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icura 0-) · 03/04/07, 08:32 PM

Greetings,

This is my very first post in the Leica Forums! Well, here goes.

1. Shoot lots of photographs. With attitude. Sorry, that is just me. Shoot some more. Take a break and have a beer. Shoot some more. Oh yes, then shoot some more. Just when you think you have got your subject covered, shoot a couple of more variations. What the heck, its digital right? And if its film, so what? Film is cheap compared to your camera.

2. From a philosophical standpoint, I view myself as a photographer first, and darkroom or digital technician second, so I make a very conscious effort to put much more time into shooting than in the darkroom or sitting at my computer doing postprocessing.

3. This means that I immediately download my digital photographs onto an external hard drive that is partitioned (so as to optimize its speed). I make new folders for each year, and sub-folders for each month. Just about everything is placed into the month folders.

4. If I shoot a specific project, it gets its own folder with a name that easily identifies it. All of the images then go into that folder.

5. I don't have enough hours in the day to do all the shooting that I want to do, so after the photographs are archived, I just leave them until I need them. I burn all of the folders onto an archival Mitsui DVD-R disc, then duplicate this disc. I keep one disc at home and one at work. This is my archival protocol, the discs at home are the work discs andd the duplicates at work never see a computer and are pristine.

6. Whenever I need an image or group of images I edit via Bridge in PS2, but will soon change this part of my workflow to Lightroom, because it seems to work a bit better than Aperture.

7. This workflow works really well for me because I don't spend a lot of time with the photos on the computer until I use them, plus it is really, really FAST.

I shoot a fairly large volume of photographs on a regular basis, both RAW and Jpegs, so this workflow goes along at a brisk pace. Thanks. More time for beer at the end of the day!

03/04/07, 08:32 PM	#9 (permalink)
icura 0-) Neuer Benutzer Join Date: 03/04/07 Posts: 11	Re: Workflow examples Greetings, This is my very first post in the Leica Forums! Well, here goes. 1. Shoot lots of photographs. With attitude. Sorry, that is just me. Shoot some more. Take a break and have a beer. Shoot some more. Oh yes, then shoot some more. Just when you think you have got your subject covered, shoot a couple of more variations. What the heck, its digital right? And if its film, so what? Film is cheap compared to your camera. 2. From a philosophical standpoint, I view myself as a photographer first, and darkroom or digital technician second, so I make a very conscious effort to put much more time into shooting than in the darkroom or sitting at my computer doing postprocessing. 3. This means that I immediately download my digital photographs onto an external hard drive that is partitioned (so as to optimize its speed). I make new folders for each year, and sub-folders for each month. Just about everything is placed into the month folders. 4. If I shoot a specific project, it gets its own folder with a name that easily identifies it. All of the images then go into that folder. 5. I don't have enough hours in the day to do all the shooting that I want to do, so after the photographs are archived, I just leave them until I need them. I burn all of the folders onto an archival Mitsui DVD-R disc, then duplicate this disc. I keep one disc at home and one at work. This is my archival protocol, the discs at home are the work discs andd the duplicates at work never see a computer and are pristine. 6. Whenever I need an image or group of images I edit via Bridge in PS2, but will soon change this part of my workflow to Lightroom, because it seems to work a bit better than Aperture. 7. This workflow works really well for me because I don't spend a lot of time with the photos on the computer until I use them, plus it is really, really FAST. I shoot a fairly large volume of photographs on a regular basis, both RAW and Jpegs, so this workflow goes along at a brisk pace. Thanks. More time for beer at the end of the day! Last edited by icura 0-) : 03/04/07 at 09:12 PM.