![]() ![]() The other side is for family memories, which tends to “save” more of the “Hudson – no star rating” photos. One is my Portfolio, which I pretty much agree with your reasoning. But no rules without exceptions, hey?Ģ) I have two modes for my photography (as a serious amateur with single jobs at times). Optimally I would like to see a crop tool within Browse, but I can relate to that being personal and a bit quirky, since it does break my rule of never editing in the culling processes. Compared with LR, such cropping process takes a bit too long still (waiting for dual screens which might reduce the need for immediate cropping since I can use a full screen for viewing, still maintaining the grid on the other screen). This makes my editing flow almost 100% interruptible and re-start-able with a minimal start-up/close-down time.ġ) with a 45Mp camera I still like to crop some of my “poor pictures” to discover a lot of “Hudson 2-stars”. Except for the Who, what, where, when, and why, I have a group called Workflow, in which I put status for each picture, temporary comments and labeling, where I’ve posted the “ready-results” etc. The editing and culling works fine, but keywording I still find too slow in Raw (due to lack of hierarchical keywords). I’m so used to using hierarchical keywordings, so right now, my batch of 100% ready-photos are piling up :-(. I’ve just this year abandoned LR completely, except for the slideshow, keywording and filtering on keywording function which I really miss in Raw. However, I have 3 issues with my culling process in Raw (which in most strategies are very similar to yours). I see a huge improvement over the past 10 years, and my 5-star is no longer really 5-stars… The way you put it, reserving higher star rating for the future, I can really relate to. As my time available for photographing is slowly decreasing for every year, but I still really enjoy carrying my camera around and I do take more photos with a higher keep-rate, the culling and star-rating process need some attention. I get encouraged I’m on the right track by watching this great video. With regard to my mobile backup, I dump it once I transfer those files to my desktop Drobo which is backed up to local drives as well as BackBlaze in the cloud. □ I’m trying to get back to that film way of doing things. Someday I might go back and look through the unmarked ones again (or not). If I’m done editing a folder and I’m satisfied, then I dump the ones marked for deletion and call it good. If I don’t get what I need from the 2 stars, I look to the 1s (and rarely the unmarked). What I now do is leave those I really can’t immediately decide on unmarked, flag what I think is junk for deletion (and filter to hide them) and mark the 1 and 2 stars. For some reason we want more from our digital files and it’s harder to scrap. You shot 36 and on a good roll you kept 10. □ I remember in the film days just tossing slides off the light table that weren’t just right. Thanks for the kind words Neil! I’ve come to this over a long painful process myself, and I have scads of folders over decades that beg for this treatment too. ![]() I’ll try and carry your method in mind next time I have a large batch of images and see if I can be more “disciplined!”. And it becomes a chore to go back through years of old images to cull. Still, in my process, I have that backup, but I never seem to finish the cull, as you said. Then I feel more comfortable that I have a complete archive of the originals. ![]() Do you just delete the whole backup set when your edited set makes it home safely? In my own process, I wouldn’t delete anything until I backed up the full set to Blue-Ray BD (or DVD) discs. One thing that I noted here that I liked but went unmentioned so I’ll call it out…you never culled or deleted your backup copy you made when importing. I end up with about a 1TB or even a bit more per year of photos (and I only have a 24mp camera). While that easily lets me go back and find more that I liked, it leaves me with a lot of photos. You nailed it too in terms of my biggest problem…I am more likely to skim through the batch, pick the ones I like, and start editing. I like your 1 and 2 star approach as well for years, unfortunately, I’ve basically used the whole gammut from 1 to 5, where anything below 3 is probably a delete–but that’s for later! You are deleting in the first pass, and I like that, because in retrospect, I accumulate too many photos and then it’s a continuing problem to go through and later cull. Especially when you have two very similar photos that you can’t eliminate based on composition. That takes the most time (especially in LR). I feel I can’t mark a photo deleted unless I zoom in and check absolute sharpness of my subject. It’s information I look for all the time to try to streamline my process, which I’ll say is still painful. ![]()
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