Workflow examples

[Jamie Roberts]

Originally Posted by jeffascough

My workflow

(a little thread hijack here)..

Jeff--

I know it's ridiculous for me to welcome you back here, since I know you were on the old Leica forum before I even knew it existed, but I just wanted to say "welcome" anyway!

The Phase One article on your workflow is great. I've noticed, too, that the last version of iView / Expressions is a lot kinder to M8 DNG files, as is breezebrowser.

However, since the new C1 V4 is actually pretty speedy, I'm hoping the pro version will replace some of the asset management / preview part of workflow (though in truth, C1 3.7.7 is actually pretty fast anyway).

I noticed too that the keyboard shortcuts and mousewheel controls on the C1 beta are different / inactive, but I'm sure they'll fix them with the release of the program.

[elansprint72]

Maybe you folks could post the odd photo once in a while?

[aj55]

Here's my flow:

SD in reader and copy onto harddrive with explorer.
Copy them with Lightroom onto seperate USB drive and with new name and keywords.
A second seperate USB drive "shadows" with IOmega software.
Process with Lightroom and print with Lightroom.

If I try to read the SD with Lightroom, I loose pictures and get doubles.

Happy shooting

[wparsonsgisnet]

I am finding that my workflow keeps changing now that my camera is a computer!

It seems that every 6 to 8 weeks, something in my process changes. Now, it's C1 v4-beta.

When I was in my darkroom, printing b/w, all I had to do was open up my notebook to find the details so I could reprint the same image (Zone VI hardware made the printing repeatable).

When the M8 firmware releases were evolving, I was purchasing new profiles from Edmund regularly. Now that I'm in v4-beta, I'm finding that I need to rework my images still again.

It's a good thing this isn't an old dog!

[stephengilbert]

Bill,

A dog's age is not measured by its ability to learn new tricks.

Steve

[alastair]

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

[ptomsu]

Interesting findings though :-))

[vikasmg]

I'm not a professional though I have been shooting pictures for several years. I like to keep things simple so here goes:

1. Copy pictures from the SD card or wherever I've backed them up into a folder called "001 From Camera". I generally import them into a subfolder with the date and a short description like "20071225 Chrismas day party". I generally shoot RAW/DNG but if I shoot RAW+JPG I copy everything over.

2. Import the folder into the Lightroom Library (I'm not sure why I don't copy the files over using Lightroom itself, but I just find it easier using two Finder windows.

3. Within lightroom, rename all files straight away using a Date/Sequence/Description format like "20071225 - 0023 Christmas day party". Conveniently Lightroom shows you only the RAW files (if available) but renames both the RAW files and their corresponding JPGs.

4. Review and delete files from within Lightroom (even though I can't get it to stop asking me if I only want to remove the image from the library or delete it from the disk!)

5. Review and develop images within Lightroom. I only occasionally venture into PhotoShop partly because most of the photography I do doesn't require it and partly because I don't have the time. During this process I also flag images I really like and once I'm done with the lot I review images I have not flagged to see if I should delete them.

6. Finally from within Lightroom I move the images to appropriate folders sometimes these are usefully classified but sometimes not. In any case my ambition (not yet achieved) is to clear everything in the "001 From Camera" folder within a week or two.

7. If I intend to share images with others (for instance after that Christmas party) I will generally post the images in a PBase gallery with restricted access and e-mail people to let them know I have done so - with a request that if anyone wants high resolution versions of the images they should get back to me within a week because I may delete a number of the images after that. I generally avid deleting such images for about a month to give people more float time than they think they have.

8. If I'm shoting for work (I'm an architect) my images are generally classified in folders first by location and then by building type etc. For the rest I'm dependent on keyword searches. If they are travel pictures that are not building related they are generally in folders by date and location. Frequently there's an overlap but that's life.

Cheers.

- Vikas

[burkey]

I just finished looking around for some trial software that could support the Canon G9 RAW format and for something that I liked. In the process I gave Bibble Lite a try. Yup, it reads my G9 RAW files fine with some nice processing options. Since I have to do some shooting at work tomorrow with my Digilux 3 I thought I'd try the software with D3 RAW file. Yo! Nice processing environment. This is a shot from this afternoon I took of my son getting a loving "tattoo" on his new cast from his mother. Tattoo by Mom, cast courtesy of a nasty snowboarding spill.
Regardless, Bibble appears to deserve some looking at for RAW processing. 'Just thought I'd pass this on.