{"id":26619,"date":"2018-02-21T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/?p=26619"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:32:02","slug":"photo-editing-workflow-tricks-and-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/photo-editing-workflow-tricks-and-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Editing Workflow: Some Tips & Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Remember when we talked about the importance of Photo Editing Workflow<\/a>?\u00a0We truly believe that it is key to efficiency and a consistency in quality. Although there is no one template for a good workflow, we’re sure that every successful professional photographer has one. There is no right and wrong to a workflow and it can continue to evolve over time. What is important, if you are a photographer, is to have one in any shape or form that works for you. Not having a workflow at all can be quite a deterrent to your growth and consistency as a professional wedding photographer.<\/p>\n A solid workflow system makes sure that the task is completed well, using the fewest steps possible. It is flexible enough that you can go back and make changes without compromising on image quality. A competent system additionally safeguards your data as well as delivers a good product – great photos – at the end.<\/p>\n In this post, we will talk about the system we follow in the studio and how a workflow progresses in general. If you don’t already have a structure, feel free to take this post as a starting point.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Having enough memory cards is paramount when preparing for an assignment. It’s a good idea to carry enough so that you don’t run out of space in the middle of a shoot. As a rule, we never overwrite any cards during a wedding at all. Over the years of shooting weddings, we’ve figured out how many cards we need for a 3-day wedding assignment shot by 2-3 photographers and always carry enough memory cards and more<\/strong>. A few extra cards can do no harm.<\/p>\n A wedding assignment consists of a gamut of candid\/documentary and posed photos. Therefore, often, we have to set up the composition, lighting wait for that right moment or expression. Now feel free to click more pictures to get the right one but be judicious about it. We don’t\u00a0suggest shooting in burst mode the entire wedding<\/strong>. It’ll only serve to create double the amount of photos and more headache for you later.<\/p>\n You should also make sure that all the cameras being used by your team are time-synced<\/strong>. Often, we’ve saved precious time looking for a different angle of the same event, because we knew the time of day it happened and that two photographers in the team were bound to have different POV to the event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shooting in RAW is another important factor<\/strong>. Although it makes the files rather heavy and you may need a larger number of memory cards to accommodate shots from a single wedding, in our opinion, it’s worth it. The flexibility it gives you at the editing stage and the ability to rescue otherwise unusable images is incredible.<\/p>\n The next step is importing images from the memory cards into storage devices. Be careful and organised while copying images to minimise data loss. The only keyword to this step: Backup! Backup! Backup! We cannot stress enough about the importance of having a backup for your images!<\/p>\n Our mantra for this step of the workflow is ‘3,2,1’. We keep 3 copies of all the data transferred onto 2 different mediums (hard-disk, cloud or LTO tapes<\/a>) and 1 copy is kept at a different physical location than the other two (2 at the\u00a0studio, 1 at home). If there is a natural or accidental disaster (fire, flooding etc) at one location, the other backup will be safe.<\/p>\n It also helps to have an index of all the data that you own. You can follow a manual method and log in the information into a spreadsheet every time you copy – which photos go into which card or hard drive, how many photos, etc. Or use a software like the Disk Catalog Maker<\/a>\u00a0to take screenshots of various disks for you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n#1 While Shooting<\/h3>\n
#2 Import<\/h3>\n
#3 Organise and cull<\/h3>\n