CONSISTENCY
- The consistency in which you handle your images after they have been shot is almost as important as the techniques used when photographing the images.
- Consistency helps you create a routine and ensures you don’t miss out any important steps, this means silly mistakes will be avoided, you will also save time.
- TIME= MONEY.
-Generally for every hour spent on a shoot, there's 2 hours of post (including downloading, backing up, editing, organizes, archiving, emails, DVD burning, uploading to websites/ social media sites, packaging, shipping etc.)
LAURA’S WEDDING WORKFLOW
-Shooting in RAW format
-Copying the images to the computer
-Backing import images up x2!
-Sorting them out (a folder for each section of the wedding, prep, ceremony, reception, etc. the images are easier to handle in smaller portions.
-Camera RAW > Photoshop for images that need finer editing on skin, content aware healing (complex editing)
-Lightroom> this is where images are processed as a big batch applying actions etc and this is where metadata can be added.
-Exporting from Lightroom (you can add watermarks at this point if wanted to use for social media promotion.
-Final check of every single image. Cull some if needed.
-Back up all final edited images onto external hard drives. (when the hard drives are full Laura moves them ‘off-shore’ to her mums house).
-Upload sneak peeks to social media for clients to start getting excited & to encourage engagement with Facebook page
-Upload full size jpeg images to website host stores full size images in storage area and then only displays reduced sized images to visitors to speed up loading time of the page.
-Email the client including a link for the client
WORKFLOW
-Once you have established your workflow you want to stick with it. Establishing a workflow is an essential part of digital photography. A workflow will ensure you handle your images the same way each time and that you don’t miss out any important steps. Workflows also help you to rename and archive your photographs and should substantially reduce the risk of losing the once in a million shot. Each and every step on another photographers workflow may not be right for you: every photographer is different so establish a work flow that is suited to your method of working.
METADATA
my metadata would be as follows:
-©2014 Kirsty Walden Photography
- Kirsty Walden asserts her moral right to be identified as the author of this work and the right to accredit in accordance with section 77 and 78 of Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988.
-If I add these in the library section of Lightroom, I can set a preset so it adds metadata to my images automatically, you could also add metadata in Photoshop.
ORGANISATION
-This is how Laura organizes her images into folders through her workflow:
- 1) ‘Client name’ folder
- 2) ‘Client name’ import
- 3) ‘Client name’ import 1, ‘Client name’ import 2 etc.
- 4) ‘Client name’ edit 1, ‘Client name’ edit 2 etc.
- 5) ‘Client name’ final 1, ‘Client name’ final 2 etc.
So finding all the images from one wedding will be easy as you know they will be in ‘Client name’ folder. Then within this folder they have been broken down further.
BATCH PROCESSING & IMAGE PROCESSOR IN PHOTOSHOP
-Saves time
-Play around with both of these tools- it will literally save you hours in your workflow- especially when processing large amounts of images like a wedding
-You can apply actions to multiple images, re-size multiple images, save multiple images and in multiple formats (PSD, JPG, & TIFF) all at one time
-SAVING TIME= SAVING MONEY
FILE SIZING AND TYPES OF FILES
-Laura only gives wedding clients JPEGS
-They get full size images on disc from Laura
-Press agencies, magazines, newspaper, PR agencies will normally require much smaller sizes for ease of handling- Laura has only been used to being asked for JPEGS
-Never email JPEGS as it takes forever. Maybe set up a drop box account for this type of sharing
-Blogging- Consider using 900 pixels wide (max) to 200 pixels wide (min), uploading larger images leaves you open to other people using them
MY WORKFLOW
- I sort through my images deleting bad ones I could save time here by just selecting the good ones
-I had never heard of batch processing however I now know about it and am going to use it as I know it will save me tons of time
-I know how to make actions in Photoshop but I had never thought about recording it to prevent me repeating the process, I will make sure I will do this next time.
