my photo management > >> software. > >> > >> I may also sort things into subdirectories below that. This makes it > >> easier to compare like with like when rating. For example with a band, > >> I'll put photos of each band member in a separate directory. > >> > >> As soon as I enter my photos, I do basic keywording, at some point I'll > >> also do facial recognition and try to ID people. > >> > >> I have an SSD primary drive, and that is where I load my files to > >> initially. When I'm all done with my photos from each shoot, they go into > >> long term storage in the above calendar directory tree. > >> > >> Now the bit you were asking about. > >> I tell lightroom to only show unrated photos. I go quickly through them > >> setting any one I might like to 3 stars. When I get to the end, I set the > >> rest to two stars. If something is totally trash, I set it to one star. If > >> I know right off hand it's amazing I "pick" then set it to three stars. > >> > >> I tend to do this for all of my directories. > >> > >> At this point I'll make gross technical adjustments that apply to groups > >> of photos, and only rarely tweak specific photos. I'll often do color > >> balance at this point, finding something black or silver to set my white > >> balance on. > >> > >> I then go to the end of each directory, and working backwards "pick" each > >> one that I think is good enough to look at further. > >> > >> At that point I start setting up a collection structured, using collection > >> sets and collection. > >> > >> In the collection set 170601_england I will then go through and make > >> collections of all of my picked files based on the directory names: > >> > >> 170603_canterbury_00 > >> > >> I then select everything in canerbury_00, unpick it, then starting from > >> the front, pick the ones I like the best. those become > >> 170603_canterbury_01, then from the end canterbury_02, lather, rinse > >> repeat. > >> > >> Once things get into lightroom collections, and I've narrowed them down by > >> 60-80% then I start doing more fine adjusting, cropping, specific tweaking > >> of the curves. > >> > >> At some point, I will often ask someone to go through and rate the photos > >> 6 (red/dislike), 7 (yellow/meh), 8 (green/like). Of those I may go and > >> over ride some with 9 (blue, I really like even if you don't). > >> I'll use purple for "special selections" such as "sensei likes this". I'll > >> also keyword photos "bill likes" or "bill dislikes", or "don't post on > >> facebook". > >> > >> I will be far less selective for photos on facebook, particularly event > >> photos, than for photos on flickr. > >> > >> From the photos I put on flickr, my absolute best for each month go into > >> my monthly picks folder, which goes into my collection of monthly > >> favorites, in theory, every one in that collection is rated four stars. I > >> tend to average about three or four shots a month that end up in that > >> collection. > >> > >> In short, if I wouldn't be willing to spend $4 for a 12x8 print of > >> something, it doesn't get 4 stars. In theory a photo could get that rating > >> at any time in the process, but it's generally not until it's been posted > >> and moved to my monthly favorites > >> -- > >> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
