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simonsharayha
simonsharayha
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January 10, 2018
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Managing Photos for Photographer

  • January 10, 2018
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Hello, not sure if this is the right place to post this form but since most photographers use lightroom I thought it would be the right place.

My question is how to manage your photo shoots from adding the photos from the SD card to delivering the photos to the client. What do you think is the best structure for that?

What I do is; I add the photos to my computer throughout lightroom to the External Hard Disk as RAW, then I export all the photos as JPEG's on the same folder of the photoshoot and send them to the client to review and choose from, then I go back to the RAW files and work on the chosen ones (through Lightroom or/and Photoshop) then i export them as JPEG's again with the retouch I made.

My folders structure would be like this:

/Photoshoot-name
     >/RAW (has all the RAW images)
     >/JPEG (has all the JPEG photos converted from the RAW)    >/Chosen (has the JPEG image chosen from the client)

do you recommend a better way? or i'm doing it right? what about the backups? should I back up only RAW's and the catalog for lightroom?

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Correct answer Just Shoot Me

Sounds, Looks, good to me.

Whatever works for you is the way you should do it.

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99jon
99jon
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January 10, 2018

You have a workflow that works.

I always backup the catalog after editing, or changing metadata, each time I quit Lightroom. If I am just browsing or exporting files I simply skip backup.

I only backup raw files as a fresh jpeg can be rendered at any time. But you could archive the “chosen” jpegs to an external drive if you need a permanent record of what has been delivered to the client.

simonsharayha
simonsharayhaAuthor
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January 10, 2018

Where do you save your Raw photos? on the computer or external ?

Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot Me
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January 10, 2018

If you are using a USB 3 type external it really doesn't matter where they are stored, Internal or External. That is unless you have a SSD inside your computer.

But in any even the actual image files are never really touched by LR even when you are editing them unless you have the option to Auto Write changes to XMP then a small XMP file is written to that drive and updated as you edit the images. So the only time the drive where the images are stored gets accessed is when you are copying image to it during the import process and if you export to the same folder the exported file get saved to that drive/folder.

Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot MeCorrect answer
Legend
January 10, 2018

Sounds, Looks, good to me.

Whatever works for you is the way you should do it.

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