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- Nicholas
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I have a problem. My workflow is too complicated and I cant get on with PhotoMechanic. I've tried it, didn't like it so ditched it.
What I do:
On an average shoot Ill take between 1k and 1.5k images. On some I'll hit 5k.
The way I do it at the moment is snap away then ingest into lightroom. I shoot in RAW. Lightroom keeps the original file names. Ill take two runs through the set. The first one is a pure quality check, if its not sharp enough for example it gets flagged as rejected. Once I get to the end ill delete rejected images from catalogue, then go through the remainder again doing all the processing adjustments. Ill also ditch photos where I have say six of the same car at the same corner in the same session.
On an average weekend Ill whittle photos down to about 50% of what I took, after all, you don't need 85 similar photos of the same car at the same weekend do you?
Once I'm happy with the images Ill export. Each series is exported to a different folder with a different file name. For British GT this weekend the names will be like:
BritishGT_Spa-Francorchamps-21567
VWRC_Spa-Francorchamps-15558
It follows that pattern. The file number links back to the original file number so if I get a question or request on a file I can quickly locate it again in LR.The first number in the file number is a prefix set by the camera so I know which of my bodies took the shot easily. That way, if I spot excessive dust on the sensor for example, I know which camera I need to get cleaned.
Once exported I have pre-set empty folders for each car. Ill copy these empty folders into the output folder and in windows Ill go through the output, sorting each into the relevant folder. If I spot a photo I want to do extra processing on, ill take it into Photoshop and do what I want, then store the original and the edited in separate folders saving the edit as ...orchamps-15558-E so the file name tells me its been edited outside of Lightroom.
I then upload to my archive site which is powered by PhotoDeck, where they will be tagged and captioned so they can be searched.Ill then take a selection of images for social media and flickr, watermark them in Photoshop and upload. The last step of the process is putting a gallery on here!
What I want to do:
Import into lightroom.
Reject the rubbish.
Process the rest.
Caption and tag in LR. - Its this bit I need help with.
Export.
Sort and upload.
What I need is a plug in that will allow me to caption and keyword easily. I understand there is a plugin out there somewhere that will allow me to pre-set keyword groups and attach them to a Keyword code so that when I look at an image of say, the Beechdean Aston Martin I can:
Type: BGT1
and tag it as
Beechdean AMR, #1, Aston Martin, Vantage, GT3, Andrew Howard, Ross....
or type a caption like
BGT1-1 chases BGT6-2 through SS-T5 during BGT16 race at SS-UK. (Credit-NS.)
to get
Andrew Howard (GBR), #1 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin Vantage GT3 chases Liam Griffin (GBR), #6 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Hurracan GT3 through Stowe Corner during round 5 of the 2016 British GT Championship race at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. (Credit: Nick Smith/TheImageTeam.com)
I would want to pre-set these codes at the start of the season when drivers are confirmed then add any subbies in at the start of each weekend. It would also let me set all the corner names up once with the right spelling, (not something I am great at). Not so much of a concern in the UK but now I am doing international circuits with foreign spellings I could get myself in a right mess trying to spell some of these things.
What I do:
On an average shoot Ill take between 1k and 1.5k images. On some I'll hit 5k.
The way I do it at the moment is snap away then ingest into lightroom. I shoot in RAW. Lightroom keeps the original file names. Ill take two runs through the set. The first one is a pure quality check, if its not sharp enough for example it gets flagged as rejected. Once I get to the end ill delete rejected images from catalogue, then go through the remainder again doing all the processing adjustments. Ill also ditch photos where I have say six of the same car at the same corner in the same session.
On an average weekend Ill whittle photos down to about 50% of what I took, after all, you don't need 85 similar photos of the same car at the same weekend do you?
Once I'm happy with the images Ill export. Each series is exported to a different folder with a different file name. For British GT this weekend the names will be like:
BritishGT_Spa-Francorchamps-21567
VWRC_Spa-Francorchamps-15558
It follows that pattern. The file number links back to the original file number so if I get a question or request on a file I can quickly locate it again in LR.The first number in the file number is a prefix set by the camera so I know which of my bodies took the shot easily. That way, if I spot excessive dust on the sensor for example, I know which camera I need to get cleaned.
Once exported I have pre-set empty folders for each car. Ill copy these empty folders into the output folder and in windows Ill go through the output, sorting each into the relevant folder. If I spot a photo I want to do extra processing on, ill take it into Photoshop and do what I want, then store the original and the edited in separate folders saving the edit as ...orchamps-15558-E so the file name tells me its been edited outside of Lightroom.
I then upload to my archive site which is powered by PhotoDeck, where they will be tagged and captioned so they can be searched.Ill then take a selection of images for social media and flickr, watermark them in Photoshop and upload. The last step of the process is putting a gallery on here!
What I want to do:
Import into lightroom.
Reject the rubbish.
Process the rest.
Caption and tag in LR. - Its this bit I need help with.
Export.
Sort and upload.
What I need is a plug in that will allow me to caption and keyword easily. I understand there is a plugin out there somewhere that will allow me to pre-set keyword groups and attach them to a Keyword code so that when I look at an image of say, the Beechdean Aston Martin I can:
Type: BGT1
and tag it as
Beechdean AMR, #1, Aston Martin, Vantage, GT3, Andrew Howard, Ross....
or type a caption like
BGT1-1 chases BGT6-2 through SS-T5 during BGT16 race at SS-UK. (Credit-NS.)
to get
Andrew Howard (GBR), #1 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin Vantage GT3 chases Liam Griffin (GBR), #6 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Hurracan GT3 through Stowe Corner during round 5 of the 2016 British GT Championship race at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. (Credit: Nick Smith/TheImageTeam.com)
I would want to pre-set these codes at the start of the season when drivers are confirmed then add any subbies in at the start of each weekend. It would also let me set all the corner names up once with the right spelling, (not something I am great at). Not so much of a concern in the UK but now I am doing international circuits with foreign spellings I could get myself in a right mess trying to spell some of these things.
