Comments on: Sports photography post-production workflow http://awholenother.com/2009/09/18/sports-photography-post-production-workflow/ blog by chris kalafarski Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Kalafarski http://awholenother.com/2009/09/18/sports-photography-post-production-workflow/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Chris Kalafarski Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:49 +0000 http://www.awholenother.com/?p=65#comment-143 @Wellington, I'm not sure how familiar you are with lightroom, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you. There's really no way to put images inside different folders in Lightroom; I suppose you could but it would not make much sense and definitely take longer than the tenth of a second it takes to color code an image. Also, the point of the color labels is to quickly mark the status of an image, such as when it needs correcting and when it's finalized, so it would be a hassle to start moving them back and forth individually if they change status. As far as archiving, I don't really have a distinct archive, per se. Not in the sense that some people manage a separate Lightroom catalog as an Archive, and then have small, more portable catalogs that they use for a week or a month or even just one event, and then roll them into the archive when they're done with them. I maintain a single catalog in Lightroom, and a single repository (folder) on my hard drive (that just happens to be called Archive) for all my images. In general if an image doesn't get deleted during the first time I go through the images, it's probably going to be around forever. This does mean that if I take 800 shots at a game, delete 100, and then only keep 50 as edited picks at the end, I basically have 650 shots that are just taking up space and I might never look at again. There have been times, though, where I have gone back and needed to find one or two shots from those 650 unused, and that made it worth saving all of them. Being able to add a terabyte of storage for about $100 makes the whole thing pretty much a non-issue. I haven't found the LR performance to really be affected by having lots of images in it. @Wellington, I’m not sure how familiar you are with lightroom, so forgive me if I’m misunderstanding you. There’s really no way to put images inside different folders in Lightroom; I suppose you could but it would not make much sense and definitely take longer than the tenth of a second it takes to color code an image. Also, the point of the color labels is to quickly mark the status of an image, such as when it needs correcting and when it’s finalized, so it would be a hassle to start moving them back and forth individually if they change status.

As far as archiving, I don’t really have a distinct archive, per se. Not in the sense that some people manage a separate Lightroom catalog as an Archive, and then have small, more portable catalogs that they use for a week or a month or even just one event, and then roll them into the archive when they’re done with them. I maintain a single catalog in Lightroom, and a single repository (folder) on my hard drive (that just happens to be called Archive) for all my images.

In general if an image doesn’t get deleted during the first time I go through the images, it’s probably going to be around forever. This does mean that if I take 800 shots at a game, delete 100, and then only keep 50 as edited picks at the end, I basically have 650 shots that are just taking up space and I might never look at again. There have been times, though, where I have gone back and needed to find one or two shots from those 650 unused, and that made it worth saving all of them. Being able to add a terabyte of storage for about $100 makes the whole thing pretty much a non-issue. I haven’t found the LR performance to really be affected by having lots of images in it.

]]> By: Wellington Grey http://awholenother.com/2009/09/18/sports-photography-post-production-workflow/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Wellington Grey Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:44:56 +0000 http://www.awholenother.com/?p=65#comment-142 Wow. That's quite an informative post. As a time management coach, I love to read about the details of how people manage their workflows. I got to say that the color-coding you do seems a bit tedious (I think I'd just drop the images into separate folders) but whatever works for you. One thing that wasn't clear: do you keep an archive of ALL the photos you take, or just the post-delete phase ones? Wow. That’s quite an informative post. As a time management coach, I love to read about the details of how people manage their workflows. I got to say that the color-coding you do seems a bit tedious (I think I’d just drop the images into separate folders) but whatever works for you.

One thing that wasn’t clear: do you keep an archive of ALL the photos you take, or just the post-delete phase ones?

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