Im after feedback on my workflow and whether this is sensible and how pros sort through 1000 plus images from a wedding,
I have listed down the steps i do below,
Import to light room in wedding folder, adding any copyright info. No edit setting applied
Lightroom imports the raw files onto the external HDD to a weddingsraw / client / date folder
In lightroom create folder for each section (Bride prep, groom prep, ceremony, formals etc) and move images into sections within lightroom as this then moves them on the HDD.
Go though each section and edit in the keepers by flagging as picked
Find a base set of adjustments (one colour, one B&W) to get the edit how I want and then create a preset. This is done on a couple of images as a tester. The base set of adjustments will have variations such as a base +1 exp, Base + warm etc. I figured that this would keep the processing consistent.
Apply preset to all the images in the section
Move to next section
See if base adjustment works, tweak if necessary, create new adjustment preset if tweaked and apply to all images in section
Repeat for each section
Go to start and then go through all picked images editing in the final keepers using a colour code ie blue for keepers and yellow for keepers plus web storyboard
Do any local adjustments on final selection ie NR / Skin smooth / highlights etc
Batch apply sharpening / NR
Review the entire image sets from start to end to ensure that processing is consistent within each section and that all the sections as a whole have the same look
Save to the client folder on HDD, 1 copy of ALL final selected images at high res jpg, another optimised for social media. 1 copy in a spate folder of the top 100 images that will be classed as the Album / storyboard.
The reason behind this method is that each section is then processed consistently. I found in the last edits I did that for a certain group of images, say, inside the church, I constantly had to lift the exposure by 0.5. and up the shadows. This was done to all images in that section, but for the outdoor shots it was opposite. I had to lower exp to bring a little detail back in the dress etc.
For the last wedding the initial cull reduced the images to 800. I applied the develop settings to the majority of the 800 and will now go through a second cull with the settings applied to reduce to 250 -300 or so. The B&G will get the 250-300 and there will approx. 100 best of the best that will be used for the story board / album.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach. I feel it works although I could be missing something or adding unnecessary effort.
Any pointers much appreciated (or if this hels anyone else then great!)
I have listed down the steps i do below,
Import to light room in wedding folder, adding any copyright info. No edit setting applied
Lightroom imports the raw files onto the external HDD to a weddingsraw / client / date folder
In lightroom create folder for each section (Bride prep, groom prep, ceremony, formals etc) and move images into sections within lightroom as this then moves them on the HDD.
Go though each section and edit in the keepers by flagging as picked
Find a base set of adjustments (one colour, one B&W) to get the edit how I want and then create a preset. This is done on a couple of images as a tester. The base set of adjustments will have variations such as a base +1 exp, Base + warm etc. I figured that this would keep the processing consistent.
Apply preset to all the images in the section
Move to next section
See if base adjustment works, tweak if necessary, create new adjustment preset if tweaked and apply to all images in section
Repeat for each section
Go to start and then go through all picked images editing in the final keepers using a colour code ie blue for keepers and yellow for keepers plus web storyboard
Do any local adjustments on final selection ie NR / Skin smooth / highlights etc
Batch apply sharpening / NR
Review the entire image sets from start to end to ensure that processing is consistent within each section and that all the sections as a whole have the same look
Save to the client folder on HDD, 1 copy of ALL final selected images at high res jpg, another optimised for social media. 1 copy in a spate folder of the top 100 images that will be classed as the Album / storyboard.
The reason behind this method is that each section is then processed consistently. I found in the last edits I did that for a certain group of images, say, inside the church, I constantly had to lift the exposure by 0.5. and up the shadows. This was done to all images in that section, but for the outdoor shots it was opposite. I had to lower exp to bring a little detail back in the dress etc.
For the last wedding the initial cull reduced the images to 800. I applied the develop settings to the majority of the 800 and will now go through a second cull with the settings applied to reduce to 250 -300 or so. The B&G will get the 250-300 and there will approx. 100 best of the best that will be used for the story board / album.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach. I feel it works although I could be missing something or adding unnecessary effort.
Any pointers much appreciated (or if this hels anyone else then great!)