How long does it take you?

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Hello.

Ive just sorted through around 300 photos and edited/kept 90 of them and it took me a fair while. They were JPEG files so I didn't have much to edit but I was wondering how long does it take you? Im aware a lot of people take more than 500 photos on a day out to the race track so this must take a long time to edit/whittle them down.

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I usually spend about 30 seconds to a minute actual editing on each photo using lightroom. I shoot RAW, so they need a bit more work
I dont shoot massive of files on a normal day, but say a special occasion like an airshow, I might have 300 or so.
I load into lightroom and do a ruthless quick go through. Anything that instantly looks wrong gets rejected. Could be OOF, wrong composition, not quite sharp etc.

Then I go through whats left and will edit as I go. Usualy just contrast, clarity and highlights, then sharpen and NR if needed.

Anthing silimar to the previous or that I missed in the first go through gets binned.
Im then left with all the edits and I just export them to whatever size/medium and Im done.

On the odd occasion I might spot a shot that looks like it might have potential, but needs more than a quick adjustment in that instance, Ill leave it and come back to it and spend a bit more time on it.
 
Same here, load in to Lightroom X everything obviously wrong then delete those. Then a quick edit on the rest spending a little more time if necessary on some. That said I always make the most of the sync option where possible.
 
I shoot a lot of events and can take up to 500+ shots. Tbh I can spend a day editing. I do know a lot of people who batch edit but all their shots look the same and I don't want that. If I could batch edit to save time then I would but I don't know how I could do it without things looking the same!

I'm using CS5
 
Last largish shoot that I did;

350 shots reduced to 40 - approx 6 minutes.

Global caption 40 shots, 20 sec.

Edit shots with group levels, second selection to 15 shots, straighten, crop, local levels, export, circa 8 minutes.

Final check for accuracy then FTP.

Total, about 15 minutes.
 
Thank you for the replies. I did think about batch editing but then I did think settings for one image won't be correct for all of my images.
 
When I did Motorsport photography I'd take upwards of 1000 shots a day.

I'd import everything into Lightroom, use flags to reject/pick images, then go through the picks to ensure that all the drivers in my client's series were covered, going back to unflagged images if needed and that there weren't any duplicates, same driver at the same corner (one of the longest parts of the process). As I'd already applied develop presets and picked the best images there weren't usually that many changes to make in PP, I'd set the white balance for each corner as a group first, then any minor tweaks as needed. Lastly I'd add metadata including drivers name to each file (batching where I could) before uploading them.

Generally if there was an hour of actual racing, I'd spend 2 hours processing.
 
You guys are all WAY faster than me. I shoot interiors, over the course of a day we get about 20 final pictures (selected as we shoot with the stylist/production editor). It takes me another day in post to finish them all. This includes deciding on the right order of shots, naming them sensibly, creating a contact sheet, writing them to dvd for the art dept and so on. But I should think it is getting on for an hour of editing for each main shot (in Aperture). Normally different angles of the same room can be batch edited.

The main issue I find is achieving a consistent colour balance across all the photos under mixed lighting. The shots are all part of the same feature, so they need to have a consistency that would seem to suit batch editing, however they are all cropped differently, lit differently, have different subjects, and getting the white balance consistent is tricky (each room has different (mixed) lighting requirements; I've written in a different post about gelling my flashes in future rather than relying on correcting in Aperture in order to save PP time). Also, I find it difficult to reject any images in case the art dept come back with a request I haven't thought of! (wider, different angle, subject, etc)

Actually I suppose that's better than Craikeybaby; a day shooting = a day editing.

It is difficult to stop tweaking and tweaking them just because the computer lets you.
 
2700 shots taken on Sunday down to 970.

I tend to cull them as I shoot so anything deffo iffy gets binned on location, everything else gets sorted back at base.

Forgot to say it takes about and hour or so to flick through them for the final keepers.
 
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I can shoot into the thousands. Takes me a couple of days but I really experiment in Photoshop with my work & whittle my work down to just a few favourite shots in the end. I'm an enthusiast rather than a professional & I guess I have no deadlines to work to.
 
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I enjoy editing my images and since they are just for me I take my time. Might take me days to get a set how I want them. Even then when Im bored I might go back to them and see what different effects I can achieve.
 
depends on the job/shot. PP can range from very little (think 40 minutes for a day shooting - crop only) to a day or more for a Wedding
 
Varies hugely. Equestrian stuff is mostly print on site, so shot in jpeg for immediate upload with no real editing. That can be over 1,000 pics, done on single shot rather than drive, over a nine or ten hour day. My press work (what there is of it these days!) is nearly all for weekly titles now so I can usually shoot in RAW and will probably spend a few minutes per frame. Commercial stuff I fiddle about with for longer as much of it is rendered for different media. The same shot may go on a website, into a magazine, and perhaps onto a flyer, so needs tweaking appropriately.
 
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