Photography workflow?

[ashgotti]

Hey all,

I love photography but I've hit a laziness snag where I take lots of pictures but then can't bother to review them on the computer. I take multiple shots and it's very tedious to go through 5 pictures of the same thing, pick the best, do post-processing, export, and upload to share.

What is your workflow and how do you get around this?

[soban]

Simple answer: Adobe Lightroom.

As an event photographer I really don't know what I would do without lightroom. You can easily flag/rate pictures, use non destructive editing and tag them.

[ashgotti]

I do use lightroom and just recently realized the flagging.

[gotak]

It takes what it takes there's no real automatic yet on things like this, if there were we'd all be obsolete.

Also it helps to crimp while you shoot.

edit: one more thought, don't use lightroom so I don't know if it exist but I think it does, you can always create your own presets to make things quicker. If all your exposure are similar often you can use a presets if you just want things done quick and dirty. I do that sometimes with slight tweaks on some photos. I find the time to do the RAW processing is quite quick for me. The issue is when you need to do more like clean up people's skin in photoshop. That can easily take 10 to 30 minutes a photo depending on how much you have to do.

[Chocolinx]

What I usually do is go through my photos and rate them. So I'll do one round of hitting 1 on the ones I think look okay, then I'll do a second round where I go almost full screen on the photo and hit 2 on the ones I want to actually keep. Then I do my usual rounds of editing, photo by photo. I usually do the lens correction first for all photos by sync (assuming all the photos used the same lens). That's about it.

[ssbtech]

1) Copy files to folder on desktop
2) Look through quickly
3) If there are any that need touching up, do so then save
4) Drag folder to "My Pictures" and likely forget that they existed.

[Jimbobs]

Another vote for Adobe Lightroom! It makes the whole business of storing, categorizing and "developing" images very straight forward.

If you don't want to spend that sort of money, have a look here (http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/10-free-photo-managing-software-you-should-at-least-know/) for reviews of 10 free photo management applications: Google Picasa, Can2pc, DigiBookShelf, IrfanView, Fastone Image Viewer, XnView, Album Burger Photograph, Studio Line Photo Basic 3, Preclick Gold Photo Organizer and Pictomio.

Of those, Google Picasa is what I used before Lightroom and it is pretty simple to use.

[Akraz]

Another vote for Adobe Lightroom! It makes the whole business of storing, categorizing and "developing" images very straight forward.

If you don't want to spend that sort of money, have a look here (http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/10-free-photo-managing-software-you-should-at-least-know/) for reviews of 10 free photo management applications: Google Picasa, Can2pc, DigiBookShelf, IrfanView, Fastone Image Viewer, XnView, Album Burger Photograph, Studio Line Photo Basic 3, Preclick Gold Photo Organizer and Pictomio.

Of those, Google Picasa is what I used before Lightroom and it is pretty simple to use.

lol...;)

[Jimbobs]

lol...;)

Well, it is $300 and I'm sure some people still buy their own software :)