 Angie M. Nemanic |
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHERS I'm currently trying to book events such as proms,school dances, but I'm trying to figure out work flow. It seems daunting if I'll be shooting so many images. I upload mine to a website for review for each event. Any suggestions on workflow. Do you crop all images to a certain size, do touch ups, etc before you upload them. Sometimes when I shoot in a hurry at an event, my framing isn't perfect so I crop to adjust for that in photoshop. However, this takes forever and seems like a waste of time. Any suggestion on event workflow would be appreciated. Thanks....
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Matt Gerhart |
What ill do is review the image after I took it to make sure there arent any major errors, or anything huge I need to fix. Then when I review the pictures, I will go back to the ones that need to be fixed. *depending on the size of the events, you may have so much photos that it just wouldnt be efficient to go back and fix everyone. hoped that helped
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Jerry Frazier |
Shoot RAW. Import into Lightroom, make whatever adjustments, then export jpegs. It's easy. Should take 2 or 3 hours tops.
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Pete H |
Angie, So much of your question depends on you. "Workflow" starts with the shoot itself! If you have confidence in your shooting abilities, touchup and cropping can be avoided. Print sizes are easily handled with "batch processing." Batch (cropping) is almost impossible as the "flow" will center crop all photos...perhaps and usually NOT what you want. This is no different when some of us shot before digital..in those days we had to use a crop mask for the lab. Get better at cropping in the view finder. I'm with Jerry, I shoot RAW AND JPEG when I'm being paid. I use both just in case I get a perfect WB in JPEG. That way I avoid an extra step. LOL As a reference only; I can process 100 images in about 1 hour.
Pete
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Angie M. Nemanic |
Thanks for the information. It makes definitely makes sense--get it right in the camera!! I work in video also and I never say, we'll fix it in post...I always say, let's get it right in the camera. So, I need to transfer my video mentality to my digital camera. I normally shoot jpeg, but this is the year that I planned to shoot both. Based on all the comments and reading I've done, this is the way to go. Pete, thanks for the reference point. That's a lot of images in an hour! I'm not quite there, but I'm getting more efficient at my shoots and post production. Again, Thanks for the info. Angie
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Jerry Frazier |
As usual (LOL), I disagree with Pete. I shoot RAW or JPEG, never both. There's no reason to do this. You will likely find it a total PITA, and just go to one or the other. RAW is superior (let the flames begin). In event photography, things happen quickly and unexpectedly sometimes, and it's just easier to have a underexposed RAW file, from having to turn around quickly and capture something and not have time to adjust. In JPEG, you probably can't save an image that is 2 stops under/over exposed. You can in RAW. Professional shoots = RAW That's how I roll, baby.
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