Mark, I don't understand why one would stop in Bridge on the way from the memory card to Lightroom.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 5/30/11, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
