PhotoNetCast #61 – Improving your workflow

On this episode we discuss our photography workflow and share a few tips to, hopefully, improve yours.

A few suggestions to improve your photography workflow

 

Many times, the expression workflow is thrown around when talking about photography, and it gained popularity since the expansion of digital photography, hence digital workflow, namely used associated handling the digital files, from capture to publication. In my personal opinion, I think workflow includes/should include also the steps before the capture, and this is something we have approached on this episode.

Since I don’t think there is such a thing as an inherently wrong workflow, and since this is a very individual process, instead of trying to preach on what you should do, we’ve decided to discuss our own workflow, and pass on a few tips that, we hope, will help to improve yours.

On this episode of the podcast we talk about

Steps before the shoot, including shoot planning
Backups “on the field”
Backups on return, and redundant backups
Importing images
Associating metadata
Presets
Flagging images and using smart collections
Registering with the Library of Congress (increased copyright protection)
Publishing online

We had also time to discuss a few news topics and answer listener questions, and of course, our selected from the web.

Enjoy the show…

 

 

Show Notes

 

Scott Kelby’s World Wide PhotoWalk
iPhone 4S
Antonio Marques
Jim Goldstein
Dave Wilson
Will Burrard-Lucas

Workflow

Using Colour Labels
ASMP Workflow site
Backup your LR library
DNG, RAW and JPEG: What I Use & Why
Backblaze (cloud backup) (aff)

 

Questions from Listeners

Nikon announces J1 and V1
Importing photos to LR from Aperture

 

Selected from the Web

Dave: Landscape photo competition results; The Art of Clean Up
Will: Time-lapse; Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech
Antonio: A Diary of Healing
Jim: Aurora seen from the International Space Station