On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:43 PM, William Robb wrote:
I'm with you Jens. Yes, I still had to edit the shots from film.
But there were a lot less of them. Due to the "zero marginal
supplies cost" nature of digital, I shoot several times as many
frames as before. Which severely multiplies the "post production"
costs, especially in time.
Bingo!!
It's not a game of chance.
My workflow goes like this when I do an assignment:
- make 200-1000 exposures ... say I got 400 for this exercise.
- import into Lightroom applying metadata tailored with decent default
caption info, etc.
- walk through them in Loupe mode with caps-lock down ... x for Junk,
p for pick. Usually out of 400, 150 are junk and 50 are picks.
- filter on anything not flagged and run through again. Similar
proportion emerges of the remainder.
- refine group ... which sets all unflagged to junk status
- delete all junk from working set (original RAW files backed up
separately while import happened)
- So now I have about 75 picks or so. Do minimal processing to even up
the color, exposure, contrast, etc. Depending on client, they might
want to see all, or they might want to see just the top 25. Here's
where I grade them ... go fast, it's easier.
- Output all picks to web gallery or CD as 1000 pixel on the vertical
edge JPEGs for client review. Slip in mailer, label and ship, or
upload to website and send email.
- Done until client picks come back and I render the (typical) three
to four images they want.
The whole processing effort to this point has taken about 25 to 45
minutes. If I went on a job and shot six rolls of 35mm film, I
wouldn't be done processing the film yet ... or I'd be still waiting
for the lab to deliver the negs and prints.
Godfrey
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