So, having fixed the worst of the problems I work backwards through the filmstrip to see if any of the images warrant special attention. This ensured that each image was dealt with only once as I progressed across the filmstrip. Basically all that most of these images needed was some white balance adjustment.įor those that needed cropping, I cropped as I finished with white balance adjustment and then moved on to the next image. This allows me to adjust the white balance on one image and then click on the next one in the filmstrip and continue to adjust the white balance from one image to the next without having to reselect anything. Switching to Develop module with the filmstrip visible I selected the White Balance Selector and then made sure that Auto Dismiss was disabled. This gives me a head start on fixing them but, because of the lighting, pretty much all of them needed a white balance adjustment. I start out by selecting all the images in Grid View in the Library and from the Quick Develop panel I select Auto Tone. Now I have a collection of the picks and it’s time to process them. Step 6 – Apply initial processing to the images Because the images are already selected, I leave the Include Selected Photos checkbox enabled and click Create. Then with only the picks visible I press Ctrl + A to select all of them and then click New Collection > Create Collection and type a name for it. Once done, I isolate the picked images by clicking the first of the filter flag icons above the filmstrip. So this time I run through the images pressing P to pick an image and using the right arrow key to move past those she won’t be getting. By now I have a rough idea as to what I have and what I might want to give mum. On the second run through the images I pick those I want to use. There are still copies on the backup drive and my hard disk but not on my main photo drive. Once I’m done I choose Photo > Delete Rejected Photos to delete the images from my primary external photo drive. I’ll select to delete all out of focus images, anything where someone has their eyes closed or similar, and anything I don’t want to put my name to! The first time I run through the images I am looking for images to delete as well as getting a general look at what I shot.Īs I work through the images I’ll press X for images to delete and use the right arrow key to move past everything else. Importing all the images in one step also means that when I’ve started the import process – which includes rendering standard previews – I can start working through the images and I don’t have to do it multiple times or switch out cards as I work – (the process works for me – your mileage may vary). Copying rather than adding images to the Lightroom catalog lets me make backups and also add my metadata to the images so, when they popup on Facebook my copyright details are embedded in them. To begin, I download all the images from all three cards into a single folder on my hard drive (if there were only one card I would omit this step).įrom there I import the images into Lightroom at the same time copying them to their permanent storage on my external photo drive and making a backup to a second drive. Then I sort out the best of the images intending to give mum around 50-60 photos of the kids – it’s a nice range of images for her to use to scrapbook and post to Facebook and it doesn’t over burden her with too many photos to choose from. I never give away substandard photos so anything blurry, out of focus or over exposed gets permanently deleted. To begin with I have some criteria I work by. Here is what I call my Happy Snap Lightroom workflow – it’s what I do to quickly process casual snapshots: Step 1 – Determine a plan of attack Thanks to Lightroom the process was simple and, in all, I reckon I spent less than 2 hours getting the photos from the camera cards to a DVD. I need to get the images off my camera, sorted, processed, burned to a DVD and delivered to mum in time for her to enjoy them. To keep this fun – so it doesn’t feel like work for me – I need a fast and effective processing workflow. My deal with their mum is that I get to use the photos for my work and she gets a disk of pictures. I captured the images in raw and I chewed through three small size camera cards in about an hour and a half. When I’m shooting like this, my aim is to get some good shots but nothing formal and I prefer not to use a flash because I get a better response from the kids without one. Basically their mum likes to have some up to date photos of the kids and Halloween seemed like as good a time as any to get some shots. At Halloween last year I was asked to photograph some kids I’ve shot from time to time since they were born.
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