 jean ray |
Editing efficiently Since switching to digital, like everyone else, the number of photos I shoot as skyrocketed. The problem, for me, is the editing. If I shoot a few hundred photos over the course of 3-4 days, the process of deciding which are keepers seems daunting. It takes forever, and I know I still wind up keeping to many, which is why I have a nearly full hard drive right now. How do others solve this problem?
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W. |
I burn 'm to DVD-R's. Two copies. Got a whole library now. Then erase from HD. Burn new copies of the DVD-R's every 2 years, as a precaution against aging and other (chemical) processes, and destroy the 'old' DVD-R's.
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jean ray |
Straight from the camera? Everything you shoot? I often take lots of close to duplicate shots with variations in exposure, or bunch from burst mode if shooting action, etc., and I would really like to find a relatively efficient, painless way not to just save everything.
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W. |
No, just the keepers (originals), plus the end results, after editing.
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jean ray |
Okay, that makes sense. But I have a terrible time making the decision about what to keep. Not the truly bad ones, but often shots that are very similar to each other. It takes forever, and I know I still keep too many. Anyone have any helpful hints on this?
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
My solution is to buy more storage (since it has gotten much cheaper these days) and burn DVDs immediately after download. Another photographer I know said that if he has to think about keeping the picture, he will toss it. I am a little more precautious because I have from time to time gone back through photos and found a couple of gems that I had overlooked before. I think we all struggle a bit with this process but I do immediately throw out blurred & bad exposed pics from my 1st pass through.
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Ariel Lepor |
Here's what I do for sorting through the good and bad pictures, and it is pretty quick: I use Picasa2. This is a very good and fast image organizer. It picks up all the pictures on your computer (you might want to tell it to only pick up pictures in My Pictures, though). Then, ANY PICTURE that is more than slightly blurry, trash it (delete button on keyboard). Then, any picture that is VERY dark and VERY light, trash it. If you have several pictures of the same subject, view one picture large, scroll through them all, and pick your favorite. If an important part of your subject is cut off (bird wing, sun in a sunset, head of a statue, etc.), trash it. If there is a picture where the subject is JUST TOO SMALL, and cropping too much would make the picture quality unusable, trash it. When scrolling through your images, if you notice one with high noise levels, trash it. HOWEVER: If you see a picture that really means a lot to you, keep it. So, you shouldn't spend more than five seconds per picture, and pretty soon, you'll be done!
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Trixie T. |
Professional PS technicians charge $1 a minute. So do your usual batching and if the client wants more tack on $60 an hour. Might seem rediculous, but I had an accountant go over my finances and she told me I was basically paying to shoot my clients. So I have to chrage for every minute I work.
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W. |
Hey! Aren't you the same lady that over in the other thread had a brandnew D80 and not a clue how to shoot a night live event for a friend? So now you're a pro!
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Trixie T. |
You're thinking of Crisie R.
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