Work Flow after weddings

[texasshooter]

Now that I have taken the leap into digital, can you guys please share with me some of your methods for dealing with work flow to show the final product. I will be shooting in Raw + jpg, at least for now, so if any of you have any tips to share about when to burn images to disk, or just about anything you can offer that has helped you get a process going that will simplifies all the work.

Shooter

[Harry]

Only tip I have for you, now, is to get your files transferred and backed up as soon as possible. As most weddings run until 1 or 2 am, I start first thing in the morning. I'm not sure if I see any advantage to shooting Raw + Jpeg. Be interested to hear everyones take on that. I begin by culling out the bad stuff, but I don't delete any of them.

[texasshooter]

Originally Posted by Harry

if I see any advantage to shooting Raw + Jpeg. Be interested to hear everyones take on that. I begin by culling out the bad stuff, but I don't delete any of them.

Well, I just worked on the shoot I did the other day. After I did a little learning on it, I worked with the raw file in DPP, then I opened up the jpg of the same image and man there was no comparison, and just fixing the balancing and the style settings, there was a big difference. I can see why everyone shoots Raw. It really helps you put your best foot forward. Thanks for your input, hope to hear more. I need to hit the ground running.

Shooter

[Kosherpaparazzi]

I upload everything and back 'em up (DVD, external HDD etc..) then i go to sleep.

When i get up, i rate all the photos in Aperture and then do the editing.

[Unkl Buck]

Originally Posted by texasshooter

I can see why everyone shoots Raw. It really helps you put your best foot forward.

Shooter

Are you ready? Here's my workflow.

1. Download and save images on hard drive and 2 dvds
2. Edit images and delete what I don't want them to see
3. Renumber/rename the files
4. Select 10-20 of my favorites and present them as I want them to see them and hopefully purchase that way (most do)
5. Create a proofbook for them
6. Create a slideshow

That's the watered down version. I don't spend a ton of time on the back end or post production, except for maybe the favs that I've already got in my head on how I want them to look ( and the reason I shot them the way I did in the first place ).

[Mark McCall]

1. Download Raw files to external drives.
2. Backup Raw files to DVD
3. Make any necessary adjustments to Raw files (sharpen, saturate, color adjustment).
3. Convert to Jpg
4. Cull out all unwanted Jpgs
5. Send remaining Jpgs to album designer
6. Receive album page layouts in PSD form from designer
7. Check all pages, add my out touches to some pages.
8. Flatten all pages, save as Jpgs.
9. Put album design online for client preview.
10. FTP pages to lab.
12. Assemble album in house, call client for pickup.

[craigsexton]

Here's mine along with a couple of suggestions from my own experience.

Suggestions:
*buy lots of cf cards. I currently have around 10.
*don't buy over 2g cards. a 2g card in my 5D still gets around 189 shots. I don't want all my eggs in one basket is for some reason something would go wrong.
*go ahead and buy the software to recover lost images on card. I heard that it would eventually happen and it did. And believe me at midnight after a long day, is not the time to panic and try to find and download software and recover files. Sandisk has it along with others. I think I paid like $30-40.
*Always, always, always format the cards before using them. Your less likely to have issues this way.

Sorry for getting off subject. Here's my workflow.

*download raw files to computer.
*copy raw files to ext. hard drive.
*burn a dvd of the raw files
*open up folder in adobe bridge and select the keepers by rating them.
*open up the keepers in ps3, adjust the colors, make b/w, set wb, etc.
*rename all the keepers
*save as psd files
*do any additional modifications wanted such as running actions or filters on them.
*save them all as jpeg.
DONE!

Hope this helps.