On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:10:32 +0200, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
So, unfortunately, Shotwell does not do this. As you said, it really
only
sorts by date. Really the only major advantage it has, is being
preinstalled on Ubuntu.
Shotwell is extremely poor - and some decent capability of browsing your
catalog, as in your examples, is fundamental if you shot even moderate
quantities of photos. In ten years of digital (right in these days, BTW),
I've built up a collection of more than 30,000 photos (one third should be
pruned, I've accumulated some delay) and you risk to be unable to find
stuff when you search for it.
Not sure how easy it would be to support offloading to a NAS.
Lightroom 5 (just trying it) supports an "offline mode" in which you can
still do some editing and manipulation of metadata only with previews and
original files on a offline disk.
All of that said, I am curious to hear what other's workflows are like.
First, group shoots by subject - I often do many shots in a few
seconds/minutes of some subjects, slightly changing the composition. When
I have to shoot hand-held and I have no time for the tripod, I repeat some
shots to be able to pick the sharpest one (this is done by side-to-side
comparation and Lightroom has a "Compare" function for this). I would
really like to have a feature that gives an automated rating for the
sharpness - probably you still need to go manually for picking the best,
but a function to spot shots with blatant motion blur would be helpful for
a gross pruning.
Then I apply some presets to batch of photos (contrast/clarity,
saturation, sharpness, lens defect correction) - some parameters are
automatic (such as lens correction, with the exception for fish-eye
lenses), in other cases I use a sample photo in a set for fine tune and
then I apply cut & paste of settings to others - clearly non-destructive
editing is fundamental here. Pruning is done in multiple passes, usually
halving the set in the first two rounds. At the third / fourth round I
usually am able to give positive ratings to half of photos and pick those
for publishing. For the other half, I have to resume the process several
weeks later - I realized that I'm much more objective in judging the
quality when some time has passed from the shot time - probably because
the brain is still reconstructing the scene from other sources bound to
the fact that "you was there".
For the rest of metadata - geotagging is done immediately, by means of a
plugin that pairs the shooting time with the GPS recorded track of the
trip. For tags, my workflow is insufficient - I apply them later, but I've
accumulated a good bunch of delay here.
Note that the workflow basically never ends. Even months and years later I
find myself going randomly on old shoots, changing ratings, improving the
post-processing.
For what concerns publishing, I've written my own little CMS with specific
support for publishing photos, which needs to be just published in a
folder (I mean, no database). I use the "Publish services" of Lightroom,
publishing to disk (Lightroom detects automatically when you have
retouched a photo after the latest publishing), and then rsync to copy
them to my server.
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