- The consistency in which you handle your images after they have been shot is almost as important as the techniques used when photographing the images.
- Consistency helps you create a routine and ensures you don’t miss out any important steps, this means silly mistakes will be avoided, you will also save time.
- TIME= MONEY.
-Generally for every hour spent on a shoot, there's 2 hours of post (including downloading, backing up, editing, organizes, archiving, emails, DVD burning, uploading to websites/ social media sites, packaging, shipping etc.)
LAURA’S WEDDING WORKFLOW
-Shooting in RAW format
-Copying the images to the computer
-Backing import images up x2!
-Sorting them out (a folder for each section of the wedding, prep, ceremony, reception, etc. the images are easier to handle in smaller portions.
-Camera RAW > Photoshop for images that need finer editing on skin, content aware healing (complex editing)
-Lightroom> this is where images are processed as a big batch applying actions etc and this is where metadata can be added.
-Exporting from Lightroom (you can add watermarks at this point if wanted to use for social media promotion.
-Final check of every single image. Cull some if needed.
-Back up all final edited images onto external hard drives. (when the hard drives are full Laura moves them ‘off-shore’ to her mums house).
-Upload sneak peeks to social media for clients to start getting excited & to encourage engagement with Facebook page
-Upload full size jpeg images to website host stores full size images in storage area and then only displays reduced sized images to visitors to speed up loading time of the page.
-Email the client including a link for the client
WORKFLOW
-Once you have established your workflow you want to stick with it. Establishing a workflow is an essential part of digital photography. A workflow will ensure you handle your images the same way each time and that you don’t miss out any important steps. Workflows also help you to rename and archive your photographs and should substantially reduce the risk of losing the once in a million shot. Each and every step on another photographers workflow may not be right for you: every photographer is different so establish a work flow that is suited to your method of working.
METADATA
my metadata would be as follows:
-©2014 Kirsty Walden Photography
- Kirsty Walden asserts her moral right to be identified as the author of this work and the right to accredit in accordance with section 77 and 78 of Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988.
-If I add these in the library section of Lightroom, I can set a preset so it adds metadata to my images automatically, you could also add metadata in Photoshop.
ORGANISATION
-This is how Laura organizes her images into folders through her workflow:
- 1) ‘Client name’ folder
- 2) ‘Client name’ import
- 3) ‘Client name’ import 1, ‘Client name’ import 2 etc.
- 4) ‘Client name’ edit 1, ‘Client name’ edit 2 etc.
- 5) ‘Client name’ final 1, ‘Client name’ final 2 etc.
So finding all the images from one wedding will be easy as you know they will be in ‘Client name’ folder. Then within this folder they have been broken down further.
BATCH PROCESSING & IMAGE PROCESSOR IN PHOTOSHOP
-Saves time
-Play around with both of these tools- it will literally save you hours in your workflow- especially when processing large amounts of images like a wedding
-You can apply actions to multiple images, re-size multiple images, save multiple images and in multiple formats (PSD, JPG, & TIFF) all at one time
-SAVING TIME= SAVING MONEY
FILE SIZING AND TYPES OF FILES
-Laura only gives wedding clients JPEGS
-They get full size images on disc from Laura
-Press agencies, magazines, newspaper, PR agencies will normally require much smaller sizes for ease of handling- Laura has only been used to being asked for JPEGS
-Never email JPEGS as it takes forever. Maybe set up a drop box account for this type of sharing
-Blogging- Consider using 900 pixels wide (max) to 200 pixels wide (min), uploading larger images leaves you open to other people using them
MY WORKFLOW
- I sort through my images deleting bad ones I could save time here by just selecting the good ones
-I had never heard of batch processing however I now know about it and am going to use it as I know it will save me tons of time
-I know how to make actions in Photoshop but I had never thought about recording it to prevent me repeating the process, I will make sure I will do this next time.
You have shown good concentration from this task, you have took onboard advice - you will benefit from batch processing in Photoshop. Good work.
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