OK, here's my workflow - just put into practice after coming back from NH with several hundred images...
I bring all the images onto my hard drive and, using Bridge, separate them into appropriate directories (or "folders" in weenie-speak). Then I delete the obvious clunkers (really serious problems like "hit shutter button by mistake", "hand held at 2-second-shutter-speed", etc.) Then I re-name the files as per my personal file naming scheme. This may not be a step at all in your work flow but it takes a couple of seconds per directory with CKRename) Now I import everything into Lightroom. After importation I tweak each image to get it good enough for general purposes. If I really have a lot of images this may include a few steps in which I give Lightroom the go ahead to automatically do what it thinks is best: this may not be perfect, but it's always better than what the camera's built-in JPEG engine would have come up with. Often I'll set the adjustments for each image myself but this takes very little time at all - here's the real catch - with enough practice. The more experience you get doing this the less time it will take. Often, close inspection will let me cull a few more duds from the hard drive. At this point everything is generally good enough for publication for all but the most critical purposes. At this I look for the hero shots to give them some extra attention. Rarely, something will have to be brought into Photoshop for some work. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
