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I thought it mght be interesting to have a thread where we compare the basics of our Q/Q2 image processing workflows—in sufficiently general terms to be relevant to most varieties of RAW processing software.

By way of starter, I use a Q2 with a Sandisk UHS-II 128GB card and a Sandisk UHS-II USB-C card reader (for speed).

My workflow is as follows:

1. I attach the card reader to my MacBook Pro and use the Adobe DNG Converter to copy the images to a specific card import folder on my computer, reducing the size of them losslessly by about one-third while doing so. That is quite fast.
2. I use Photo Mechanic to browse, label and keyword my photos—which is the fastest way I have found of doing that. I'll carry our a preliminary cull of any obviously poor photos at that stage.
3. I then import the images into a temporary folder in Capture One 12—and in that process they are re-named in the format day(2)month(2)year(2)-hour(2)minute(2)-seconds(2). By way of example, an image would be named 060419-0730-05.dng.
4. On import into Capture One I apply auto adjustments of exposure, dynamic range and levels—which I find usually gets me an image that requires little further work. If further culling, or cropping or further processing, is required in Capture One I'll do it at that stage.
5. Finally I drag and drop the processed photos into a year folder (e.g., 2019) within Capture One.

Stephen

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I am curious about your choice of file name. By using dd-mm-yy I suggest you are missing an opportunity to get file names that are more easily sorted. I use YYYY-MM-DD and find it much better. It could be extended to YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS

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Q2 with Lexar 2000, UHs2 Reader , Macbook pro

-Import with LR

-reducing DNG can be done in LR directly

-process files to like

-export file to folder /year/topic or location automatically added to library

file naming is date and time 

all done within LR no need for additional software

Juergen

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2 hours ago, mathorp said:

By using dd-mm-yy I suggest you are missing an opportunity to get file names that are more easily sorted.

Thanks for the idea, which is appreciated. However:

  1. I find it quite useful to have the date/name in naturally readable format.
  2. Every app in which I've sorted my photos in date order has done so correctly (presumably using EXIF and/or IPTC data) so I don't need to use the filename for sorting.

Every person to his own method, no doubt! 😀

Stephen

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1 hour ago, Jst13 said:

all done within LR no need for additional software

I should have made it clearer that Capture One is perfectly capable of labelling and keywording the photos—it's just that the whole thing is very much quicker using Photo Mechanic. However, you're quite right to indicate that using Lightroom saves the step of using the Adobe DNG Converter.

Stephen

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Hello, I am new to this forum and soon I hope newcomer to Leica world. I introduced myself in the dedicated section.

I ordered but not yet received my Q2.
But I use this method:
1) On import Capture One Catalog in temporary folder: YYYYMMDDHHMNSS_5Rxxxx. For my canon 5DsR,  _7Dxxxx For my old 7D,  _4Dxxxx For my 40D,  _IRxxxx for my 100D modified IR ....... Etc (xxxx number of the photo provided by the camera)
 
When traveling I always use several boxes simultaneously. With the hours correctly set on each. So I have all my mixed photos kept sorted according to the moment of the trigger.
I then know instantly with which camera the photo was made without using the metadata.

2) On import in C1: Auto exposure adjustment, Auto level.

3) Then manual sorting in successive passes. Stars ... to keep the least bad and the almost good ones.

4) Possible retouching and  cropping......... to finish. Still under C1

5) Ranking in Directories YYYY / Travel / Location / ...... Raw files in C1 Catalog

6) JPEG export for prints if needed.

The Stephen's starting method, for '' Adobe DNG Converter '' on MacBookPro or iMac for DNG Q2. I do not know Photo Mechanic but the idea seems to me interesting keywords and first sort, I will test. Thank you for this.

I may change my general method with Q2. If I can do without the 5DsR and its 24/70 zoom, keeping only the Q2 and nothing else that is the ultimate goal. (YYYYMMDDHHMNSS_Q2 only)

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