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Originally Posted by keithallenlaw
I just finished another wedding and I'm doing what I swore I wouldn't do
from my last wedding. And thats spend so much time in the chair.
I'm 4x6 proofing about 250 pics and I find myself rotating, cropping,
and doing lighting adjustments on every image. Am I just being
to picky or is this just normal? Man I love the shooting part but
all this editing just turns me off. I think if the flow would be
faster it wouldn't be so bad. 5D Raw files converted to 16 bit
.tiffs gives my pc a workout. I am working from an external
hard drive so my pc hard drive is free to work but it still takes
time. And PSE3 is probably slow compared to the newer programs.
*Nailing it* in the field would save a lot of time too.
I was warned not to start shooting for profit. It becomes
a job not a passion and I'm starting to see that now....
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Hi Keith,
I understand -completely- what you are saying
...perhaps you need to adapt your workflow from a 'picture by picture' to a 'batch group of pictures' routine: use a RAWconverter like Lightroom or DPP, where you can adjust lighting/colour/crop for one image and can then copy and apply that 'recipe' to any/all other images taken in the same light etc... and only then convert, maybe even straight to JPG (smaller file, less 'tuneable' than the TIFF, but as they are 'more finished' that shouldn't be a problem?) and do the final tweaks (detail-work: dodging/burning/partial sharpening etc) in the JPG's...
...just a suggestion, *my* €0.02 worth...
Kindest regards!
Max@Home