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Tangentially related, I have to give a shout out to Chris Marquardt's "1000 Pics 1 Hour" Lightroom workflow: https://shop.chrismarquardt.com/bookshop/product/1-

by tommyd 11y ago

Tangentially related, I have to give a shout out to Chris Marquardt's "1000 Pics 1 Hour" Lightroom workflow: https://shop.chrismarquardt.com/bookshop/product/1-hour-1000-pics-supercharge-your-lightroom-workflow/ https://shop.chrismarquardt.com/bookshop/product/1-hour-1000.... Simple but effective way of dealing with the massive volume of images we capture with digital cameras, and reducing your photos to the real keepers. It's worth paying for the e-book as he goes into some interesting points, but in a nutshell the core concept is going through your imported photos in three passes: first, quickly pick all the ones that might have some potential merit (e.g. they are in focus and of something somewhat interesting), then go back through the picked ones and quickly rate them from 1-3 stars (1 being "has documentary value", 3 being "potentially a great photo), then take the 3 star ones and spend a bit of time retouching them if needed and giving them 4 or 5 stars if they are really special. The end result is that you can quickly get down to keeping maybe one in ten photos from a shoot - it makes the whole process feel a lot more manageable and opening Lightroom less scary! Plus, it reduces the amount of photos we store so you need to worry less about the capacity of your cloud solution ;)

StavrosK 11y ago
> The end result is that you can quickly get down to keeping maybe one in ten photos from a shoot Are you a photographer? I'd love to be having that much success, if I end up with three good photos out of 500, I call it a good day.
- Litost 11y ago
  1 in 10, or 3 out of 500? The problem with comparisons like this is it's horribly a) Judgemental - what you might class as a success can differ wildly from what someone else does. b) Situational - the success rate you get from differing events, shot under different conditions with different equipment, technique, time constraints and expertise etc. etc. can vary hugely, even when judged impartially. About the only time i ever feel like i can objectively judge a day a good one, is either 1) When i've been to the same event as any of my peers, using comparable gear and felt like i've held my own. 2) Achieved whatever it was i set out to, be that a great picture worthy of putting in a portfolio or sticking on the wall, a satisfied client, a new technique or lesson learnt, a memory captured or just enjoying whatever i did on the back of the excuse i was out with my camera. I wouldn't worry about the numbers, worring about the numbers would be when you got roped in at the last minute to be the main photographer at best friends wedding and all you had was a kodak brownie with half a roll of film left in it anything nowadays would be a cakewalk in comparison. Yes, don't stop pushing yourself, but at the end of the day, for me anyway, it's the experiences that count, the pictures are generally just reminders of things i've forgotten, can no longer experience or because the people in them are no longer with us.
  - StavrosK 11y ago
    Very true, thank you for the reply. It's harder when "achieving whatever you set out to" means to take 5 good photos but you only got 2 :P
- dagw 11y ago
  I read a quote from Ansel Adams to the effect that if he got 10 good pictures in a year then that was really good year. So 3-4 good photos in a day and your a third of the way to beating what Ansel Adams could to in a year :) Basically everybody has different goals and ambitions with their photography and comparing how many 'good' pictures you get is pointless since everybody defines 'good' so very differently.
  - StavrosK 11y ago
    Haha, true. You're right, one can't be taking fantastic photos every day.
  - ryannevius 11y ago
    The rate at which we can create photos nowadays is much, much higher than it was back then (due to the equipment we're using, availability of "gear", etc). It would make sense that a skilled photographer today could produce quality photos at a faster rate.
- tommyd 11y ago
  > Are you a photographer? I'd love to be having that much success, if I end up with three good photos out of 500, I call it a good day. Heh, notice I said "photos", not "good photos" ;) Really it depends what kind of photos I'm taking, if it's a set of photos from a holiday then there'll probably only be a handful I would consider sharing publicly, but quite a lot more that I'll want to keep for documentary/sentimental value.
gdubs 11y ago
My workflow is similar, with a minor tweak. 1) After rating the pics (I use color tags in OS X), I copy and paste them into a tmp folder on my desktop. 2) I run an Automator script that took 2 mins to setup and scales all the images to something like max 1024px in any direction.* 3) I drag them into a shared iCloud library * Why do I resize via automator? It makes the files super lightweight and very quick to appear on all our devices. I still have the originals if I ever want to print, but otherwise this resolution is almost always plenty big enough.

by tommyd 11y ago

StavrosK 11y ago

> The end result is that you can quickly get down to keeping maybe one in ten photos from a shoot Are you a photographer? I'd love to be having that much success, if I end up with three good photos out of 500, I call it a good day.

Litost 11y ago
1 in 10, or 3 out of 500? The problem with comparisons like this is it's horribly a) Judgemental - what you might class as a success can differ wildly from what someone else does. b) Situational - the success rate you get from differing events, shot under different conditions with different equipment, technique, time constraints and expertise etc. etc. can vary hugely, even when judged impartially. About the only time i ever feel like i can objectively judge a day a good one, is either 1) When i've been to the same event as any of my peers, using comparable gear and felt like i've held my own. 2) Achieved whatever it was i set out to, be that a great picture worthy of putting in a portfolio or sticking on the wall, a satisfied client, a new technique or lesson learnt, a memory captured or just enjoying whatever i did on the back of the excuse i was out with my camera. I wouldn't worry about the numbers, worring about the numbers would be when you got roped in at the last minute to be the main photographer at best friends wedding and all you had was a kodak brownie with half a roll of film left in it anything nowadays would be a cakewalk in comparison. Yes, don't stop pushing yourself, but at the end of the day, for me anyway, it's the experiences that count, the pictures are generally just reminders of things i've forgotten, can no longer experience or because the people in them are no longer with us.
- StavrosK 11y ago
  Very true, thank you for the reply. It's harder when "achieving whatever you set out to" means to take 5 good photos but you only got 2 :P
dagw 11y ago
I read a quote from Ansel Adams to the effect that if he got 10 good pictures in a year then that was really good year. So 3-4 good photos in a day and your a third of the way to beating what Ansel Adams could to in a year :) Basically everybody has different goals and ambitions with their photography and comparing how many 'good' pictures you get is pointless since everybody defines 'good' so very differently.
- StavrosK 11y ago
  Haha, true. You're right, one can't be taking fantastic photos every day.
- ryannevius 11y ago
  The rate at which we can create photos nowadays is much, much higher than it was back then (due to the equipment we're using, availability of "gear", etc). It would make sense that a skilled photographer today could produce quality photos at a faster rate.
tommyd 11y ago
> Are you a photographer? I'd love to be having that much success, if I end up with three good photos out of 500, I call it a good day. Heh, notice I said "photos", not "good photos" ;) Really it depends what kind of photos I'm taking, if it's a set of photos from a holiday then there'll probably only be a handful I would consider sharing publicly, but quite a lot more that I'll want to keep for documentary/sentimental value.

gdubs 11y ago

My workflow is similar, with a minor tweak. 1) After rating the pics (I use color tags in OS X), I copy and paste them into a tmp folder on my desktop. 2) I run an Automator script that took 2 mins to setup and scales all the images to something like max 1024px in any direction.* 3) I drag them into a shared iCloud library * Why do I resize via automator? It makes the files super lightweight and very quick to appear on all our devices. I still have the originals if I ever want to print, but otherwise this resolution is almost always plenty big enough.