Exactly the same work flow for me!! Except I don't have any zero stars -
the one stars get deleted. 5 stars are portfolio shots. It's hard to do
though and I always second guess mysel.
LOL
TC
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The worst part is to come. The editing!!!
>
> AGreed.
>
> But I learned a nifty editing trick a couple of years ago which
> totally revolutionized it for me. I happen to be using Lightroom, but
> this works for most systems:
>
> 1. Import all images into Lightroom. Set all stars to zero (or all
> starts to one if the vast majority are "keepers".
> 2. First pass is to determine what is an initial keeper or not. All
> keepers set to one star, the tossers are set to zero stars.
> 3. Second pass is to determine "best shot". When you have similars,
> set the best of to two stars.
> 4. Third pass is to determine which "best shots" will be included in
> the story. Go through and three star those ones. Produce proof book.
> 5. For album prep, go through and four star the images that will go
> into the album.
> 6. For stand-alone images for reprints or enlargements, those get five
> stars.
>
> The advantage to this method is that it is a thinning process that
> places no specific value on a particular image until you've had a
> chance to go through and see everything and get a perspective on how
> one image stands up against the rest. I used to be stuck in the method
> of grading images in one pass and that is a disaster for me. This
> multipass method works very well for event, wedding and portrait
> photography.
>
>
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