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alastair · 12/22/07, 12:09 AM

G'day all,

I'm interested that not many of you do as I am doing, so here goes:

• Shoot all in DNG raw on R9 or M8 and ORF on the 510.
• Remove card and use card reader to download to Lightroom. Instead of making a folder with the shoot name etc, I make sure I put in plenty of keywords at the time of importation. I usually import onto the MacPro laptop because that it what I travel with and its easy around the house anyway
• Fast sort: ie get rid of any duds. I don't like to make too many decisions at the first pass, but on this pass, I delete inappropriate keywords (I find it faster to delete them than to add them later) and often start the image clean up: LR is great for doing this as you can always return to base. I will often use the copy and paste alterations to speed up changes on similar images and to keep the "look" consistent.
• When I come back, I rate and label, add titles and captions and then walk away again
• Finally decision time. Save/remove the images and do some final editing of the images: crop/levels/colour balance/exposure/etc
• I now make sure the exif date and metadata is all attached to the images and transfer them to my desk top Mac for storage on the RAID

Cheers and Merry Christmas

12/22/07, 12:09 AM	#46 (permalink)
alastair Neuer Benutzer Join Date: 01/27/03 Posts: 5	Re: Workflow examples G'day all, I'm interested that not many of you do as I am doing, so here goes: • Shoot all in DNG raw on R9 or M8 and ORF on the 510. • Remove card and use card reader to download to Lightroom. Instead of making a folder with the shoot name etc, I make sure I put in plenty of keywords at the time of importation. I usually import onto the MacPro laptop because that it what I travel with and its easy around the house anyway • Fast sort: ie get rid of any duds. I don't like to make too many decisions at the first pass, but on this pass, I delete inappropriate keywords (I find it faster to delete them than to add them later) and often start the image clean up: LR is great for doing this as you can always return to base. I will often use the copy and paste alterations to speed up changes on similar images and to keep the "look" consistent. • When I come back, I rate and label, add titles and captions and then walk away again • Finally decision time. Save/remove the images and do some final editing of the images: crop/levels/colour balance/exposure/etc • I now make sure the exif date and metadata is all attached to the images and transfer them to my desk top Mac for storage on the RAID Cheers and Merry Christmas