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Just watching this screencast of an Adobe LR2 user, and it's certainly interesting. What does your workflow consist of?

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Take photos.
Drop film off at shop/lab.
Wait.
Collect prints/negs/CD.
Look at on 'puter.
Adjust brightness/contrast, sometimes hue & saturation, as necessary.
Publish online at low resolution.

Obsessively watch my Flickr Stats.

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Once I have a memory card full of pictures:
Import into LR (automatically sorted into Year/Month/Day folder structure)
Discard duffs
'Pick' best pictures
Forget to add keywords
Adjust picture settings where needed
Try a few black and white conversions
Continue to forget to add keywords
Export with 1024 px longest side and import to Flickr
Export with 480px longest side and add to web site
Forget keywords again
Blog about them
Send a link to everyone I know and some people I don't
Obsessively watch flickr stats :)

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Take pictures
Retake pictures as they come out crap/blurred/pitch black
Retake pictures again as they are less underexposed than before.
Download to computer
Use DPP to touch them up and save to JPEGs or make CDs
Upload some to link in sig. (those which don't have me in them)

Simples

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Download from camera to external hard drive using Aperture.
Sort into relevant project (I group all my photos by country, then have albums with various themes).
Rate each one into "good"; "better"; "best" using star ratings.
'Good' are ones that I consider quality images that I'm happy to try to sell as stock images.
'Better' are a selection of 'Good' shots that I show off on Flickr.
'Best' are a selection of 'Better' shots that I would consider exhibiting or selling as prints.
Make any relevant adjustments.
Export for Flickr and website using Aperture actions that also watermark the images.
Wonder how the heck to get more people looking at my Flickr profile.


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    Enjoy myself taking pictures.
    Back at base, I launch Apple Aperture. (If I'm away and have the lappy with me, I do it every day; otherwise, it's done once I'm back home.)
    If the images are for a new project, I create a new one for the job. Otherwise, I've got several standing projects, or folders where I dump stuff to be sifted later.
    Download using a card reader (I used to connect the camera, but decided the reader would be quicker)
    Once the images arrive, I give them a quick once over at sort of mid size, rating them using the Aperture's 1-5 stars, at the same time rejecting images that are out of focus, or irredeemably badly framed or exposed.
    Apply some stock keywords, if I remember, at this stage.
    I don't caption, generally.
    Review the images at a larger screen size, adjusting rating as I go.
    Filter the project to show me images rated four stars and up. I lavish a bit of attention on these images, adjusting exposure and colour if required, playing with cropping, making new versions that I try out variations of adjustment with.
    I may review the ratings again after this.
    Finally, select the best and upload them to Flickr using Flickr Uploader Lite. I give them titles and captions at this stage, but sometimes I'll make changes to the uploaded images on the Flickr site itself.
    Once I've been nagged enough by Aperture, I'll make a backup of the latest images to another drive.

I tend not to delete images on the card for some time. I've got a couple of 4GB cards I use, so I'm not pressed for space. The software is smart enough to know which images have been downloaded before, so I only see the new stuff in the window. Eventually, I delete the files using the camera, and once in a while I will reformat the card in the camera as well.

All that sounds a lot more complex to explain than it takes to actually do.

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Take pictures
Come home
Make coffee
Copy pictures into F-spot
Pick out the ones I really like and upload them to flickr, keeping them offline
Delete the ones that are just plain wrong
Use Picasa to tweak the ones that need a little work
Use RawStudio to work on the ones that need a lot of work
Upload any more I can use, then put the best one to the top of my photostream.

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Download to file
Add file to Lightroom and delete any OOF/badly composed/naff images
Sort through remainder and delete 50%
Tag them with keywords and apply rating
Bin all with 3* or less
Check the 4/5* pics and add more keywords
Choose a few and process in Lightroom/Photoshop (now that's the workflow I thought you meant :? )
Choose the bestest one and reprocess it (usually 3 times with different workflows)
Add to Pbase/Bucket/Shack
Reprocess it yet again for printing and take it to work for output :o
(If there's any time left, go through earlier jpegs and bin 90%)

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rubicon wrote:
Wonder how the heck to get more people looking at my Flickr profile.


Post a link, perhaps.

Jeez, you’re all obsessed by Flickr stats—you need to take more pics of iPhones, sunsets and kittens, like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitrot/2401269498/

Other tips for increasing Flickr visits: make lots of friends; tags; add pics to groups.

This is my workflow: take pics; upload to iPhoto; crop and retouch only if absolutely necessary; upload to Flickr @ 1024 using FlickrExporter; hope someone enjoys them.

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Okay, let's see if I get this right …
Import to hard drive from card reader using Image Capture.
Backup the folder to my scratch disk.
Backup folder again to external drive.
Open Lightroom and import images from disk adding keywords.
Review images in Lr making any adjustments I feel necessary.
Export from Lr as .jpg at 70% resolution for Flickr.*
Change into the Web module in Lr and apply my template and export again as a gallery for my personal website.
Edit the CSS file to add my custom background image (thank you, Edd).
Remove the images from the CF card.
Copy exported images/gallery to external drive, bring in to work and upload.

I think that's about it.
*I'm actually about to add to the workflow by adding a step after the 70% export, which will involve importing in to Photoshop and adding my SFG logo as a watermark.

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Mark - you forgot this step:

- wait about a week

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nickminers wrote:
Mark - you forgot this step:

- wait about a week

:)
Heh, I totally expected that from you.
I could make you wait a whole lot longer - I haven't done the gallery from my honeymoon yet, and that was almost 5 years ago. (8+p

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SAughton wrote:
rubicon wrote:
Wonder how the heck to get more people looking at my Flickr profile.


Post a link, perhaps.


I do have a link in my profile at t'other place. Love the iPhone/kitten/HDR link, too. Sheer genius.


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Take pictures
Upload to folder for current month and sub folder for what the images were about (E.g. "2009-05 Buer").
Delete any duffs
Finished.

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rubicon wrote:
Wonder how the heck to get more people looking at my Flickr profile.


Post a link, perhaps.

Jeez, you’re all obsessed by Flickr stats—you need to take more pics of iPhones, sunsets and kittens, like this one:


My crappy Moleskine iPhone project got lots of hits. The most to date! We have cats. Maybe I should do a cats/Moleskine/iPhone combo and see what happens.

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